Thinking trait: Finding everything interesting in some way or another?

[anne321]

"Feeling" is described as assigning value to something perceived, while thinking only organizes what is perceived. As a thinker who hasn't developed my feeling function yet, this would mean I have trouble assigning value to things. I'd have to say this is definitely the case for me, because there's nothing that I find completely uninteresting. For example, I was at my grandma's house and she was watching this TV show called "Antiques Roadshow." Probably the most boring show on the planet, but for some reason I couldn't turn my eyes away from it. She later turned to the infomercial channel, but even that didn't turn me away. I started analyzing all of the subtle marketing strategies used to get you to buy their products I've never understand the whole "TL;DR" thing, either. I've never shied away from a post online that was too long, because there's always something I can extract from it that I would miss out on in the shortened version.

I'm just wondering if this is common for thinkers...maybe, maybe not.

 

[giumbai]

Not sure, it seems to me that you're like 16 -17 years old?

 

[scorpiomover]

Finding everything interesting in some way or another sounds more like Ne to me.

 

[anne321]

Not sure, it seems to me that you're like 16 -17 years old?

How do you know that?

 

[Base groove]

"Feeling" is described as assigning value to something perceived, while thinking only organizes what is perceived. As a thinker who hasn't developed my feeling function yet, this would mean I have trouble assigning value to things.

This is a good definition!

I've never shied away from a post online that was too long, because there's always something I can extract from it that I would miss out on in the shortened version.

Here you can be seen assigning value to things.

 

[Anktark]

I think what the OP described is not just thinking, but interaction between thinking and perception. Could be it that the trouble is not with assigning value to things, but instead assigning just one value to them?

I automatically assume that a person who writes "TL;DR" is either stupid, attention whore or a jerk. They could not be bothered to read the post, but took the time to post a pointless line? Basically, the person is l[i|e]ttering.

 

[BigApplePi]

... there's nothing that I find completely uninteresting. ...
I'm just wondering if this is common for thinkers...maybe, maybe not.

I think I know what you're talking about. I can find an interest in a great many things. I'm guessing the reason is (1) a fondness for thinking and (2) rating a lot of things equal in value. There is the value of deliberately looking for things of interest.

I do not rate things of equal value in my life. I choose what is of greater value and lower the priority to the rest. But this is not the end of the story ...

 

[paradoxparadigm7]

I agree with BG, your definition/distinction seems right on track. Weather it's a thinking/feeling distinction or a combo of intuition and thinking or intuition and feeling . I think that's a good way to listen to thinkers. As organizers.

 

[Pyropyro]

OP don't lose that trait okay? That's what keeps us INTP's young*!

*Bathing in the blood of virgins works too.

 

[Hadoblado]

Nope. If a T is interested in everything, then a T is interested in people. Ts are not interested in people. Therefore Ts aren't interested in everything.

I admire the trait you possess, but I do not share it. I think it's a wonderful gift you have, but that it isn't useful in discerning T from F. I would give almost anything to experience genuine interest in the things around me as you do.

Might I suggest it's not that you're interested in everything, but that you are able to keep looking until you find something of interest? You talk about how you look at specific areas of marketing etc., but that's not actually being interested in the product sold. You're picking and choosing (which is still great). Your areas of interest are probably broader than the norm, which would facilitate your indefinite curiosity.

 

[cheese]

*highfives OP*

In my experience this is actually one of the greatest divides between me and other people, especially Ts. The breadth of interest is likely a high Ne thing. (Ne is energised by patterns and connections. The act of connecting something in your environment to something else you find interesting enough to pursue is inherently rewarding for Ne types. This makes it relatively easy to experience wide-ranging interests... presumably.) I see similar tendencies in NFPs, particularly ENFPs. If anything, Ts generally are a little more dark/judgemental (ime), making it less likely for them to find something of interest in everything. I've also found that generally people who find things interesting are happy and/or positive, or have been happy/content for a long time at some point in the past. Discernment functions (T/F) are less developed and therefore they have less filters in place.

As stress and depression accumulate in my life, receptivity and interest shut down. When things start looking up I become open again.

Dammit, now I'm really interested in doing some cross-type, curiosity gauging, mental-health reporting polling! At least this is a good sign.

 

[Brontosaurie]

it's an NP thing not a T thing.

 

[anne321]

I think I agree with most of the people saying it's a Ne trait. When I say I have interest in just about everything, what I'm actually doing is finding a way for something to relate to my own interests. This trait is definitely more pronounced in ENxPs, I would say.

 

[giumbai]

Man i wish a could share your gift, i just get bored to fast, so i will just say: make the best of it, and don't waist it

 

[Base groove]

I would waist it if I had that kind of gift. I'd be waisting it alllll the time.

 

[TimeAsylums]

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if you waist it all the time, it'll go straight to your hips

 

[Base groove]

if you waist it all the time, it'll go straight to your hips

grow straight from my hips.

 

[TimeAsylums]

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you don't know Ne thing

 

[scorpiomover]

Nope. If a T is interested in everything, then a T is interested in people. Ts are not interested in people. Therefore Ts aren't interested in everything.

Ts can be interested in people. ENTJs are, and they are T-doms. INTPs can also be interested in people, so long as they view people as advanced computational machines that are interesting to study, and they are.