INTPs and idea evaluation

[Artsu Tharaz]

A thought occured to me just now; would you say that, as an INTP (though perhaps you are unaware =]) you tend to not know which of your ideas are the truly groundbreaking ones? I get the feeling that INTPs judge the merit of their ideas by how logically they all fit together, and thus when someone praises one of their idea they assume they must be praising the system as a whole, since to them each part is only a slight fraction of the whole. I believe that, where this is the case, what was often taken as ingenius in the INTP's work was not the system per se, but a single new idea which allowed them to fit everything in. The INTP is both unaware of what truly makes his system different, nor of how much it will change the understanding of others; he may assume a completely wrong idea as brilliant because it all fits! and a brilliant idea as nothing more than average, perhaps because the logic is not to his liking.

Thoughts?

 

[GYX_Kid]

there's some truth to that, i see where you're coming from
maybe he'd like to lean in the "everything fits!" direction, and then another idea (that might happen to reach a wider audience) would be deemed not as ingenius because practicality doesn't have to be any sign that creativity was a forerunner.

are you willing to share personal examples?

 

[Bryson]

he may assume a completely wrong idea as brilliant because it all fits!

Happens when I miss a premise and, regardless, I spend a lot of time sculpting the idea to the point of perfection, and, in the end, this ''perfection'' is only perfect within the assumed parameters. Happens more than I'd like to admit.

and a brilliant idea as nothing more than average, perhaps because the logic is not to his liking.

Happens when I'm generating possibilities in Ne mode but didn't take the proper time evaluate the idea. Or when I don't think the impact of the idea is meaningful enough to bother with the actual implementation.

Hard questions

 

[Sad Lions]

Personally I feel 'validity' if the pieces seems to fit with existing systems without contradiction. I'm not sure what you understand by 'new ideas', I tend to get broad dynamics and then work to make them more more explicit. For example, my last idea which I'm still sorting is something like 'anything can only make sense - have meaning - in how it is different from something else'. I do, however, often feel confused about what people find obvious or not; but I usually do know what I can google and what I cannot.

 

[lucky12]

but I usually do know what I can google and what I cannot.

Made my day, I do this so much. I like to do everything myself even if its outside of my knowledge base (ex. fix ___ on a car). If google cannot provide, I must inevitably turn to humans for suggestions.