James Herriot Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of James Herriot? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for James Herriot from All Creatures Great & Small 2020 and what is the personality traits.
ISFJ (9w1)
James Herriot personality type is ISFJ, who, as the type description states, "can be the most warm and compassionate of the Myers-Briggs types. They are loyal, hardworking, and dedicated. They often get frustrated by others' lack of appreciation for their efforts." Herriot was a loyal, hardworking, dedicated doctor who, despite his frustration at times at the lack of appreciation for his efforts, was also compassionate and caring.
So what ISFJs need is appreciation, although sometimes it comes from the wrong people. ISFJs, like ISFPs and ISTJs, often tend to admire people who are more outgoing and bold, but not necessarily more intelligent or capable. This sort of admiration isn't necessarily a bad thing; in fact, it can be very rewarding for the ISFJ. For the ISFJ, it often means that they feel as though they've been given the respect they deserve, and they don't necessarily have to wait to be told they're doing things right.
ISFJs are often very good with animals, and so they may have trouble understanding why people won't acknowledge that they've earned their admiration.
James Alfred Wight, better known by his pen name James Herriot, was a British veterinary surgeon and author. Born in Sunderland, Wight graduated from Glasgow Veterinary College in 1939, returning to England to become a veterinary surgeon in Yorkshire, where he practised for almost 50 years. He is best known for writing a series of eight books set in the 1930sā1950s Yorkshire Dales about veterinary practice, animals, and their owners, which began with If Only They Could Talk, first published in 1970. Over the decades, the series of books sold some 60 million copies. The franchise based on his writings was very successful. In addition to the books, there have been several television and film adaptations of Wight's books, including the 1975 film All Creatures Great and Small and the BBC television series of the same name, which ran 90 episodes, and the 2020 series of the same name.
