What is the personality type of Joseph Goebbels? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Joseph Goebbels from Downfall 2004 and what is the personality traits.
Joseph Goebbels personality type is ISTJ, which is the Introverted, Sensing, Thinking, Judging preference. It is the only type that can be used to describe Goebbels. It is also the type most often associated with his role as propaganda minister for Nazi Germany.
I’m not saying that Hitler had an ISTJ personality. But he had a way of expressing himself that clearly had an introverted, sensing, thinking, and judging quality. It is the only type that describes him so well.
So what does this mean?
It means that if you want to be a good leader, your personal characteristics will matter more than your social ones.
It means that if you want to be a great leader, you must be an introvert.
It means that if you want to be the best leader in the world, you must have a core of introverted thinking and a way of expressing yourself that is expressed in a sensing, thinking, and judging fashion.
So then why aren’t all great leaders introverts?
I’m going to suggest that the reason is because being an introvert doesn’t mean being a social recluse. It means being different from the norm.