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• Often gave direct commands (NTJ favored over NTP) 293
• Very tight with money (INTJ particularly favored) 294
• Disliked travel (INTJs are the NT type least interested in "international opportunities" as a
job characteristic.) 295
Evidence against INTJ
• Distrusted machines (SJ conservatism favored)
• Was addicted to alcohol (Argues against NT)
Unlike Monk or Poirot, Wolfe did not have any noticeable need to organize physical objects. He
did, however, exhibit other interesting behaviors: he preferred to avoid ever leaving his house, or
even moving at all. He also disliked all physical contact, and would come up with clever ruses to
avoid shaking hands with people. Monk wouldn't do this either, but that was because people have
germs. Wolfe simply disliked touch. NTs are not a particularly touchy feely bunch, though Wolfe
took it to an extreme.
Who Needs Facts: The Intuitive Detective
Where Poirot exalted the power of method and logic, Wolfe focused on the messier art of intuition.
He would make deductions without being able to explain precisely how the idea came to him. As
his ESTP employee explained it at one point, "...something was happening so fast inside of him and
so much ground was being covered, the whole world in a flash, that no one else could ever really
understand it even if he [Wolfe] had tried his best to explain, which he never did." To Nero Wolfe,
detection was not so much a science as an art. He "just knew."
Behind the Scenes
We've looked varying degrees of INTJ passivity, but no character in this book is so completely
passive and removed from the world as Nero Wolfe. The man took the words "sedentary lifestyle"
to a whole new level.
Not only did Wolfe dislike leaving his house—he avoided it for entire months at a stretch—but he
also disliked moving at all. He had an elevator installed in his house so that he would never have to
use the stairs. And even this was not enough: he reduced gestures and body language to the bare
minimum, moving the tip of his little finger when thinking hard (rather than pacing); opening and
closing his eyes to indicate approval; or crumpling his cheeks up in a smile that could not be
identified as such unless a person had been acquainted with Wolfe at length. Indeed, Wolfe's body
language was so subtle that it could not be noticed or interpreted by anyone save those closest to
him.
Similarity to Mycroft Holmes
If you are familiar with the classic Sherlock Holmes stories, you may notice some similarities
between Nero Wolfe and Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes' lesser known brother. Both characters
preferred to remain within the confines of a single area as much as possible; both were INT
geniuses; and both were overweight and physically inactive.
Was Mycroft Holmes an INTJ? I cannot say for certain; his only real appearances were in two
293 Keirsey, 1987
294 Gerdes, 2010
295 Myers, McCaulley, Quenk & Hammer, 1998