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Setrono, what kind of writing are you thinking about?

Privilege, authority, privileged authority, sanctimoniously ignorant and righteous people eg Sean Hannity, and the falsely meek who wring their hands and mew Jesus while scheming to stick a knife in your back without anyone noticing. I'm also not good with deceivers, betrayers, multinational...

"Apparently not trying hard at all to be weird is trying too hard.:confused:" Look at it from their paradigm: They've have to try really hard to be like you. :) Just like you'd have to try really hard to be like them.

To address one thing you mentioned, sports: I recall a couple of quiet fellows from high school who weren't motivated by the focused, competitive, aggressive, contact kinds of sports but who did enjoy running cross-country track. The training was literally cross country, it gave them an hour...

"I betcha that is only true when the labor is more figuring out a solution rather than grunt work. For example, putting up sheetrock is probably not high on your list." Correct. Sheet rock is a good example. It's also not high on my "good at it" list. I lack patience to invest time in...

The problem of being an INTP in management usually isn't with the people you manage, but with the people you report to. Extroverted judgmental sensing types seem to gravitate to management, and if you're not loudly bullying people and looking over their shoulders with instant assessments and...

It's the imposition, not the actual work. I enjoy MacGyvering stuff, and I got a lot of experience with construction, plumbing, electric, etc. when I was a young fellow, but I want to do stuff when I want to it; when a pipe leaks or a window breaks or a door lock stops working and can't be...

You're fine. Folks are just dunking you, sort of like baptism. Welcome aboard, learn some patience and don't overthink stuff. I'd rather read about stuff before I do it, too. Would have helped me having sex the first time. (Yes, I grew up before the internet and when sex books were...

"I am lazy when a task or chore does not interest me." ^This. Plus there are problems of not appearing to be motivated, problems caused by personality types that confuse industry with activity, excitement and noise (ever see those skitter bugs going across a muddle puddle? Lots of...

Blaurrun and computerhxr got it: I have watched sales people continue to pitch a product or service after a customer has agreed, and lose the sale, for a variety of reasons. But it essentially boils down to saying something that changes their mind. I didn't literally mean "stop talking," I...

Welcome aboard. This is a good place.

Marry wealth. It avoids a lot of aggravation.

Insurance underwriter. Boat surveyor. (The person who inspects and analyzes an expensive boat's condition on behalf of a prospective buyer.)

Silly people. When you're old, what you want is to be 21 again. :)

Now, that was funny.:D

Now for the real injustice, which is when the woman with visible cleavage also wears her event nametag pinned to her prominent bodice and you end up looking like a boob-seeking pervert trying to bend over close enough to read her damn name. Guarantee to create misunderstanding and produce many...

Cold calling: 1. Develop a script and stick to it. 2. When the customer says "yes", STOP TALKING. 3. Undersell and overdeliver. "No, I'm not going to promise you you'll get a penny because insurance companies are tough and this one already told you 'no.' I'm going to promise you we'll force...

You and your dog simply wanted to play different games. :-)

It's a party I went to in 1968, I think.

87 percent Philly. Perfectly correct: Southern New Jersey is where I grew up.

What you said makes perfect sense. Uncontrolled rage is bad. When it was bad with me when I was young I'd punch out windows. Not productive. Your approach is ideal. Wrestling was not a serious pursuit with me. I enjoyed it because I could compete with some success in high school, just from...

"Interesting. I must be weird because I was in wrestling (which is very demanding physically, more that most people will know unless they participate in it) and one thing I noticed is that when there is high demand physically it is best to curb your adrenaline. Sure the moments leading up to a...

OK, moving this to a separate thread so Sweetheart can stay on track with anger. "No altruism on the job, but what got you there in the first place? Idk, maybe I just don't want to let go of my idealization of the profession. Do you see it as a positive way to contribute to your...

There was always adrenaline, and it helped with the physical demands. So it burned off, if you'll pardon the pun, any floating residual anger I might have stocked up from living life as an INTP. The detachment was in relationship to the emotional and physical trauma of fire and crash victims...

Not to hijack the thread, but: Firefighting: A process of applying principles of decision-making to an uncontrolled situation producing a practical result. No altruism, it's just fun, especially for folks who can detach themselves emotionally on demand. When's the last time any of us INTPs...

Reinforcing what others have said: I used to indulge in rage before I knew what the heck an INTP was. Now I still get pissed off, but not enraged, and it usually doesn't show. I think. I close down rather than strike out. Probably that's all saved up and collecting interest ready...

It looks like bad slapstick and cheap shots at a fish-in-the-barrel clown-dictator-for-life. If SONY hadn't been hacked, and if everyone hadn't blamed North Korea for doing it, this movie would have been 'loser' all the way. I'm thinking any time you combine political assassination with...

Bingo. Tell me what result you want and go away. Don't tell me how to get it.

http://grooveshark.com/#!/search/song?q=Mavericks+Dance+the+night+away Mavericks "Dance The Night Away" Here comes my happiness again Right back to where it should have been 'Cause now she's gone and I am free And she can't do a thing to me I just wanna dance the night away With...

Lifestyle: Proscribed by two careers and two incomes that ended about five years too soon, trading time for money, further defined by illness and surgery with medical roots in each profession. And yet, we just got back from a week in San Juan with plans for another trip within six months. Our...

OP: if you suddenly look a lot different, people may expect you to BE different. you ok with that? 0other than that, short hair is definitely less prep time. Band geeks rule btw.

I can still touch the floor easily, but after long and careful thought I see no compelling reason to do so. In my case, I think the ease of doing it has less to do with being supple and much to do with legs that are perhaps proportionately less of my height than others. Dunno. Let's see...

Let's oversimplify: Emotions/feelings can be unpleasant or pleasant. The tendency is to make decisions that produce pleasant emotions. That can be tempered in many ways - you might decide it's worth being miserable because you work extra hours but you do it because your family will benefit, so...

All those suggestions don't really inject elegance. Elegance in writing involves not lavish use of extra words, but concise use of precise words, used gracefully, to communicate anything you want, emotions or thoughts, concepts, principles, axioms, whatever. Elegance in writing is a taking...

Even if mumbling to yourself is bad, it doesn't matter: Used to be people walking around talking were considered odd. Now you're considered "on the phone" with some kind of handless device. :D "So at first I had a low monotone voice but put in front of an audience with a topic I know a...

Written to PyroPyro: "still, with this in mind, i find it peculiar that you would require a personal impact to justify hatred directed toward fascist regime or things like that. isn't the mobilization of collective derision a force that can be used to expose and dismount illegitimate authority...

I'm doing tremendously during finals week. Of course, I'm not in school. :D Feeling silly today. I followed two plans for finals when I was in college. 1. Keep up during the semester, review everything during finals. 2. Keep up during the semester, sell my books and use the...

Footnote: Perhaps taking some courses in theater and drama would be a wise choice, not to prepare for a career in theater, but to prepare for the drama in life. :) Footnote 2: Journalism can go in different directions on our personality scales. Newspapers seemed to attract more...

I've noticed that some people have tendencies to project personal experiences onto career expectations, usually with dismaying results. It's most apparent right now with all the younger posters who eyeball some form of computer science as a compatible career. They are deriving satisfaction from...

I've discovered that in my own life, it all boils down sometimes to "which set of problems would you rather deal with?" There's no ideal answer for a situation. You might be in a similar place, but here's the thing: It's pretty clear you know what's wrong with your situation right now, but what...

"Want" to quit is always a suspect position, with overtones of emotion. Perhaps you should share why you "think" quitting university is the best thing right now.

Maybe worry about the transferability of earned credits to the next university and, very importantly, any rigidly sequenced courses you need for your degree. If either is a problem -- you need eight sequential semesters of one field of study, for instance, or if half the credits you earned won't...

Interesting points, levitate

Happens to many of us. It stings, especially if we hadn't particularly felt arrogant. Our lack of skill in understanding emotions sometimes manifests as an equal lack of skill in displaying emotions. It's not one of those things you can argue or reason people out of, you know...

What has been said about a lighter load: It's a variation on my usual solution to an overwhelmingly huge project, slice it into smaller pieces and celebrate completion of the segments rather than focusing on how the ultimate goal is still over the horizon. You're not retarded. You're not...

I already had that day. It was the day a newspaper editor in a rush accidentally cut and pasted a page from our bureau's address book instead of a paragraph from a story she was editing, having them stacked up behind each other on her computer screen because she'd needed to call one of us with...

"... the antics of a nine-year-old fueled by Mountain Dew and Red Bull ... " The minds of cable television execs are unknowable. A&E lets "Longmire" go but keeps "Duck Dynasty." It actually takes a child abuse scandal to clue in The Learning Channel that when you zero in on a family like...

" it's practically impossible to do alone but if i divulge anything the idea will get stolen at best. " This is one reason why there are confidentiality agreements, to prevent the purloining of ideas and processes. They can be written up in such a way that anyone using your idea for the...

Could be sadness. This kind of thing, where we invest emotions in risk and lose, apparently hits us harder than it does a lot of other personality types. Here's a little mantra for the offers of friendship, dating, etc. you send out there: "Some will, some won't, so what?" There's an...

Seek new ideas and experiences and concepts. You just haven't found yours yet. No rush. Don't be hard on yourself.