manishboy
Member
Hi fellow INTPs and others,
I've been lurking here for about a month and want to join the conversations, so I thought I'd do an intro. I'll try to keep it short because I dislike long self-indulgent introductions.
I'm not certain I'm INTP (perhaps with there is no such thing as certainty with MBTI). But the descriptions are close enough. I had self-typed as INFP for years. But I now see that the occassional sappiness I had identified as dominant Fi may actually be something else entirely. In recently years, that sappiness has completely dried up, so it could not have been a dominant function.
Profession: self-employed programmer/systems analyst. As I become more aware of my deeper inclinations, I've gravitated towards general design issues. In the last few years I've become a fan of systems theories. I freely admit it's a form of philosophical dysfunction to desire a single abstraction to explain it all. But it tastes great.
Hobbies: thinking, reading, writing, martial arts.
Personality: independent, some say asocial, but I prefer to think of it as suprasocial (yes, I believe that the individual is more than his part in a society). Even writing this brief intro is more socializing than I normally care to do. So I wonder why I am doing it? No time for that now... I oscillate between two extreme modes---deep rationality and luny exhuberance. It's wisdom paired with a stream of observations and jokes. Sometimes I wish I could just be one or the other.
Age: 37
Location: NorCal
Favorite color: irrelevant
Favorite food: irrelevant
Other: irrelevant
I'm not sure yet what I want out of this forum, or what I can offer. Thanks for the read.
I've been lurking here for about a month and want to join the conversations, so I thought I'd do an intro. I'll try to keep it short because I dislike long self-indulgent introductions.
I'm not certain I'm INTP (perhaps with there is no such thing as certainty with MBTI). But the descriptions are close enough. I had self-typed as INFP for years. But I now see that the occassional sappiness I had identified as dominant Fi may actually be something else entirely. In recently years, that sappiness has completely dried up, so it could not have been a dominant function.
Profession: self-employed programmer/systems analyst. As I become more aware of my deeper inclinations, I've gravitated towards general design issues. In the last few years I've become a fan of systems theories. I freely admit it's a form of philosophical dysfunction to desire a single abstraction to explain it all. But it tastes great.
Hobbies: thinking, reading, writing, martial arts.
Personality: independent, some say asocial, but I prefer to think of it as suprasocial (yes, I believe that the individual is more than his part in a society). Even writing this brief intro is more socializing than I normally care to do. So I wonder why I am doing it? No time for that now... I oscillate between two extreme modes---deep rationality and luny exhuberance. It's wisdom paired with a stream of observations and jokes. Sometimes I wish I could just be one or the other.
Age: 37
Location: NorCal
Favorite color: irrelevant
Favorite food: irrelevant
Other: irrelevant
I'm not sure yet what I want out of this forum, or what I can offer. Thanks for the read.
