I expected the INTP to get into an hour(s) long discussion about the merit of time travel with their older/dream self, and I wasn't disappointed. - INTP
@@dearkristin You know adult INTP had a surge of glee and confidence after nailing that delivery towards their younger self in tandem with delivering an advice that hit home. Which is why she overshares right after, starting with saying how she hasn't found someone she could trust with all of her thoughts.
Old Norse sounds fascinating and I have considered taking it up it but I have been learning other languages for several years because they have more resources available. - Yes, I'm an INTP.
Yeah... I'm an Intp and I learned Sanskrit for no discernable reason. Certainly no useful reason. But what is the point of being useful if the humanoids are just gonna muck it up?
Mr. Snark...umm... I've been wanting to ask you a question for some time, and this comment is as good as any. I don't want to pry, but, are you a Boojum? Sorry if that's too personal, but you see I am a very forgetful baker, and I"m a little concerned about the suddenly-silently-vanishing part.
As an INTJ, I would like to congratulate the hypothetical INTP on realizing that they are not broken and never were. It takes time to accept that types like ours, which fade into the background for observation (and plotting), will not mimic the rest of the sensers and feelers, nor should we feel obligated to do so. I embraced the concept myself when I was around 14, although the struggle to get other people to understand this is an ongoing battle. Pro tip: If you switch phraseology from "I think" to "I feel" but still communicate the exact same concept, people feel more comfortable and assume you are making decisions with more emotion even though you are using logic and facts.
Lucky you, you got access to your Fi easily. I “feel” like the deep internalized notion that we’re broken or incomplete, and must mimic feelers and sensors won’t really be undone by a single phrase. We can build defenses mechanisms to deny it, but it’s still going to be there. No matter how well we can logic our way out, our Fe is part of us, whispering it’s sweet words and pressuring us to fit in. It’s paradoxical, really. The more we deny our Fe, the less complete we “feel”. The more we empower our Fe, the less “ourselves” we feel.
@@alinaqirizvi1441 good for you 👍. I can’t really relate, I’m still at **that** stage in life where I’m figuring things out. Somewhere is that perfect ratio between the two extremes (complete rejection of Fe, complete empowerment of Fe) that allows me to achieve the same satisfaction.
I hate when people say "I feel" and adding something that is not a feeling. Feelings are made so no one can argue with those. That is their nature. Stating that " I feel like {random thoughts here}" is really just suggestive communication saying: "you are not allowed to argue with the opinion of someone else that I'm mirroring to you right now". Be proud of your wide open way of thinking and embrace this power of yours. If you want fake feelings because of society - mimic feelings and use that as you own wall to hide. Betraying thoughts is like betraying something from your core.
"Stop letting society make you feel that you're broken just because feeling isn't your predominant judging tool" Thank you for this statement Ms. Kristin -INTP
The fact that I almost cried because a character said that I don't need to fit in and worry about being a failure makes me wonder if I'm really an INTP or if I'm more of an INTP than I expected because I relate
@@huntedsnark7507 Did you give advice on the outfits too? I haven't seen anyone discuss that nor the subtile but mandatory "Where was I? Oh-". Actually there's a lot more... Hm, really well done
@@laiag4854 I didn't advise on costumes, I think the hat was maybe what the intp wore in the Philosphers vid. I recall commenting that I have one very like it. But 'now where was I...?' 100% intp 😉
This should be mandatory viewing for young lost INTPs honestly. Came for the laughs, left completely wistful wishing my younger INTP self could realize all this way earlier than he did
that actually was very heartwarming, thank you. feeling broken and all the people around you stating just that, was definitely an experience many of us went through. it really does get better when you become comfortable with being just *yourself*, so great message for younger INTPs watching this❤
Kristin is going to have fun when she gets to switch to an extrovert personality type and gets to show excitement about meeting someone "Just like her" from the future. (ENTP)
Especially from the EF types. ENTP’s being adaptable by nature and having a wild imagination, I honestly don’t think I’d be too shocked if something like this happened. I could see myself just going “Huh. Alright. So what do I need to know?”
Literally how is your INTP this accurate. I made my own version of this after your INTJ one as a joke/thought exercise, and you got it spot on, down to the past INTP starting a rant about how the future INTP would go and tell them to be more feeling and social and such, annoyed because that's how those "meeting past selves" moments are 'supposed to' go. Seriously, hats off.
I am an older INTP and actually spent a year focused on developing inf Fe (because we are not robots and...ok well the "warmest machine" meme really resonates. And I did try to use AI to help me communicate emotional messages more smoothly for work ). It was exhausting but worth it. But I still struggle with really understanding emotions and how not to be awkward. This was a God-send this morning (yep, I'm an INTP who is also a Christian). Thank you. ❤ (look at that, a heart emoji. I have come so far)
I'm an INTP and I HAD goals growing up. But when I actually grew up, all this goals were for the me from the past, which is a completely different person. They have nothing to do with the person I became. All my life I felt safe because I had goals and plans for my future, unlike many others my age, by now that I'm actually here, they all are wrong and done more harm. So no, having goals is not a great advice. But to understand what you REALLY want to do in life, not in fantasy, is very important and takes much time.
As a younger INTP, I am interested to know how you navigate through life. Do you just live in the moment and not care about / don't have any long term goals or you have an idea of what you want to achieve but you don't know exactly how to achieve it, so you do the things that are generally considered as "good" keep living.
@@adityasubhedar9556 I'm afraid I'm not the best person to go for advice to, because right now I am in a very bad place mentally, but I have some bits that might be useful. Don't ignore physical problems. Like minor health problems that don't require immediate solution or something broken in the house, that you can live without, but it would still be nice to have it working. I have a tendency to ignore Se like it won't eventually bite me in the ass, so if you have a similar problem, don't let it grow too big and overwhelming. The more things pile up, the more intimidating and seemingly unsolvable they become. But I also have ADHD and currently am in autistic burnout, so that might be not an INTP thing. I hope you will be able to find what really makes your life worth living. That's the key, if your job feels good and you actually like at least some part of what you're doing, it won't drain as much energy and you (probably) won't go into a burnout. About navigating… even if you don't know where to go, go away from things, people and places that make you feel bad. You can figure it out as you go, but sticking with what doesn't work in fear of having nothing to replace it with will slowly kill you. Uncertainty will help a right idea to be born, and sticking to your Si habits and routines that don't really work for you anymore will only hold you back. In conclusion: don't be afraid to ditch things that you realised weren't right for you, even if you at the moment don't know what to do after. I don't know how mature you are in that area, but that's a very INTP advice. Feelings matter. You can include them INTO your logical system. Remember that humans are animals, and evolution doesn't make what will be the most logically thinking, it kills what isn't able to survive effectively. Logical thinking isn't absolutely necessary for survival and reproduction, so not everyone has it. "But they SHOULD" argument doesn't work, because that's not how world works, you can't change that, you have to work around. Feelings have a use too. Be connected to your own feelings, so they won't bite you in the ass when you're not expecting. Learn how they work and use them - your own and other people's - take them into account. If your future goal (or an outline of what you want to do, that's better, make it flexible) won't be in harmony with your feelings, you're on the wrong path, you're bound to fail or become miserable. We value and prefer logical solutions, but in some situations a logical thing to do would be to solve it using feelings, or taking them into an account. For example, choosing a job: it's suitable for you logically from every aspect, but the boss is an idiot who makes everyone's life harder for no reason and uses annoyingly ineffective strategies and pressures you to use them too. Your feelings tell you that another month in this environment and you will snap, you will be feeling yourself even more miserable than now, and probably will finally yell at them. Your logic takes that information and draws a conclusion: if things continue to go as they are going now, you simply won't have the energy to do not only work-related stuff, but other spheres of your life with suffer the damage from it. Plus, why work ineffectively, if that aggravates you and lowers your productivity significantly, when you can seek another option. So you seek another option and now work for another company with a more effective and less toxic boss, and how you're feeling immediately improves, and because of that, not only your productivity goes up, but your satisfaction from all the work you did, too. Fe is not a liability, it's a tool. As any tool, it can be mastered through theory AND practice. You will see the use of it and all the benefits as compared to not using it. Seriously, it's like magic. Plus, as I said earlier, sometimes the logical thing to do would be to do not a logical thing. Your task at hand is to convince person, for example, not "teach" them how to think and see logic, so use YOUR logic and figure out what would work on this specific person, not what should work on someone like you. It's FAR more effective than to go familiar route. Also, remember that what you are able to compartmentalize or don't even see as a problem, other people may view as very important issue or even a deal-breaker. And they are not wrong for that, they just have different priorities in life, that only partially influenced by their conscious decisions. Like, we didn't just one day decided to prioritize logic in our decision making, it came naturally, and they just can't one day decide and adopt a whole another way of thinking. Be patient and understanding, and it will significantly improve your communication skills, and with them your results. As Fe can work as a tool for Ti needs, Ti can be used as a tool to satisfy Fe. We NEED connection, we need understanding from other people, we need that stupid harmony in the group, or we will go insane trying to bottle up a very important need, that is necessary for living a good, satisfying life. Okay, most of what I wrote is not a direct answer to your question (because I don't have one), but in my opinion it's an important information to help you navigate through life. I don't know how many of that you already have figured out on your own (and if you did, I'm proud of you), so some of it may sound obvious, but I hope I was able to help you in some way. Take care.
@@adityasubhedar9556 I can't speak on behalf of OP but from an older INTP who still has not yet found their place in the world, my advice would be to cherish any passions you have and pursue any long-term goals you manage to make for yourself doggedly. Getting older and not having anything to show for it because you just floated through the currents of life sucks. The world at large doesn't care how much you know about random topics or how many hobbies you have, they care what you've accomplished, what marketable skills you have, so try to focus on achieving something, anything. You can still spend your free time just Ne'ing into the endless void of information at your fingertips but you need something stable and tangible to lean on.
So good! I literally can't decide which of Younger Selves and Tier Rankings is the funnier series! It's great when there's more time to really get invested in a single character. I'm already thinking "You definitely don't need to join the feelers, but please, please tell Hildegarde how you feel about her before she moves to Norway! You can do it! Ooh or... go with her... you already know Old Norse!
The INTP would think a lot about how they might do that ... but ultimately and regretfully decide that they had no right to try to influence Hildegarde's decision. 😉
@huntedsnark7507 😥 but, but, but, what if Hildegarde herself is only leaving because she secretly shares their feelings but believes they're not reciprocated? Ooh maybe employ an ENFJ to do the talking, like Hildegarde used for her break-up! 🤣 BTW I talk a good game, but I'm pretty hopeless at this stuff most of the time, too!
@@jameswilkerson4412 I think it depends on what sources/perspectives you get this info from and what personalitiy model you're using. I'm operating under a kind of foursided model of personality, i.e. the main personality in question is the "ego", flipping the middle two letters is "superego," flipping all the letter is the "subconscious," and flipping just the outer two is the "shadow," but again, it seems different sources use different terms for these.
And Fi deamon, "emotions, don't they suck haha"... I'm glad Kristin went with the route she did, I understand why people say it's necessary to "express the feelings to other human beings" to process them, but I really don't like myself when I have to do that. She even recommended "journalling" which proved to be by far the superior option for me. Even Ni critic. "Just have a general list of places you'd like to be, not necessarily a plan" is a good advice especially when we get too overwhelmed by all the odd passions and visions other people seem to pick for their future and ours just look way too complicated/diverigng that we don't even know where to begin
I had a good belly laugh. As you got to the part where you said "we need to speak about emotions." and past/possible dream me flinched, my alarm went off stopping the video. Even my phone knows my INTP self well enough to stop a video when emotions get involved!
I'm either INTP or ENTP, and I've actually been thinking about this lately (although more in the 'if I could go back knowing what I know now' vein). I would tell myself that we're far too independent for our own good and that social crap actually does have an impact on your life, whether you want to engage with it or not. I would tell myself to spend my high school years practicing my social skills so that I'd have a good grip on them in college. You don't have to be a social butterfly, but being socially confident and knowing how to handle/approach things is important. Also, go shopping and actually try on lots of different clothes so that you learn your lines. You only have to figure out the silhouettes that work best on you once. They don't change. People judge you based on what you wear, whether you care about fashion or not, they do. You can't opt out of other people's dumb opinions on crap that doesn't actually matter. It is what it is. I would also tell myself to find a few women I admire in college and pour into those relationships because the people you're around rub off on you. I would also tell myself that your personality isn't fixed and me believing I'm introverted and such-and-such way does nothing positive. It just makes you double down on weird things. We're all a lot more flexible than we believe.
This was really good "tips" for an INTP. Working on emotions is pouring into relationships and growing/pushing past the uncomfortable stuff instead of letting it isolate an INTP more.
I would say: When trying new things and meeting new people there will be a lot of times when it won't work. Sometimes you can do everything by the book and fail, other times you will do everything wrong and things will work out. People will do, say and assume all kinds of things, so have a sense of humour and learn not to care when you don't need to. Also, don't be jealous or put other people on a pedestal - everyone has strengths and weaknesses. You are free to make your own journey and there is value in taking the longer road.
All true! The trick -- probably for everyone, but particularly a young INTP -- is to find balance between the push through and the self care. It can be so hard to know where to set the goal posts for yourself with the social/people stuff. Especially if you're at the far end of the introvert scale (by ordinary concepts not just 'type'). We definitely *don't* need to be held to Feeler/extravert standards, but we do need to find a way to just *be* in this big people-y world of ours (not to mention that we often develop an impulse to help later on too -- damn Fe!). And that can be a really slow growth for us. If we force it, bad/stressy/overwhelming experiences can really get in the way. hard to stuff that into a 5 minute comedy vid. 😉
i've met a very feely INTJ who tells me to "stop thinking" and "stop being self-aware". It's really funny to me because I do these so automatically I never noticed how that comes across
@@jameswilkerson4412 I think I am INTP and they called me out for constantly overthinking, that I don't need reasons to like what I like. I think it's their Fi looking at my Ti. They like me because of common interests
Loved this! As an INTP I found this moving, especially the part where they say we don't need to be likeable or have to fit in. That's an idea that I've been reviewing recently. I kind of would have guessed that the INTP would have been more open to and intrigued by the idea of talking to their future self. The reaction that the past INTP here gave seemed more ISTP or ISTJ according to my understanding. Keep up the great content!
I'm probably mostly INTP [1] and I'd probably have wanted to grill my future self on which model of time travel is actually instantiated in the universe we live in. If my future self can interact with my past self does that mean I'm interacting with a future self that never met his future self, and that I'm headed on a tangential trajectory? Or will I one day travel back in time to deliver the exact same message to my past self, in which case, where did the knowledge first come from? Also, what major events have happened between now and the future? I did enjoy the video though. Keep up the good work! [1] Insofar as the MBTI is a valid map. In the past I've found myself trying to connect different personality schemes into one meta-scheme to correct for the strengths and weaknesses of each, which I realise is the most stereotypically INTP way to approach the topic. I also realise adding footnotes to TH-cam comments is another thing only an INTP would do.
You spend the first part of your life listening to everyone tell you you’re inadequate and then one day you’ll realize those people can be told to piss off. It’s very cathartic.
The shudder at the thought of having to network with other people. All too real. Also, this is exactly the advice I would go back and give to myself, as I was a very broken INTP girl in my teenage years. Seriously. You nailed this. And I was also heavily atheistic back then, shocked myself and everyone around me when I was saved in 2013.
I don't think I can explain it in a way that makes sense without over-explaining lol. To put it simply, it came after my conclusion of spiritual evil as a real thing, a supernatural thing. I had been doing a great amount of research on many things that lead me to that point. I was noticing patterns (big shock right lol) in history, media, etc. where it was undeniable to me that there is a concerted effort to keep humanity divided and stupid, at the very least (and by a specific group of people). When I picked up a Bible for the first time, what I was reading was lining up with the symbolism and themes I saw on the world stage. I felt energy and light as things started to click. I hold a fairly extensive philosophy around the nature of sin and evil, but I'll cut it short. Though I still consider myself Christian, I am undergoing another theological restructuring that's kind of pulling the rug out from under me... again. But that's the beauty of Ti-Ne, right? 😅must always adjust accordingly to new information, even if it hurts... so long as it makes the most sense.
@@Seekanddestroy88You talk about a specific group of people. Did you continue to believe that after you were saved? That is dangerous. The forces of hell are trying to destroy every person from the inside. At particular times they may be having more success with one group than another, and that group may become responsible for many of the problems of the world at that time (e.g, the Germans 80 years ago), but there's no single group that's always in that position, and thinking there is makes us vulnerable to thinking we are immune. See Ephesians 6:10 and following, particularly verse 12.
O.M.G. !! This was spot on for INTPs. I really related to this (except I'm a 70 yr old male and w..... (he said pedantically)) and LOL’d often while watching. I would have said the same thing to teenage me 55 years ago. I always enjoy watching your channel, oh right, you’re an ESFP so performing arts is right up you alley. But still, I want to complement you on your MBTI skills. You nail it often: on me and on the other types that I have to deal with, I mean like to have around (no I don’t). An INTP.
*1) I knew my future self would wear a beret.* *2) As I knew, feelings suck today and in the future.* *3) There's nothing like learning Italian in one night, and with a cookbook, it was fun.* *4) I always dreamed of visiting my past self and being able to give him some "helpful tips" like "be careful around that person". Nice video tho.*
Damn, this video really came with the right timing, huh? This is literally the words I needed to hear the most right now. When I'm at home, I usually enjoy my own company. I was perfectly happy on my own. I felt peaceful, I did things on my own. But when I'm outside, especially in school, I have this need to be around someone, to not be alone, and follow a group around, like I couldn't bare to be alone. I didn't want to be alone because people have told me that people who were alone were weird and a loner. Dang, my future intp self must have intuitively connected to Kristin to make this video to assure me that I don't have to fit in or follow people around just so I wouldn't be seen as weird and that I can be perfectly happy by my own wthout worrying about what people would think or say about me. Keep doing these types of videos, kristin! They're so entertaining and if you don't realize it yet, some of your videos have helped me understand myself even more and that every type is unique on their own. They're also informative too. ❤❤
INTP here, as a pre-teen in the 60's, my parents purchased an encyclopedia in some 12 volumes. I read them all in my bedroom before the age of 8. I would wake my parents up in the middle of the night to tell them I had completed a letter. From that point onward, my omniscience was unquestionable, well, to me at least. And, yes, I am an engineer computer science geek
I just sent this over to my INTP friend! You sound just like him! Hopefully, you’ll make some ISTJ videos soon because that character embodies my Mom in a nutshell. She’s obsessed with cleaning to the point that she turned on her vacuum at 1:30 AM and didn’t stop for about an hour!
I really like the subtle one off remarks that aren't expanded upon further, like the "agnositc phase". As INTP I can confirm I used to be an edgy atheist but have since discovered that God and the metaphysical can be thought of and discussed in very rational and reasonable ways, unlike what most online atheist communities made me think. I'm very happy I made that development
I went from Atheism to Agnosticism and back to Atheism, mostly because I discovered that there are different type of Atheism, including Agnostic Atheism. >> Atheist criticism of agnosticism says that the unprovability of a god's existence does not imply an equal probability of either possibility.[24] Australian philosopher J.J.C. Smart argues that "sometimes a person who is really an atheist may describe herself, even passionately, as an agnostic because of unreasonable generalized philosophical skepticism which would preclude us from saying that we know anything whatever, except perhaps the truths of mathematics and formal logic."
Have you checked out Eastern Orthodoxy? It has that sense of mystery and lore that an INTP's Ti->Ne->Si adores. It's also mainly practiced in Greece and elsewhere in South-Eastern Europe (as well as Eastnrn Europe, including Ukraine and Russia), which is a history and language nerd's buffet! Also, because Orthodox theology is so deeply founded in the East, when speaking about theology, one uses terms from Greek, Old Church Slavonic, etc which is the most INTP thing ever, randomly using words from niche languages to describe concepts that are hard to describe in English, at least via single word, niche INTP effectively, I love that! Orthodoxy also founds itself on mystery and tradition, which is a super petri dish for an INTP's Si, and also deep theology lore to feed your Ne. Besides the deep lore, if you are still new to philosophy, there is a flexibility for concepts for which may interest an INTP, but bare no reason to have dogma, so regardless of whether you are YEC or are happy in (theistic) evolution waters, Orthodoxy welcomes. I am biased towards Orthodoxy as one, of course, but if as an INTP, I have chosen this path, then there must be hope for an INTP's insatiable thirst for knowledge, but also a spot to know where you are to quench one's interest in philosophy and hypothetical. Religion is not a myth, as common misconception states. In fact Christianity, as well as Islam, Hinduism and other religions have always promoted research and science, for Christians merely view science as the study of God's Creation. Even, the Big Bang Theory and Genetics were proposed by a priest and clergy as a Christian alternative for what is mainstream. I am here if you have questions, much love to all my fellow INTPs :)
One thing I’ve learned is that both top functions and weak shadow functions tend to cause most issues for everyone. It makes sense because a virtue comes with a tied weakness, and a weakness like a shadow function creates a deficit with its own issues.
I, too, love Old Norse... and the Hildegard references. 😁 We're the dreamers who are (semi-)solidly grounded in reality. We're depressed optimists, contrarily and dispassionately pointing out how things could go horrifically wrong at any moment, while also noting how there's always reason to have hope. We FEEL as much anyone, but feelings make us uncomfortable... other people's feelings, but our own even more so. The first thirty or forty years are the hardest. It gets easier after that. -- INTP
It feels like you've really come a long way from that time you said this was the type you had the hardest time understanding. Zero eyerolls from this INTP
"INTP learns to feel like a Feeler and gets to join the gang at last! "🤣 Never have I felt so seen - and by an ESFP! You get all the gold stars, Kristin⭐
So funny story: I just the other day wrote a letter to “future me” from “past me” to try to remind future me of the reasons I should get certain things done earlier in the week so that future past me wouldn’t screw future future me out of an open weekend once again by putting everything off until the last minute.
Oh, and I also was just yesterday ranting about characters in fiction with “undesirable” characteristics, like shyness or introversion or physical “flaws,” only getting stories in which they must be “fixed.”
"Stop letting society make you feel you're broken, just because feeling isn't your predominant judging tool" Me being an INFP who was always described as "too sensitive" and "touchy", and "you need to develop a thicker skin": *bitch wtf??*
INTP: I have always made my own fun, from backyard games to toys like Construx (more advanced Lego-type building materials), then designing my own video game levels on paper. I am now learning to program my own games in Godot... based on a trilogy of science fantasy books that I'm writing...
I paid for a Godot course so I could learn it. Can't find the motivation to complete it. I have a dozen game design documents half-finished for projects that will likely never see the light of day. I will cross my fingers for the completion of your projects and live vicariously through them. :P
@@Ichthyodactyl My main problem is my day job. I work 6hrs a day doing work that prevents me from writing things down, while my brain is storming with ideas. I consistently lose those ideas to the ether by the time I get home and have a chance to write things down. My work schedule is a pain as well, as I'm a night owl... for 30+ years going to bed around 1am, and waking around 6am... now working 4am-10am... Once I DO get home, I sleep, then I get up and have to run errands, make dinner, and possibly relax/write/code... but generally, I don't have enough time to get into a zone of creativity. When I go to work, I actively avoid thinking about my books/games, because I don't want to lose good ideas. (I once thought an entire scene through, which brought me to tears from the events unfolding (I am not one to cry over much, so this was notable and different), and by the time I got home, I had lost the wording and emotional impact of the event... I don't want that to happen again.) So, this has been a personal passion project since I was in high school... and I'm nearly 48 now...
that shudder when she said 'networking' - never been so called out in my life seriously your INTP potrayal is gold, both in its humour and its accuracy
Kristin, you won't read this- probably-, but I wanted to say that I have never related so much to something. I don't know how you do it, how you really understand how we feel about emotions and how tired we are of being asked to change so people like us more, but you somewhat did, and it was just amazing-some day I would like to know how do you know how to act like each type, what your thinking process is when you make the script and things like that -. You're really talented, never forget that.
My atheist intp bestie one day casually told me he was going to church now. Of course I had to hear the five hours monologue about how he changed his mind about it
The INTP videos are a lot of fun to watch for me as an ENTP with an INTP son. He’s a lot of fun and brilliant but it LITERALLY took him years to open up to us AS HIS PARENTS!!!! How many INTPs here have ENTP friends and what are we like to you? Thanks! And I promise I won’t try to dress up like future you and try to haunt your dreams or anything lol!
I'm intp. I needed my entp friend to make me engage, talk, move. Engaging with others sometimes furthers our thoughts, and it definately does with an entp. NOTHING better than new thoughts.
I (INTP who’s often mistaken for an ISTP) had a university pal (ENTP). We had a good synergy. He was the geekier one, still he was well liked by everyone (me included), but there were days I just wished he would shut the hell up and let me think in peace. And he liked to challenge me to literally anything. Most of them were odd and really random stuff. I really enjoyed his company but interacting with him drained my energy to the extreme
@@adrasthea17 i can relate to constantly wanting to compete. My wife used to get mad at me for it! My INTP son has gotten competitive at Mariokart so we enjoy playing that together with my wild ESTP son who is basically my INTP son’s best friend/ enemy lol!
Nice! The advice I would give myself will be like study this in this year (I learnt so much I wouldn't change a thing), this year don't study this (it went to nowhere and wasn't live changing) and work instead, of course meet and get to know my future husband, tell me about 2 hobbies I enjoy thought the pass of years (so I can focus on them and hopefully be happier... and have higher skills? haha), and buy an apartment when the market is good (and some economy recommendations to investigate). Also, yes, don't be stressed about being shy and an introvert, because people love to talk and be with people that talk less, is polite and have a humble attitude, so just study psycology as a hobby (and other related stuff, I will give me a list) and chill. On the other hand, I would be worried about bad consequences altering time O.O and the imposibility of it. So yes, is better if I think of it like a dream... it makes sense anyway because I don't remember my dreams and it will all be for nothing haha T-T xD (another INTP)
It would have been soo funny if when the future INTP zaps in, both versions of the INTP are incidentally wearing that same Zelda shirt, and neither comments on it LMAO also do you have a writing staff? These are great
That advi- ehem, I mean, handy tip, at 4:38 was beautiful T.T As a be-your-best-self loving ENFP, I totally approve :,3 ¡GO GO GOOO, a toda máquina, pequeño INTP!
Hahah, yessssss..... I have to wonder if the intricacies of temporal mechanics are just hard-coded to be S-tier conversational topics for us. I would be much more interested in discussing the potential ramifications of the alleged instance of time travel than whether or not time travel actually occurred.
@@Ichthyodactyl Exactly! I mean, if there are multiple timelines, can you even hope to return to your original timeline after going into the past and changing anything? And if there is only one and you want to change something, how do you substantiate this construct so that the change will remain without the original impetus to make the change in the first place?
I would be very much interested how the time travel system works, how celestial bodies movement and space-time expansion is included in establishing the target coordinates, how are multiverse crossroads (arising from quantum probabilistic nature of the universe, if proven real) handled by the time travel system and how does it all work with the law of conservation of energy and ... hours and hours of exciting conversation :-)
I can't believe I cried watching this video. And I have actually developed these tips and am now doing accordingly. Looking forward to your INTP tier-ranking video ~
INTP here. I try to sprinkle in an emoji occasionally here and there without being over the top. But it's a very deliberate act. I'm not very comfortable using them.
I've certainly pondered the idea of my current self interacting with my past self. Wasn't exactly bitter and hated people like stereotypes may suggest for INTPs. But I was certainly socially awkward and shy. I would still encourage critical thinking and consider all the possibilities by having an open mind and expanding my horizons (keep working on my strengths with my top 2 functions as I was lowkey in a Ti-Si loop in the past without realising it but just wasn't always in a neurotic/depressed disposition) and more importantly, try talking to people more but at a steady pace until I get comfortable without necessarily having to be a social butterfly as it will go a long way. Even if I stumble along the way, its fine since the people I truly value will come after my teenage years. As well as emphasising that people are not exactly going to be harsh and judgemental as you catastrophise in your head. They're gonna be relatively fine as long as you're generally chill. I've always valued my close friendships but wasn't always comfortable talking to people outside my circle. And to just know that things will be alright and that I will get better and find more people who will truly accept me for who I am. Flaws and all. Literally took me doing a part-time retail job to be comfortable talking to people outside my comfort zone. And I would definitely advise my younger self to diet more at an earlier stage, get some skincare and update my fashion as it goes along way. Also found it funny with saying the ESFJ tip should be to get into theoretical physics. Which I do think is a valid point as I do find the shallow, unhealthy types uninteresting to talk to. Society values socialisation and emotion (which is fine) but can be too biased towards that. Making it tougher for us introverted intuitives to feel more comfortable socially speaking. Embrace abstract curiosity & critical thinking more. Assess the intentions and essence of the arguments better as opposed to whether something is PC or appropriate. There's certainly a balance to be had. Would make for a more holistic society. Instead of caring too much about trying to be "cool" or fitting in. Its superficial at the end of the day.
My brother-in-law is an INTP, and he can't stick to a plan to save his life. He has about ten degrees in multiple fields and has changed his career path at least twenty times. Funnily enough, he thinks he's an INTJ because he likes his desk to be organized. I've explained the cognitive functions to him, but of course, anything I say that differs from what he's already concluded is irrelevant.
What a conundrum for an intp. To know he's intj and not be intp. You can't tell an Intp directly anything agaisnt what they already "know." Hmm, you've got to plant info somewhere for him to read. Maybe Info aboyt the Intj. First he realize he's not into because he's not productive.
@@huntedsnark7507 Until the bitter end. haha Heebie Jeebies, it's an honor! Great work! Smart, funny, and hopeful! One of my favorites! If you have the time, would be amazing getting any thoughts you had writing. And if not, really appreciate the reply and hope you have a wonderful weekend! I love cautionary tales because they explore different aspects both positives and negatives living in a poor direction illustrating the logical conclusion shooing away "yeah but what about this and this and...and that doesn't seem so hot but be that as it may, well, okay, did you try..umm... how about ok maybe but that doesn't apply to my specific circumstance...and, alright, fair enough..." but that can just leave audiences with a fear of doing wrong from the punishment that could result where it can be like someone telling us we have a lousy crutch that's about to fall apart and then we get rid of it, and then we're level crawling. But you helped give a hopeful alternative! For me, that's more constructive. I admire it! I think creators are scared to take that moral stance. So, like with cautionary tales, they avoid offering the better hopeful direction, and give the depth and complexity to the villains or anti-heroes so they can indirectly highlight the good....which could, unfortunately, result in people claiming the villains were "actually the real heroes" and embracing cynicism seeing heroes written so bland in comparison. Unless I misunderstood, this skit was taking a moral stance with the future version being a better version being kind, patient, and gentle recognizing the good in the younger self for a hopeful realistic trajectory. Additionally, I love practical effects and the one room-setting functions like an acoustic version of a song showing the strength of the work where, imo, it shows a confidence in acting, writing, and directing. Thanks for reading my life story, and thank again for your wonderful work!
Yet another series Kristin What happened to through the eyes of Or shoulder angels I know you're gonna finish the Tier-ranking one (I hope) And I hope you finish this one You uh, have a lot of work to do And I thank you for doing it Because yet again, another amazing video Like honestly as long as amazing videos, unfinished series don't matter TOO much (they still matter though) And you have amazing videos So boom Set for life (not really but hey life is strange I'mma stop now my everything is goin' outta control)
@@crayon8749 Hmm, does the pixie dust contain the fairies or are they merely attracted to it? Also imagine if fairies were actually real due to some sort of weird convergent evolution
@@alinaqirizvi1441i think to humanize the process that it would make sense that pixue dust is either something that the fairies exude or something that you can make without harming fairies. About the whole convergent evolution thing though, there's actually some interesting parallels between fairytales about fairies and human diseases, in particular look up changelings. Essentially the fairytale idea (of changelings) was that fairies or trolls or other magical creatures would steal human babies (sometimes adult too but more rarely) and change their shape to look human like, to tell them apart you would use things like bodymarks ( if you had a genetic mutation that gave you some weird appendix 6 fibgers etc. You would likely be considered a fairy ) or simply by looking at their behaviour, (like voracious appetite, or whej alone jumping, dancing, singing bells, or lack of emotions, rigidness, funky way of moving etc.), after you found out your son was a changeling a couple of things usually happened either the family killed him, because it was needier than other childrens, usually by first trying to make it confess with either violence or by seeing if it gets weirded out by things like eggshell soup and makes a specific comment about it. Once adult fairies/changelings usually did two things either forget they are fairies and live normal lives like they were human or they would simoly go back to their fairy village never to be seen again. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changeling This is the folklore of changelings, very brutal like many folklores but even more when we look at it with modern eyes i think the horror shines more because you realize that what they called changelings were probably just people with genetic mutations, or other mental conditions like autism, from a survival point of view it makes kind of sense one more mouth to feed is a lot especially if it is unable to reliably produce, this folklore probably helped people develop a sort of en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capgras_delusion which helped the mind to suffer less. Anyway here it is hope its interesting to read
Ah yes, goals, I think the problem I have always had with them is why should I select any one possible future over the others? what makes it more desirable? when you honestly don't have a clue what if anything you want, goals seem pretty meaningless.
This is spot on! As an INTP I’ve of course already had many hypothetical conversations with future or past self about this very scenario, should it happen one day. I would ask myself about all the most important discoveries I’ve made so I can stop wasting time on dead ends. If you know, you know..
Thank you Kristin for giving me the hint about agnosticism. I didnt know about it but I guess rhis is exactly what Im going through rn. Im a computer scientist so naturally binary logic is the first Ive learned. But the more you think about the world and human behavior, the more you realize that nothing is ever binary. There is no good and evil and even the most extreme of views are multi facetted. So rn Im learning about Fuzzy logic, the way computers can make sense of human views. Bc in fuzzy logic there are no hard yes/nos or right/wrongs. The truth can be between 0-100% And I guess this is also my current viewpoint about god and supernatural stuff. I just dont know the right answer. I guess there might be something supernatural we cant wrap our heads around, but especially for this reason Im not willing to point my finger on any religion and say: " They figured it out" On the other hand, Im also happy for everyone who found their inner peace by believing in God. This is a cruel world and if this helps you to endure it, Im not here to argue against it -INTP
Just so you know, I already decided a code word in case I have to travel back in time and talk to my younger self. So we can save ourselves all the awkwardness. Edit: The code word is to prove it's actually the future me and not some imposter in the real world. The dream scenario isn't important since I will always wake up sooner or later.
@@nayanav6914 It's actually rather easy to identify dreams, because all you have to do are reality checks. In case you never had a lucid dreaming phase like myself: A reality check could for example be that you look at your hands and start counting them. In a dream nothing is realistic, that's why your hands look weird or suddenly you have fifteen fingers instead of ten. So to answer your question (which I know wasn't directed towards me, but I also happen to have a code word, so it's still relevant for me): Yes, my dream self could know it, but that doesn't matter, because I'd be able to figure out that I am dreaming.
@@milinski_6893 very well if you can distinguish your dreams from reality. Even I dream the most bizarre things, I can easily identify my dreams. BUT when I'm thinking about the scenario, the thought of a future me suddenly popping from nowhere also seem unrealistic to me right now(knowing all the technologies we have right now and to an extent being able to imagine how far future few decades can go in terms of technological/scientific endeavours), so it'd feel like there's an unrealistic entity in a hyper-realistic surrounding. And just one unrealistic happening is enough to make a conclusion of a dream. Although I admit, it won't be a fast conclusion, I'd be very weirded out and constantly guessing and second guessing like the younger intp in the skit. Kristen did a very nice job, it'd be exactly how I'd react too.
At 16 we were asked in one class to write a letter to our older self (it was because there was not enough people at school for some reason and the teacher wanted to occupy us with something meaningful and fun because it wasn't one of her classes) and i mentioned something about time travel because i was obsessed with it, to me 2026 was so far enough in the future to see the first signs of it being a possibility or not and i thought why the fuck not, worst case scenario i'll look stupid to myself lol All this to say i wouldnlt be so reluctant to the idea if only a but flabbergasted. They would genuinely look like me, only older and use similar thought patterns than i do. i could assume they are a doppelganger trying to benefit the similarity or an estranged family member trying to prank me, in which case my ego would force me to keep any vivid display of emotion hidden. If the connection was done through spoken or written means, i would however be more cautious... Unless i'm 17in the situation i would eat it up for the sake of whimsies and them brush it off as a scam a few hours later because falling down a rime travel rabbit hole to explore the lore of future history and how the ethics of knowing the future works
I expected the INTP to get into an hour(s) long discussion about the merit of time travel with their older/dream self, and I wasn't disappointed.
- INTP
Ending with the obvious conclusion that a dream is more likely.
Not the merit but the way that it's possible. The merit of time travel is somewhat obvious but the interesting part is how it would work
"Genius-tier idiot".. that was too good 😁
Hunted Snark gets credit for that one! 👌
@@dearkristin You know adult INTP had a surge of glee and confidence after nailing that delivery towards their younger self in tandem with delivering an advice that hit home. Which is why she overshares right after, starting with saying how she hasn't found someone she could trust with all of her thoughts.
"Who else has learned an entire language, just because they were bored?" Haha, my INTP pal actually learned French for precisely that reason! 😂
I‘m an ENFP, but I relate. I‘ve been learning Scottish Gaelic for the past few months just because I felt like it
I'm on it 👍🏻
Old Norse sounds fascinating and I have considered taking it up it but I have been learning other languages for several years because they have more resources available. - Yes, I'm an INTP.
Yeah... I'm an Intp and I learned Sanskrit for no discernable reason. Certainly no useful reason. But what is the point of being useful if the humanoids are just gonna muck it up?
Really? This is something we do? I'm learning Spanish just because.
The awkward silence at the start is pure solid gold.... Platinum? ... Iridium.
Mr. Snark...umm... I've been wanting to ask you a question for some time, and this comment is as good as any. I don't want to pry, but, are you a Boojum? Sorry if that's too personal, but you see I am a very forgetful baker, and I"m a little concerned about the suddenly-silently-vanishing part.
Unobtanium, surely.
💯💯💯
Whoa, I'm reading TH-cam comments and I'm getting vocabulary!
Boojum = imaginary dangerous animal
Unobtainium = imaginary/scientifically impossible/rare metal --- it's "un-obtain-able"
(I was going to mention an actually-existing artificial element, but their half-lives are too short)
As an INTJ, I would like to congratulate the hypothetical INTP on realizing that they are not broken and never were. It takes time to accept that types like ours, which fade into the background for observation (and plotting), will not mimic the rest of the sensers and feelers, nor should we feel obligated to do so. I embraced the concept myself when I was around 14, although the struggle to get other people to understand this is an ongoing battle.
Pro tip: If you switch phraseology from "I think" to "I feel" but still communicate the exact same concept, people feel more comfortable and assume you are making decisions with more emotion even though you are using logic and facts.
Lucky you, you got access to your Fi easily.
I “feel” like the deep internalized notion that we’re broken or incomplete, and must mimic feelers and sensors won’t really be undone by a single phrase. We can build defenses mechanisms to deny it, but it’s still going to be there. No matter how well we can logic our way out, our Fe is part of us, whispering it’s sweet words and pressuring us to fit in.
It’s paradoxical, really. The more we deny our Fe, the less complete we “feel”. The more we empower our Fe, the less “ourselves” we feel.
@@entropy8634 I sort of understand what you mean but I don't regret developing my Fe
@@alinaqirizvi1441 good for you 👍. I can’t really relate, I’m still at **that** stage in life where I’m figuring things out. Somewhere is that perfect ratio between the two extremes (complete rejection of Fe, complete empowerment of Fe) that allows me to achieve the same satisfaction.
...Huh. Filing that way for later.
I hate when people say "I feel" and adding something that is not a feeling. Feelings are made so no one can argue with those. That is their nature. Stating that " I feel like {random thoughts here}" is really just suggestive communication saying: "you are not allowed to argue with the opinion of someone else that I'm mirroring to you right now".
Be proud of your wide open way of thinking and embrace this power of yours.
If you want fake feelings because of society - mimic feelings and use that as you own wall to hide.
Betraying thoughts is like betraying something from your core.
"Stop letting society make you feel that you're broken just because feeling isn't your predominant judging tool"
Thank you for this statement Ms. Kristin
-INTP
The fact that I almost cried because a character said that I don't need to fit in and worry about being a failure makes me wonder if I'm really an INTP or if I'm more of an INTP than I expected because I relate
(intp consultant on video content. Thing is, I knew exactly where to hit ... I half feel like I should apologise ... )
@@huntedsnark7507 Did you give advice on the outfits too? I haven't seen anyone discuss that nor the subtile but mandatory "Where was I? Oh-". Actually there's a lot more... Hm, really well done
It was on the point.
@@laiag4854 I didn't advise on costumes, I think the hat was maybe what the intp wore in the Philosphers vid. I recall commenting that I have one very like it.
But 'now where was I...?' 100% intp 😉
That sounds like an INFP reaction tbh
I love how effortlessly you slip into the INTP persona, Kristin. I can't wait to see more of this series!
Thanks! 😁
This should be mandatory viewing for young lost INTPs honestly. Came for the laughs, left completely wistful wishing my younger INTP self could realize all this way earlier than he did
that actually was very heartwarming, thank you. feeling broken and all the people around you stating just that, was definitely an experience many of us went through. it really does get better when you become comfortable with being just *yourself*, so great message for younger INTPs watching this❤
The intp needs decades
@@greenlimabean precisely!
That rant the INTP said hit way too close to home 💀💀💀
The accuracy of the blinking killed me! How else am i supposed to process and communicate that I'm processing information
Kristin is going to have fun when she gets to switch to an extrovert personality type and gets to show excitement about meeting someone "Just like her" from the future. (ENTP)
@@catdisaster22 The thought crossed my mind. Though question, would that not qualify as "excitement." (Cue Duel of Fates song begin to play)
Especially from the EF types. ENTP’s being adaptable by nature and having a wild imagination, I honestly don’t think I’d be too shocked if something like this happened. I could see myself just going “Huh. Alright. So what do I need to know?”
Literally how is your INTP this accurate. I made my own version of this after your INTJ one as a joke/thought exercise, and you got it spot on, down to the past INTP starting a rant about how the future INTP would go and tell them to be more feeling and social and such, annoyed because that's how those "meeting past selves" moments are 'supposed to' go. Seriously, hats off.
I wish there is a Best Actress category for English spelling TH-camrs. I nominate Kristin.
Aw, thanks 🥲
INTP former atheist turned agnostic turned Catholic here. Loved the ending!
I am an older INTP and actually spent a year focused on developing inf Fe (because we are not robots and...ok well the "warmest machine" meme really resonates. And I did try to use AI to help me communicate emotional messages more smoothly for work ). It was exhausting but worth it. But I still struggle with really understanding emotions and how not to be awkward. This was a God-send this morning (yep, I'm an INTP who is also a Christian). Thank you. ❤ (look at that, a heart emoji. I have come so far)
I'm an INTP and I HAD goals growing up. But when I actually grew up, all this goals were for the me from the past, which is a completely different person. They have nothing to do with the person I became. All my life I felt safe because I had goals and plans for my future, unlike many others my age, by now that I'm actually here, they all are wrong and done more harm. So no, having goals is not a great advice. But to understand what you REALLY want to do in life, not in fantasy, is very important and takes much time.
As a younger INTP, I am interested to know how you navigate through life. Do you just live in the moment and not care about / don't have any long term goals or you have an idea of what you want to achieve but you don't know exactly how to achieve it, so you do the things that are generally considered as "good" keep living.
@@adityasubhedar9556 I'm afraid I'm not the best person to go for advice to, because right now I am in a very bad place mentally, but I have some bits that might be useful.
Don't ignore physical problems. Like minor health problems that don't require immediate solution or something broken in the house, that you can live without, but it would still be nice to have it working. I have a tendency to ignore Se like it won't eventually bite me in the ass, so if you have a similar problem, don't let it grow too big and overwhelming. The more things pile up, the more intimidating and seemingly unsolvable they become. But I also have ADHD and currently am in autistic burnout, so that might be not an INTP thing.
I hope you will be able to find what really makes your life worth living. That's the key, if your job feels good and you actually like at least some part of what you're doing, it won't drain as much energy and you (probably) won't go into a burnout. About navigating… even if you don't know where to go, go away from things, people and places that make you feel bad. You can figure it out as you go, but sticking with what doesn't work in fear of having nothing to replace it with will slowly kill you. Uncertainty will help a right idea to be born, and sticking to your Si habits and routines that don't really work for you anymore will only hold you back. In conclusion: don't be afraid to ditch things that you realised weren't right for you, even if you at the moment don't know what to do after.
I don't know how mature you are in that area, but that's a very INTP advice. Feelings matter. You can include them INTO your logical system. Remember that humans are animals, and evolution doesn't make what will be the most logically thinking, it kills what isn't able to survive effectively. Logical thinking isn't absolutely necessary for survival and reproduction, so not everyone has it. "But they SHOULD" argument doesn't work, because that's not how world works, you can't change that, you have to work around.
Feelings have a use too. Be connected to your own feelings, so they won't bite you in the ass when you're not expecting. Learn how they work and use them - your own and other people's - take them into account. If your future goal (or an outline of what you want to do, that's better, make it flexible) won't be in harmony with your feelings, you're on the wrong path, you're bound to fail or become miserable. We value and prefer logical solutions, but in some situations a logical thing to do would be to solve it using feelings, or taking them into an account.
For example, choosing a job: it's suitable for you logically from every aspect, but the boss is an idiot who makes everyone's life harder for no reason and uses annoyingly ineffective strategies and pressures you to use them too. Your feelings tell you that another month in this environment and you will snap, you will be feeling yourself even more miserable than now, and probably will finally yell at them. Your logic takes that information and draws a conclusion: if things continue to go as they are going now, you simply won't have the energy to do not only work-related stuff, but other spheres of your life with suffer the damage from it. Plus, why work ineffectively, if that aggravates you and lowers your productivity significantly, when you can seek another option. So you seek another option and now work for another company with a more effective and less toxic boss, and how you're feeling immediately improves, and because of that, not only your productivity goes up, but your satisfaction from all the work you did, too.
Fe is not a liability, it's a tool. As any tool, it can be mastered through theory AND practice. You will see the use of it and all the benefits as compared to not using it. Seriously, it's like magic. Plus, as I said earlier, sometimes the logical thing to do would be to do not a logical thing. Your task at hand is to convince person, for example, not "teach" them how to think and see logic, so use YOUR logic and figure out what would work on this specific person, not what should work on someone like you. It's FAR more effective than to go familiar route.
Also, remember that what you are able to compartmentalize or don't even see as a problem, other people may view as very important issue or even a deal-breaker. And they are not wrong for that, they just have different priorities in life, that only partially influenced by their conscious decisions. Like, we didn't just one day decided to prioritize logic in our decision making, it came naturally, and they just can't one day decide and adopt a whole another way of thinking. Be patient and understanding, and it will significantly improve your communication skills, and with them your results.
As Fe can work as a tool for Ti needs, Ti can be used as a tool to satisfy Fe. We NEED connection, we need understanding from other people, we need that stupid harmony in the group, or we will go insane trying to bottle up a very important need, that is necessary for living a good, satisfying life.
Okay, most of what I wrote is not a direct answer to your question (because I don't have one), but in my opinion it's an important information to help you navigate through life. I don't know how many of that you already have figured out on your own (and if you did, I'm proud of you), so some of it may sound obvious, but I hope I was able to help you in some way. Take care.
@@adityasubhedar9556 I can't speak on behalf of OP but from an older INTP who still has not yet found their place in the world, my advice would be to cherish any passions you have and pursue any long-term goals you manage to make for yourself doggedly. Getting older and not having anything to show for it because you just floated through the currents of life sucks. The world at large doesn't care how much you know about random topics or how many hobbies you have, they care what you've accomplished, what marketable skills you have, so try to focus on achieving something, anything. You can still spend your free time just Ne'ing into the endless void of information at your fingertips but you need something stable and tangible to lean on.
@@adityasubhedar9556 YO! uhm... Did you find an answer?)
So good! I literally can't decide which of Younger Selves and Tier Rankings is the funnier series! It's great when there's more time to really get invested in a single character. I'm already thinking "You definitely don't need to join the feelers, but please, please tell Hildegarde how you feel about her before she moves to Norway! You can do it! Ooh or... go with her... you already know Old Norse!
Hahahaha I would be the same
The INTP would think a lot about how they might do that ... but ultimately and regretfully decide that they had no right to try to influence Hildegarde's decision. 😉
@huntedsnark7507 😥 but, but, but, what if Hildegarde herself is only leaving because she secretly shares their feelings but believes they're not reciprocated? Ooh maybe employ an ENFJ to do the talking, like Hildegarde used for her break-up! 🤣 BTW I talk a good game, but I'm pretty hopeless at this stuff most of the time, too!
Remind me, which type is Hildegarde?
@@jameswilkerson4412 I think another INTP
The Se blind, the ESFJ subconscious, the Te nemesis, etc. all present here, I always really appreciate the nuance with which you portray the INTP
Subconscious is flipping all letters?
So is ‘aspirational’ flipping just dominant’s and inferior’s letters?
@@jameswilkerson4412 I think it depends on what sources/perspectives you get this info from and what personalitiy model you're using. I'm operating under a kind of foursided model of personality, i.e. the main personality in question is the "ego", flipping the middle two letters is "superego," flipping all the letter is the "subconscious," and flipping just the outer two is the "shadow," but again, it seems different sources use different terms for these.
And Fi deamon, "emotions, don't they suck haha"... I'm glad Kristin went with the route she did, I understand why people say it's necessary to "express the feelings to other human beings" to process them, but I really don't like myself when I have to do that. She even recommended "journalling" which proved to be by far the superior option for me.
Even Ni critic. "Just have a general list of places you'd like to be, not necessarily a plan" is a good advice especially when we get too overwhelmed by all the odd passions and visions other people seem to pick for their future and ours just look way too complicated/diverigng that we don't even know where to begin
Love that INTP is socially awkward still, it's endearing
I had a good belly laugh. As you got to the part where you said "we need to speak about emotions." and past/possible dream me flinched, my alarm went off stopping the video.
Even my phone knows my INTP self well enough to stop a video when emotions get involved!
Your *relationship* to emotions
the pathetic fallacy
I'm either INTP or ENTP, and I've actually been thinking about this lately (although more in the 'if I could go back knowing what I know now' vein). I would tell myself that we're far too independent for our own good and that social crap actually does have an impact on your life, whether you want to engage with it or not. I would tell myself to spend my high school years practicing my social skills so that I'd have a good grip on them in college. You don't have to be a social butterfly, but being socially confident and knowing how to handle/approach things is important. Also, go shopping and actually try on lots of different clothes so that you learn your lines. You only have to figure out the silhouettes that work best on you once. They don't change. People judge you based on what you wear, whether you care about fashion or not, they do. You can't opt out of other people's dumb opinions on crap that doesn't actually matter. It is what it is. I would also tell myself to find a few women I admire in college and pour into those relationships because the people you're around rub off on you. I would also tell myself that your personality isn't fixed and me believing I'm introverted and such-and-such way does nothing positive. It just makes you double down on weird things. We're all a lot more flexible than we believe.
If you were an ENTP you would know it. But of course, can you realy ever be that sure?..
This was really good "tips" for an INTP. Working on emotions is pouring into relationships and growing/pushing past the uncomfortable stuff instead of letting it isolate an INTP more.
I would say: When trying new things and meeting new people there will be a lot of times when it won't work. Sometimes you can do everything by the book and fail, other times you will do everything wrong and things will work out. People will do, say and assume all kinds of things, so have a sense of humour and learn not to care when you don't need to. Also, don't be jealous or put other people on a pedestal - everyone has strengths and weaknesses. You are free to make your own journey and there is value in taking the longer road.
All true! The trick -- probably for everyone, but particularly a young INTP -- is to find balance between the push through and the self care.
It can be so hard to know where to set the goal posts for yourself with the social/people stuff. Especially if you're at the far end of the introvert scale (by ordinary concepts not just 'type').
We definitely *don't* need to be held to Feeler/extravert standards, but we do need to find a way to just *be* in this big people-y world of ours (not to mention that we often develop an impulse to help later on too -- damn Fe!).
And that can be a really slow growth for us. If we force it, bad/stressy/overwhelming experiences can really get in the way.
hard to stuff that into a 5 minute comedy vid. 😉
i've met a very feely INTJ who tells me to "stop thinking" and "stop being self-aware". It's really funny to me because I do these so automatically I never noticed how that comes across
Are you an INTJ or INTP?
@@jameswilkerson4412 why
Dumb questions by both of ya... congratulations.
@@Lacter12I’m just saying did the INTJ think it would apply to you directly or just because you’re similar?
(I’m not sure which I am myself)
@@jameswilkerson4412 I think I am INTP and they called me out for constantly overthinking, that I don't need reasons to like what I like. I think it's their Fi looking at my Ti. They like me because of common interests
Loved this! As an INTP I found this moving, especially the part where they say we don't need to be likeable or have to fit in. That's an idea that I've been reviewing recently. I kind of would have guessed that the INTP would have been more open to and intrigued by the idea of talking to their future self. The reaction that the past INTP here gave seemed more ISTP or ISTJ according to my understanding. Keep up the great content!
I'm probably mostly INTP [1] and I'd probably have wanted to grill my future self on which model of time travel is actually instantiated in the universe we live in. If my future self can interact with my past self does that mean I'm interacting with a future self that never met his future self, and that I'm headed on a tangential trajectory? Or will I one day travel back in time to deliver the exact same message to my past self, in which case, where did the knowledge first come from? Also, what major events have happened between now and the future?
I did enjoy the video though. Keep up the good work!
[1] Insofar as the MBTI is a valid map. In the past I've found myself trying to connect different personality schemes into one meta-scheme to correct for the strengths and weaknesses of each, which I realise is the most stereotypically INTP way to approach the topic. I also realise adding footnotes to TH-cam comments is another thing only an INTP would do.
Have you checked the INTP Survival Guide YT channel?
That version went for four hours 🤭
@@exnihilonihilfit6316 I just found that. Any favorite vids there?
You spend the first part of your life listening to everyone tell you you’re inadequate and then one day you’ll realize those people can be told to piss off. It’s very cathartic.
The shudder at the thought of having to network with other people. All too real. Also, this is exactly the advice I would go back and give to myself, as I was a very broken INTP girl in my teenage years. Seriously. You nailed this. And I was also heavily atheistic back then, shocked myself and everyone around me when I was saved in 2013.
So INTP to have edited the comment haha. Congrats on 10 years of being saved :)
What changed ur mind about religion? (a curious intp who just recently went from being a believer to agnosticism)
Also curious about your path of switching from atheistic to believing.
I don't think I can explain it in a way that makes sense without over-explaining lol.
To put it simply, it came after my conclusion of spiritual evil as a real thing, a supernatural thing. I had been doing a great amount of research on many things that lead me to that point. I was noticing patterns (big shock right lol) in history, media, etc. where it was undeniable to me that there is a concerted effort to keep humanity divided and stupid, at the very least (and by a specific group of people). When I picked up a Bible for the first time, what I was reading was lining up with the symbolism and themes I saw on the world stage. I felt energy and light as things started to click.
I hold a fairly extensive philosophy around the nature of sin and evil, but I'll cut it short. Though I still consider myself Christian, I am undergoing another theological restructuring that's kind of pulling the rug out from under me... again. But that's the beauty of Ti-Ne, right? 😅must always adjust accordingly to new information, even if it hurts... so long as it makes the most sense.
@@Seekanddestroy88You talk about a specific group of people. Did you continue to believe that after you were saved? That is dangerous. The forces of hell are trying to destroy every person from the inside. At particular times they may be having more success with one group than another, and that group may become responsible for many of the problems of the world at that time (e.g, the Germans 80 years ago), but there's no single group that's always in that position, and thinking there is makes us vulnerable to thinking we are immune.
See Ephesians 6:10 and following, particularly verse 12.
That Se PoLR in INTPs is ridiculous 🤣
O.M.G. !! This was spot on for INTPs. I really related to this (except I'm a 70 yr old male and w..... (he said pedantically)) and LOL’d often while watching. I would have said the same thing to teenage me 55 years ago.
I always enjoy watching your channel, oh right, you’re an ESFP so performing arts is right up you alley. But still, I want to complement you on your MBTI skills. You nail it often: on me and on the other types that I have to deal with, I mean like to have around (no I don’t).
An INTP.
*1) I knew my future self would wear a beret.*
*2) As I knew, feelings suck today and in the future.*
*3) There's nothing like learning Italian in one night, and with a cookbook, it was fun.*
*4) I always dreamed of visiting my past self and being able to give him some "helpful tips" like "be careful around that person". Nice video tho.*
Damn, this video really came with the right timing, huh? This is literally the words I needed to hear the most right now.
When I'm at home, I usually enjoy my own company. I was perfectly happy on my own. I felt peaceful, I did things on my own. But when I'm outside, especially in school, I have this need to be around someone, to not be alone, and follow a group around, like I couldn't bare to be alone. I didn't want to be alone because people have told me that people who were alone were weird and a loner.
Dang, my future intp self must have intuitively connected to Kristin to make this video to assure me that I don't have to fit in or follow people around just so I wouldn't be seen as weird and that I can be perfectly happy by my own wthout worrying about what people would think or say about me.
Keep doing these types of videos, kristin! They're so entertaining and if you don't realize it yet, some of your videos have helped me understand myself even more and that every type is unique on their own. They're also informative too. ❤❤
INTP here, as a pre-teen in the 60's, my parents purchased an encyclopedia in some 12 volumes. I read them all in my bedroom before the age of 8. I would wake my parents up in the middle of the night to tell them I had completed a letter. From that point onward, my omniscience was unquestionable, well, to me at least. And, yes, I am an engineer computer science geek
If I went back in time I would warn myself of my life misfortunes so they could be avoided and tell myself the winning lottery numbers.
1:04 Ha, I immediately had to think about "The man from earth" here. Great little movie for XNTPs.
I just sent this over to my INTP friend! You sound just like him! Hopefully, you’ll make some ISTJ videos soon because that character embodies my Mom in a nutshell. She’s obsessed with cleaning to the point that she turned on her vacuum at 1:30 AM and didn’t stop for about an hour!
I really like the subtle one off remarks that aren't expanded upon further, like the "agnositc phase". As INTP I can confirm I used to be an edgy atheist but have since discovered that God and the metaphysical can be thought of and discussed in very rational and reasonable ways, unlike what most online atheist communities made me think. I'm very happy I made that development
Same! I love God now. Took decades, like 4. Intps need decades of life experience and time to think.
I went from Atheism to Agnosticism and back to Atheism, mostly because I discovered that there are different type of Atheism, including Agnostic Atheism.
>> Atheist criticism of agnosticism says that the unprovability of a god's existence does not imply an equal probability of either possibility.[24] Australian philosopher J.J.C. Smart argues that "sometimes a person who is really an atheist may describe herself, even passionately, as an agnostic because of unreasonable generalized philosophical skepticism which would preclude us from saying that we know anything whatever, except perhaps the truths of mathematics and formal logic."
Have you checked out Eastern Orthodoxy? It has that sense of mystery and lore that an INTP's Ti->Ne->Si adores. It's also mainly practiced in Greece and elsewhere in South-Eastern Europe (as well as Eastnrn Europe, including Ukraine and Russia), which is a history and language nerd's buffet! Also, because Orthodox theology is so deeply founded in the East, when speaking about theology, one uses terms from Greek, Old Church Slavonic, etc which is the most INTP thing ever, randomly using words from niche languages to describe concepts that are hard to describe in English, at least via single word, niche INTP effectively, I love that!
Orthodoxy also founds itself on mystery and tradition, which is a super petri dish for an INTP's Si, and also deep theology lore to feed your Ne.
Besides the deep lore, if you are still new to philosophy, there is a flexibility for concepts for which may interest an INTP, but bare no reason to have dogma, so regardless of whether you are YEC or are happy in (theistic) evolution waters, Orthodoxy welcomes. I am biased towards Orthodoxy as one, of course, but if as an INTP, I have chosen this path, then there must be hope for an INTP's insatiable thirst for knowledge, but also a spot to know where you are to quench one's interest in philosophy and hypothetical. Religion is not a myth, as common misconception states. In fact Christianity, as well as Islam, Hinduism and other religions have always promoted research and science, for Christians merely view science as the study of God's Creation. Even, the Big Bang Theory and Genetics were proposed by a priest and clergy as a Christian alternative for what is mainstream.
I am here if you have questions, much love to all my fellow INTPs :)
One thing I’ve learned is that both top functions and weak shadow functions tend to cause most issues for everyone. It makes sense because a virtue comes with a tied weakness, and a weakness like a shadow function creates a deficit with its own issues.
Im an agnostic INTP loll
00:10 That "Heebee Jeebees" was the cutest thing ^^
I have learned where all of the 212 municipalities of my country are on a map just for fun - INTP
I, too, love Old Norse... and the Hildegard references. 😁
We're the dreamers who are (semi-)solidly grounded in reality. We're depressed optimists, contrarily and dispassionately pointing out how things could go horrifically wrong at any moment, while also noting how there's always reason to have hope. We FEEL as much anyone, but feelings make us uncomfortable... other people's feelings, but our own even more so.
The first thirty or forty years are the hardest. It gets easier after that. -- INTP
I wonder if our hostess likes this saint:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_of_Bingen?wprov=sfti1
@@jameswilkerson4412 well i certainly do 🙃
so true, so very, very true...
It feels like you've really come a long way from that time you said this was the type you had the hardest time understanding. Zero eyerolls from this INTP
"INTP learns to feel like a Feeler and gets to join the gang at last! "🤣
Never have I felt so seen - and by an ESFP! You get all the gold stars, Kristin⭐
"Now, where was I?" is like my catchphrase
So funny story: I just the other day wrote a letter to “future me” from “past me” to try to remind future me of the reasons I should get certain things done earlier in the week so that future past me wouldn’t screw future future me out of an open weekend once again by putting everything off until the last minute.
Oh, and I also was just yesterday ranting about characters in fiction with “undesirable” characteristics, like shyness or introversion or physical “flaws,” only getting stories in which they must be “fixed.”
As an INTP, I was laughing through most of this. But it's all appropriate. Thanks for the social message for the younger ones.
"Stop letting society make you feel you're broken, just because feeling isn't your predominant judging tool"
Me being an INFP who was always described as "too sensitive" and "touchy", and "you need to develop a thicker skin": *bitch wtf??*
3:31 to 3:38. The younger INTP's face. Priceless! XD
I had a little internal nerd scream when she mentioned old Norse! 😍🤓🤩 -(INTP)
My son is an INTP and this is spot on to how I imagine this situation would ensue.
Is he old enough that he’d grok/appreciate these ‘helpful hints’?
The ending made me...well, not ROFL or LOL... that would be excessively emotive.. but definitely crack a smile. Well done!
I love how it was like 30 seconds of ERROR 404: FE NOT FOUND and then the ENTP-like Ne got rolling.
Kristin just fully embracing for 12 seconds the fact that INTPs, do in fact, blink
Id love to see future mature infp, estj, entj, and enfp. See them break some stereotypes with older, more adjusted versions of themselves
INTP: I have always made my own fun, from backyard games to toys like Construx (more advanced Lego-type building materials), then designing my own video game levels on paper. I am now learning to program my own games in Godot... based on a trilogy of science fantasy books that I'm writing...
I paid for a Godot course so I could learn it. Can't find the motivation to complete it. I have a dozen game design documents half-finished for projects that will likely never see the light of day. I will cross my fingers for the completion of your projects and live vicariously through them. :P
@@Ichthyodactyl My main problem is my day job. I work 6hrs a day doing work that prevents me from writing things down, while my brain is storming with ideas. I consistently lose those ideas to the ether by the time I get home and have a chance to write things down.
My work schedule is a pain as well, as I'm a night owl... for 30+ years going to bed around 1am, and waking around 6am... now working 4am-10am... Once I DO get home, I sleep, then I get up and have to run errands, make dinner, and possibly relax/write/code... but generally, I don't have enough time to get into a zone of creativity.
When I go to work, I actively avoid thinking about my books/games, because I don't want to lose good ideas. (I once thought an entire scene through, which brought me to tears from the events unfolding (I am not one to cry over much, so this was notable and different), and by the time I got home, I had lost the wording and emotional impact of the event... I don't want that to happen again.)
So, this has been a personal passion project since I was in high school... and I'm nearly 48 now...
As a younger INTP, planning for stuff really is the bane of my existence. The emotions rant was wholesome too ❤
that shudder when she said 'networking' - never been so called out in my life
seriously your INTP potrayal is gold, both in its humour and its accuracy
1:46 *proceeds to pause video and research parasomnias* -entp
Kristin, you won't read this- probably-, but I wanted to say that I have never related so much to something. I don't know how you do it, how you really understand how we feel about emotions and how tired we are of being asked to change so people like us more, but you somewhat did, and it was just amazing-some day I would like to know how do you know how to act like each type, what your thinking process is when you make the script and things like that -.
You're really talented, never forget that.
4 months late but aw! Thank you!
My atheist intp bestie one day casually told me he was going to church now. Of course I had to hear the five hours monologue about how he changed his mind about it
The INTP videos are a lot of fun to watch for me as an ENTP with an INTP son. He’s a lot of fun and brilliant but it LITERALLY took him years to open up to us AS HIS PARENTS!!!! How many INTPs here have ENTP friends and what are we like to you? Thanks! And I promise I won’t try to dress up like future you and try to haunt your dreams or anything lol!
I'm intp. I needed my entp friend to make me engage, talk, move. Engaging with others sometimes furthers our thoughts, and it definately does with an entp. NOTHING better than new thoughts.
@@greenlimabean awesome! I’m happy to hear that! Does it ever get tiring having the rapid fire exchange of ideas with an ENTP?
@@greenlimabean also I’m curious as an ENTP whether you consider yourself to be more of a thought generator or thought explorer?
I (INTP who’s often mistaken for an ISTP) had a university pal (ENTP). We had a good synergy. He was the geekier one, still he was well liked by everyone (me included), but there were days I just wished he would shut the hell up and let me think in peace.
And he liked to challenge me to literally anything. Most of them were odd and really random stuff.
I really enjoyed his company but interacting with him drained my energy to the extreme
@@adrasthea17 i can relate to constantly wanting to compete. My wife used to get mad at me for it! My INTP son has gotten competitive at Mariokart so we enjoy playing that together with my wild ESTP son who is basically my INTP son’s best friend/ enemy lol!
Nice! The advice I would give myself will be like study this in this year (I learnt so much I wouldn't change a thing), this year don't study this (it went to nowhere and wasn't live changing) and work instead, of course meet and get to know my future husband, tell me about 2 hobbies I enjoy thought the pass of years (so I can focus on them and hopefully be happier... and have higher skills? haha), and buy an apartment when the market is good (and some economy recommendations to investigate). Also, yes, don't be stressed about being shy and an introvert, because people love to talk and be with people that talk less, is polite and have a humble attitude, so just study psycology as a hobby (and other related stuff, I will give me a list) and chill.
On the other hand, I would be worried about bad consequences altering time O.O and the imposibility of it. So yes, is better if I think of it like a dream... it makes sense anyway because I don't remember my dreams and it will all be for nothing haha T-T xD
(another INTP)
It would have been soo funny if when the future INTP zaps in, both versions of the INTP are incidentally wearing that same Zelda shirt, and neither comments on it LMAO also do you have a writing staff? These are great
I feel like intp’s tertiary Si needs to be talked about more
The communication through blinking is too real! 😂
Ooooo so thats a series now too? Great! Id love to see more of both! ❤ btw you sell all the personality stereotypes wonderfully :)
That advi- ehem, I mean, handy tip, at 4:38 was beautiful T.T As a be-your-best-self loving ENFP, I totally approve :,3
¡GO GO GOOO, a toda máquina, pequeño INTP!
Emotions are a minefield in which I do not care to dance, thank you VERY much. 🤣
>Gets a fright
Yup that's me.
0:33 I thought they were communicating in morse code for a moment
"Ped-AN-try"? Seriously? - An INTP 😉
“I’m you from the future.”
*proceeds to have a whole conversation while only blinking*
Hahah, yessssss.....
I have to wonder if the intricacies of temporal mechanics are just hard-coded to be S-tier conversational topics for us. I would be much more interested in discussing the potential ramifications of the alleged instance of time travel than whether or not time travel actually occurred.
@@Ichthyodactyl Exactly! I mean, if there are multiple timelines, can you even hope to return to your original timeline after going into the past and changing anything? And if there is only one and you want to change something, how do you substantiate this construct so that the change will remain without the original impetus to make the change in the first place?
"Ah, I see your agnostic phase is starting." 😂
"Don't worry past INTP, I'm not giving advice, I've just come up with a set of heuristics to make doing the things you already want to do easier."
If only!
"stay home. be alone." noted.
That's officially the longest time the INTP have talked in your videos
Every INTP needs to watch from 4:40!!! WOOOOO!!! Thank you Kristin! You rock!!! ❤❤❤
MEin Gott. The awkward period of silence with the camera flashing between future you and past you gets funnier and funnier!
As an INTP this is accurate.
I would be very much interested how the time travel system works, how celestial bodies movement and space-time expansion is included in establishing the target coordinates, how are multiverse crossroads (arising from quantum probabilistic nature of the universe, if proven real) handled by the time travel system and how does it all work with the law of conservation of energy and ... hours and hours of exciting conversation :-)
I can't believe I cried watching this video. And I have actually developed these tips and am now doing accordingly. Looking forward to your INTP tier-ranking video ~
INTP here. I try to sprinkle in an emoji occasionally here and there without being over the top. But it's a very deliberate act. I'm not very comfortable using them.
I've certainly pondered the idea of my current self interacting with my past self. Wasn't exactly bitter and hated people like stereotypes may suggest for INTPs. But I was certainly socially awkward and shy.
I would still encourage critical thinking and consider all the possibilities by having an open mind and expanding my horizons (keep working on my strengths with my top 2 functions as I was lowkey in a Ti-Si loop in the past without realising it but just wasn't always in a neurotic/depressed disposition) and more importantly, try talking to people more but at a steady pace until I get comfortable without necessarily having to be a social butterfly as it will go a long way. Even if I stumble along the way, its fine since the people I truly value will come after my teenage years. As well as emphasising that people are not exactly going to be harsh and judgemental as you catastrophise in your head. They're gonna be relatively fine as long as you're generally chill. I've always valued my close friendships but wasn't always comfortable talking to people outside my circle. And to just know that things will be alright and that I will get better and find more people who will truly accept me for who I am. Flaws and all. Literally took me doing a part-time retail job to be comfortable talking to people outside my comfort zone. And I would definitely advise my younger self to diet more at an earlier stage, get some skincare and update my fashion as it goes along way.
Also found it funny with saying the ESFJ tip should be to get into theoretical physics. Which I do think is a valid point as I do find the shallow, unhealthy types uninteresting to talk to. Society values socialisation and emotion (which is fine) but can be too biased towards that. Making it tougher for us introverted intuitives to feel more comfortable socially speaking. Embrace abstract curiosity & critical thinking more. Assess the intentions and essence of the arguments better as opposed to whether something is PC or appropriate. There's certainly a balance to be had. Would make for a more holistic society. Instead of caring too much about trying to be "cool" or fitting in. Its superficial at the end of the day.
My brother-in-law is an INTP, and he can't stick to a plan to save his life. He has about ten degrees in multiple fields and has changed his career path at least twenty times. Funnily enough, he thinks he's an INTJ because he likes his desk to be organized. I've explained the cognitive functions to him, but of course, anything I say that differs from what he's already concluded is irrelevant.
What a conundrum for an intp. To know he's intj and not be intp. You can't tell an Intp directly anything agaisnt what they already "know." Hmm, you've got to plant info somewhere for him to read. Maybe Info aboyt the Intj. First he realize he's not into because he's not productive.
Wow
Kinda needed to hear all that rn
This is too real I don't even know what to say
Thank you, Hunted Snark! Appreciate your encouragement to be better, not bitter! =)
it's a long, long road my friend 😉
@@huntedsnark7507 Until the bitter end. haha Heebie Jeebies, it's an honor! Great work! Smart, funny, and hopeful! One of my favorites!
If you have the time, would be amazing getting any thoughts you had writing. And if not, really appreciate the reply and hope you have a wonderful weekend!
I love cautionary tales because they explore different aspects both positives and negatives living in a poor direction illustrating the logical conclusion shooing away "yeah but what about this and this and...and that doesn't seem so hot but be that as it may, well, okay, did you try..umm... how about ok maybe but that doesn't apply to my specific circumstance...and, alright, fair enough..." but that can just leave audiences with a fear of doing wrong from the punishment that could result where it can be like someone telling us we have a lousy crutch that's about to fall apart and then we get rid of it, and then we're level crawling.
But you helped give a hopeful alternative! For me, that's more constructive. I admire it! I think creators are scared to take that moral stance. So, like with cautionary tales, they avoid offering the better hopeful direction, and give the depth and complexity to the villains or anti-heroes so they can indirectly highlight the good....which could, unfortunately, result in people claiming the villains were "actually the real heroes" and embracing cynicism seeing heroes written so bland in comparison.
Unless I misunderstood, this skit was taking a moral stance with the future version being a better version being kind, patient, and gentle recognizing the good in the younger self for a hopeful realistic trajectory.
Additionally, I love practical effects and the one room-setting functions like an acoustic version of a song showing the strength of the work where, imo, it shows a confidence in acting, writing, and directing.
Thanks for reading my life story, and thank again for your wonderful work!
Yet another series
Kristin
What happened to through the eyes of
Or shoulder angels
I know you're gonna finish the Tier-ranking one (I hope)
And I hope you finish this one
You uh, have a lot of work to do
And I thank you for doing it
Because yet again, another amazing video
Like honestly as long as amazing videos, unfinished series don't matter TOO much (they still matter though)
And you have amazing videos
So boom
Set for life (not really but hey life is strange I'mma stop now my everything is goin' outta control)
Hahaha well, I have a good reason for shoulder angels atm; but worry not, when I move house again, all will be well!
Narrator: But it was not all well
@@dearkristin well, if needs be, i shall give you some magical pixie dust, and then the fairies will help you
@@crayon8749 Hmm, does the pixie dust contain the fairies or are they merely attracted to it? Also imagine if fairies were actually real due to some sort of weird convergent evolution
@@alinaqirizvi1441i think to humanize the process that it would make sense that pixue dust is either something that the fairies exude or something that you can make without harming fairies.
About the whole convergent evolution thing though, there's actually some interesting parallels between fairytales about fairies and human diseases, in particular look up changelings.
Essentially the fairytale idea (of changelings) was that fairies or trolls or other magical creatures would steal human babies (sometimes adult too but more rarely) and change their shape to look human like, to tell them apart you would use things like bodymarks ( if you had a genetic mutation that gave you some weird appendix 6 fibgers etc. You would likely be considered a fairy ) or simply by looking at their behaviour, (like voracious appetite, or whej alone jumping, dancing, singing bells, or lack of emotions, rigidness, funky way of moving etc.), after you found out your son was a changeling a couple of things usually happened either the family killed him, because it was needier than other childrens, usually by first trying to make it confess with either violence or by seeing if it gets weirded out by things like eggshell soup and makes a specific comment about it.
Once adult fairies/changelings usually did two things either forget they are fairies and live normal lives like they were human or they would simoly go back to their fairy village never to be seen again.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changeling
This is the folklore of changelings, very brutal like many folklores but even more when we look at it with modern eyes i think the horror shines more because you realize that what they called changelings were probably just people with genetic mutations, or other mental conditions like autism, from a survival point of view it makes kind of sense one more mouth to feed is a lot especially if it is unable to reliably produce, this folklore probably helped people develop a sort of en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capgras_delusion which helped the mind to suffer less.
Anyway here it is hope its interesting to read
This is surprisingly insightful for a comedy skit.
The heavy worldbuilding part hit me in the soul XD
3:56 this is perfect
Ah yes, goals, I think the problem I have always had with them is why should I select any one possible future over the others? what makes it more desirable? when you honestly don't have a clue what if anything you want, goals seem pretty meaningless.
This is spot on! As an INTP I’ve of course already had many hypothetical conversations with future or past self about this very scenario, should it happen one day.
I would ask myself about all the most important discoveries I’ve made so I can stop wasting time on dead ends. If you know, you know..
Thank you Kristin for giving me the hint about agnosticism. I didnt know about it but I guess rhis is exactly what Im going through rn.
Im a computer scientist so naturally binary logic is the first Ive learned. But the more you think about the world and human behavior, the more you realize that nothing is ever binary. There is no good and evil and even the most extreme of views are multi facetted.
So rn Im learning about Fuzzy logic, the way computers can make sense of human views. Bc in fuzzy logic there are no hard yes/nos or right/wrongs. The truth can be between 0-100%
And I guess this is also my current viewpoint about god and supernatural stuff. I just dont know the right answer. I guess there might be something supernatural we cant wrap our heads around, but especially for this reason Im not willing to point my finger on any religion and say: " They figured it out"
On the other hand, Im also happy for everyone who found their inner peace by believing in God. This is a cruel world and if this helps you to endure it, Im not here to argue against it
-INTP
You're funny, smart, talented, and beautiful!☺ Keep up the great work, Kristin❤
Just so you know, I already decided a code word in case I have to travel back in time and talk to my younger self. So we can save ourselves all the awkwardness.
Edit: The code word is to prove it's actually the future me and not some imposter in the real world. The dream scenario isn't important since I will always wake up sooner or later.
And the 'dream you' wouldn't use that code word because?
@@nayanav6914 It's actually rather easy to identify dreams, because all you have to do are reality checks.
In case you never had a lucid dreaming phase like myself: A reality check could for example be that you look at your hands and start counting them. In a dream nothing is realistic, that's why your hands look weird or suddenly you have fifteen fingers instead of ten.
So to answer your question (which I know wasn't directed towards me, but I also happen to have a code word, so it's still relevant for me): Yes, my dream self could know it, but that doesn't matter, because I'd be able to figure out that I am dreaming.
@@milinski_6893 very well if you can distinguish your dreams from reality. Even I dream the most bizarre things, I can easily identify my dreams. BUT when I'm thinking about the scenario, the thought of a future me suddenly popping from nowhere also seem unrealistic to me right now(knowing all the technologies we have right now and to an extent being able to imagine how far future few decades can go in terms of technological/scientific endeavours), so it'd feel like there's an unrealistic entity in a hyper-realistic surrounding. And just one unrealistic happening is enough to make a conclusion of a dream. Although I admit, it won't be a fast conclusion, I'd be very weirded out and constantly guessing and second guessing like the younger intp in the skit. Kristen did a very nice job, it'd be exactly how I'd react too.
@@milinski_6893 there are two types of us. I usually just bite myself and see if it's the correct kind of pain.
aha, but if the code word is in your mind you could have definitely generated it in a dream
NORWAY MENTIONED
At 16 we were asked in one class to write a letter to our older self (it was because there was not enough people at school for some reason and the teacher wanted to occupy us with something meaningful and fun because it wasn't one of her classes) and i mentioned something about time travel because i was obsessed with it, to me 2026 was so far enough in the future to see the first signs of it being a possibility or not and i thought why the fuck not, worst case scenario i'll look stupid to myself lol
All this to say i wouldnlt be so reluctant to the idea if only a but flabbergasted. They would genuinely look like me, only older and use similar thought patterns than i do. i could assume they are a doppelganger trying to benefit the similarity or an estranged family member trying to prank me, in which case my ego would force me to keep any vivid display of emotion hidden. If the connection was done through spoken or written means, i would however be more cautious... Unless i'm 17in the situation i would eat it up for the sake of whimsies and them brush it off as a scam a few hours later because falling down a rime travel rabbit hole to explore the lore of future history and how the ethics of knowing the future works
This is very accurate. Also, I wear a hat like that!
TBH, I think as an ISTP, it would be pretty much this but less wordy
„The Humans“ capitalised was a nice detail in a great video 😄
I need an ISTJ one