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Volodymyr Zelenskyy (EIE): Personality Type Analysis

Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy (born 1978) is a Ukrainian comedian, actor, film producer, and the current President of Ukraine. Zelenskyy began his career in entertainment doing comedy skits, eventually moving on to starring in movies, as well as funding movies and shows himself. In 2015, Zelenskyy began starring in a comedy/satire TV show called Servant of the People in which he played a school teacher who is suddenly and unexpectedly elevated to the Presidency of Ukraine after his rant against widespread government corruption in Ukraine went viral. In 2018, Zelenskyy ran for President under his newly formed political party named after the TV show he starred in, ‘Servant of the People’ , as a political outsider (as expected of someone who spent their life in entertainment instead of politics) on a populist, anti-corruption platform which frequently referenced the TV show and, according to some, seemed to blur the lines between fiction and reality. Another of Zelenskyy’s campaign ...

Alexander Hamilton (LIE): Personality Type Analysis

Alexander Hamilton (1755 or 1757-1804) was one of the founding fathers of the United States of America. Born out of wedlock in the Caribbean, Hamilton immigrated to America on the eve of its revolution against British control. He studied law and wrote essays arguing passionately for greater freedom from Britain, one of the most known being a rebuttal against “a Westchester Farmer” (a pen name for Samuel Seabury) called ‘Farmer Refuted’. Hamilton interrupted his schooling to join the continental army where his leadership skills were noticed and he rose through the ranks to eventually become right hand man to General and first President George Washington ( ESI ). After the war, Hamilton took part in the constitutional convention to replace the failing articles of confederation, in which he gave a 6-hour speech in support of his own form of government, which many in the convention believed gave far too much authority to the executive branch and thus this speech made made him a lot of en...

Chiang Kai-shek (LSI): Personality Type Analysis

Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975), also known as Jiang Jieshi, was a Chinese revolutionary, general, and President of the Republic of China from 1927 until his defeat at the hands of Mao Zedong ( EIE ) in the Chinese Civil War in 1949, after which he and his government fled to the island of Taiwan, which he ruled until his death in 1975. First taking part as a military leader in the Xinhai revolution against the Qing dynasty in 1911 led by Sun Yat-sen, Chiang rose through the ranks of the nationalist party, called the Kuomintang, and eventually became commander-in-chief of the National Revolutionary Army. In this leading role, Chiang led the Northern Expedition to reclaim the vast majority of China which was controlled by warlords, and with his rule over China established, he presided over the Nanjing Decade, which was a period of unprecedented economic growth from 1927-1937. This was followed by the Japanese invasion of 1937, triggering the Second Sino-Japanese War, which had...