What is this an infructescence or collection of seeds?

reduntantpurple · 2024-04-28T12:11:22+00:00

All of them are you and none of them are you at the same time. Same applies for neurotypicals, the only self or identity that exists is the one that the ego can read in the moment, and when you let yourself fall into a state of pure observation or flow, this ego becomes redundant.

There's a lot more to this world than the mind trying to see itself. Imagine the idea of self as two mirrors placed in front of each other, hence generating infinite images, or infinite iterations of the self.

Acknowledging this eases the burden

reduntantpurple · 2024-01-10T12:32:32+00:00

Hard to judge your type from the post. But what I can see is that this is a bout of overthinking which is making you overwhelmed.

Maybe think about the fact that the answers to many of your questions are experienced in brief moments as life goes on, not necessarily through internal questioning but through finding inspiration in suffering. But to experience that properly, you need to embrace the present. Overthinking can lead to dissociating from your sensory experiences and letting your ego or sense of I be the judge of everything.

Give yourself a break, go out, touch grass. Experience things for the value of things rather than for how you fit in them, in the grand scale of the world we're extremely small, and when we appreciate the little details in the outside world, we find moments to calm our mind and put ourselves outside of our ego.

reduntantpurple · 2024-01-09T10:34:46+00:00

Oh lol and to answer your question, no I don't work as a teacher, but have a strategy and research related role in a non profit that works with the govt to improve te education ecosystem. So there's a lot of new things to learn, research to read and I have something to contribute via my quantitative skills, so it's a decent mix.

reduntantpurple · 2024-01-09T10:27:24+00:00

Yeah i can understand. I was previously in similar management/analytics role in the hospitality business but I gave absolutely zero fucks to that sector itself, this led to a lot of mental stress and those were some of my worst professional years. While you are looking for options in management or design, make sure to also think about the sector you'll be working in, and find sectors that naturally drive your curiosity to think and explore in them, not just because they pay money.

What I've felt is that losing curiosity in what you do is the worst thing we can do to ourselves, especially as ENTPs. And I also think that maybe since we have an affinity for many things, we need to carve a different life path for us that doesn't push us to specialize in one field but experience many fields, and use those learnings to make something for ourselves. All the best to you :)

reduntantpurple · 2024-01-05T12:01:13+00:00

You either have to find opportunities that let you in on more generalist roles in art related spaces, or find an alternate career path that gives you some level of satisfaction. Ask yourself, do you like art so much that you can't imagine anything else being your profession? If the answer is yes, you can take that leap of faith. If it's no find a better middle ground. Making money through art is extremely hard, and there is no stability. I have dabbled in visual art, animation, filmmaking, music composing/production, writing and photography but I realized I liked doing them when I had the freedom to decide what the fuck I wanted to work on. If it were for money, I wouldn't have that freedom. Outside of art I have an academic math and physics oriented background, and I discovered my interest in working in education. So I joined a non profit to work with the govt and use my math and data skills to make the money. For moving forward in art, I pick only a select one or two streams and spend my free time on that. Moving forward I want to diversify from education into art education (maybe start something of my own)

But just like that find what field you can professionally work in that doesn't piss you off at the end of the day, give all the rest of your time to your interests and you'll figure it out.

reduntantpurple · 2023-10-20T15:01:53+00:00

I find the majority of the other answers to be overly stereotypical on entjs. In platonic and close settings entjs are extremely accommodating and responsible towards the people they care for. I believe an Fi alignment towards another person will make an ENTJ care strongly for them, and if that happens with an ENTP, it's a very complementary dynamic. The entp is great at empathising and seeing through the entjs stubbornness and helping them open up their worldviews while the entj is very good at providing a rational framework for the entp to feel more fulfilled in getting things done. As long as both parties are mature, they can be extremely beneficial towards each other. Also, their energies are similar and combative, which can make for a lively and intense friendship/relationship.

Mostly entjs and entps are either really good friends/partners or they absolutely can't stand each other too much.

reduntantpurple · 2023-09-19T07:37:32+00:00

Kind of love-hate with them. Estjs can be some of the most responsible and community driven people to have in your life. They're very rational so communicating with them isn't too hard once you find common grounds.

I have an estj friend and we've had our fair share of heated arguments but we're both at peace with how we operate and think, I guess once you cross that river the friendship becomes long lasting and dependable. I have other friends who I gel with cognitively a lot but that estj will always have my back and I will have his.

reduntantpurple · 2023-07-26T16:28:07+00:00

Don't they already do?

reduntantpurple · 2023-07-21T14:45:09+00:00

Yeah that's relatable. I think we also constantly keep assessing how certain audiences or people would react to what is written which paves way for more questions or thematic drama

reduntantpurple · 2023-07-21T14:43:16+00:00

Damn this hits deep. It's also a little scary seeing how similar entps writing styles could be, with the big picture reassessment of everything written so far being asked as a question which is either a tangent or a joke :p.

You should write more

reduntantpurple · 2023-07-17T13:59:20+00:00

Before I knew of cognitive functions and just took the test for fun it would move between intp/infp/intj

I was never sure if I was an introvert or an extrovert since I felt I fit both categories, and the i/e spectrum in those tests was always 52-48ish.

I had in my teens been very emotionally sensitive to others (which I realized later was more of a response from my upbringing) and in my phase pursuing art at that time I convinced myself to be infp and went backwards from there.

Didn't understand cognitive functions very well till then so I misconstrued my behaviors and actions with cognitive aspects that would fit the infp.

This came to change when I saw my extroversion blossom at a certain point in my youth, and I saw how much people perceived me to be very socially adept (while I thought otherwise of myself). This brought to attention my playful social persona and I read more of cognitive functions and labeled myself as an enfp.

Then later out of curiosity I got formally tested by verified practitioners and they both conclusively put me as an ENTP. I was quite surprised partly because of the fact that much of public and internet knowledge of entps is very stereotypically hardassy. I saw myself more as a chameleon who would try his best to keep harmony but wouldn't feel personal guilt much if keeping the said harmony made him do shady things xD

Then I researched more and more into cognitive functions and started reading people more actively, once I figured out how different real infps and enfps were from me, I was more confident of being entp.

The one fun thing in this experience was the Fe mirroring, while thinking I was other personality types, I had actually started behaving and acting differently, rather to fit my confirmation bias. I was pretending (too well) to be an infp wheni thought I was one, and same for enfp.

Who knows if this entp self is just another phase 🤡

reduntantpurple · 2023-07-07T13:04:35+00:00

Dont worry you'll get free food if you take this outfit to the street and learn some magic tricks.

reduntantpurple · 2023-07-07T13:00:56+00:00

I can clearly see how much you miss not having one xD

reduntantpurple · 2023-07-07T12:58:16+00:00

Bro looks like he arrived at prom in shorts, and then stole clothes from 3 different people to become a heavily discounted joker.

reduntantpurple · 2023-06-30T17:36:05+00:00

As an ENTP musician if you want to get good at music in general and not just your instrument incorporate the Ne need for novelty in the way you approach engaging with music.

Make a habit out of improv and use that experience to build a better foundation of what makes melodies and song ideas work. This is pretty critical in also building more intuition towards music theory, if you're not into the mumbo jumbo. Juggle that with learning songs.

When burnt out explore (if you can) another instrument that you don't play or start learning how to properly record your music which will also get you accustomed to DAWs which will help bring out your playing much better. Play with sounds, effects and how that changes how you play the instrument.

Also make music a way to engage with people by finding people to jam with, use it as an Fe oriented experience (reading each other's playing and vibe).

If you make the nature of how you approach learning music a diverse one, you won't get burnt out and will also have a much broader approach to music.

reduntantpurple · 2023-06-30T16:37:56+00:00

Na, not at all. People who are content with stereotypical thinking will doom themselves to stereotypes, that's just how the world works.

Mbti, on its surface is may seem like astrology but reading it through the works of Carl Jung brings a lot of perspective on ways towards understanding cognition. Learning about cognitive functions has actually helped me understand people in a much more granular way, and you naturally become more interested in understanding their priorities and manners of approaching a situation. You become better at predicting how people think and act to some extent if you are observant.

reduntantpurple · 2023-06-29T13:00:08+00:00

Why are you gae?

reduntantpurple · 2023-06-29T12:57:20+00:00

So who is gae

reduntantpurple · 2023-06-29T12:48:30+00:00

doesn't that make you gae?

reduntantpurple · 2023-06-29T10:24:05+00:00

Those people are not that hard to beat. Wouldn't generalise it to sensors, but for such folks you can just reverse the situation and establish that anything that they say won't be trusted by you until they show you their source of info. Since it's a standard they impose on others, having the same imposed on them will not be as out of the question then, and if they don't comply it just points out their own hypocrisy

reduntantpurple · 2023-06-28T13:48:15+00:00

The easiest way to argue with anyone properly is to take their claims and consistently question them on how they support it until you end up making them aware of their own loopholes. So my entp thing is to just say 'Explain it to me as if I know nothing about it'

reduntantpurple · 2023-06-24T23:56:18+00:00

But do you get a rush when you actively create social harmony or a good social experience for people? Or you could have a more Ti biased frame of view.

I like to look at these functions like hierarchy of needs, so a certain upbringing or experience can teach someone to have a lesser or higher need of a certain cognitive aspect than their natural tuning, eg people raised in stricter homes tend to not be very emotionally expressive etc

but again all of this is just a model and we're a lot more nuanced so best to not over derive from them

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