Famous ISTPs in history
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12 true lives that follow the ISTP pattern. On this site it’s called The Workbench.
“You solve it by handling it. Quiet, practical, allergic to a plan that outruns the facts.”
Emily Warren RoeblingShe kept the Brooklyn Bridge moving for eleven years under her husband's name, then claimed it in one furious letter.Read her story
Louis SlotinHe kept two halves of a bomb core apart with a screwdriver, until the afternoon it slipped.Read his story
Vivien ThomasHis boss swore at him weeks into the job, and one calm sentence set the terms for thirty-four years.Read his story
Mary MallonShe felt perfectly healthy, refused the knife, and spent twenty-six years on an island for something she couldn't feel.Read her story- Matthew HensonHe fell through polar ice three days from the Pole, and the hand that pulled him out wasn't Peary's.Read his story
Ada BlackjackLeft alone on an Arctic island, a seamstress who had never fired a gun taught herself to hunt.Read her story
Cathay WilliamsShe enlisted as William Cathay, and when she'd had enough, she found the army's quietest way out.Read her story
Jeanne BaretShe sailed around the world disguised as a man, carrying a botanist's plant books through the snows of Magellan.Read her story
Elizebeth Smith FriedmanCalled to testify against rum-runners, she asked for a blackboard and taught the jury to break codes.Read her story
Williamina FlemingShe found the Horsehead Nebula on a glass plate, and the catalog gave her boss the credit.Read her story
Jang Yeong-silHe rose from slavery on the strength of his hands, then fell because a carrying chair broke.Read his story- Bernard PalissyTo finish one firing, he burned his garden trellises, then his tables, then the floor of his house.Read his story
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