Su Shi (Su Dongpo) Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Su Shi (Su Dongpo)? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Su Shi (Su Dongpo) from Historical Figures 1000s and what is the personality traits.
ENTP (7w6)
Su Shi (Su Tung-po) personality type is ENFP, which means that he is an ENFP.
The author of the ENFP personality type, Isabel Briggs Myers developed the idea of ENFP’s “third function”, Introverted Intuition. Myers believed that this was the element of introversion that links the others, and it is the one that most ENFPs use to make sense of the world. The next time you are in conversation with someone who has identified as an ENFP, ask them “which of your functions is your third function?”
An ENFP’s functional stack looks like this.
The top three functions are all Extraverted. The Extraverted Intuition is the “third function”. Myers believed that this “third” function would be the one that gave the ENFP their unique insight and understanding of the world.
For more information on Myers’ theory of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, check out my article on MBTI type.
Further Reading
The ENFJ Personality Type: Personality Analysis
The ENFP Personality Type: Personality Analysis
ENFJ Personality Type Profile
ENFP Personality Type Profile
Su Shi (traditional Chinese: 蘇軾; simplified Chinese: 苏轼; 8 January 1037 – 24 August 1101), courtesy name Zizhan (Chinese: 子瞻), art name Dongpo (Chinese: 東坡), was a Chinese poet, writer, politician, calligrapher, painter, pharmacologist, and gastronome of the Song dynasty. A major personality of the Song era, Su was an important figure in Song Dynasty politics, aligning himself with Sima Guang and others, against the New Policy party led by Wang Anshi.
