Like many of you today was the first time I ever heard Kyrie Irving speak and fair to say I was blown away. I'm not saying I agree with everything he said or that it's all positive, but what I saw today was a deeply cerebral, socially conscious thinker. For better or worse the newest Celtic seems to have a limitless stream of discourse that he's trying to work through bubbling right below the surface of that stoic demeanor.
This is just my take on him as an amateur psychology enthusiast but what I saw today reminded me of something from the Meyers Briggs Personality test in the section for INTP...
They love patterns, and spotting discrepancies between statements could almost be described as a hobby, making it a bad idea to lie to an INTP. This makes it ironic that INTPs’ word should always be taken with a grain of salt – it’s not that they are dishonest, but people with the INTP personality type tend to share thoughts that are not fully developed, using others as a sounding board for ideas and theories in a debate against themselves rather than as actual conversation partners.
https://www.16personalities.com/intp-personalityI think that what we saw today was Kyrie using the entire viewing public as a sounding board for some deeper inner monologue that he's constantly trying to work through in his head.
When you heard the somewhat disjointed hodgepodge of vocabulary that make up his answers at times it's easy to raise your eyebrows(my favorite was when he said something like 'my intent was exactly my intention') but what I like about him is that even if his response isn't fully developed its coming from a deeply introspective place. I'll take this guy 10 times out of 10 over the typical 'both teams played hard' chorus from most athletes.
He's probably the type, like many of us, who will think about that response for long after the interview and come up with the perfect way to verbalize It 2 hours later even though he tripped over his words in the moment.
Topic: Kyrie's a Trip. (INTP) (Read 6707 times)