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Use the experience to grow. Work on your social skills. Don't just sit there and sulk about being shy. Do something about it. Become likeable. You don't have to be Mr. Popular but you can at least make a few friends.

Related: http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-raise-a-scientist-in-the-xbox-age-1450137781

I dunno but my jizz regenerates plenty quickly. Definitely doesn't take a month. Shit after 3 days I'm like spiderman. I once went a whole month no-jerk. Fucking geyser. Maybe it takes longer for vegtards not consuming any cholesterol. I guess if that's what you need for spiritual enlightenment...

There's truth in this. I doubt the people at the cutting edge of any field spend much time browsing the web or Facebook. I wonder if cutting it out entirely would be useful. But...then we still must have some time for leisure. Which would be... reading a book? The question then becomes ...is...

Is jacking off worse than jerking off?

Lol. Semitrolling about the 30 times a week. Probably average like 3x a week. Definitely avoid porn though. I realized that whenever I watch porn, even moderately, boners would be slower and weaker when with real women.

Does anyone actually do this? I tried for a while before, and then I actually lost sex drive. Boners wouldn't happen. Then once I finally gave in, it was mount saint helens. So I see masturbation as a use it or lose it thing. Not overdoing it. Maybe 20-35 times a week. Ideally. Just to keep...

I don't know if it has to be software engineering. I imagine most kinds of analytical/engineering type career would be ideal. I don't know if we'll ever be "passionate" about these things in the way people tend to think about passion. I imagine it more as brief spikes of high satisfaction, with...

You should probably quit the internet for at least a month. Probably more like 3+. Get out every day and be around people. Force yourself. Some people seem like natural social butterflies. Those of us who suck at it need to consciously practice. It's going to really suck at first but you will...

Man...I'm the same way. I generally lay there for what feels like 20mins-an hour. My wife falls asleep in like 5 minutes and I'm sitting there like wtf...how did she do that. It's better when I stay off the computer/any screens within an hour of bed. Also when I have my shit moderately...

That is helpful advice r4ch3l and Yellow. Thanks.

Which option? 1, 2, 3? Anything I may be missing?

It's not ITT...it's a local branch of the state university.

Damn, yet another college/career path advice thread. I'll try to be brief. Ok...I want to get back into tech. I'm learning programming (Java and web dev currently) and think I would like to do it as a career. I'm going to school right now at a community college. The main technical 4 year...

I've seen her before in the self-help blogosphere. Rubs me the wrong way.

For once I agree with Inquisitor. :)

Lol I was this way too at first. But I gave it a real chance and really enjoyed the Tim Burton one. My only gripe on the Tim Burton one was the shitty oompa loompa songs. Although yes, the first is still the best movie ever. (The first does have the shitty "Cheer up Charlie" song that is...

Just watched Charlie and the Chocolate Factory again, and actually gave it a chance this time. It was actually really fucking good IMO. And I'm pretty sure Willy Wonka in that movie is INTP. Maybe an immature, undeveloped INTP.

I have about 3 primary career/education projects and 3 personal projects. I don't call something a project unless it's a mid-long term thing that I'm working on regularly. Otherwise it's just a task, or thing I want to do someday. I try to keep the amount of active projects I have low. And I...

I have no idea. Everything I come up with sounds trivial or pointless. To be good at some form of work? Trivial and pointless. To better the world? Eh, sounds good but seems like more of a naive dream than something I'd actually do. To have kids? Makes sense biologically, but do we really...

sobering up after drinking a few. lazy sunday movie watching and beach time! Gotta love it.

Cuz Inquisitor said so.

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What exactly are you disillusioned about? You were interested in electric and magnetic fields so you've gone into EE, ok, so don't you think you'll eventually get into those topics?

No offense Inquisitor, but somatotypes are bullshit. One of the fattest guys I knew in high school, who would've been called an endomorph...you'd now look at him and call him a classic ectomorph. He lost a shit ton of weight. It's just about what you choose to do with your body, not some...

That sounds interesting and possibly somewhat painful. I'm going to start playing with C a bit too. Taking some online CS courses on the side that use it. Probably not the best idea to do a bunch of different stuff at the same time, but I want to get more sources to supplement.

I wouldn't say that. Maybe it's just not as...granular as MBTI tries to make it.

And so it was written. Hear hear.

Although I don't really like the thought, I've been beginning to think that maybe INTP is just a form of adolescent childishness that some people grow out of earlier than others (if ever). Because think about it...most of the INTPs that we notice that are 'successful' had to power their way...

I'm gonna piggyback off of your university diary/blog...cry about it. But...I must say... I am really absolutely enjoying college at the moment. It probably helps that I don't have to work, and I'm not paying for it (directly--though I sort of paid with years of my life, although they were...

Congrats dude. What will you be doing?

I had similar existential crisis around that time. 26 now and I think I'm mostly out of it. So I guess my point is, it will probably pass.

How old are you bleo?

Hah I've seen this already. Most of my classmates seem to want to just memorize the math and not really understand why it works. When I work with the obviously STJ types (a sometimes necessary evil) they often finish a problem while I'm still analyzing a specific part of it. Ask them to solve it...

This is very good advice. I need to remember this myself.

There is definitely some validity to that. But I wonder what is better... Focus on your strengths, and develop them maximally, or try to bring up weaknesses and be more well rounded? It seems that as long as your weaknesses are not so bad that they hinder your overall ability, then you should...

Maybe electronics repair would be a good fit? Physical aspects yet still requires technical knowledge and troubleshooting analysis. Only problem is, I can't see making a good living from it unless you run your own shop, which will then be something you could get mentally stuck in since it...

I'll look at the schematic if you can find it. Yeah that was the one haha. Very cool that is in the toy. Now I just need to get some supplies so I can play with stuff at home. Only have the ability (due to commute) to use the lab once a week so that's kind of shitty.

Re: Dedicated to Tomatoes everywhere ❤ This is totally related. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypgiTy8ZvFo

Not sure if this is an INTP thing or just awkward life thing. But these things happen to me a lot so... I butt dialed my old boss the other day. He called me back and I texted him saying Woops sorry I butt dialed you. He said okay. When I logged into facebook not long after I see that it's...

Nice. What does it do? Yesterday I made a 2 LED oscillating circuit. One LED on, the other off, back and forth continuously. I didn't design the circuit, but just getting it to work (which took me a...while, as I made some stupid beginner mistakes like plugging resistors into the same rail when...

Yeah that sounds a lot better. But what is this easy to manipulate circuit? I assume our breadboards are pretty easy to manipulate it's just going to take some practice to get to that point of fast implemenation.

I'm just getting started in an electronics/computer engineering degree program, and it is fun/interesting stuff to learn. I'm indifferent about the plugging in wires and taking measurements(I was ok letting my partner build the board--yes go ahead while I figure out how this should work), but...

Good idea. Let's implement that one day.

When someone describes your focus on your work (AKA current obsession) as intense.

Go ahead. I'm back in school too, so I'd be interested in following along and/or tossing in some ideas.

Good post Absurdity. But how do you get one of these good jobs? I imagine they are rare, or at least harder to find/get than the standard 'getting by' job.

I don't know if this counts as too meta...but pretty much everything is better now than it was 100 years ago. And even betterer than it was 10000 years ago. Specifics: - I can go to the store and buy any food I want. - I can hop my moped and travel with the power of SEVERAL HORSES miles down...

Teachers

I wish I didn't have to. Right now I'm getting paid to go to school and it is great. Schedule is fairly relaxed. Thinking about interesting technical stuff. Solving problems. This would probably be ideal if I could do it long term. Although having "assignments" is a pain in the ass, it does...