Do you work in bursts? (Intp)

[Sirach2:5]

I find as an intp I am not lazy but I don't work hard at all times. I work as a buisness analyst and I find myself spacing out and siting back an listening to classical and jazz radio all the time. This gives off the lazy anti social view. However I have bursts of extreme efficiency in my work. In these bursts I complete projects in a half hour that would take a normal person 2 hours and I do a better job than they did. I was once give a job by I coworker and they told me it would take it would take 45 minuets
My boss over heard this and said oh he will get it done in 15 then changed me to do sound I got it done in 10.

My boss is a good guy and this it's like a game between me and him where he try's to overload me with work at times and I keep on delivering then go on to "slacking". He knows I work in bursts and is of the opinion just get the work done do it right then after that I don't care as Long as it is on time.

Do you other INTPs work in bursts such as this or is it a steady stream of work?

 

[Bijection]

I'm a college student of Mathemathics, so not really working yet, but yeah, in everything I have ever done in life, I have always spent 90% of the time I had at my disposal doing nothing and the last 10% of the time doing a better job than most of the other guys in the same amount of time.

I can hardly see myself working continously on something for a very long period of time. At least, it would have to be something that's very wild and unstable, if it's a monotonous work, I'm fucked.

 

[Pyropyro]

I find as an intp I am not lazy but I don't work hard at all times. I work as a buisness analyst and I find myself spacing out and siting back an listening to classical and jazz radio all the time. This gives off the lazy anti social view. However I have bursts of extreme efficiency in my work. In these bursts I complete projects in a half hour that would take a normal person 2 hours and I do a better job than they did. I was once give a job by I coworker and they told me it would take it would take 45 minuets
My boss over heard this and said oh he will get it done in 15 then changed me to do sound I got it done in 10.

My boss is a good guy and this it's like a game between me and him where he try's to overload me with work at times and I keep on delivering then go on to "slacking". He knows I work in bursts and is of the opinion just get the work done do it right then after that I don't care as Long as it is on time.

Do you other INTPs work in bursts such as this or is it a steady stream of work?

Sums up my relationship with my superiors They tolerate me fooling around the net since I get things done.

 

[ddspada]

Yes, it happens and has happened often.

I remember that in tenth grade I had to turn in a five-page essay/book report the last day of school for History class. Whereas some of my classmates had it ready weeks in advance and were still working at it, revising and polishing it, I started mine at three o'clock in the morning of the day it was due, after having watched movies all afternoon and night. I got bored of the book, read only the first couple of paragraphs of each chapter, and finished writing the thing at six o'clock or so, just in time to go to school after a cup of coffee. I just BSed my way through writing five pages of text.
I got an A on that paper. An easy, easy A.

In college it's a little harder to procrastinate to such extremes because I have to read more and write more, but the trend is still very much in effect.

 

[Gather_Wanderer]

I've been writing a book and have suffered this problem. I have had periods of consistency where I force myself to sit down and do at least 15-30 minutes a day or longer and saw many positives come from it. But the best writing I've put down in the entire work so far, came in short bursts of an idea flowing through the keyboard (or paper, since I write by hand sometimes), when I hadn't been writing all week. At night too. I've read so many different advice blogs about getting an early start on the day but I, just like many people here, am an unabashed night-owl.

A big area of growth for people like us is to learn to be more "consistently consistent". The young NTs I know, my youngest brother and my future wife's younger brother, I often preach to about this very thing. Our battle in life is to not get complacent because we typically have the intellectual advantage in the room, so to speak. Our world is more often run by lesser intellects because they are more consistent than we are.

People who have intellect and consistency can be generational game-changers.

 

[OrLevitate]

Yea, it's mostly due to relativity to people who have to work harder, who set a norm in which its affect on you is due to their prevalence which is subjective. The behavior strengthens over time since yooth. If ya hang out or work with people who are 'on your level' or better yet, above, more, then you'll probably find yourself working more consistently. Or spending your time validating some sort of nihilism, that's just a stage though
In a similar regard, a forum about INTPs ostensibly fosters social interaction on a level of mental stimulation that is hard to be found elsewhere.

I've been writing a book and have suffered this problem. I have had periods of consistency where I force myself to sit down and do at least 15-30 minutes a day or longer and saw many positives come from it. But the best writing I've put down in the entire work so far, came in short bursts of an idea flowing through the keyboard (or paper, since I write by hand sometimes), when I hadn't been writing all week. At night too. I've read so many different advice blogs about getting an early start on the day but I, just like many people here, am an unabashed night-owl.

A big area of growth for people like us is to learn to be more "consistently consistent". The young NTs I know, my youngest brother and my future wife's younger brother, I often preach to about this very thing. Our battle in life is to not get complacent because we typically have the intellectual advantage in the room, so to speak. Our world is more often run by lesser intellects because they are more consistent than we are.

People who have intellect and consistency can be generational game-changers.

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