INTPs; best profiles

[Architect]

There are a lot of profiles out there, most of them crappy and basically repeating each other.

These are two of the best profiles I've found. Feel free to add to the list, but please only if they are equally good.

1. The Paul James profile: The Classic
2. Personality Junkie: Equally good, perhaps better. Covers the INTP throughout life, written by an INTP.

 

[Fukyo]

Have you read this one @Architect?

http://www.typologycentral.com/forums/nt-rationale/4064-intp-profile.html

 

[Architect]

Have you read this one?

@Fukyo

Yes I've read it, personally while it was interesting I didn't find it too useful, this sums it up

my profiles are about the philosophy of a particular type and not behavior thereof

I'm not sure what the 'philosophy of a particular type' is, but what follows looks to be a case of taking specific behaviors which are then beaten to death. For example

the Introverted Thinking cannot run on itself. It is merely a conscious scrutiny of information already collected.

A simple fact that is in many descriptions (how Ti and Ne balance each other) then follows a long paragraph saying the same thing in multiple ways. In other words the profile seems overly abstruse to me.

I prefer profiles which are applicable and useful in a person's life. The Personality Junkie discusses how the INTP is on such a long quest for self knowledge, and why that occurs. That's something useful to me; I've been on a search to understand myself, and I wonder why many others aren't? And why would an INTP be prone to such a search anyhow, isn't that the domain of the NF? I like profiles which reflect behaviors that I exhibit.

 

[Ink]

http://intp.org/intprofile.html

PJunkies is the best one I've read though

 

[skip]

I like Joe Butt's profile although I've never understood the part about the "haunting sense of impending failure." I've never had that.

 

[TriflinThomas]

the part about the "haunting sense of impending failure." I've never had that.

I have it all the time. I always feel like I'm never going to amount to anything, and that I'll have to live with the fact that I never achieved any of my goals.

 

[Architect]

http://intp.org/intprofile.html

PJunkies is the best one I've read though

That's a copy of the Paul James I posted above.

I like Joe Butt's profile although I've never understood the part about the "haunting sense of impending failure." I've never had that.

Joe's is OK, I'd call it 2nd tier though.

I do have that sense of impending failure, hasn't be crippling or terribly strong, but it is there.