Bain News Service, 1909 · Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection (LCCN 2014683900, digital ID ggbain.03906), via Wikimedia Commons · Public Domain (PD-Bain / PD-US-no-notice)

writer · 19th Century

George Bernard Shaw

1856–1950

Known For

artisticculturalsocial

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Not yet included in personality matching — the documented evidence doesn't yet cover enough of the personality model. Everything else on this page is fully available.

Trait Constellation

Key Achievements

Won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925 and, in 1938, an Academy Award for the Pygmalion screenplay -- one of very few people to hold both.

Regularly wrote prefaces to his plays that were systematic argumentative essays exceeding the length of the plays themselves -- most concretely, a 67-page preface to the 29-page one-act The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet -- covering marriage, poverty, vivisection, vaccination, and women's rights.

Moments That Reveal Them

Adopted vegetarianism in 1881 at age 25, crediting Shelley's The Revolt of Islam as the trigger, and sustained it without exception for 66 years until his death.

Sustaining a self-chosen ethical commitment for the rest of his life, unbroken, is part of the basis for the profile's discipline score. Discipline

Composed exclusively in Pitman's phonetic shorthand throughout his career, had the pages transcribed by a dedicated typist, and deliberately destroyed the shorthand drafts afterward, keeping only a handful of pages for archival purposes.

Maintaining this unusual, exacting personal composition system consistently across his career is part of the basis for the profile's detail_orientation score. Detail Orientation