Sherlock Holmes Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Sherlock Holmes? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Sherlock Holmes from Kabukichou Sherlock and what is the personality traits.
INTP (5w4)
Sherlock Holmes personality type is INTP, which means introverted, intuitive, thinking, and perceiving. The in-depth description of the INTP in Personality Junkie is a fascinating read in its own right, and a useful tool for anyone seeking to understand INTPs better.
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The INTPs I’ve met have been mostly wonderful people. The only people I’ve met who probably fit the description of a “maladjusted INTP” were a few people with severe mental illness, who have been very hard to deal with because of their inability to function in a normal manner. But they were a small minority. I have a great deal of respect for the INTPs I’ve met.
INTPs are quite common among academics. I know several, including one at my current employer, who are brilliant and whose work is respected on the international level. But INTP academics are often misunderstood by society at large, probably because they’re so different from the norm. Highly intelligent people on the whole are resistant to normal social conventions, and INTPs are no exception to this rule.
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a "consulting detective" in the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science, and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he employs when investigating cases for a wide variety of clients, including Scotland Yard. First appearing in print in 1887's A Study in Scarlet, the character's popularity became widespread with the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine, beginning with "A Scandal in Bohemia" in 1891; additional tales appeared from then until 1927, eventually totalling four novels and 56 short stories. All but one are set in the Victorian or Edwardian eras, between about 1880 and 1914.
