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You make some good points, however aren't you logically supposed to make some sort of compliment (even if indeed its very unlikely it is the first one this female is hearing...) and THEN, depending on her reaction, ask for a date, not the other way around ? As for a demonstration of...

Well this is an elaborate guess based on her behaviour and things she said and the way she said them and compared to another INFJ (my teacher of psychoanalysis, even though he was male). Of course i could well be wrong. Sadly i can't just drop by the bank as it is a tiny branch and all visits...

Thank you for all the answers... Sadly i am just as shy, it takes me a long time to know someone enough to open up, even with the people i work with... That was my plan : telling her exactly what i felt and why, so if she was telling me she wasn't interested i would have forgotten about her...

Male INTP here... I have met this woman twice (strictly for business), the first time was 3 months ago ; i thought she was absolutely gorgeous and had a great personality (funny / witty, extremely intelligent etc. it had been a long time a woman hadn't stroke the right cord in me !), and i had...

Love this thread and everyone's answers / thoughts : you all brilliantly expressed in words things that had been in my head for a while. I wonder if as we, INTPs, get older and grow wiser we don't tend to lose our (unconscious) spontaneity (i.e tactical thinking) dating from our youth and...

Your idea of losing the debate being in fact the real win for a (mature) INTP since he is being changed as a result, is very very interesting and i have been thinking deeply about it since i read you last night ! I would add that Judgers move from cause to effect, hence the reason why they are...

I hanged out with "low lifes" most of my life. Also i have always been sexually attracted to "low life" girls, you know the type who wear short skirts and just looks naughty / up for anything... Now, i know better... I stay way from low lifes AND fake people but i do see what you mean, because...

I couldn't agree more, in fact before you said the part in bold characters, that's exactly what i wanted to add / say. The counterbalancing parent is meant to block the absolutistic tendendy of the one parent, and vice versa, just like the pairs of jungian functions. My mum was a very strong...

Hire an ISTJ to keep your books and do all your accounting / tax work for you.

In any situation i currently am or will / could be related to i always imagine (NOT predict) the worst possibility, then i start panicking / stressing about it just like it will happen beyond reasonable doubt (i just can't help it !) which in turn forces me to make immediate changes in a way...

My mum also was an ISTJ and yes she was a hoarder too ! She passed away 3 months ago and now my dad and I have the whole house to "empty" and that's going to take a loooong time and a lot of effort. And she was the same as your dad too: when there was a good deal she would get it even though she...

Ti is there to find "shortcuts" (universal statements) / detecting potential flaws in any system (living or non-living) with the least possible effort ; it is what make INTPs so good at exploiting flaws (negative approach) or to make that system better and more resistant (positive approach). Ti...

Totally right ! I'm 42 and my tertiary Si has now been extremely well integrated and i am now very reluctant when getting stuff (mainly because i used to get stuff all the time when younger and Si is there to remind me that all in all it didn't make me any happier, on the contrary !). Si is...

But there are defined abstract categories people agree with... Otherwise, scientists, psychoanalysts, philosophers etc. wouldn't understand each others.' concepts and theories (categories are the building bocks of). I guess when they don't agree, it is because they use other categories and quite...

Other logical possibility / explanation: maybe they are both INTPs but that's you who aren't one ?