Stephen Williams and Tyler Lundquist — Intellectual Outliers

Exceptionally to Profoundly Gifted-Part 7

If you aren’t sure what some of the topics in this post are about, keep going back to the Introduction from the detailed post on January 28, 2025. Some helpful links are at the end of this post.

Stephen Williams

Stephen’s parents had MBTI® results of INTP (Thinker) for his mother and INTJ (Scientist) for his father. Stephen’s MMTIC® during childhood was ISFP (Artist). He described both of his parents as authoritative in their parenting style. As an adult, Stephen prefers IsTP (Mechanic). He is an only child, and he describes his parents and himself as all independent. They get along well and did when he was a child, too. Although it took a while for Stephen’s parents to arrange the best fit for their son (it started as Unsatisfactory and moved quickly to Satisfactory), they were on the same page, flexible, and had the financial resources to try things until something worked. In other words, they were adaptable and accommodating with his education, and this quote from Stephen sums up how well things went for the family: