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INTJs can be great to interact with, for their ability to cut through confusion, be blatant about their thoughts, be likewise concerned with logic and systems, and to have interesting information always on hand ... ... but only if you have a fairly well developed ability to deal with judgement...

good thing we like solving enigmas, then. Which supports your, "were the only ones that can do this" claim...ENTPs, for example, might be able to, but may switch to a new "project" so quickly so as to not really have an effect. Saving the world, one INTJ's shattered ego at a time. (which will...

(emphasis added) Thank you for the best compliment you could possibly have given us :rolleyes: This is a fair answer and does reflect what I generally find to be the case in INTJs, who on the whole I don't find to be terrible, in fact, usually they either are or have the potential to be great...

yea I get the reasons behind the "harshness", which actually I did not view as such. There is a time for honest criticism, and that time is pretty much all of the time. It's an interesting subject....INTJ development. We should write a manual. Or maybe a dialogue between the INTP and the INTJ...

it's interesting hearing your thoughts on INTJs...we are in a similar position in that my best friend is also INTJ, and while I would still call them 'my best friend' (a title not bestowed lightly), I have pondered around similar criticisms you made in the post regarding INTJs&INTPs. I think...

whoops missed the memo. I'll just return to wallow in my supreme lack of name creativity then. :) Thanks for answering.

is it still okay to ask to change our name? The reason why I ask in this thread is because I think a while back I may have PM'd someone about it but didn't hear back, so figured maybe it isn't allowed anymore unless we have a better reason than 'my name is bad and I should feel bad'...

I routinely like think up which countries should ally together to maximize their influence (based on who has which resources, geographical location, composition of their militaries, cultural/economic/value ties, etc.) ... this is fun because you learn a lot about global politics and power. Most...

This is a really great idea. What would you say though? It's an interesting thing to think on--how to best convey in the clearest (not everyone will be a native English speaker, and automated translation only goes so far), in most concise format possible, a message that would change the...

Anyone else have an 8tracks account, with mixes they've made? This is the place to share a link to them so we can all follow you and your musical mixing genius. Essentially, let me--and everyone else-- listen to and love your music, pretty please. :phear: To be fair I'll link mine but really...

John Zorn...and the Cracow Klezmer Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utOFt_iZw4A https://www.youtube.com/artist/john-zorn?feature=watch_video_title

I'm going to nickname this the Bullet-Point Soapbox Thread. - it is possible to be a spiritual atheist, of sorts, who doesn't really believe what they contemplate spiritually, but just has a good time with it. Like a child playing imaginary games to expand their mind's abilities and scope. -...

....when you begin all discussions by walking the other person(s) through this flow-chart: http://thoughtcatalogcom.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/a-flowchart-to-help-you-determine-if-yoursquore-having-a-rational-discussion.jpg?w=584 [also attached]

The Blues Brothers! And then Skyfall, which was very good, I'll concur, and then yesterday I watched Mulholland Dr...which, to sum it up, unhelpfully, is a David Lynch film. All are recommended though.

I am majoring in biology and chemistry, minoring in philosophy and picking up credits in law, perhaps not enough to cobble together a minor though. I plan on becoming a researcher/inventor/whatever. In general I'd like to do things, and learn stuff. During the school year part of the year I...

There are two types of days: Type One: Wake up 5 minutes to an hour before my alarm goes off, even though I probably went to bed at midnight or 2, and am waking up sometime from 5 to 6. Still, I will feel completely awake, get up and make coffee, then go about the day, using the extra time in...

I have felt like this before, especially when I want to be creative, and have ideas, but lack the actual energy to get the pen or paint or piano or whatever and go. To you, though you said patience wears thin, I would recommend not caring about talent. Perhaps patience runs out because you...

http://undergroundnewyorkpubliclibrary.com/ This website contains a photographer's collection of pictures of people on the New York public transport system reading, with a description of what they are reading and links So far I've used it as a book recommendation list and base for thinking...

I have been here before so many times. I too am low on the P according to tests. Can never tell if that's "real" or if the imaginary person I'd like to be who gets stuff done answers some of the questions. Sometimes I go on a planning-acting streak and it all works out, other times plans fail...

So.........did this happen? I tried to find an INTP forum channel and couldn't so I guess not. Simultaneously I think this is a good idea but would also require effort that may or may not be consistently available. Though, if enough people were to participate it wouldn't take that much of any...

Yay. -waits like a 4 year old for the story- :D Didn't meant to derail this thread if I did. There are probably many more ways we could imagine an INTP hero.

I have never been diagnosed with ADD, though I was described as "manic" and "never stops talking, even to herself" and "does not stop fidgeting" and "does not follow directions" as a child. To anyone who thinks I was this way because of lack of punishment for it, I would point out I went through...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsPP1NeN8sk

I have posted here three times and feel ridiculous, but ... complete agreement, this is the best way to say it, props of the highest order to Stephen Fry. Near the end he brings it back around too, being fair to the idea of making an effort with language for certain circumstances, but overall...

snafupants Wow. That is beautiful. I struggled for a while with this topic. Mostly it was "ethics" versus "functionality/logic" which is one battle that never gets won with me. Either morality/ethics and functionality/logic have to be on the same side or nobody wins. Luckily logically there...

Eh. I tend to do whatever seems natural for me. Normally I write with okay-spelling and grammar. However, I consider inventing words and using non-'textbook' grammar constructions to be permissible. They really should even be encouraged in English and in every other language where...

...In addition to calling it how I saw it, I was also trying to wheedle myself a continuation of the story...unless it was an 'artistic choice' to drop it off there (due to INTPs not finishing anything and all). (Yeah, we're all wannabe everythings. I'd say it's loving doing the...

MissQuote That is actually very well written.

I got X, despite not even always answering asexually. I suppose I answered that way enough to get the category. Retook it after reconsidering some of the answers, and got F. So X or F. I did answer with the understanding that (1) I wouldn't really know, and (2) then that what I may think or...

If it really were written like the "Modest Proposal" (not serious, a satire), then this would be an interesting inversion of the kinds of things that really were said--by "scientists" and the public alike--about women. It does make one realize the amount of shit that got said, and how nobody...

The "Spark of Mind" They would be just any old INTP, but then have the superpower of being able to bring any and all of their mental constructs into reality at will.

Yea probably N + P. I have known many INTJs, and they tend to claim not to experience dejá-vu. Although that might be the "my perceptions are of course absolute and wholly tied to reality" stubbornness. They would have Se as inferior and not any Si.

I suppose I know that. What I have not applied correctly to my GPA is dedication. And the classic INTP fear of failure resulting in inaction is more or less behind that. But then last semester I got an A in all my classes except one. (I should say my GPA *was* 2.02. Now it's something higher. If...

Re: INTP Parents Dad: INTJ, a psychologist/higher-education specialist/college professor. Supportive, deliberative, non-confrontational. He works late hours, gardens, birdwatches, and doesn't manage his own house, finances, nor children. He has good intentions and has a good deal of wisdom, but...

Thank you ! I especially like your input on English. It's a tricky one to be sure. I'll owe a debt to Escher, but I've always owed that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N7H64IrfGY Cuttin' grass...for gasoline, for gasoline, so I can see you soon.

I really have my suspicions about these things, especially being a more spatial person. I got 142, which I'm just happy about because, you know, 42. Universe life etc. But I feel like I must have figured out how to cheat without trying to figure out how to cheat because there is no way...

I'd just like to say from your "Interests" long-post that you're an awesome person and that I agree a lot.

Do you mean you are interested in situations in which one set of natural laws / relationships is able to work on three different interrelated levels? Have you come to any conclusions? I could see there being some kind of math way of proving how many "levels" in such a hierarchy are possible...

I firmly maintain that division by zero just produces a different class of imaginary numbers, imaginary like the square root of negative numbers. Because why the hell not? (seriously, if anyone knows why the hell not, or if it is true / possible, I'd like to know ASAP).

"Inner Light" from Star Trek. "Dirty Old Town" by David Byrne "The Missing Cat" by Adam Haynes Sicilienne Op78 by Gabriel Fauré

when your mental "ideal forms*" of various complex systems (from physics to commerce to knowing all the social protocol** to use to ingratiate yourself to others) abstractly become so beautiful you actually feel like you know them, and talk to them sometimes, even if your cat says it's...

I will be reading about this Ken Wilber though ... haven't run into him before.

YES. THANK YOU. Short answer: most of the conservatives, some of the "libertarians", and a few college liberals who got a bit too wrapped up in the theoretical of it all like her. And so quite the buzz was created here in the US. I'm visiting from September to January (to the UK, Wales...

So far this reminds me of Esperanto a bit. A goal I can completely support (including ALL possible perspectives, designing itself to be upwards compatible), but which I constantly fear will be done in such a way that, as most human created bodies of thought are wont to do, it will begin creating...

Is it wrong, as a scientist, to be (not so) secretly yearning for a central part of physics to be thrown into chaos? Because I really would love to see the chaos. On the other hand, I'll stay skeptical both about "physics as it stands" being "correct" in the more complete sense, and that this...

So what kind of psychology is it that you typically subscribe to? I see a lot of Greek, suggesting old-school, perhaps Freud influenced...but then this is the modern era, and from the link in your signature I would suppose that it is more "new age" or "modern" than all of that. I have always...

I hate memorizing the pointless details...but I think my bar for pointless is pretty low. Also, memorizing is such a funny word. Does it count if it's just a natural, "oh, yes, I remember that color of dirt and clay that is on my shoe, it is from by the park on the Eastern side", much like...

I got "HP Lovecraft" for a piece of writing that was a reply to a friend's blog post. For the sake of SCIENCE and also because I'm too lazy to make a thread on the subject, but wouldn't mind talking about it anyway...here it is: Note, the stuff in quotes at the beginning is what he had...

I think it really matters which rendition of Sherlock Holmes we're talking about. As a character he has been re-interpreted so many different times everyone has a different picture. Don't even get started on Mycroft...I mean, he has only passing reference in the books (okay, maybe more, but...