Mycroft Holmes Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Mycroft Holmes? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Mycroft Holmes from Sherlock Holmes and what is the personality traits.
ENTP (9w8)
Mycroft Holmes personality type is ENTP, so he is one of the rarest Sherlock Holmes types, since about 1% of the population is ENTP.
I found this out by reading last week's blog post, which also discussed Sherlock's character traits, and about how rare the ENTP Sherlock Holmes type is.
Sherlock's Character Traits
According to Sherlock's character traits, he is a "cynical, intellectual, loner" who analyses things "in the abstract", and has a "natural talent for deduction". He is also described as "mysterious", "unattached", and one who "takes the long way round". He is also described as being "a strange mixture of brilliance and eccentricity".
Sherlock's ENTP Personality Type
Sherlock Holmes was an ENTP, according to the "Sherlock Holmes" article on Wikipedia. I found this out by checking out the ENTP personality type quiz on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator website.
When I found out that Sherlock was an ENTP, I was surprised because I had never before identified myself as being an ENTP.
Mycroft Holmes is a fictional character appearing in stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The elder brother of detective Sherlock Holmes, he is a government official and a founding member of the Diogenes Club. Mycroft is described as having abilities of deduction and knowledge exceeding even those of his brother, though their practical use is limited by his dislike of fieldwork. The character has been adapted in various pieces of literature and media, including television series, movies, radio, and comics. He is also popular in culture, being mentioned by many works, which mostly reference his job, personality, or his relationship with Sherlock Holmes.
