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Zachary Hackner — An Intellectual Outlier

Deborah Ruf, PhD
9 min readFeb 4, 2025

Exceptionally to Profoundly Gifted — Part 3

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.

Zachary Hackner

Total Level Four Subjects: 16; # of J Mothers= 10; J Fathers= 4; J as Child= 1

A “U” in the personality result represents a person who was completely in the middle of a factor continuum. A lower-case letter indicates the person is just slightly into that category for the type. N/A means None Available.

Zachary said his parents were both authoritative and his mother was sometimes a bit on the permissive side of parenting styles. His mother’s MBTI® showed a preference for ISFJ (Nurturer) and Zachary’s childhood MMTIC® result was ESFJ (Caregiver). Such a similarity in personality type preference can lead to easier understanding between parents and children than type preferences that are too different. The father’s type preference of INTP (Thinker) is generally more flexible, intuitive, and theoretical than Zachary’s or his mother’s. Zachary’s educational fit was mostly Unsatisfactory and only…

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Deborah Ruf, PhD
Deborah Ruf, PhD

Written by Deborah Ruf, PhD

High Intelligence Specialist & Writer, Dr. Ruf writes about highly intelligent people from birth to very old age. www.fivelevelsofgifted.com

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