Personalidad “Lógico”

“Aprende del ayer, vive para hoy, ten esperanza para

el mañana. Lo importante es no dejar de hacerse

preguntas.”

ALBERT EINSTEIN
El tipo de personalidad Lógica es bastante raro y representa

solo el tres por ciento de la población, lo cual es

definitivamente bueno para ellos, ya que no hay nada que les

haga ser menos felices que ser “comunes”. Los que tienen

personalidad Lógica se enorgullecen de su inventiva y su

creatividad, su perspectiva única y su potente intelecto.

Conocidos generalmente como el filósofo, el arquitecto o el

profesor soñador, los Lógicos han sido responsables de

muchos descubrimientos científicos a lo largo de la historia.

No vale la pena vivir la vida sin examinarla

Los Lógicos son conocidos por sus brillantes teorías y su

lógica implacable; de hecho, se les considera los tipos de

personalidad que tienen más precisión lógica.

Les encantan los patrones y detectar discrepancias entre

declaraciones casi podría considerarse una afición; por lo

tanto, es una mala idea mentirle a una persona con

personalidad lógica. Esto hace que sea irónico que la palabra

de un Lógico siempre deba cogerse con pinzas; no es que

sean deshonestos sino que las personas con personalidad

Lógica tienden a compartir pensamientos que no se han

desarrollado completamente y a utilizar a otros como altavoz

para las ideas y teorías en un debate en contra de sí mismos

y no como compañeros reales de conversación.

Esto puede hacer que parezcan poco fiables, pero en

realidad nadie es más entusiasta y capaz de detectar un

problema, penetrar en los factores interminables y en los

detalles que abarcan el tema y desarrollar una solución única

y viable para los Lógicos; eso sí, no espere informes

puntuales del progreso. Las personas que comparten el tipo

de personalidad lógica no están interesadas en las

actividades prácticas del día a día y de mantenimiento, pero

cuando encuentran un entorno en el que su genio creativo y

su potencial se pueden expresar, no hay límite para el tiempo

y la energía que los Lógicos están dispuestos a emplear en el

desarrollo de una solución perspicaz e imparcial.

La sabiduría comienza preguntándose a

uno mismo

Puede parecer que van sin rumbo, en un sueño sin fin, pero

el proceso de pensamiento de los Lógicos es incesante y las

ideas zumban por sus mentes desde que se despiertan. Este

pensamiento constante puede tener el efecto de hacer que

se vean pensativos y distantes, ya que muchas veces están

debatiendo con sus propias mentes, pero realmente los

Lógicos son bastante relajados y agradables cuando están

con la gente que conocen o que comparten sus intereses. Sin

embargo, esto puede ser sustituido por una timidez

abrumadora cuando los individuos con personalidad lógica se

encuentran con personas desconocidas, y las bromas

pueden convertirse rápidamente en antagonismo agresivo si

creen que sus conclusiones o teorías lógicas están siendo

criticadas.

Cuando los Lógicos están particularmente exaltados, la

conversación puede rozar la incoherencia en su intento por

explicar la conexión en cadena de conclusiones lógicas que

dieron lugar a la formación de su última idea. Muchas veces,

los Lógicos optarán simplemente por cambiar de tema antes

de que se haya entendido lo que estaban tratando de decir,

en lugar de tratar de explicar las cosas de una forma más

simple.

Lo contrario también puede ser cierto cuando las personas

explican sus procesos de pensamiento a los Lógicos en

términos de subjetividad y sentimiento. Imagina un

mecanismo de relojería muy complejo, que coge cada posible

hecho o idea, los procesa con una fuerte dosis de

razonamiento creativo y devuelve los resultados que sean

más sensatos lógicamente hablando; así es como funciona la

mente de un Lógico, y esta personalidad es muy poco

tolerante cuando una llave inglesa bloquea su máquina.

Que aquellos que quieren mover el mundo,

se muevan primero ellos

Además, es poco probable que los Lógicos entiendan de

ninguna de las maneras las quejas emocionales y sus

amigos no van a encontrar en ellos una base de apoyo

emocional. Las personas con el tipo de personalidad lógica

prefieren hacer algunas sugerencias lógicas sobre la forma

de resolver la cuestión de fondo, una perspectiva que no

siempre es bien recibida por sus compañeros más

sentimentales. Es probable que esto también se extienda a la

mayoría de las convenciones y objetivos sociales, como la

planificación de una cena y de una boda, ya que los Lógicos

están mucho más preocupados por la originalidad y los

resultados eficientes.
La única cosa que realmente retiene a los Lógicos es su

miedo, inquieto y generalizado, al fracaso. Las

personalidades lógicas son tan propensas a volver a evaluar

sus propios pensamientos y teorías y preocuparse de que se

haya perdido alguna pieza crítica del rompecabezas, que

pueden estancarse y perderse en un mundo intangible donde

sus pensamientos nunca se aplican realmente. La superación

de esta falta de confianza es el mayor desafío al que los

Lógicos se tendrán que enfrentar, pero cuando consiguen

hacerlo (gracias a las dotes intelectuales, grandes y

pequeñas, que les ha concedido la vida), hacen que la lucha

haya merecido la pena.

Logician Strengths

 Great Analysts and Abstract Thinkers – People with the

Logician personality type view the world as a big, complex

machine, and recognize that as with any machine, all

parts are interrelated. Logicians excel in analyzing these

 connections, seeing how seemingly unrelated factors tie in

with each other in ways that bewilder most other

personality types.

 Imaginative and Original – These connections are the

product of an unrelenting imagination – Logicians’ ideas

may seem counter-intuitive at a glance, and may never

even see the light of day, but they will always prove

remarkable innovations.

 Open-Minded – Logicians couldn’t make these

connections if they thought they knew it all – they are

highly receptive to alternate theories, so long as they’re

supported by logic and facts. In more subjective matters

like social norms and traditions, Logicians are usually

fairly liberal, with a “none of my business” sort of attitude –

peoples’ ideas are what matter.

 Enthusiastic – When a new idea piques their interest,

Logicians can be very enthusiastic – they are a reserved

personality type, but if another person shares an interest,

they can be downright excited about discussing it. More

 likely though, the only outward evidence of this

enthusiasm will be Logicians’ silent pacing or their staring

into the distance.

 Objective – Logicians’ analysis, creativity and open-

mindedness aren’t the tools of some quest for ideology or

emotional validation. Rather, it’s as though people with the

Logician personality type are a conduit for the truths

around them, so far as they can be expressed, and they

are proud of this role as theoretical mediator.

 Honest and Straightforward – To know one thing and

say another would be terribly disingenuous – Logicians

don’t often go around intentionally hurting feelings, but

they believe that the truth is the most important factor, and

they expect that to be appreciated and reciprocated.

Logician Weaknesses

 Very Private and Withdrawn – While Logicians’

intellectualism yields many insights into their

 surroundings, their surroundings are ironically considered

an intrusion on their thoughts. This is especially true with

people – Logicians are quite shy in social settings. More

complicated situations such as parties exacerbate this, but

even close friends struggle to get into Logicians’ hearts

and minds.

 Insensitive – Oftentimes Logician personalities get so

caught up in their logic that they forget any kind of

emotional consideration – they dismiss subjectivity as

irrational and tradition as an attempt to bar much-needed

progress. Purely emotional situations are often utterly

puzzling to Logicians, and their lack of timely sympathy

can easily offend.

 Absent-minded – When Logicians’ interest is captured,

their absence goes beyond social matters to include the

rest of the physical world. Logicians become forgetful,

missing even the obvious if it’s unrelated to their current

infatuation, and they can even forget their own health,

skipping meals and sleep as they muse.

 Condescending – Attempts at connecting with others are

often worse than Logicians’ withdrawal. People with the

Logician personality type take pride in their knowledge

and rationale, and enjoy sharing their ideas, but in trying

to explain how they got from A to B to Z, they can get

frustrated, sometimes simplifying things to the point of

insult as they struggle to gauge their conversation

partners’ perspective. The ultimate insult comes as

Logicians give up with a dismissive “never mind”.

 Loathe Rules and Guidelines – These social struggles

are partly a product of Logicians’ desire to bypass the

rules, of social conduct and otherwise. While this attitude

helps Logicians’ strength of unconventional creativity, it

also causes them to reinvent the wheel constantly and to

shun security in favor of autonomy in ways that can

compromise both.

 Second-Guess Themselves – Logicians remain so open

to new information that they often never commit to a

decision at all. This applies to their own skills as well –

 Logician personalities know that as they practice, they

improve, and any work they do is second-best to what

they could do. Unable to settle for this, Logicians

sometimes delay their output indefinitely with constant

revisions, sometimes even quitting before they ever begin.

Romantic Relationships
When it comes to romantic relationships, Logicians have an interesting

mixture of traits that often pleasantly surprise their partners. People with

this personality type are always full of ideas, but they have few

opportunities to explore their more romantic notions. As with any of their

theories, Logicians love sharing with others, and in finally meeting

someone where romantic thoughts are appropriate, they show

themselves to be excited, enthusiastic, and even playful, flirting with

word-play and intellectual games.

None of this is to say that these relationships come easily to Logicians –

they are shy and withdrawn individuals, and getting out and meeting new

people, risking rejection and making themselves the center of attention in

emotionally delicate situations are far from being their strengths. It is

more likely that Logician personalities will leave a trail of breadcrumbs for
a potential partner, allowing them to make the first move and committing

to their partner as an act of reciprocation rather than bravado.

Marry! A Good Wife Makes Happiness, A

Bad One, Philosophy
From the start, Logicians take their relationships seriously – their

imagination and vision, and the challenge of getting to know new people,

make them all too aware of how important it is that they’re involved with

someone, and they will prove themselves surprisingly loyal. Even early in

the dating phase, Logicians are unusually direct and honest, doing their

best to express their mindset and create mutual understanding, believing

that this shared knowledge will help to minimize misunderstandings and

avoid conflict.

As their relationships progress, Logicians’ daily needs prove remarkably

simple. Gifts, surprises, complex social plans and date nights are all fairly

unimportant to people with the Logician personality type, but this is also

one of their chiefest weaknesses – their partner may very much need

these things, and it won’t even occur to Logicians to plan them out. For all

their analysis and attempts at mutual understanding, Logicians are

notoriously bad at picking up on others’ emotional needs.

When it comes to conflict, there is a certain willful ignorance for Logicians,

and they often set aside their partners’ feelings, and their own, for far too

long.

When these conflicts do arise and are inescapable, Logicians will do their

best to find a logical solution. But this hardly helps if the problem is logic

itself, that Logician personalities aren’t meeting their partners’ emotional

needs. Logicians should keep this in mind, and try to meet their partners

halfway by communicating on an emotional level – if they make this effort,

understanding partners will recognize and appreciate the gesture, clumsy

though it may be. After all, they need to afford Logicians the same benefit,

and meet them halfway with logic and simplicity as well.

Beware the Barrenness of a Busy Life

All this material asceticism and conflict avoidance support one primary

goal – to free up mental resources for more important things. Logicians’

creative, vivid imagination make for a surprisingly enthusiastic,

passionate, and romantic partner. While Logicians may prioritize their

inner world too much, imagining interesting and exciting intimate

situations that are never expressed to their partners, they also use this

rich inner world to achieve as much as possible in intimacy – they rarely

want for ideas.

Physically, intellectually and with a little effort emotionally, Logician

relationships are rich and rewarding connections. Partners who share the

Intuitive (N) trait are usually best, along with one or two opposite traits to

create variety and balance, but so long as Logicians remember that they

are with people who have their own, independent wants and needs, and

so long as their partners remember the same of their Logicians, these are

long-lasting and satisfying relationships.

Friendships
Many of the usual motivations for making friends – emotional support,

social validation, shared routine – simply don’t apply to Logicians. More

likely, these concepts are met with disdain, as people with the Logician

personality type prize intellectual depth above all else. It is not easy to

become good friends with Logicians, but if there is a common interest and

a common train of thought, the connection is likely to spark instantly,

surprising everyone else who thought they had this distant personality

type pegged.

Be Slow to Fall Into Friendship...

Logician friendships are knowledge-based, defined by the exchange of

ideas, theories, and concepts, and those who aren’t able to keep up with

this, or who have sharply differing tastes (don’t talk to Logicians about

celebrities) will find stony faces that border on rude. To Logicians,

communication is often more of a nuisance than a pleasure, and

conversation is reserved for topics that they find meaningful, or for people

they already like enough to stick it out.

Unless there’s a natural affinity for this intellectual style, few have the

patience to try to penetrate their shields, and Logicians are left with a

naturally small circle of good friends.

Other Analyst personalities are a natural fit for Logicians, who share their

passion for new ideas, riddles and solutions. People with the Logician

personality type are knowledgeable and intelligent, and have a great deal

of respect for those who can keep them on their toes in this regard. They

will gladly help to tackle any dilemma thrown their way, offering up sound

advice and rational solutions. As valuable as these qualities are though,

they are not always the best approach – when it comes to emotional

support or advice in dealing with matters of the heart, Logicians are at a

loss.

It’s not that Logician personalities don’t feel – quite the contrary, they

actually have very strong sentiments. But this is not their strongest suit,
making Logicians’ emotional reactions strong, untrustworthy and naturally

in need of being tempered by their well-trained logic and rationalism.

...But When in Friendship, Continue Firm

and Constant
While they may not be able to help directly with these sorts of problems,

Logicians help indirectly with unambiguous and reliable friendships.

Logicians’ friends need never worry about power games or emotional

baggage – they are liked for their minds and abilities, not their status or

possessions. While it may not be easy to establish true friendships with

Logician personalities, once the link is made, they will provide years of

understanding and thought-stimulating ideas, making them well worth the

effort.

Parenthood
In parenting roles, as with many social roles, Logicians find themselves

facing a robust but healthy challenge. Not a naturally sensitive type,

Logician personalities struggle to identify with the raw emotions and

irrationality that are often the standard with young children, who have yet

to develop the sort of self-control and logical thinking that Logicians take

for granted.
People with the Logician personality type are nevertheless incredibly

devoted – perhaps not in the traditional, emotionally supportive sense, but

they are parents who are committed to encouraging their growing children

to think and act independently, seek out new knowledge, and voice and

defend their own opinions.

For Logicians, knowledge is key, and they will do their best to give their

children the tolerance and freedom necessary to acquire it. Logician

parents take a relaxed, intellectual approach towards their children,

allowing them to explore the world around them and overlooking the more

minor offences along the way.

Having no interest in exerting control over other human beings, Logicians

are likely to allow their children to form their own principles – though they

may take the opportunity of the “why?” phase to share their own

perspectives and ideas, just in case.

Logician personalities are not particularly demanding parents, at least not

in the sense that they expect their children to live a traditional life of

school > career > marriage > house > kids > retirement (and in that order,

thank you very much). Rather, Logician parents are demanding in an

intellectual sense – they want their children to ask if this path is the best

path for them, and how to go about following a different one if they need

to. This level of personal freedom can be daunting, and can take a long
time to come to terms with, but Logician parents are prepared to stand by

their children with support and advice for as long as they need.

While there is hardly a better parent for having rational, intelligent

discussions with their children, there is hardly a clumsier example when it

comes to providing the emotional support that many children need,

especially as they approach their teenage years. In this area, Logicians

will need to either rely on a more capable partner, or to take themselves

far out of their comfort zone in order to empathize without trying to clear

away the tears with an endless series of rational suggestions and blunt

truths.

Not Just Life, but Good Life

Logicians want nothing more than for their children to grow up smart,

independent, and tolerant, but if they want them to be well-adjusted too,

they must make this effort. Logicians’ parenting style affords a great deal

of latitude for their children, but with this freedom comes responsibility,

and it is Logicians’ responsibility to ensure that it is used constructively.

Though it’s a challenge for people with the Logician personality type to

teach empathy alongside rationality, if they are able to pull it off, their

children will grow into confident adults who know how to ask questions,

use their minds, and take care of themselves no matter what comes their

way.
Career Paths
Logicians are solitary, eccentric, and independent – none of which is

listed as desirable for corporate positions, which are usually designed for

very different personality types. Logicians duly struggle in finding careers

that meet their needs, but what they do bring, qualities in much higher

demand, are creativity, a passion for theoretical methods and ideas, and

an entrepreneurial, innovative spirit. If they are able to put this better foot

forward to secure a position in a suitable line of work, people with the

Logician personality type will find that, whatever the job listing says, these

“less desirable” qualities will prove an asset after all.

A Poem of Numbers
Chief among Logicians’ interests is exploring and building models for

underlying principles and ideas, even going so far as to find these

concepts, in their own way, beautiful – this makes them natural

mathematicians, systems analysts, and career scientists, especially in

more abstract fields such as physics. There are many other careers that

allow Logicians to explore these interests, but many of them are far too

rooted in uninteresting practical applications. As useful as it is to develop

a better vacuum cleaner, it is no Large Hadron Collider.

Logician personalities are self-driven and have very high personal

standards – “good enough” is never good enough – but have few

environmental needs. Despite this relative simplicity, they are often hard

for more people-centric types to understand. Logicians live primarily in

their own heads, and have little interest in social distractions like chitchat

and motivational speeches.

All Logicians really want is to immerse themselves in an interesting

project, and anything that interrupts that, be it overactive managers, the

need to manage others, or office parties or meetings, are simply

unwelcome burdens.

For this reason, the flatter the workplace hierarchy, the better, making

small, technical workplaces and fields such as law, forensics, and

laboratory research very desirable for Logicians. Insightful and open-

minded managers who can accommodate these needs will find their

Logician subordinates to be a tireless generator of brilliant and unique

ideas. However, many people with the Logician personality type may do

away with the immediate hierarchy altogether, opting instead to provide

their services on a freelance basis as consultants.

Emotional Values: A Mere Illusion

Where Logicians do not thrive is in workplaces that require them to

provide a high degree of emotional satisfaction – cruise ship masseuses

they are not. Logician personalities struggle to understand emotional

exchanges, and service-oriented positions will prove baffling and

exhausting for them. Though Logicians are talented analysts who are

perfectly capable of understanding the theoretical importance of customer

service, the day-to-day application of such a scheme is simply better left

to more people-oriented personality types.

Business is growing more complex every day, and this complexity is

managed with technical systems, economic theories, and data. The need

for novel approaches is stronger than ever for people and organizations

to distinguish themselves. Though general people skills are often phrased

as a must, it is the technical work that creates something to talk about,

and it is in this pursuit that Logicians thrive.

Work as business analysts and corporate strategists is well suited to

Logicians, but they can also move things forward as data analysts,

mechanical, electrical and software engineers, and even as technical

writers and journalists, provided the field is interesting enough. If they can

smile and shake hands just long enough to establish themselves as the

brilliant innovators that they are, people with the Logician personality type

will find that whatever the expectations for social conduct, it is the

qualities unique to them that are truly in demand.

Workplace Habits
The running theme for Logicians is their desire for solitude, need for

intellectual stimulation, and the satisfaction of the final piece of a puzzle

clicking into place. Whether in subordinate or management positions, with

colleagues or working alone, these privileges and the freedom to pursue

them unfettered by social obligations and progress reports are about all

people with the Logician personality type look for in their workplace.

Though Logicians may scoff at the notion, they actually function best

when paired with another person. Their position determines which

personality type best fits their needs, but Logicians’ tendency to live in

their heads and vent inspiration and creativity seemingly at random

demands the presence of an implementer to ensure that no stroke of

genius goes unnoticed.

Logician Subordinates
Under the right conditions, Logician subordinates are innovative,

resourceful, and hard-working, easily wrapping their minds around

whatever complex problems are placed in front of them and delivering

unorthodox but effective solutions. However, these qualities require a

great deal of freedom, something stereotypical managers are loath to

cede. It is difficult to quantify these qualities on a resume – several other

characteristics, like a relative indifference to job security and to being

liked, exacerbate the challenge – and it can take time to grow to trust

Logician subordinates enough to allow this latitude.

Logician personalities prefer to work alone, but at the same time they

despise “grunt-work”. Their focus on conceiving new and exciting ideas

and ignoring the details of execution means that Logicians need someone

alongside to keep things in order and actually put into practice their often

unrefined ideas. Such a condition can’t be forced on Logicians, but a few

logically phrased criticisms (certainly not emotional appeals or pep talks

about working as part of a team) and clever management can make it

happen.

Logician Colleagues
For Logicians, colleagues aren’t so much a group of people who they

socialize and work with as they are a series of obstacles and diversions

with occasionally useful knowledge. Mingling, chitchat, drinks after work –

these make Logicians want to work alone, not get up in the morning.

Despite this distance, people with the Logician personality type are

unusually good at developing insightful and unbiased interpretations of

others’ motivations, though sometimes they overthink it, becoming

unnecessarily suspicious of others’ goals.

What they do enjoy are riddles and patterns, and any Logician would be

proud to be the guru who is sought after as arbiter on the validity of an

idea, or for their insight on how to apply a principle to novel situations.

Logicians love discussing theories, at least with “proven” colleagues, and

are almost always available as impromptu consultants. This, however,

does not apply to emotional riddles and conflicts, Logicians’ Achilles Heel

– in these charged situations, Logician personalities have no clue what to

do.

Logician Managers
While Logicians don’t care for managing other people, it is likely the most

rewarding position as it provides the opportunity to direct concepts and

theories while others handle the logistics. Logicians have a very tolerant

and flexible style, characterized by an openness to logical suggestions

and relative freedom for their subordinates. But this freedom comes at a

cost – Logician managers have very high standards, and they expect

others to grasp their insights instantly, and to provide their own in equal

measure.

As well as their demand for innovation, Logicians are better than any

other type at noticing logical discrepancies – their tendency to ignore

others’ feelings means that their criticisms often come hard and fast as

they direct projects to their own perfectionistic standards. Here again

Logicians do best with a partner, this time a delegator who can filter their

thoughts and direct their team in more socially productive ways. A liaison

can also help to deter schmoozing and attempts at emotional

manipulation, a sure mistake for anyone who tries.