INTPs like planning?

[Ex-User (8886)]

Is planning make you happy?

I love making plans, what is, I think strange for perceiver.
What about you?

 

[GodOfOrder]

plan in the sense of design or build, yes. plan in the sense or running my life in an orderly way, no.

 

[Lot]

My plans are like a piece of jazz music. There is a point A and point B, I just improvise till I get there.

But I do think of weird potential tragedies that could happen in my life. To prepare myself to react to it. Although, it doesn't have to be a tragedy. I like to think about what my natural response would be, then what a proper response should be. Then think about the affects of those decisions. How do I deal with those?

I guess you could call it planning. I think my grand parents would have called it day dreaming.

 

[SpaceYeti]

Ha, plans. I have a nasty habit of leaping before I look. I'm pretty good at winging it.

 

[Cognisant]

plan in the sense of design or build, yes. plan in the sense or running my life in an orderly way, no.

Lol yeah, I have multiple detailed plans for taking over the world but I can't seem to get organised on a day to day basis.

 

[EditorOne]

I enjoyed pre-planning when I was a firefighter. It wasn't so much a detailed plan as a conceptual approach based on each property we did a pre-plan for. (This was stuff where there was potential for extensive harm or special, challenging circumstances - a very large nursing home, the local school, a marina, etc.) It was a system of attack based on the unique problems at each location and, since it was done in advance of reality, it was really just problem solving.

Other than that, planning, not so much.

 

[Rook]

My planning transpires in a split second, thus it is sometimes poor planning. I ussualy interogate others to ensure that they have plan, ie. pressing people into planning a vacation or such beforehand, but I do not apply this urge on my own life.

 

[Brontosaurie]

no. i think plans are disgusting things. nothing good has ever involved a plan.

 

[Pizzabeak]

I feel weird when people ask what I'm doing over the weekend and I don't really have an answer... Makes me seem like a loner loser, especially if it's a girl that asked. Or if I just got out of class, "What are you gonna do now?" I dunno, just stuff... I can come up with ideas of stuff to do but actually doing them is a slightly different story. It depends. Not enough time in the day I say. Probably something that could be worked on?

 

[kvothe27]

I have broad outlines for a plan, but I don't fill in the details. I rarely follow through on my plans

 

[SpaceYeti]

I feel weird when people ask what I'm doing over the weekend and I don't really have an answer... Makes me seem like a loner loser, especially if it's a girl that asked. Or if I just got out of class, "What are you gonna do now?" I dunno, just stuff... I can come up with ideas of stuff to do but actually doing them is a slightly different story. It depends. Not enough time in the day I say. Probably something that could be worked on?

Haha, I'm in the Army, right? Well, the Army gives you safety briefings... every weekend. To add to that, where I am now, we have to do safety councilings each weekend. Then, they wanted us to explain what we were going to do on the weekend. Get this... for the past couple weeks, there have been blank hourly schedules on the counseling forms for us to fill out.

Yeah, they expect me to know what I'm doing over the weekend, every hour of the weekend. I could see how this might be helpful to an SJ or something, but come on! It's time off. I don't plan my time off in any more detail than is necessary! Sure, I might plan to play my cool new game or whatever, but I don't plan when I'll play it. Nor do I plan when I eat, I just do that when I'm hungry, whatever time it happens to be. It's... it's silly.

 

[Trebuchet]

I hate making actual hour-by-hour plans or writing down checklists. I prefer to simply gather whatever resources seem likely to be needed and see what happens.

I'm very good at packing for anything, but when I plan a trip it tends to be "just enjoy whatever I find there."

I love what Lot said: "There is a point A and point B, I just improvise till I get there." That about covers it for me.

 

[RaBind]

Make plans in my own head. Hard to keep to them and usually don't happen like I expect.

 

[Pyropyro]

i do plan, but most of the time they have no set time tables (unless REALLY necessary). I also prefer to have a lot of options so I'm ready should opportunities arise.

 

[DelusiveNinja]

I don't know about INTPs but I do somewhat. I like to have a well thought out idea of what's going to happen next and what ever I think will happen I write it down. If I go into to class without an idea of what's going to happen I'm left with tons of anxiety while waiting in anticipation of the randomness.

 

[Etheri]

Lol yeah, I have multiple detailed plans for taking over the world but I can't seem to get organised on a day to day basis.

Lets share notes. I've got a few of my own.

Yeah, they expect me to know what I'm doing over the weekend, every hour of the weekend.
It's... it's silly.

... ouch.

I dislike deciding what i'll feel like in the future. I just do what I feel like when I actually feel like it.

 

[Hadoblado]

I guess I do, but it's not so much planning as fantasizing. I predict outcomes, but it's more like I have ideas contingent on particular outcomes, but don't take any action to instigate those outcomes.

I have recently started planning my uni week for real, but while I do get some satisfaction from crossing tasks off my schedule, it's not my preferred approach.

 

[nervous-walking]

I have recently started planning my uni week for real, but while I do get some satisfaction from crossing tasks off my schedule, it's not my preferred approach.

I was planning on doing the same thing this semester.. but that plan fell through.

I can only just manage keeping to the set plan that uni/work gives me. I much prefer just doing my own thing, but do work better when I have some plans in place and a bit of routine.

 

[ZenRaiden]

I am planned out for the next 5 years including plan B, C , D , E, F, G, H, ......

 

[Cherry Cola]

If you really want to be an INTJ then study Te and Fi, it's easier to adjust your judging functions than your perceiving ones as the latter are not under conscious control to the same degree.

Regarding the thread, you can prepare without really planning by picturing what might happen in an upcoming situation, which is something I think everyone regardless of their J function being extraverted or not does.

 

[mu is mu]

Is planning make you happy?

I love making plans, what is, I think strange for perceiver.
What about you?

Yes, it does, and yes, I do. Actually, this is one of the main reasons that I consider myself more of an INTX than an INTP. For many years I exhibited the more carefree, unplanned tendencies expressed by some of the INTPs in this thread, but in work and especially in college I eventually realized that such a mindset had been preventing me from fulfilling my potential. Consequently, whenever I had this realization, I discarded those tendencies and became much more goal-directed and schedule-oriented.

It seems like my ISTP dad, also a perceiver, has a similar story. My guess is that there are certain internal factors (e.g., values and world-views) and external factors (e.g., the physical/social environment) that can have a greater influence on an individual's behavior than preferences inherent to personality type.

 

[Jennywocky]

plan in the sense of design or build, yes. plan in the sense or running my life in an orderly way, no.

Yeah.

I will "plot" and "strategerize" until the cows come home, but it takes a lot for me to actually make a list and pencil in times and dates. Yes, the latter can be very effective (and I've had to do it), but boy do I loathe it.

Basically, my "planning" is to minimize risk and ensure desired outcome as much as possible, NOT to organize my time.

 

[Architect]

INTP's are inner judgers and outer perceivers, and so are primarily judgers but directed towards themselves. Yes I love making plans about my projects and goals, and I don't like making plans for other people.

 

[NormannTheDoorman]

I do have goals but situations may change at any moment so I tend to improvise until I get to that end goal. Rarely will I ever make objectives in my goals.

 

[chatelking]

I always make plan for everything, I even make scenario when I'm about to socializing. But I'm open to few changes. Maybe because I make plan A to Z for everything.