US Presidents Celebrity MBTI: Ronald Reagan - ENTJ
Introduction
In the seventh installment of our US presidents series, we come to Ronald Wilson Reagan, who we will type using the Rod Novichkov method of visual identification.
Novichkov, in How to find yourself and your best match (2007), types four US presidents: Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Donald Trump. When it comes to Reagan, Novichkov has done my job for me - unlike with other presidents I've typed in this series. Nevertheless, I want to write an article on how to type Reagan, as it will demonstrate Novichkov's method in action.
Judger or Perceiver, j or p?
Let's look at the diagrams of the Judging ('Conceiving', as Novichkov calls them) and Perceiving types, from left and right sides of the head:
Reagan is a Judger:
Feeler or Thinker, F or T?
Let's compare two middle-aged American politicians: Lindsey Graham, who Novichkov would type as a Feeler, and Donald Rumsfeld, who he would type as a Thinker:
Novichkov lists these as the attributes of the Thinking, as opposed to the Feeling, type:
1. Large, flat, expressive forehead;
2. Pronounced, jutting superciliary arches (bones beneath eyebrows);
3. Angular or non-existent bridge of nose dip;
4. Deep eye sockets;
5. Hawkish nose;
6. Narrow, inexpressive lower face.
Does Reagan - who has a hawkish face - look like Rumseld or Graham? Definitely the former:
Sensor or Intuitive, S or N?
Intuitives tend to be gangly, skinny, thin-lipped, and their fingers are knuckled and somewhat unsightly. They sit in awkward, unconventional and uncomfortable-looking (to a Sensor) positions, and tend to sprawl everywhere.
Sensors, on the other hand, tend to be thick, stocky, full-lipped and inclined to put on weight, and their fingers are smooth and square shaped. They sit in a stiff, conventional and (compared to an Intuitive) rigid fashion. They do not sprawl, preferring to confine themselves to a small personal space.
Here's a compare and contrast photo of an Intuitive and a Sensor: gangly, skinny, long and knuckled fingered John Kerry, and stocky, square-fingered and square-handed John McCain.
Kerry flops and lolls in his chair, while McCain seems somewhat more stiff and centrally placed. Kerry is more typical of an Intuitive, according to Novichkov, McCain, a Sensor.
This picture of a stiff and stocky Mitt Romney, a Sensor, with a sprawling and gangly Paul Ryan, an Intuitive, gives us another side-by-side example:
Reagan fits into the Intuitive category.
In fact, he reminds me of another gangly, NT president - Abraham Lincoln:
Introverted or Extraverted Intuitive, Ni or Ne?
Novichkov describes the eyes of an Introverted Intuitive as dreamy, cloudy, absent, otherworldly and sightless. (By 'sightless', he means that the Introverted Intuitive has the gaze of a blind person who is looking at you but not seeing you).
How do we distinguish between the gaze of the Introverted Sensor and Introverted Intuitive? The former seems squinty, and what is more, blurry. The Introverted Sensor perceives the world in obscure, vague shapes - the outlines of objects and the spaces between them rather than the objects themselves. The Introverted Intuitive, on the other hand, perceives a reality out of sync with our current timeline: which is why his eyes - the eyes are the windows to the soul - seem so absent.
These pictures of Kennedy, an Introverted Sensor, and Reagan, an Introverted Intuitive, get to the heart of the contrast between the two types of introverted perception:
Extravert or Introvert, E or I?
The energy of the Extravert is directed towards his outer environment; he seems absorbed by it and completely immersed in his surroundings, as opposed to the Introvert, who is withdrawn from them. The Extravert's face displays a certain amount of tension and tautness, and often appears to be more tired - and weather beaten - than that of the Introvert.
According to the MBTI YouTube commentator EJ Arendee, ENTJs like to smile, in the hopes of winning you over. You notice, perhaps before anything else, their distinctive grin.
Conclusion: Reagan is an ENTJ
E + N + T + J gives us Extraverted Thinker / Introverted Intuitive, or ENTJ in MBTI, ENTj in Socionics.
Mark Hootsen, signing off.
