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I seem to run on 6-9 month cycles, where I find something new, learn about it, and then am satisfied; sometimes I come back to things later. Unfortunately, I worry about losing the skills I once learned, but I have too many to do them all simultaneously. I sort of always imagined I would use...

Perhaps the Buddhists are right: the real problem is discord between desires and actuality. And so the problem may not be your assessments, but that your culture has made you expect certain things -- a higher standard of living than your parents, a career that is exciting and pays big, your "one...

I think they romanticize the future too: studies show people are consistently over-optimistic and over-estimate how happy good events will make them -- when in fact their day-to-day mood probably won't change that much (though this says nothing about satisfaction and other emotions). As those...

Anub1s, you make a good point. You can't show your downsides immediately; that is off-putting. But that's not quite the same thing as a whole fake persona. There are plenty of women who do not require a super-masculine egotistical type (and the same for men as well I'm sure). So I admit that...

There are going to always be (interesting) biases in participation in personality-type forums. INTPs and INTJs will care about classification and online stuff, ESFJs might not bother. More heavy internet users are probably male. I wonder if INTPs in general are 50/50 (by sex) or if it is also...

INTPs tend to dream big and think abstractly, often neglecting details (at least factual ones -- I'm personally very attentive to how to do things). I've been reading about studies that connect depression to that kind of abstraction. Specifically, the NY Times had a piece about how...

Oh, that's overstating things. My previous g/f and current fiance both iNtuited I had depression immediately, and didn't care (probably because they did too!). So don't give up hope on that score. It might work better to be open because if someone senses you're hiding things or are weird...

I used to have two little refrains: 1. Never think about the past (regrets) more than necessary to see what you did wrong. 2. Never think about the future (anxiety) more than necessary to plan for it. If you find yourself doing either repeatedly, tell yourself, "I've already thought about it...

I sympathize greatly with the OP. The standard, empty advice is to simply make a decision, even if randomly, and never look back. But psychologically that does not work for people who have the problem in the first place; perhaps never for INTPs. Endlessly reconsidering options does have huge...

Interesting to have so many engineers. It probably does involve a lot of similar problem solving, though not the theory. DA, you're right no one enters academia for the money (though full professors at major schools do quite decently) but neither to they always consider that 10+ years of...

I've looked at various sites suggesting careers for INTPs recently. Many included long lists with geologist, botanist, astronomer, etc. These are basically career-science gigs requiring a PhD, ending with tenured professorships or otherwise heading a lab. Since I've seen several threads with...