OMG! I just found out im an INTP not long ago.

[XUD9]

Hi everyone, I have never felt so understood in my entire existence. I've probably taken every test on the net and probably twice to make sure. I came up as a INFP about two times and all others were INTP.

Granted one anoying thing i do is write something then think twice and just delete it then re read everything again. It has probably taken me 10 minutes to write this

Any helpfull advice for a INTP?

Also do you find yourself on the internet 90% of your time searching random crap that you'll probably never find usefull ?

 

[DrGregoryHouse]

Sorry to hear that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPfdiMnrbYE

 

[Jennywocky]

Also do you find yourself on the internet 90% of your time searching random crap that you'll probably never find usefull ?

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...yes.

Although it might be useful one day. Especially if you're a writer. Who knows when something random might come in handy?

 

[TBerg]

Knowledge for its own sake is divine, and the attitude pays off when everyone else around you seems stuck.

 

[DrGregoryHouse]

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...yes.

Although it might be useful one day. Especially if you're a writer. Who knows when something random might come in handy?

 

[XUD9]

"Knowledge is power"

Everything in the video above is %1000000 accurate. I also let my curiosity get the better of me I feel like I'm the only one around my piers that's wants to learn how everything works.

I'm also a huge David Firth fan. My favourite work of his is The health reminders , Toast boy and not Stanley. Salad fingers just goes without saying lol

I had to delete the first response I made and re wrote it all as it wasn't up to my standards -__- *Sigh*

 

[EditorOne]

Welcome aboard, X.

House, that little video was great.

 

[thompinoo]

I have also had a similar type of experience. Basically, early MBTI tests pegged me as INFP, but I was depressed at the time and I thought that my 'feelings' were me using Fi.

I did a lot of research on cognitive functions and decided that INFJ was closer to the mark, but when I realised how poor my use of Fe was, I thought that it had to be an inferior function. Then I started looking at Ti and realised that my overanalysing everything, my love of knowledge for its own sake, the fact that I am constantly doing research into something, and the models that I have developed to explain all sorts of phenomena, probably should have been the dead giveaways that I was using Ti almost constantly.

 

[ma(dy)ma(dx)]

There is nothing wrong with randomness (though I don't quite believe in the purely random) ...

Briefly:
I (and you and everyone else) have a specific worldview, a framework through which we analyse the incoming data. Some people are just more ..let's say comfortable.. with challanging their own frameworks. Some aren't and stay 'true' to their (or their parents') frameworks, even though it's been proven inconsistent many years ago. Well, some people go for the truth even though it causes constant inner chaos, others go for inner stability, even though it might cause them to never reach the ultimate truth (if that even exists [it has to]). In both cases it's all about comfort. Even though you say it's annoying to spend 10 minutes writing one line, it's still more comfortable for you doing so than not doing so. (?)

In any case, the framework might be very off, but you might not know that, right? - and since Ti looks for consistancy and universal truths (inner data has to make logical sense and fit together neetly, otherwise the system crashes and general anxiety kicks in), Ne constantly searches for random (which isn't that random) info to constantly challange the framework. It could be that you'll spend three days with random wiki research, and youtube documentaries, and you'll learn a bunch of "random" things but nothing has really changed for you, your framework has allowed all the info to pass through without an error-warning --- but on the forth day you'll stumble upon a piece of information that'll make you go: wooh, wait a second, is that really true? Yes it seems to. But wait, it doesn't fit into the framework, which means the framework is wrong!
Then the inner chaos awakens (it's actually a really cool feeling, knowing that you have to adjust or even totally remake your framework based on the new info, because...well, it feels almost like moving to a new era, literally seeing the world in a totally different way, even though the adjustment is very small {think of Sudoku, changing just one number in the pattern changes the pattern slightly, but all-around the pattern}. -- And if a whole new framework-remake is necessary, well that's like moving into a cool new apartment that you can furnish from the ground up. This can take days, weeks, even months - and is a very awesome process [if you ask me]).

And yes, I love brackets.

 

[The Gopher]

I also let my curiosity get the better of me I feel like I'm the only one around my piers that's wants to learn how everything works.

Yes it often seems I'm the only curious wharf around here.

 

[StevenM]

Hi everyone, I have never felt so understood in my entire existence!

That's going to change.

I mean, INTP's don't understand people, even if the other person is INTP.

Any helpfull advice for a INTP?

MBTI is a good construct for organizing some traits. It's interesting for researching and conceptualizing. It forms an abstracted (summarized) model (or framework) to something that is actually more chaotic and diverse.

Though, it isn't going to tell you who you are. Nor will it bring you any closer to understanding a specific someone else. Very distinct, an individual can be.

At least, that is what I find.

Also do you find yourself on the internet 90% of your time searching random crap that you'll probably never find usefull ?

When considering my time, that statistic is actually closer to 99% :P Most of it I think is actually very useful.

There may be a need for an intervention for my data-hoarding illness

 

[Mani]

Also do you find yourself on the internet 90% of your time searching random crap that you'll probably never find usefull ?

I spent so long on Wikipedia recently. I then thought about why I went on it in the first place and the initial question in my mind was: "Why is Iowa named Iowa?"

I live in Australia. I doubt I'll be discussing Iowa anytime soon.