> Not all personality types are willing to solve problems (aka working) for their own intrinsic motivation.

I disagree with the notion that wanting to solve problems necessarily leads to having the discipline or desire to work.

The problems I choose to solve in my spare time are almost always more interesting than the ones I solve for work because I choose them out of interest, whereas the ones for work are chosen due to more practical reasons.

True, being intrinsically motivated to solve problems doesn't mean people have discipline or desire to do so for work. Albeit it is not a sufficient condition, it is still helping to be a problem-solver I think. I may be wrong though.

> Not all personality types are willing to solve problems (aka working) for their own intrinsic motivation.

There's also the issue that some problems are shitty and boring. You're not "solving" a problem when you're writing another boring CRUD app.

Indeed. For me this would already be a problem at the workplace though, not only from home.

I don't know if I buy into that as a line of reasoning. I'm ostensibly an INFP and I actually love problem-solving (hence being a programmer). When I work from home I am motivated to work for a number of reasons:

- It's interesting / challenging

- A sense of duty / professionalism

- A sense of teamwork / camaraderie

This is entirely anecdotal of course. I also will often head to a cafe to get some 'human/ambient' time (another motivator). Being at home can be lonely.

The fact that INTJ and INTP may usually be problem-solvers does not mean that other types may not be as well. A -> B doesn't mean than ¬A -> ¬B

I'm just saying that HN is really biased toward known problem-solving personalities, this should be taken into account in the context of this discussion :-)

Hate to break it to you guys: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/give-and-take/201309/go...

This is one opinion.

I always see people criticizing all sort of tests because they are not good regarding to some criteria. Well, this is true for all of them. Those tests are trying to divide billions of people into few categories, you lose information anyway. There are 8 billions of personalities that should be split into 16 categories, some people will match exactly, other will lies in-between and will not match the characteristics.

I don't know these big-five or hexaco tests, but by the principle they also try to reduce the dimensionality of 8 billions people to n<100 categories, the same as MBTI. They may be better than MBTI, probably, but this does not mean the later may not bring useful information for our discussion.

I made some quick stats one of the HN pool (probably not statistically significant, but still a good indication), INTJ are 2.5% in the real population but 30% of HN, INTP 4% but 28.7% on HN, ENTP 6% but 10% on HN, and ENTJ 5.5% but 7.5% on HN. The four together represent ~80% of HN, but only ~20% of the real population. Those are also the four most represented categories on HN, and curiously belongs to the "Intellectual" class of personalities [1], as you would except to find on HN.

Maybe it's not the best test, maybe it has some problems, but it is still a tool that can give us some bases for thinking and discussions.

[1] https://mypersonality.info/personality-types/population-gend...

INFP are also strong problem solvers as can be any type when motivated... I think an INTP won't be deeply aware of motivations outside of the problem itself while INTJ will be much more selfishly calculated which is why they tend to make more money.