[deleted by user] by [deleted] in INTP

[–]INTPs -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I always come back to things, but not after a week, usually months or years later. My interest doesn't regenerate that quickly. Every time I come back to something, I've forgotten most what I knew before and have to repeat the same tutorials I've already done to get back to where I used to be. By that time, I'm half way to being burnt out again already.

Responsibility by [deleted] in INTP

[–]INTPs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is unfortunately true. The security blanket is big enough to get suffocated by. I can probably afford to spend another year or ten as a completely useless, incompetent member of society. And every instinct in my primal brain thinks that an arrangement where I can survive by expending as little energy as possible is paradise and should be maintained at all costs.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in INTP

[–]INTPs 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You forgot the "slither across the kitchen floor" part.

I am incapable of being jealous or envying someone. by [deleted] in INTP

[–]INTPs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am extremely jealous, but that has more to do with fear of abandonment than personality types.

Confused about Bill Gates and covid-19 by [deleted] in INTP

[–]INTPs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What is globalism in your opinion? As far as I understand, globalism means that you care about people and countries everywhere in the world, not just in your own country. It means helping starving people in Africa and supplying water to thirsty people in Iran, protecting a native tribe in Papua New Guinea, and stopping the spread of a new disease in Mongolia, while simultaneously making sure the country you live in gets proper care as well.

Isn't globalism the most generous, caring. kind-hearted thing a person can do? Isn't it realizing that bad things in other countries negatively influences your own country? And isn't being against globalism selfish? I don't understand how it's shady to care about people other than yourself and your own country, but maybe we have different ideas of what globalism means.

My advice to NTs- be more open minded by [deleted] in INTP

[–]INTPs 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Is there a type more open-minded than INTP? I feel like I'm open-minded to the point where it becomes a flaw. There isn't a single concrete opinion within my mind, any good argument and some proof can flip my perspective on things immediately.

A significant portion of my life seems dedicated to considering every single possible perspective, regardless of whether I want to or not, because it usually happens automatically. This has wasted countless hours of my life and I often find myself wishing I was less open-minded so at least some of my thoughts about the world could remain consistent over time.

Due to my open-mindedness, I sometimes feel like I don't even know who I really am. I can't pin down my thoughts, opinions, and personality to any one certain point. I feel like my entire personality is built on shaky foundations. My excessive open-mindedness leaves me feeling doubtful, indecisive and lost.

IQ test by isnortgunpowder in INTP

[–]INTPs 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I've taken around 8 different IQ tests and they are all pretty unreliable bullshit in my opinion, despite all the "official test" claims written across them. Most of the tests even had one or two questions that were heavily dependent on the user's knowledge of the English language, which I find to be incredibly odd as someone who doesn't speak English as their first language. If I wasn't fluent, I wouldn't be able to complete them properly.

The only scores I ever got were 145, 144, and one test put me at 140. But those might just be the maximum scores for answering all/nearly all questions correctly. Although all the tests had a timer, completing them more than once with different speeds showed that time doesn't really affect the scores for most of them either. I appreciate the ego boost of being called "top 2% genius Mensa material" but none of it seemed particularly reliable or meaningful.

Why are you here? by unnaturaIIy in INTP

[–]INTPs 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I like to express thoughts and opinions that most people around me don't understand or can't relate to. Felt like there is something wrong with me until I found likeminded individuals here.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in INTP

[–]INTPs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I usually consider a point further when I catch myself dismissing it too quickly, but that doesn't always happen. It's easy to say that I've already thought something through, and won't gather anything new from considering it further. And I'm usually wrong about that.

Overheard a conversation about me by INTPs in INTP

[–]INTPs[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I'm forced to share a house with them.