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INTPness is really nothing more than hard preferences for a certain thinking style. Emotionality and sociability are derivative, and at best are only negatively correlated with INTPness. Do not expect to be like INTPs beyond how you think. There are other factors at play that determine...

EDIT: Nevermind, a moderator can delete this thread.

Alternate title: Ti:Philosophy::Fi:Art I've been thinking, for a number of reasons, that the understanding conveyed through art is more of an Fi-method of conveying understanding. The main reason being that images and sounds and semantic connotations (poetry) are more conducive to...

I've noticed that I have a strong tendency to qualify anything I say, especially if I start saying something and realize that it's wrong, or that it might be misconstrued if taken from another particular perspective. This leads to a lot of hemming and hawing if I haven't decided ahead of time...

Okay, so here's the deal (didn't see a thread about this): We clearly have preferences for one type of function or another, but I'm still not sure what to make of that. On the one hand, it seems that development of the dominant function leads to too polarized of an individual, whereas on the...

I swear, as little as 5-6 years ago (age 14) half of the description for ISFJ (at least for the description here) would fit me to a T. Except for the stuff about gift giving and having trouble with abstractions, and missing the fact that I had my head in the clouds all the time, there really...

Okay, so this would probably be unnecessarily complicated, but I thought perhaps since the cognitive process tests aren't really good at measuring actual function usage that perhaps there'd be a filter preceding that part so that the user is going to get back results for the cognitive processes...

Yanni got me first into it, but I find that I am now highly obsessed with electric violin music. anyone else have this? things similar to: YouTube- Emilie Autumn - Manic Depression (instrumental) Acoustic violin lovers welcome too. I am obsessed with that as well.

I assume the following will be completely alien to you, but here it is: I am bad at sustaining a joke. In fact, I joke so very little that on rare occasion that I do, it is not interpreted as a joke. Don't get me wrong: I can be funny, but joking is a strict no-no. Conversely, I dislike...

Here's the general idea: introverts have two modes for interacting with others 1) "E-mode": focus energy on extroverted functions 2) "I-mode": extrovert introverted functions I'm trying to broaden this as much as possible, but I must begin by saying that I got this idea by contrasting...

So I baked a sweet potato today... a bit too long. Normally, when this happens I get a black, burnt mess in my oven. Today, however, I decided I would try cooking at a lower temperature to avoid this. To my surprise, my sweet potato still leaked, but upon scraping the stuff off the pan and...

Okay, I've been discrediting the brain-hemisphere dominance theory for a while now, but had to rethink my position recently. I had been looking for people who claim the theory is a myth, and many authors go on to say "well, yeah, there's this book called Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain...

Having looked at a number of typology, temperament, and type personality theories, I can't help but wonder whether they do more harm than good, even for people who attempt to use them properly. I suppose I got this idea because all the distinctions I started pulling up when trying to get a...

So anyway, at work today I was given the task of cropping images, which is pretty mindless in comparison to the everyday reading and critiquing scientific studies (ugrad research, for the curious). I had to wonder, many people view a 'mindless' job as a terrible thing, but then proceed to...

"Our small talk is the most emotionally important talking that we do, for it can resolve more emotional problems, and can provide more emotional strength, than by any other means. It's the quickest route to a more lasting happiness that there is." So anyway, this guy claims that small talk...

Is it that it's aesthetically pleasing? A subtle pleasure? Or maybe a piece represents something meaningful? I never got into art, and thought perhaps I was looking at it the wrong way.

SO anyway, I've noticed after recently trying to develop my writing skills that I have a really strong tendency to edit everything as I type, if not before then. This tendency extends to forum typing as well, such that I spend about 20minutes or so to write a post that should take only 2 or 3...

I'm bored of MBTI and I'm having difficulty finding other theories worthy of note. Suggestions?

I've gotten to the point where I have to tell my bad memories to "F*** off." For me, it's mostly when I recall being a hypocrite or doing something I think, in retrospect, is dumb. Mostly memories than undermine the type of person I want to be. Anyone else have similar problems? Maybe...

"Well, I can see both sides of the issue." Okay, well lately I've been thinking of ourselves as a complex system, with conflicting wants and ideas. The "I" is an illusion because "my" brain is a parallel processing unit, with many of those units having a separate agenda. A focused...

Ever been in the "flow state?" It happens when we have, among other things, no reason to question what should be done. http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199707/finding-flow And let's face it, many people spend lots of time questioning what they want to (or ought to) do. It's a difficult...

Okay, so I've been reading a few things on this forum and am starting to see two main schools of thought. On the one hand I see what I would call an archetypal personality model. This one has INTPs being independent, logical, pragmatic, and generally distrusting of people. It's the one which...

I find that my guesses are way off from what other people think of themselves, and even then perhaps they don't know themselves too well either. Oftentimes I find myself typing moods rather than the actual person, with someone being shy or bored one week but expressive and active another...

I've been going by the traditional "head in the clouds == N" idea for a while now, but I thought perhaps this issue isn't so simple. What I mean is, if the dominant function is focused on personal decision-making, does the person's focus shift so much just by the auxiliary function...

In David Keirsey's book titled Please Understand Me II, he labels all NT types as "Knowledge-Seeking" personalities and all NF types as "Identity-Seeking" personalities. However, it seems that most people are searching for the answer to "Who am I?" which appears to make his distinction rather...

Has anyone ever looked at this http://www.interactionstyles.com/ or this http://www.4temperaments.com/ ? They reuse, for better or worse, MBTI codes to indicate the different interaction styles and temperaments. I'd guess most people are familiar with temperament theory (most of which, at...

So anyway, I got into personality theory because I was always unnerved by how different my preferences are from most people. Honestly, if most people simply thought like me and liked the same things I do, I'd probably be pretty content to be like everyone else and just fit in, etc. But as a...

Edit: The title means I went from thinking I was INTJ to INTP... etc So yeah, I'm obviously quite type confused, but due to interpersonal feedback and general behavior patterns it is likely that I am of the ?NTP type. I do, however, seem to be rather task-oriented and like making plans (which...