I would say I'm 50/50 scientist and inventor. I am great at mechanically engineering aspects of life (just not my own). If you give me a problem - I can explode it out into it's various moving parts and can help you hone, tweak, and optimize. If you're planning an event - I can write down - in just a few minutes - everything you will need (based on the info you've given me) from extension cords to manpower to successfully execute it. It's unbelievably fun. ;)
Julio da Silva that seems to be where I am haha (that laugh is purely cynical). I have no one but my mom right now and this shit is tough. I notice I get so much inspiration from even the slightest bit of interest from someone in the external world but it’s usually short lived.
@@Shinebakaaho what if she is a narcissist and all she does is tear you down? Validation should come your work and You have to start working on your ideas right away!
@@HKashaf Then you don't have ur mom, as me :) (pardon my english btw) and you are absolutelly right, must come from ourselves. Can't, though, until some light soul shows up and validate your existence for the first time (as far as I know) and from this point it's your responsability to take. Many times all the humans around u just make you wanna LEAVE, but it's about anything near enough you may have to hold on to (like songs!) And bide your time, until finally be able to walk. ((I'm talking about me and my road, in the hope It might help you (or any1 reading) in something)
Erik Thor whatever seems interesting. Alot of, how things are made. Without actually making it. For example bingewatching videos on cheesemaking. As a teenager i borrowed books on things i did not necessarily believe in, mostly for thought experiments i think. Like, hand reading. Reading tealeaves. Have i ever used that for anything? No. For tea, i use bags, or the leaves are all filtered before drinking it. Bingewatched occult reading services, to see their tactics when selling their private services. Vastly different approaches to pull people in. Carpentry videos. How to make and redo furniture. Alot of production processes, interesting for understanding underlying principles. Gardening of species of plants ill never own or grow. What different kinds of professions do. I have seen videos of lockpicking. For example how to break into someones travel luggage using a cola can. Metal crafting with molten metal, interesting stuff lol.
Mangastar my biggest contribution is my jack of all trades skill set. The constant improvement and tasty tidbits of knowledge give me the the opportunity to thrive! Wonderful for social situations.
@@ErikThor Actually im very skilled at soccer and even came up with a better way to stop very quick forwards I developed it playing against the local indoor professional star forward. Studied computer programming never able to want to get my self to make it a profession though. Love thinking about game design and playing games. learned how to draw on paper and 3d model. Most recent learning about how to garden from something my wife likes to do. And have a decent ability to craft things. Learned how to do home inspection. Also learned to cook because I love tastes and different flavors.
Some INTP can be quite aware of themselves but quite insecure about "ok, I know what I am, but what will people see or understand from what I'm trying to say?" That's usually the most misunderstood personality type, so we're often traumatized about living in the external world and interacting with people (or at least I am), so every couple of words in your vid I was thinking "thanks, that's so kind". Well, someone from some point in the world understand and care about INPTs, thanks and hug from Brazil. Glad to know, if one person got it, means is possible to.
Thank you! As an INTP it really helped to have you verbalize some of the things that have been running around in my head. It's nice to hear that the qualities that come naturally to me can be seen in such a positive light.
I found a good way to deal with decisions based mostly on my own/other people's emotions - simply consider emotions as facts. Because they are those in the end. They're just as much fact as our need to eat to survive. So when I have to make such a decision, I try to calculate what will generate the least net emotional loss for everyone, of course applying certain priority filters because it's also fact you don't care about everyone equally, and to always remember to place your wellbeing quite high, but not to the point of being egoistic. So really, if we stop agonizing about how illogical emotions are (and they really aren't, each of those has a reason, it's just really complex sometimes and hard to grasp - but I personally find it super fascinating!) and just treat it as any other fact, any other rule, suddenly nothing is all that confusing :).
Emotions are important, but be careful with taking facial expressions as "fact". It's entirely too easy to get manipulated by others, especially if they have narcissistic tendencies or other toxic behaviors, that may make them oscar worthy performers, but I know from personal experience, going through an experience where a person "gaslights" you, is a ruthless thing to have to endure. It's my theory that INTPs are especially vulnerable and that it really messes with our ability to pattern predict and see the collective picture. I think everything else you said is correct, and we should take into account emotions, when not to do so would truly hurt those involved.
@@calliethomas2702 its natural for me to take emotions as a fact, even before I started considering them, and i highly agree with you, I'm very vulnerable to anyone who has ill wishes on me. Well, its quite good that I'm an inconspicuous individual, otherwise i wouldn't have survived this long haha
Yup. It's totally useful. I actually rescued a toddler because I had randomly decided to learn about lockpicking...and also happened to carry around improvised tension wrenches.
I feel so exposed by this video. My skill sets are so varied that it freaks people out how I tend to know about almost any subject. I’ve had people challenge me by just bringing up any random topic and asking me to explain it. I’ve been the jack of all trades at my jobs since I started working, and some of my expertise in my current job (datacenter engineering) is to setup ways my team can access their tools as fast and easily as possible - building servers that bypass firewalls or other virtual blocks just so you don’t have to take three steps when there’s only need to do one. My boss has learned to work with me in this way and feeds me projects that I can just deep dive into and then explain to my coworkers how something works and what the best way to implement it is.
who else have had a lot of experiences since childhood where we just 'know' something and turns out to be true or magically fixed machines or wiring😂😂 .. when i was a kid i always imagining inventions that only exist years and years later.. i fixed many things experimentally but it worked.. but again, people don't like that because i basically got zero knowledge,according to them at least.. i can understand things in my own way,teach me if I'm wrong not tell me off when i ask questions.. my uncle used to ask me to do it whenever he can't fix something,more like sarcasm, and i did fix the washing machine, refrigerator, computer and else 😂😂.. i grew up in a society where typically academic is everything, they care less about creativity ,imaginations stuff.. so i was always being force to become more like what they want.. study, get a well pay job, build a family.. that's just frustrating you know.. now I'm more interested in philosophies and humans
Sameeeee, I built my own computer. I grew up kind of poor so an activity I loved to do was to take something old/broken and figure out how to make it work. I bet you share a similar learning style to mine, honestly I bet most INTPs do, but look up "spatial learning". Schools prefer to teach in sequential methods and that always pissed me off. Especially in math when I could see the right way of doing something, but the math teacher always liked to show the "old way" or wrong way of doing it first. It would make me feel so incompetent like I didn't understand how everyone was replicating this method and passing quizzes, then low and behold 4 weeks later we were doing what I intuitively saw as a pattern and wanted to do from the beginning. You know that meme of a doodle person flipping his desk? Yeah, sums it up. I'm a conceptual learner, not a rote memorizer, don't force me to replicate a flawed method with a broken concept, and then grade me on it, uncool. I love Erik's video, minus the end. I disagree with subtypes. We like to know enough that we could recreate an effective society (did someone say utopia? no? yeah better safe than sorry) and implement all of the numerous projects into in order to fix the problems we notice around us. Sure, that doesn't mean we should actually do it, but it's nice to keep as a growing model to encompass all of our working knowledge into. Wait, is that what a mind castle is? I've never looked into it, but I'm thinking it reminds me of a Sherlock episode or was it, Dr. Who? But seriously we want to know how EVERYTHING connects and often we rotate from one discipline into another, because the deeper down you fall into a rabbit hole, the more various subjects start to intertwine themselves, and soon you realize "fuck, everything is related, now I've gotta learn literally everything (except the wrong way to do a math problem, don't do that)" which you know, sounds fun until you realize that you keep forgetting to feed yourself, you have to run errands, and your family is wondering if they should report a missing person yet. All good things. Curiosity and problem solving know no bounds, that's why I hated the marginalized creativity prompted in public school. Like, do you want me to come up with a way to increase world peace by using philosophy, economics, politics, history, government and a system for redefining citizenship? Or do you want a 10 slide powerpoint that doesn't deviate from the, sorely inaccurate/bias/racist/sexist textbook, but with like a clever poem or something at the end? It's so frustrating, it's hard not to become cynical. Now that I'm in college and finally less nervous about following the same educational plan as everyone else, I realized that I'm teaching myself leaps and bounds more than the school ever taught me, even though I was an A, B student in all advanced classes for all offered years. Granted, I never did the homework but I don't think it would have made a difference, given the type of learner I am. We need to see the whole abstract picture, with its flaws, so we can lead with "why" and our desire to correct the discrepancies while we recreate the system through patterns, concepts and logic, and in hopefully a better way. I just realized your comment is from a year ago, lol. I'm probably just ranting to myself.
@@calliethomas2702 wow.. seems like all intps are in the same situation. Wish their was a school just for us with unlimited resources. Then the world would had being much more developed than this.
I think many INTPs have almost an exponential potential, based off your last question. To have such a liking for a broad array of skill sets should show how innovative and logically minded many NT/NP types are. the perfect INTP would be like an Elon Musk, in a sense that they’re a physicist/scientist constantly looking for a better way, yet equally an engineer that can’t wait to stress test these ideas of reality. The major struggle comes in the overbearing scientist part where, at least for me, we will overthink if even one part of the road map seems questionable , causing us to do nothing. To have such great ideas and insights on everything yet do nothing about it is frustrating. It’s the one aspect I envy INTJs of having. Though they’re plans to get to a destination aren’t set they continue to move. The INTP will want to move but would also like to know the steps to know exactly where the misstep is. As an INTP in their early 20’s having this brain that constantly is thinking has pushed me to Meditate. I think clearing the mind at times when it’s more useful to use intuition has helped. Once you’ve developed a plan or outlook, clear your mind and allow your intuition to govern from there. The vast amount of studying coupled with logical intuition is one of the best qualities an INTP can have. You tend to think less and become more natural allowing you to do more. Idk why but intuition is becoming vitally important as I figure this out.(I’m 21) ..side note: try to stay off the weed until work is done, make concise plans for the day and workout.
MGM haha I love that you mentioned staying off weed until after the work is done. I'm an INTP too and found weed will always be my vice. I found that I drifted to weed when I was feeling anxious or incapable, finding solace in it clustering my mind and changing my thinking pattern. It was almost that I would rely on weed in stressful times to turn off my over-thinking & uneasiness in the present.
LOL exactly what I use it for too, sometimes (depending on the activity) I'll do it right before the activity too calm my mind down. Scattered thinking I'm starting to realize will always be something I'll have to overcome.
I am binge watching your videos. I am having a bromance ;) Can I just lay on a couch and let you examine WTF is going on in my mind? You should start an INTP shrink service lol
I'd say I'm a writer. Philosophy and theology are my biggest interests as knowing the rules feels like the way to control my environment. Spiritual laws can't be broken so understanding them is vital to my success in life.
Why you correct him? 'Mediums' is a valid plural of the intended meaning he used. He didn't mean media as in a means of mass communication, such as newspapers, magazines, radio, or television. He meant it as a material, for example, a pencil is a medium, so is a piece of paper, and thus are mediums. If you want to sound like a smartass at least do it well.
Broaden your skillset. I am a highly qualified engineer, I also play guitar reasonably well, have sold paintings that I have painted, been an extra in several films and television productions, and have published a couple of books. Don't limit yourself to one field.
I'm an INTP who's a photographer (full-time self-employed), thriving in this work situation. I love the variety, the freedom, the balance of analytical and creative. Now what has me impressed about your video, sir, is the assessment of this type's fears correctly. 100% accurate for me.
photographer (and web developer) here too. It's a perfect professional/gig for us jack of all trades. it's always changing and different so you don't get bored.
Facebook is overrun by idiots who are quick to report you in offence that they are feeling not for themselves but on behalf of beings they do not even know...worthless trash is all that populates facebook.
Cool video. Thanks for your thorough insights. In answer to your last question, I would say that I am not necessarily concerned with having unique ideas for the sake of uniqueness but I just find that my ideas are naturally unique. I identify with being more of a catalyst. I love thinking of improvements to the current state of affairs particularly if it is something I can take some action on myself. I don't know if it is usual because I always hear stereotypes describing intp's as living in their own heads. If that is accurate then I must be a particularly proactive intp. I am also studying industrial design which provides an excellent outlet for my mad scientist tendencies. Thanks again for your quality analysis!
Such great insights from an interesting, niche, unique and a little bit unorthodox (NP, IP, IN, etc.) perspective. Looking forward to more of this stuff
Really enjoy your videos. I guess I'm more of a scientist type, although I work in IT. I am always learning new skills, often unrelated, but I always find connections between totally unrelated skill sets that help me to learn faster, and I learn faster as I get older and gain more skill sets. I am also a musician and play multiple instruments. I found learning new instruments easy since I view all instruments as requiring the same skills, but only need to learn the slight differences in each one. This is different from other instrumentalists I know that seem to treat each instrument like they are learning to play from scratch. They don't see the connections between them. As an INTP, I find this level of specialization odd. Oh yeah, I also spent time learning to pick locks, for pure interest, LOL.
As usual, very perceptive and interesting. I'm definitely, at this point in my long life, very much looking at the biggest pictures - philosophy and of people (Jung, etc.) I have spent a lot of time mastering things just because it is somehow meaningful, but not particularly useful in a more pragmatic sense. E.g., spending literally years developing a method for solving the Rubik's Cube without having to learn a long sequence of algorithms - that is, intuitively with every solve following a different path. I never get tired doing it unlike the boring repetition of the same collection of recipes for solves. There are many examples like this of my personality in action. Another example is learning to play 12 bar blues on the guitar, and changing chords every beat (n=48.) It even sounds good:-) Not very practical, since there is virtually no demand for blues players who can do this. In fact, I never met any other guitarist who does this. But I played variations of this in every key for years and, like the cube, it never failed to energize me. I could go on, but I've written enough. Anyway, thanks for this video which triggered my comment. This aspect of my personality is not something I think about much - these kinds of pursuits are just "fun" to do.
Great video. I am just beginning to really come to grips with the fact that I am more of an INTP. I tend to feel really energized, and think it’s the best thing in the world when I hear a new pop song I like or new gadget. I also tend to think I can sense what others may feel or look at a situation from an objective perspective. So for a while I thought that I was more of an INFP.. But I have this constant desire to improve things and approach all suggestions almost from a confrontational perspective - to battle my opinion against another’s almost when it comes to choosing the best option. So I think I am more of an INTP actually. I have so many ideas and being married to an ISTJ keeps me grounded but at the same time I struggle with freedom in a way. You have given me clarity on what good qualities I possess and what I’m capable of and that what I need is to gain unique skills to improve confidence so I will see if I can improve that. Thanks!!
Beautifully said! The real challenge is to mastering it all at the same time. Sometimes it is hard to believe for others that this is to be true. Over the years it is truely possible to be a scientist, social gamechanger, mother, philosoph, comedian, ... but it needs years.
I hate to seem like I’m coming across arrogant or unaware of myself, but to answer your question on the end of the video I would have to say there isn’t any one that I identify with more. I feel as though my thoughts and interests are so varied that it touches pretty equally on all of those subtypes. Absolutely I’m always analytical and always innovative, but I feel as though I’m always empowering others and in that pursuit I am also utilizing my philosophical tendencies alongside my analytical and innovative ones. I would probably say the best way to encompass my functions as a whole would be to say they are quite similar to that of the village Shaman. And the Shaman’s responsibilities and community obligations and even more so moral obligations as they pertain to those around me or the community I feel responsible for.
I am a mix of technical/scientific and creative/imaginative type, my enneagram tri type has 5 , 4 and 6. An INFJ enneagram-specialist-friend of mine told me it is pretty rare but possible, not my claims, she analyzed me based on some tests hehe. Tbh Erik it is really hard to choose between the options you always present when it comes to the INTP videos, I see my being as a constellation of micro personalities, that create the emergent property that I refer to as >I
I may be an oddity as an INTP. I am most interested in theology, which I see as a form of philosophy. Of course, it is also deeply involved with concepts that form the basis of right and wrong.
You're not the first INTP I've come across who has an interest in religion and spirituality. It makes no sense to argue that INTPs can't be religious. Religion can also be a system and can be understood through logic and reason as well.
@@ErikThor I appreciate your reply. Often, INTPs seem to have a disdain for religion. I get it, faith-based premises can be difficult for rationals to accept. My religious affiliation and expression is indeed logical (in its self-contained way), and I view existential religion (ecstatic or irrational experiences, etc) with suspicion. I would probably say that my ongoing personal "project" is to improve theology (or my understanding of it) by identifying doctrines and beliefs that are inconsistent with the underlying rules of the system, and modifying them to be consistent. This is what I gain the most satisfaction from.
I'm definitely more comfortable with hands-on training with repetition as the reinforcement. I'm often trying to invent or observation of a situation where I can get intuition to often as you say to solve a problem that nobody saw a need for. Oddly as a preteen my Father who was studying for his Master's degree in Education in Baltimore City Public School System at his Union's headquarters was right across the street from the main branch of the Enoch Pratt Library where I was all day Saturday morning until about closing. I was a vociferous reader especially of periodicals. I'm wide ranging in my interests possibly from reading a host of trade journals from Waste to Agriculture, Construction, Electronics, Aviation, Industry, Sociology, Psychology & Faith. I was beginning the path of the Renaissance of "Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants!" I've done many wide ranging occupations. When felled from injury I go on an inner tangent of craft, skills in an ever expansion of the possible. Someone said, "Get In, Where You Fit In!" I've been buffeted by my introvertion to create a persona of an extrovert to move in areas that shy and quiet people don't find many footholds. I've often had to suppress the desire for perfection to the widest acceptable level of detail without falling into a HOLE Trough The Looking Glass! I'm often pilloried for using the not so common venacular, so I have developed the ability to slip into a character from what I understand & know distilled to the parlance of the common man. I'm nutured in the concept and construct that otherwise unless an apprentice in a trade to discover every field has terminology derived from the age of guild's where knowledge was power and you didn't want anyone to cut in on your action, unless they too put in the time to learn the trade! Like Dr. Who & MANY others that ability to discover the inner workings of The Matrix gives you opportunity that others didn't see. There's a woman who has a particular insight into Autism, her observation of cattle handling systems lead to less anxious creatures when minor changes to the environment that they had to navigate were eased and she speaks on common sense ideas for how to do LIFE if you are a bit different than most. An author and auto mechanic has provided high quality care for customers of a part of New England basically tapping the skills of a group of people who are mentored by hands-on training with repetition as a basis for competent care of specialized vehicles that allow the technicians to have a much better quality of life. Sometimes the better way is waiting in the wings!
I lean toward the scientific and reasoning side. I like to hoard knowledge and I'm always studying a new topic. I also like to write fantasy type stories but do a lot of homework as I go. For example, the one I am working on now has sailing ships, so I amassed a stack of books on sailing and sailing ships, historic sea battles and famous commanders.
I might be an INTP. I get sort of weird obsessions with improving my skillset in a given area. For instance, some of the best fun I've had at work was as a student worker, when I was producing figures in a drawing program and I constantly had to learn new features of that drawing program. So fun. Also, learning LaTex, whistling, drawing and stuff is quite fun. But I only do these things when I know I can use it for something - improving work or impress people or helping them of course.
The ability to do something new. A few years ago i was in a fashion business where everyone did what was already familiar to them. I had my own way of doing the business. I worked with a friend, in which she's the executor of all my strategies. I was the one who renovated the system of the business. But it was a mistake, it was easily read by competitors, and everyone else began to do what we were doing because it brought them a lot of income instantly. I am the kind of a person that believes in efficiency, and satisfying results. If you're going to do something, be efficient, and effective at the same time. Well, but it brought me to my downfall because everyone saw what we were doing. Now I'm in a different business and I do things my way, no one can know the methods i use to bring me more money.
Being an intp is hard though. No one understands us. Most intps don't really mind it though. But sometimes I truly wish someone understood what I really mean when I say something and not be too judgemental about it.
Knowing now that I'm an INTP has made my focus so much more clear. I'm a successful company director and founder and chairman of a humanitarian organization. I've graduated with multiple university degrees in Australia 🇦🇺 and majored in Philosophy, Marketing, and International Relations. I also advise governments and banks on strategic planning matters. I only recently found out that I'm an INTP, and it finally all makes perfect sense. I somehow rehabilitated that infamous INTP mentality of never getting things done with always seeing my ultimate goal. It's not an easy goal to achieve, but I'll get it done quickly and move on to the next project. Powered by INTP
Bruh. The lock pick part. I'm an INTP who learned how to pick locks because my grandma accidentally left her lockbox keys in the lockbox. In my experience, I learn new skills that I think are most important to me and to problem solving. I was the girl who carried a bunch of random things because they all applied to skills I'd learned (seemingly at random since I continued to improve and adjust the skills and knowledge based on new skills and knowledge) I get compared to people like Doctor Who and Doctor Strange and Constantine, etc. just because I can see puzzle solutions a little faster than others. It drives my partners insane when I can call out who the killer is in a murder mystery but I've seen and read so many that it's almost intuitive to find solutions to things like this. It's really great to know I feel more at home in this type and with this community
INTP here, im more of a scientist type. I'm always trying to understand things and i also try to innovate all the time. Every time i get an idea i try to implement it as soon as possible but i love thinknig about how it works to make it the best i can!
I apparently I am a intp according to a lot of tests I take, but upon more research I wasn’t sure I thought the tests were wrong, but this video encapsulates me perfectly. I am sure I am an intp after this video.
I became proficient on playing drums, I have a degree on linguistics and computational linguistics, I love science and astronomy, I always liked personology, I am very tech-savvy, and I am very interested in philosophy. I could extend the message adding more interests but I don't wanna bore you. lol
Imagine watching a video and discovering something about urself and you'll be like "dang he's right." that random realization. and you'll be amaze about it. and will also overthink about it.
Ti is more about improving the individual details of a particular thing... creating or finding something to fix the job, do process better etc... While Te's more about how everything all fits together super efficiently, no single focus... Te loves the production line/the system process as a whole.... Ti loves creating the cogs in the system/building the system from scratch... Ti doms tend to love my Te, coz I connected all the dots for them and direct where they should focus building/creating (saving them testing time). While Te loves to listen for ideas from Ti based on their brood scope on an individual area.. (saving them researching time) Both types love to break things to see if they really work LOL Ti will dismantle something just to understand it, learning faults in the design in the process... while Te will test the item/system based on what it says it can do, looking for the physical evidence (fact checker) coz we dont believe it till we see it... And when it dont work.. they will both list all the ways it could have been created better... and start brain storming a better design.... as a past time... we love building/improving stuff together! Ti & Te doms are great in relationships & in the work place.. they complement each other super well.
In regards to your last question, I am focused on political , metaphysical and ethical consistency and way to align my faith with a livable, consistent code with predictable consequences from a logical God. While it might sound like a wrong approach, where an INFP attempts to please God because its the right thing to do primarily, to me its the logical thing to do to have a successful life.
I love inspiring people and making cool things. Although I do acquire skills and abilities like lock picking or repairing things like cell phones. I would say I have been practicing rapid prototyping and R&D just to make concepts of things. I will say things like art is weird because you take useful good objects and sacrifice them to make a concept or idea. I feel like an enfp campaigner might make a good assistant. If INTP's ran the world we would have flying cars by now.
I’m an INTP and I am absolutely perplexed as to how on earth you can just live your life and pick up on these things about INTPs assuming you are some other type (I think you said you’re an INFJ) but like you’re saying things about me that I didn’t even think of until you mentioned and I’m like “hmm yea I guess that is weird how I operate in that sense”. I’m just really impressed with your ability to understand people. I like to think I can understand people better than anyone but it takes me hours and hours around a certain person and endless obscure questions for me to fully understand them
I’m an intp and my brother is an INfj. They really understand people and they can give great advice. I find their insight on emotions and how people work to be so stimulating 🤩
Jessica Pacheco that’s really cool, I don’t even know what type my brother is, maybe INTP or INTJ. Probably INTJ though because he is not quite like me, though he is similar. I’m sure it’d be fun to talk to an INFJ and just see how they see the world.
I'm an INTP and I know how to pick a lock... well I'm more focused on developing my skills and hobbies and trying to make a living out of them, and of course having an incredible ability with them
I feel more like a catalyst - understanding all aspects and go from there - no real emotional aspect unless I chose so myself based on logic on what I think the person already will probably do them self - I feel like more of a hub of information directing people - sadly it affects my life on a personal level because I don't know how to dynamically make it work. Its a paradox for me really - When your loved one asks you if you need help is really an error message in my head along with anything they say as it results in unforeseen predictions versus work
I'm a preschool teacher/ artist. I spend time with small children to learn about human instinct, and my art is VERY unique (but people are responding really well to it).
"Maybe you are in need of someone to pick a lock, and the INTP is the one that knows how to pick a lock" I feel called out as an INTP bcs I really tougth it could be useful to know it one day so I just researched
You realize, of course, that being INTPs we will naturally resist any attempt to limit and categorize us but again being INTPs we will make an effort to be polite and cooperative and show a willingness to give back to you since you’ve given so much to us in this and other videos. I’m probably the actor type being an Enneagram 4 wing 5 - reinvention and improvement on systems is as natural as taking a breath. I love the locking picking example. My own family had no idea that I had studied and become an opera singer, they always thought of me as just an attorney. They were beyond shocked when they saw/heard the performer side! Typical INTP behavior.
I am an empirical scientist who studies morality by developing new tools to do so (innovative) and who engages in public discussion ( a catalyst as well). So I am all four : P I guess a typical INTP
I swear this person must have been spying on me. I had the exact same thought about the The Matrix. Also, in almost all my social groups, I am that person who had helped and surprised them at one point by picking locks haha. And I figured out and got this skill when I was a kid.. no youtube videos yet hoho
About your question at the end of video, I use to be the first type who wanted to just know the rationale of everything and at the time I was studying Sciences, later at the age of 24, I also started to really want to know the good and bad, why the good is good and why bad is bad. And I also started really badly want to know the philosophy behind everything, what is knowledge, what is language and words and meaning, what is consciousness, what is existence and life. So I started taking philosophy courses and then I got really interested in being very good at being able to express my thoughts through writing and being able to come up with a brand new way of education system cause I came to the conclusion that I can create the biggest change in the system of society best through education. Now I am trying to really gain skills in writing and learning about education, and human learning and mind as much as possible. So long story short I want pretty much all the things that you mentioned at the end. Is that bad?
That's exactly how I feel. Sometimes it gets really frustrating , constantly changing paths but not achieving anything. I don't kbow if anyone feel the same
No!! It's awesome!! Keep it up! I love INTP's and how innovative and intelligent you are. Without you and your gift of learning and teaching the rest of the world would have missed out on a lot. Don't ever hold yourself back. Good for you for going into all of that!! I am an INFJ and my life took a completely different path so it is exciting to me how you are working toward changing the education system, something I am passionate about as well. God bless you!
@@waelx30 you are learning along the way, you are smarter than 97% of the population, you will always figure out a way to synthesize the knowledge you have learned and there will be a time for you to shine and be a gift to the world with all you have put together. In the meantime who cares what they think and don't give up!!!
Excellent video m8. One of the best I've seen on TH-cam pertaining to the INTP personality. I'm an INTP-A, and definitely relate to the actor, director, and writer subvariants you mentioned Some unique things & quirks that I attribute to my personality include.... 1. I play 15 musical instruments (pro at piano, drums, guitar, bass, vocals) 2. I can do hundreds of impressions, and like a good amount of INTP's, I can impersonate every myers-briggs personality type and have done so for job interviews & the like with great success. 3. Most of my friends say I have an infinite amount of knowledge on subject matters that interest me, and I have made a lot of my university professors feel insecure, not on purpose. 4. 95% of the time I find socializing to be a GIANT waste of time 5. As a kid I categorized people's personalities to names I found humorously fitting. 6. I find lots of people I interact with to be very unintelligent and very predictable. 7. My humor is very surreal, honest and intense, LOTS of satire, and sometimes morbid. 8. I'm getting my PhD within the next 3.5 years in psych, and am already working on a few patents. I'm also working on expanding and fusing multiple theories into a brand new school of thought in psychology. 9. Depending on where I'm at, I'll say or do something just to see if others reactions will be what I think they are. 10. I am an existentialist (Kierkegaard), and am rather eccentric and hate limitations/constraints, my personality has been said to be a mix of Bill Hicks, Frank Zappa, and the character Beetlejuice.
Intp moment in live: realising everything is a model, truth is a interesting phenomenon in post truth ages. Now you can test manipulate models of reality, usually completely useless stuff.
A Change-Maker - Spiritual Arts and Physical 3D worlds (Home, Financial and Work) in our lives natural and urban environments including humanitarian situations towards life happiness.
Originality is key to me as an INTP. First I must ingest subject matter to understand the basic principles it's based on, then it's likely I'll come up with a better solution usually "out of left field". What do I fear, you ask? Failure...and yet I know that every failure is an opportunity to learn as Edison did with the filament of what became the incandescent light globe - about 1000 failures until success - tungsten, in a vacuum. Sometimes I fear mediocrity - that my best won't be good enough - but it usually is, because I know my limitations while constantly pushing the boundaries of them into unknown territory, hence growth. I like being me.
Sometimes I want to be more social, I don’t know why. I think: “maybe I should to be more funny, interesting and popular “. But in a friends’ group, I became the most quiet. I love mysterious things, I want to learn everything to be “bad ass”, but I also have a creative side screaming (audiovisual) to work with. I wanted to be important... this sometimes makes me feel not as an intp. I made the test twice trying to change a little bit the answers (been honest, just putting less intensity at the answers). I love logic, but also doesn’t mean that I don’t like someone. Erick, what do you think about it?
I think I'm the viewer & actor .. yes I agree with what you said.. but I would like to know more on the subtype of intp I didn't see it in any website I'm reading! Is it your perspective while you observing them ?
Yeah I can pick locks. It gets easier with practice. I lost the car key and called the garage they suggested I get the car towed to their garage, was going to be expensive their way.
Honestly I kinda like to dabble and end up drinking because I figured I wasn't good enough at anything and changed nothing and everyone kept doing the same detrimental shitty stuff in spite of my best efforts.
Hi Erik, an INTP here. I was reading your article and I noticed you said in a couple of places that INTP's have introverted intuition (Ni) as one of their cognitive functions. We actually have extroverted intuition (Ne) as our auxiliary function, not Ni. Our full stack is Ti Ne Si Fe.
@@europhobicantiwhitism3563 The standard theory of type dynamics says that INTP's have extroverted intuition as their auxiliary function. I don't know where those blog's that say otherwise are getting their information from, but they're wrong according to the established literature.
I think it might have been article trying to articulate an idea about Ni and INTPs, not saying that INTPs have Ni on the second place. But we do have Ni, we just don't trust since it is not based on logic.
Ni is one of our shadow functions. Shadow functions are Ti Ne Si and Fe with the opposite introvert or extrovert. So our shadow functions are Te Ni Se and Fi
Why, as an INFP, do I find what you’re saying about random skills and just learning things to learn things and maybe using them in the future so relatable? One of my favorite things is finding better and easier ways and new, innovative ways to do things and mastering technique. And I find a lot of confidence in my skill set. Hmm just pondering. My fiancé is an INTP which is fascinating to me
INTPs and INFPs share the same 2nd function -- extroverted intuition (Ne) -- which is what drives this sort of thing! We definitely have this drive to learn and innovate in common. :)
hmm..i'd probably say dreamer, inventor and scientist. My mind goes on an endless journey of continual detour from the idea or thought i just had, ideas and questions just branch and shoot off like a rocket into the infinite galaxy of possibilities i can't even stop until someone from this world yells out my name or taps me on the shoulder to remind me they are still here and we were in the middle of a conversation..on let's say which supermarket has the best specials on at the moment...before i was triggered by the coffee cup they were using and i started questioning in my head why are those cups made of this certain material? maybe i need a degree in material engineering so i can grasp an understanding in depth behind the use of different materials and their structures. why are cup handles fixed to a certain position and normally upright? what if the handle is linked to the cup with some gears? and then i hop onto that spaceship which takes me to the outer space where all my ideas and images are floating around: what about cups with handles like those stands with arms you see in the lab that holds the beakers? what about having mechanical robot cups where you can adjust the height and how far out it can stretch out from the centre point you want the cup to be located in the air because the handles are made of mechanical gears and it resemble the shape of a robot? How cool would it be to order a coffee and being able to chose what robot you want it to be served with hahah! wait, maybe joints that are similar to a Rubik's cube? hmm but that would bring a few limitations to the space you have left of the table because we got to make sure it is secure, can't compromise on that for more space if you were to use a robot. or a spider robot? no, spiders are ugly but we could understand the use of their legs and imply that into the invention. what about having the cups hanging down from the roof?! you can 'roll' it up or down like a curtain! and you can have some clear cups too! but no..it's too time consuming and people forget how much they have left in their cups. maybe eye levels. but what if.....? Or maybe, we could invent something where you can just suspend your cup in mid air! like how would that work? like those in outer space with no gravity? will the drink itself lose gravity and start floating within that space too? if it was a badly made coffee you might see the residues floating as well?! would love to see that!!...... and so the brain just goes on and on and on and forgetting what my initial idea was and what was i wanting to make better of for the world..oops! sorry for the lengthy comment, i thought i'd just share with you all a bit of what goes on in this fellow INTP's brain...i wish there is a company with experts from different fields that just hires all the inventive people and fund them to put their ideas of inventions into actions with the support of experts-i.e. knowledge in material engineering hahaha. we don't have to get paid well, just enough to keep up alive, it's more about working on the ideas and processes and achievements that bring us joy and satisfaction..so that our ideas are not wasted and forever sealed in a grain of sand you don't know if gets washed onto a beach and some kid takes it home in a jar or it falls to the deepest part of the ocean floor where there's no sunlight and might be accidentally inhaled into the stomach of a still-yet-to-be-discovered mysterious, eyeless, finless, boneless...creature the dwells on the seabed with hundreds and thousands of its kind, waiting, for the next victim..could it be you? or your next idea..BRAHaHAHAhA!!!...at least for me it is.
I know we're seen as cold to others, yes we are intps but that doesn't mean we're not human too. We have hearts, please appreciate us. also i have so many random skills that are completely utterly useless lmao
Both have opened doors and more possibilities for me. The experience will manifest what you need, you just need to decipher and examine the information you get. Psilocybin therapy has been extremely beneficial to me as an INTP and also my husband who is an INTJ.
Could someone explain level four for me? How does Myers Briggs define the terms: Judging, Perceiving For the first three levels in Myers Briggs, E or I, N or S, and F or T, I understand what each means in context. In contrast, I'm not sure precisely what Perceiving and Judging mean in cotext. You must be aware of a thing (aka PERCEIVE it) in order to make a JUDGEMENT about it. Our JUDGEMENT of a thing is based on how we PERCEIVE it and what we PERCEIVE it to be. Both JUDHING & PERCEIVING seems intermixed Also, judging vs. perceiving was the only classification that was not extremely skewed. INT are greatly skewed. For example: Feeling 2%,Thinking 98% Am I having a hard time dufferentiating between J and P because I have balance in these two or hice versa?
I think J types make decisions based on “what should I do” in context of norms. P types throw away norms and just look at possibilities to solve a problem. Also when plans go wrong, the J type usually is annoyed. The P type rolls with uncertainty much better. I think J is lazy thinking, almost low IQ. P thinking just considers more angles to a situation. Of course J types stick to plans better.
when this dude tells me i know it's a play! xD my fucking face man, that is hidden knowledge you can't just say that on a video. i'm looking to get into multimedia cause i think i figured something out. just got accepted for multimedia studies lol, wish me luck. as for what i relate to hmm reviewer and actor i'm here to analyse systems and change them, at least from my own interpretation of what exactly it is that i do...hopefully change for the better. btw one reason intp's stall out on making decisions until all information is considered is because we know we have more potential for change than we can comprehend ourselves. best not push that in a direction that could potentially end us all going by the frequency of world changing ideas coming from intp's.
While this is enlightening; this understanding of myself, my actions, it helps me little. But, as an ego driven human I'd say : Seems I'm more the actor...or maybe the reviewer...or maybe the writer. Seldom the director.
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I would say I'm 50/50 scientist and inventor. I am great at mechanically engineering aspects of life (just not my own). If you give me a problem - I can explode it out into it's various moving parts and can help you hone, tweak, and optimize. If you're planning an event - I can write down - in just a few minutes - everything you will need (based on the info you've given me) from extension cords to manpower to successfully execute it. It's unbelievably fun. ;)
IDK what makes it so difficult to manage our own shit but it's so dam true
Wow! You sounds so helpful. Awesome
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INTPs sometimes, really need someone to believe in them... The more people appreciate and validate us, the better we become :)
This is so true! And the opposite is also darkly factual. If no one seems to approve your quirkiness, you are lost.
Julio da Silva that seems to be where I am haha (that laugh is purely cynical). I have no one but my mom right now and this shit is tough. I notice I get so much inspiration from even the slightest bit of interest from someone in the external world but it’s usually short lived.
@@wearejungians You do got your mom though, that's huge
@@Shinebakaaho what if she is a narcissist and all she does is tear you down? Validation should come your work and You have to start working on your ideas right away!
@@HKashaf Then you don't have ur mom, as me :) (pardon my english btw) and you are absolutelly right, must come from ourselves. Can't, though, until some light soul shows up and validate your existence for the first time (as far as I know) and from this point it's your responsability to take.
Many times all the humans around u just make you wanna LEAVE, but it's about anything near enough you may have to hold on to (like songs!) And bide your time, until finally be able to walk. ((I'm talking about me and my road, in the hope It might help you (or any1 reading) in something)
You are right about the utterly random skillset lol
What are your random skills? :P
Erik Thor whatever seems interesting. Alot of, how things are made. Without actually making it. For example bingewatching videos on cheesemaking. As a teenager i borrowed books on things i did not necessarily believe in, mostly for thought experiments i think. Like, hand reading. Reading tealeaves. Have i ever used that for anything? No. For tea, i use bags, or the leaves are all filtered before drinking it. Bingewatched occult reading services, to see their tactics when selling their private services. Vastly different approaches to pull people in. Carpentry videos. How to make and redo furniture. Alot of production processes, interesting for understanding underlying principles. Gardening of species of plants ill never own or grow. What different kinds of professions do. I have seen videos of lockpicking. For example how to break into someones travel luggage using a cola can. Metal crafting with molten metal, interesting stuff lol.
Mangastar my biggest contribution is my jack of all trades skill set. The constant improvement and tasty tidbits of knowledge give me the the opportunity to thrive! Wonderful for social situations.
@@ErikThor Actually im very skilled at soccer and even came up with a better way to stop very quick forwards I developed it playing against the local indoor professional star forward. Studied computer programming never able to want to get my self to make it a profession though. Love thinking about game design and playing games. learned how to draw on paper and 3d model. Most recent learning about how to garden from something my wife likes to do. And have a decent ability to craft things. Learned how to do home inspection. Also learned to cook because I love tastes and different flavors.
@@ErikThor I mean does random knowledge count as skills?
Some INTP can be quite aware of themselves but quite insecure about "ok, I know what I am, but what will people see or understand from what I'm trying to say?" That's usually the most misunderstood personality type, so we're often traumatized about living in the external world and interacting with people (or at least I am), so every couple of words in your vid I was thinking "thanks, that's so kind". Well, someone from some point in the world understand and care about INPTs, thanks and hug from Brazil. Glad to know, if one person got it, means is possible to.
Thank you! As an INTP it really helped to have you verbalize some of the things that have been running around in my head. It's nice to hear that the qualities that come naturally to me can be seen in such a positive light.
I found a good way to deal with decisions based mostly on my own/other people's emotions - simply consider emotions as facts. Because they are those in the end. They're just as much fact as our need to eat to survive. So when I have to make such a decision, I try to calculate what will generate the least net emotional loss for everyone, of course applying certain priority filters because it's also fact you don't care about everyone equally, and to always remember to place your wellbeing quite high, but not to the point of being egoistic. So really, if we stop agonizing about how illogical emotions are (and they really aren't, each of those has a reason, it's just really complex sometimes and hard to grasp - but I personally find it super fascinating!) and just treat it as any other fact, any other rule, suddenly nothing is all that confusing :).
Emotions are important, but be careful with taking facial expressions as "fact". It's entirely too easy to get manipulated by others, especially if they have narcissistic tendencies or other toxic behaviors, that may make them oscar worthy performers, but I know from personal experience, going through an experience where a person "gaslights" you, is a ruthless thing to have to endure. It's my theory that INTPs are especially vulnerable and that it really messes with our ability to pattern predict and see the collective picture. I think everything else you said is correct, and we should take into account emotions, when not to do so would truly hurt those involved.
@@calliethomas2702 its natural for me to take emotions as a fact, even before I started considering them, and i highly agree with you, I'm very vulnerable to anyone who has ill wishes on me. Well, its quite good that I'm an inconspicuous individual, otherwise i wouldn't have survived this long haha
intp here. bullseye about the lock picking video lol
Lock picking has been very useful to me because I always forget my keys.
Yup. It's totally useful. I actually rescued a toddler because I had randomly decided to learn about lockpicking...and also happened to carry around improvised tension wrenches.
I feel so exposed by this video. My skill sets are so varied that it freaks people out how I tend to know about almost any subject. I’ve had people challenge me by just bringing up any random topic and asking me to explain it. I’ve been the jack of all trades at my jobs since I started working, and some of my expertise in my current job (datacenter engineering) is to setup ways my team can access their tools as fast and easily as possible - building servers that bypass firewalls or other virtual blocks just so you don’t have to take three steps when there’s only need to do one. My boss has learned to work with me in this way and feeds me projects that I can just deep dive into and then explain to my coworkers how something works and what the best way to implement it is.
Jack of all trades here too
INTPs in theory: Sure sounds good on paper.
INTPs in reality: Holy fuck, how do you function day to day?
who else have had a lot of experiences since childhood where we just 'know' something and turns out to be true or magically fixed machines or wiring😂😂 .. when i was a kid i always imagining inventions that only exist years and years later.. i fixed many things experimentally but it worked.. but again, people don't like that because i basically got zero knowledge,according to them at least.. i can understand things in my own way,teach me if I'm wrong not tell me off when i ask questions.. my uncle used to ask me to do it whenever he can't fix something,more like sarcasm, and i did fix the washing machine, refrigerator, computer and else 😂😂.. i grew up in a society where typically academic is everything, they care less about creativity ,imaginations stuff.. so i was always being force to become more like what they want.. study, get a well pay job, build a family.. that's just frustrating you know.. now I'm more interested in philosophies and humans
be yourself, and fight for what you believe in! ~from an INTP
True about theory, but with practical technical side... Never give me a machine to fix
Sameeeee, I built my own computer. I grew up kind of poor so an activity I loved to do was to take something old/broken and figure out how to make it work. I bet you share a similar learning style to mine, honestly I bet most INTPs do, but look up "spatial learning". Schools prefer to teach in sequential methods and that always pissed me off. Especially in math when I could see the right way of doing something, but the math teacher always liked to show the "old way" or wrong way of doing it first. It would make me feel so incompetent like I didn't understand how everyone was replicating this method and passing quizzes, then low and behold 4 weeks later we were doing what I intuitively saw as a pattern and wanted to do from the beginning. You know that meme of a doodle person flipping his desk? Yeah, sums it up. I'm a conceptual learner, not a rote memorizer, don't force me to replicate a flawed method with a broken concept, and then grade me on it, uncool. I love Erik's video, minus the end. I disagree with subtypes. We like to know enough that we could recreate an effective society (did someone say utopia? no? yeah better safe than sorry) and implement all of the numerous projects into in order to fix the problems we notice around us. Sure, that doesn't mean we should actually do it, but it's nice to keep as a growing model to encompass all of our working knowledge into. Wait, is that what a mind castle is? I've never looked into it, but I'm thinking it reminds me of a Sherlock episode or was it, Dr. Who? But seriously we want to know how EVERYTHING connects and often we rotate from one discipline into another, because the deeper down you fall into a rabbit hole, the more various subjects start to intertwine themselves, and soon you realize "fuck, everything is related, now I've gotta learn literally everything (except the wrong way to do a math problem, don't do that)" which you know, sounds fun until you realize that you keep forgetting to feed yourself, you have to run errands, and your family is wondering if they should report a missing person yet. All good things. Curiosity and problem solving know no bounds, that's why I hated the marginalized creativity prompted in public school. Like, do you want me to come up with a way to increase world peace by using philosophy, economics, politics, history, government and a system for redefining citizenship? Or do you want a 10 slide powerpoint that doesn't deviate from the, sorely inaccurate/bias/racist/sexist textbook, but with like a clever poem or something at the end? It's so frustrating, it's hard not to become cynical. Now that I'm in college and finally less nervous about following the same educational plan as everyone else, I realized that I'm teaching myself leaps and bounds more than the school ever taught me, even though I was an A, B student in all advanced classes for all offered years. Granted, I never did the homework but I don't think it would have made a difference, given the type of learner I am. We need to see the whole abstract picture, with its flaws, so we can lead with "why" and our desire to correct the discrepancies while we recreate the system through patterns, concepts and logic, and in hopefully a better way. I just realized your comment is from a year ago, lol. I'm probably just ranting to myself.
@@calliethomas2702 wow.. seems like all intps are in the same situation. Wish their was a school just for us with unlimited resources. Then the world would had being much more developed than this.
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We need to make a secret INTP base.
I think many INTPs have almost an exponential potential, based off your last question. To have such a liking for a broad array of skill sets should show how innovative and logically minded many NT/NP types are.
the perfect INTP would be like an Elon Musk, in a sense that they’re a physicist/scientist constantly looking for a better way, yet equally an engineer that can’t wait to stress test these ideas of reality. The major struggle comes in the overbearing scientist part where, at least for me, we will overthink if even one part of the road map seems questionable , causing us to do nothing. To have such great ideas and insights on everything yet do nothing about it is frustrating.
It’s the one aspect I envy INTJs of having. Though they’re plans to get to a destination aren’t set they continue to move. The INTP will want to move but would also like to know the steps to know exactly where the misstep is.
As an INTP in their early 20’s having this brain that constantly is thinking has pushed me to
Meditate. I think clearing the mind at times when it’s more useful to use intuition has helped. Once you’ve developed a plan or outlook, clear your mind and allow your intuition to govern from there. The vast amount of studying coupled with logical intuition is one of the best qualities an INTP can have. You tend to think less and become more natural allowing you to do more. Idk why but intuition is becoming vitally important as I figure this out.(I’m 21)
..side note: try to stay off the weed until work is done, make concise plans for the day and workout.
MGM haha I love that you mentioned staying off weed until after the work is done. I'm an INTP too and found weed will always be my vice. I found that I drifted to weed when I was feeling anxious or incapable, finding solace in it clustering my mind and changing my thinking pattern. It was almost that I would rely on weed in stressful times to turn off my over-thinking & uneasiness in the present.
LOL exactly what I use it for too, sometimes (depending on the activity) I'll do it right before the activity too calm my mind down. Scattered thinking I'm starting to realize will always be something I'll have to overcome.
Also quit porn, it is bad for motivation and focus.
Cheers!
MGM yes meditate. Read Alan watts. All the Alan watts u can ur hands on. Also Sam Harris.
MGM I'm sorry to disappoint you, but Elon Musk is an INTJ.
Your INTP description is very accurate for me, great job! ANSWER- Actor: variation, change, new ideas,inventiveness. I like picking locks too!
I am binge watching your videos. I am having a bromance ;) Can I just lay on a couch and let you examine WTF is going on in my mind? You should start an INTP shrink service lol
Well, I can do a brief coaching thing if you want, just visit www.patreon.com/erikthor :)
I needed to pick a lock last week. And yes, I had watched a TH-cam video demonstrating this quite some time ago.
I'd say I'm a writer. Philosophy and theology are my biggest interests as knowing the rules feels like the way to control my environment. Spiritual laws can't be broken so understanding them is vital to my success in life.
I'm an INTP artist and Writer,... most of my ideas were expressed in those mediums,...
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Why you correct him? 'Mediums' is a valid plural of the intended meaning he used. He didn't mean media as in a means of mass communication, such as newspapers, magazines, radio, or television. He meant it as a material, for example, a pencil is a medium, so is a piece of paper, and thus are mediums. If you want to sound like a smartass at least do it well.
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Broaden your skillset. I am a highly qualified engineer, I also play guitar reasonably well, have sold paintings that I have painted, been an extra in several films and television productions, and have published a couple of books. Don't limit yourself to one field.
I'm an INTP who's a photographer (full-time self-employed), thriving in this work situation. I love the variety, the freedom, the balance of analytical and creative.
Now what has me impressed about your video, sir, is the assessment of this type's fears correctly. 100% accurate for me.
photographer (and web developer) here too. It's a perfect professional/gig for us jack of all trades. it's always changing and different so you don't get bored.
I'm watching this because you posted in the FB group INTP
I love it :D
Facebook is overrun by idiots who are quick to report you in offence that they are feeling not for themselves but on behalf of beings they do not even know...worthless trash is all that populates facebook.
Cool video. Thanks for your thorough insights. In answer to your last question, I would say that I am not necessarily concerned with having unique ideas for the sake of uniqueness but I just find that my ideas are naturally unique. I identify with being more of a catalyst. I love thinking of improvements to the current state of affairs particularly if it is something I can take some action on myself. I don't know if it is usual because I always hear stereotypes describing intp's as living in their own heads. If that is accurate then I must be a particularly proactive intp. I am also studying industrial design which provides an excellent outlet for my mad scientist tendencies. Thanks again for your quality analysis!
Such great insights from an interesting, niche, unique and a little bit unorthodox (NP, IP, IN, etc.) perspective. Looking forward to more of this stuff
Really enjoy your videos. I guess I'm more of a scientist type, although I work in IT. I am always learning new skills, often unrelated, but I always find connections between totally unrelated skill sets that help me to learn faster, and I learn faster as I get older and gain more skill sets. I am also a musician and play multiple instruments. I found learning new instruments easy since I view all instruments as requiring the same skills, but only need to learn the slight differences in each one. This is different from other instrumentalists I know that seem to treat each instrument like they are learning to play from scratch. They don't see the connections between them. As an INTP, I find this level of specialization odd. Oh yeah, I also spent time learning to pick locks, for pure interest, LOL.
And if one can master all traits 😆
victory!
As usual, very perceptive and interesting. I'm definitely, at this point in my long life, very much looking at the biggest pictures - philosophy and of people (Jung, etc.) I have spent a lot of time mastering things just because it is somehow meaningful, but not particularly useful in a more pragmatic sense. E.g., spending literally years developing a method for solving the Rubik's Cube without having to learn a long sequence of algorithms - that is, intuitively with every solve following a different path. I never get tired doing it unlike the boring repetition of the same collection of recipes for solves. There are many examples like this of my personality in action.
Another example is learning to play 12 bar blues on the guitar, and changing chords every beat (n=48.) It even sounds good:-) Not very practical, since there is virtually no demand for blues players who can do this. In fact, I never met any other guitarist who does this. But I played variations of this in every key for years and, like the cube, it never failed to energize me.
I could go on, but I've written enough. Anyway, thanks for this video which triggered my comment. This aspect of my personality is not something I think about much - these kinds of pursuits are just "fun" to do.
4 hours ago I was on 9:09 and now I pick my room lock.
Great video. I am just beginning to really come to grips with the fact that I am more of an INTP.
I tend to feel really energized, and think it’s the best thing in the world when I hear a new pop song I like or new gadget. I also tend to think I can sense what others may feel or look at a situation from an objective perspective.
So for a while I thought that I was more of an INFP..
But I have this constant desire to improve things and approach all suggestions almost from a confrontational perspective - to battle my opinion against another’s almost when it comes to choosing the best option. So I think I am more of an INTP actually. I have so many ideas and being married to an ISTJ keeps me grounded but at the same time I struggle with freedom in a way.
You have given me clarity on what good qualities I possess and what I’m capable of and that what I need is to gain unique skills to improve confidence so I will see if I can improve that.
Thanks!!
Beautifully said! The real challenge is to mastering it all at the same time. Sometimes it is hard to believe for others that this is to be true. Over the years it is truely possible to be a scientist, social gamechanger, mother, philosoph, comedian, ... but it needs years.
I hate to seem like I’m coming across arrogant or unaware of myself, but to answer your question on the end of the video I would have to say there isn’t any one that I identify with more. I feel as though my thoughts and interests are so varied that it touches pretty equally on all of those subtypes. Absolutely I’m always analytical and always innovative, but I feel as though I’m always empowering others and in that pursuit I am also utilizing my philosophical tendencies alongside my analytical and innovative ones. I would probably say the best way to encompass my functions as a whole would be to say they are quite similar to that of the village Shaman. And the Shaman’s responsibilities and community obligations and even more so moral obligations as they pertain to those around me or the community I feel responsible for.
I am a mix of technical/scientific and creative/imaginative type, my enneagram tri type has 5 , 4 and 6. An INFJ enneagram-specialist-friend of mine told me it is pretty rare but possible, not my claims, she analyzed me based on some tests hehe. Tbh Erik it is really hard to choose between the options you always present when it comes to the INTP videos, I see my being as a constellation of micro personalities, that create the emergent property that I refer to as >I
I may be an oddity as an INTP. I am most interested in theology, which I see as a form of philosophy. Of course, it is also deeply involved with concepts that form the basis of right and wrong.
You're not the first INTP I've come across who has an interest in religion and spirituality. It makes no sense to argue that INTPs can't be religious. Religion can also be a system and can be understood through logic and reason as well.
@@ErikThor I appreciate your reply. Often, INTPs seem to have a disdain for religion. I get it, faith-based premises can be difficult for rationals to accept.
My religious affiliation and expression is indeed logical (in its self-contained way), and I view existential religion (ecstatic or irrational experiences, etc) with suspicion. I would probably say that my ongoing personal "project" is to improve theology (or my understanding of it) by identifying doctrines and beliefs that are inconsistent with the underlying rules of the system, and modifying them to be consistent. This is what I gain the most satisfaction from.
I'm definitely more comfortable with hands-on training with repetition as the reinforcement. I'm often trying to invent or observation of a situation where I can get intuition to often as you say to solve a problem that nobody saw a need for. Oddly as a preteen my Father who was studying for his Master's degree in Education in Baltimore City Public School System at his Union's headquarters was right across the street from the main branch of the Enoch Pratt Library where I was all day Saturday morning until about closing. I was a vociferous reader especially of periodicals. I'm wide ranging in my interests possibly from reading a host of trade journals from Waste to Agriculture, Construction, Electronics, Aviation, Industry, Sociology, Psychology & Faith. I was beginning the path of the Renaissance of "Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants!" I've done many wide ranging occupations. When felled from injury I go on an inner tangent of craft, skills in an ever expansion of the possible. Someone said, "Get In, Where You Fit In!" I've been buffeted by my introvertion to create a persona of an extrovert to move in areas that shy and quiet people don't find many footholds. I've often had to suppress the desire for perfection to the widest acceptable level of detail without falling into a HOLE Trough The Looking Glass! I'm often pilloried for using the not so common venacular, so I have developed the ability to slip into a character from what I understand & know distilled to the parlance of the common man. I'm nutured in the concept and construct that otherwise unless an apprentice in a trade to discover every field has terminology derived from the age of guild's where knowledge was power and you didn't want anyone to cut in on your action, unless they too put in the time to learn the trade! Like Dr. Who & MANY others that ability to discover the inner workings of The Matrix gives you opportunity that others didn't see. There's a woman who has a particular insight into Autism, her observation of cattle handling systems lead to less anxious creatures when minor changes to the environment that they had to navigate were eased and she speaks on common sense ideas for how to do LIFE if you are a bit different than most. An author and auto mechanic has provided high quality care for customers of a part of New England basically tapping the skills of a group of people who are mentored by hands-on training with repetition as a basis for competent care of specialized vehicles that allow the technicians to have a much better quality of life. Sometimes the better way is waiting in the wings!
I lean toward the scientific and reasoning side. I like to hoard knowledge and I'm always studying a new topic. I also like to write fantasy type stories but do a lot of homework as I go. For example, the one I am working on now has sailing ships, so I amassed a stack of books on sailing and sailing ships, historic sea battles and famous commanders.
I might be an INTP. I get sort of weird obsessions with improving my skillset in a given area. For instance, some of the best fun I've had at work was as a student worker, when I was producing figures in a drawing program and I constantly had to learn new features of that drawing program. So fun. Also, learning LaTex, whistling, drawing and stuff is quite fun. But I only do these things when I know I can use it for something - improving work or impress people or helping them of course.
The ability to do something new.
A few years ago i was in a fashion business where everyone did what was already familiar to them. I had my own way of doing the business. I worked with a friend, in which she's the executor of all my strategies. I was the one who renovated the system of the business. But it was a mistake, it was easily read by competitors, and everyone else began to do what we were doing because it brought them a lot of income instantly. I am the kind of a person that believes in efficiency, and satisfying results. If you're going to do something, be efficient, and effective at the same time. Well, but it brought me to my downfall because everyone saw what we were doing. Now I'm in a different business and I do things my way, no one can know the methods i use to bring me more money.
Being an intp is hard though. No one understands us. Most intps don't really mind it though. But sometimes I truly wish someone understood what I really mean when I say something and not be too judgemental about it.
Knowing now that I'm an INTP has made my focus so much more clear. I'm a successful company director and founder and chairman of a humanitarian organization. I've graduated with multiple university degrees in Australia 🇦🇺 and majored in Philosophy, Marketing, and International Relations. I also advise governments and banks on strategic planning matters. I only recently found out that I'm an INTP, and it finally all makes perfect sense. I somehow rehabilitated that infamous INTP mentality of never getting things done with always seeing my ultimate goal. It's not an easy goal to achieve, but I'll get it done quickly and move on to the next project. Powered by INTP
Bruh. The lock pick part.
I'm an INTP who learned how to pick locks because my grandma accidentally left her lockbox keys in the lockbox.
In my experience, I learn new skills that I think are most important to me and to problem solving. I was the girl who carried a bunch of random things because they all applied to skills I'd learned (seemingly at random since I continued to improve and adjust the skills and knowledge based on new skills and knowledge)
I get compared to people like Doctor Who and Doctor Strange and Constantine, etc. just because I can see puzzle solutions a little faster than others. It drives my partners insane when I can call out who the killer is in a murder mystery but I've seen and read so many that it's almost intuitive to find solutions to things like this.
It's really great to know I feel more at home in this type and with this community
when he explained opening locks. lol spot on
I literally thought of Neo in the Matrix RIGHT before he said it omfg
INTP here, im more of a scientist type. I'm always trying to understand things and i also try to innovate all the time. Every time i get an idea i try to implement it as soon as possible but i love thinknig about how it works to make it the best i can!
I apparently I am a intp according to a lot of tests I take, but upon more research I wasn’t sure I thought the tests were wrong, but this video encapsulates me perfectly. I am sure I am an intp after this video.
I'm more of a reviewer and a systems builder. I love finding something difficult and making it easier to do. I guess that's why I'm a systems analyst.
I became proficient on playing drums, I have a degree on linguistics and computational linguistics, I love science and astronomy, I always liked personology, I am very tech-savvy, and I am very interested in philosophy. I could extend the message adding more interests but I don't wanna bore you. lol
Imagine watching a video and discovering something about urself and you'll be like "dang he's right." that random realization. and you'll be amaze about it. and will also overthink about it.
great video. Thanks for sharing (from an INTP)
I used to pride myself on my lock picking skills (on a need to basis, ie, locked out of house/car/ etc., of course ;)) So funny! (intp)
Ti is more about improving the individual details of a particular thing... creating or finding something to fix the job, do process better etc... While Te's more about how everything all fits together super efficiently, no single focus... Te loves the production line/the system process as a whole.... Ti loves creating the cogs in the system/building the system from scratch... Ti doms tend to love my Te, coz I connected all the dots for them and direct where they should focus building/creating (saving them testing time). While Te loves to listen for ideas from Ti based on their brood scope on an individual area.. (saving them researching time) Both types love to break things to see if they really work LOL Ti will dismantle something just to understand it, learning faults in the design in the process... while Te will test the item/system based on what it says it can do, looking for the physical evidence (fact checker) coz we dont believe it till we see it... And when it dont work.. they will both list all the ways it could have been created better... and start brain storming a better design.... as a past time... we love building/improving stuff together! Ti & Te doms are great in relationships & in the work place.. they complement each other super well.
In regards to your last question, I am focused on political , metaphysical and ethical consistency and way to align my faith with a livable, consistent code with predictable consequences from a logical God. While it might sound like a wrong approach, where an INFP attempts to please God because its the right thing to do primarily, to me its the logical thing to do to have a successful life.
I love inspiring people and making cool things. Although I do acquire skills and abilities like lock picking or repairing things like cell phones. I would say I have been practicing rapid prototyping and R&D just to make concepts of things. I will say things like art is weird because you take useful good objects and sacrifice them to make a concept or idea. I feel like an enfp campaigner might make a good assistant. If INTP's ran the world we would have flying cars by now.
I’m an INTP and I am absolutely perplexed as to how on earth you can just live your life and pick up on these things about INTPs assuming you are some other type (I think you said you’re an INFJ) but like you’re saying things about me that I didn’t even think of until you mentioned and I’m like “hmm yea I guess that is weird how I operate in that sense”. I’m just really impressed with your ability to understand people. I like to think I can understand people better than anyone but it takes me hours and hours around a certain person and endless obscure questions for me to fully understand them
I’m an intp and my brother is an INfj. They really understand people and they can give great advice. I find their insight on emotions and how people work to be so stimulating 🤩
Jessica Pacheco that’s really cool, I don’t even know what type my brother is, maybe INTP or INTJ. Probably INTJ though because he is not quite like me, though he is similar. I’m sure it’d be fun to talk to an INFJ and just see how they see the world.
Truth is the ultimate quest regardless of the genre in mind.
This was very well done!
I'm an INTP and I know how to pick a lock... well I'm more focused on developing my skills and hobbies and trying to make a living out of them, and of course having an incredible ability with them
Thanks bro this helps a lot
I feel more like a catalyst - understanding all aspects and go from there - no real emotional aspect unless I chose so myself based on logic on what I think the person already will probably do them self - I feel like more of a hub of information directing people - sadly it affects my life on a personal level because I don't know how to dynamically make it work. Its a paradox for me really - When your loved one asks you if you need help is really an error message in my head along with anything they say as it results in unforeseen predictions versus work
I'm a preschool teacher/ artist.
I spend time with small children to learn about human instinct, and my art is VERY unique (but people are responding really well to it).
"Maybe you are in need of someone to pick a lock, and the INTP is the one that knows how to pick a lock" I feel called out as an INTP bcs I really tougth it could be useful to know it one day so I just researched
You realize, of course, that being INTPs we will naturally resist any attempt to limit and categorize us but again being INTPs we will make an effort to be polite and cooperative and show a willingness to give back to you since you’ve given so much to us in this and other videos. I’m probably the actor type being an Enneagram 4 wing 5 - reinvention and improvement on systems is as natural as taking a breath. I love the locking picking example. My own family had no idea that I had studied and become an opera singer, they always thought of me as just an attorney. They were beyond shocked when they saw/heard the performer side! Typical INTP behavior.
I am an empirical scientist who studies morality by developing new tools to do so (innovative) and who engages in public discussion ( a catalyst as well). So I am all four : P I guess a typical INTP
Sounds like it! :D
Director but I feel like I'm on scientist mode most of the time. Awesome video by the way!
I swear this person must have been spying on me. I had the exact same thought about the The Matrix. Also, in almost all my social groups, I am that person who had helped and surprised them at one point by picking locks haha. And I figured out and got this skill when I was a kid.. no youtube videos yet hoho
Writer/Director for sure. Primarily writer.
I have never felt more understood omg
Yes. The matrix. That's how I think about things now. Being on Earth has become more palatable 😂
About your question at the end of video, I use to be the first type who wanted to just know the rationale of everything and at the time I was studying Sciences, later at the age of 24, I also started to really want to know the good and bad, why the good is good and why bad is bad. And I also started really badly want to know the philosophy behind everything, what is knowledge, what is language and words and meaning, what is consciousness, what is existence and life. So I started taking philosophy courses and then I got really interested in being very good at being able to express my thoughts through writing and being able to come up with a brand new way of education system cause I came to the conclusion that I can create the biggest change in the system of society best through education. Now I am trying to really gain skills in writing and learning about education, and human learning and mind as much as possible. So long story short I want pretty much all the things that you mentioned at the end. Is that bad?
That's exactly how I feel. Sometimes it gets really frustrating , constantly changing paths but not achieving anything. I don't kbow if anyone feel the same
No!! It's awesome!! Keep it up! I love INTP's and how innovative and intelligent you are. Without you and your gift of learning and teaching the rest of the world would have missed out on a lot. Don't ever hold yourself back. Good for you for going into all of that!! I am an INFJ and my life took a completely different path so it is exciting to me how you are working toward changing the education system, something I am passionate about as well. God bless you!
@@waelx30 you are learning along the way, you are smarter than 97% of the population, you will always figure out a way to synthesize the knowledge you have learned and there will be a time for you to shine and be a gift to the world with all you have put together. In the meantime who cares what they think and don't give up!!!
Excellent video m8. One of the best I've seen on TH-cam pertaining to the INTP personality.
I'm an INTP-A, and definitely relate to the actor, director, and writer subvariants you mentioned Some unique things & quirks that I attribute to my personality include....
1. I play 15 musical instruments (pro at piano, drums, guitar, bass, vocals)
2. I can do hundreds of impressions, and like a good amount of INTP's, I can impersonate every myers-briggs personality type and have done so for job interviews & the like with great success.
3. Most of my friends say I have an infinite amount of knowledge on subject matters that interest me, and I have made a lot of my university professors feel insecure, not on purpose.
4. 95% of the time I find socializing to be a GIANT waste of time
5. As a kid I categorized people's personalities to names I found humorously fitting.
6. I find lots of people I interact with to be very unintelligent and very predictable.
7. My humor is very surreal, honest and intense, LOTS of satire, and sometimes morbid.
8. I'm getting my PhD within the next 3.5 years in psych, and am already working on a few patents. I'm also working on expanding and fusing multiple theories into a brand new school of thought in psychology.
9. Depending on where I'm at, I'll say or do something just to see if others reactions will be what I think they are.
10. I am an existentialist (Kierkegaard), and am rather eccentric and hate limitations/constraints, my personality has been said to be a mix of Bill Hicks, Frank Zappa, and the character Beetlejuice.
Intp moment in live: realising everything is a model, truth is a interesting phenomenon in post truth ages. Now you can test manipulate models of reality, usually completely useless stuff.
A Change-Maker - Spiritual Arts and Physical 3D worlds (Home, Financial and Work) in our lives natural and urban environments including humanitarian situations towards life happiness.
I related to all of them especially the innovator but I've experienced each one quite often.
Originality is key to me as an INTP. First I must ingest subject matter to understand the basic principles it's based on, then it's likely I'll come up with a better solution usually "out of left field". What do I fear, you ask? Failure...and yet I know that every failure is an opportunity to learn as Edison did with the filament of what became the incandescent light globe - about 1000 failures until success - tungsten, in a vacuum. Sometimes I fear mediocrity - that my best won't be good enough - but it usually is, because I know my limitations while constantly pushing the boundaries of them into unknown territory, hence growth. I like being me.
yessssssss, same
i connected with this so much, understand the foundational elements of whatever your working on and then twist them and create unique things
I am either mostly the writer/philosophical type or the actor/variety type
Sometimes I want to be more social, I don’t know why. I think: “maybe I should to be more funny, interesting and popular “. But in a friends’ group, I became the most quiet. I love mysterious things, I want to learn everything to be “bad ass”, but I also have a creative side screaming (audiovisual) to work with. I wanted to be important... this sometimes makes me feel not as an intp. I made the test twice trying to change a little bit the answers (been honest, just putting less intensity at the answers). I love logic, but also doesn’t mean that I don’t like someone. Erick, what do you think about it?
And thats how i lerned to pick locks, never used is since.
I think I'm the viewer & actor .. yes I agree with what you said.. but I would like to know more on the subtype of intp I didn't see it in any website I'm reading! Is it your perspective while you observing them ?
Awesome. Thanks
Yeah I can pick locks. It gets easier with practice. I lost the car key and called the garage they suggested I get the car towed to their garage, was going to be expensive their way.
Honestly I kinda like to dabble and end up drinking because I figured I wasn't good enough at anything and changed nothing and everyone kept doing the same detrimental shitty stuff in spite of my best efforts.
INTP here. My mission statement (who I am): Truth Seeker/Runaway Slave.
Hi Erik, an INTP here. I was reading your article and I noticed you said in a couple of places that INTP's have introverted intuition (Ni) as one of their cognitive functions. We actually have extroverted intuition (Ne) as our auxiliary function, not Ni. Our full stack is Ti Ne Si Fe.
Who decides these things? I keep reading both of these types on different blogs, how do you know which ones are most accurate?
@@europhobicantiwhitism3563 The standard theory of type dynamics says that INTP's have extroverted intuition as their auxiliary function. I don't know where those blog's that say otherwise are getting their information from, but they're wrong according to the established literature.
I think it might have been article trying to articulate an idea about Ni and INTPs, not saying that INTPs have Ni on the second place. But we do have Ni, we just don't trust since it is not based on logic.
Ni is one of our shadow functions. Shadow functions are Ti Ne Si and Fe with the opposite introvert or extrovert. So our shadow functions are Te Ni Se and Fi
Why, as an INFP, do I find what you’re saying about random skills and just learning things to learn things and maybe using them in the future so relatable? One of my favorite things is finding better and easier ways and new, innovative ways to do things and mastering technique. And I find a lot of confidence in my skill set. Hmm just pondering. My fiancé is an INTP which is fascinating to me
INTPs and INFPs share the same 2nd function -- extroverted intuition (Ne) -- which is what drives this sort of thing! We definitely have this drive to learn and innovate in common. :)
I love your videos.
To answer your question I am all four.
As an intp this is so me like everything he said
hmm..i'd probably say dreamer, inventor and scientist. My mind goes on an endless journey of continual detour from the idea or thought i just had, ideas and questions just branch and shoot off like a rocket into the infinite galaxy of possibilities i can't even stop until someone from this world yells out my name or taps me on the shoulder to remind me they are still here and we were in the middle of a conversation..on let's say which supermarket has the best specials on at the moment...before i was triggered by the coffee cup they were using and i started questioning in my head why are those cups made of this certain material? maybe i need a degree in material engineering so i can grasp an understanding in depth behind the use of different materials and their structures. why are cup handles fixed to a certain position and normally upright? what if the handle is linked to the cup with some gears? and then i hop onto that spaceship which takes me to the outer space where all my ideas and images are floating around: what about cups with handles like those stands with arms you see in the lab that holds the beakers? what about having mechanical robot cups where you can adjust the height and how far out it can stretch out from the centre point you want the cup to be located in the air because the handles are made of mechanical gears and it resemble the shape of a robot? How cool would it be to order a coffee and being able to chose what robot you want it to be served with hahah! wait, maybe joints that are similar to a Rubik's cube? hmm but that would bring a few limitations to the space you have left of the table because we got to make sure it is secure, can't compromise on that for more space if you were to use a robot. or a spider robot? no, spiders are ugly but we could understand the use of their legs and imply that into the invention. what about having the cups hanging down from the roof?! you can 'roll' it up or down like a curtain! and you can have some clear cups too! but no..it's too time consuming and people forget how much they have left in their cups. maybe eye levels. but what if.....? Or maybe, we could invent something where you can just suspend your cup in mid air! like how would that work? like those in outer space with no gravity? will the drink itself lose gravity and start floating within that space too? if it was a badly made coffee you might see the residues floating as well?! would love to see that!!...... and so the brain just goes on and on and on and forgetting what my initial idea was and what was i wanting to make better of for the world..oops!
sorry for the lengthy comment, i thought i'd just share with you all a bit of what goes on in this fellow INTP's brain...i wish there is a company with experts from different fields that just hires all the inventive people and fund them to put their ideas of inventions into actions with the support of experts-i.e. knowledge in material engineering hahaha. we don't have to get paid well, just enough to keep up alive, it's more about working on the ideas and processes and achievements that bring us joy and satisfaction..so that our ideas are not wasted and forever sealed in a grain of sand you don't know if gets washed onto a beach and some kid takes it home in a jar or it falls to the deepest part of the ocean floor where there's no sunlight and might be accidentally inhaled into the stomach of a still-yet-to-be-discovered mysterious, eyeless, finless, boneless...creature the dwells on the seabed with hundreds and thousands of its kind, waiting, for the next victim..could it be you? or your next idea..BRAHaHAHAhA!!!...at least for me it is.
The best trait about them is the one that appears on their forehead when you stop them in their argumentation saying "Ok, we agree to disagree"
I'm the INTP that learned how to pick locks when I was 6.
Re the question, scientist or reviewer, etc.: I can't choose among them, I think I'm all of them.
I know we're seen as cold to others, yes we are intps but that doesn't mean we're not human too.
We have hearts, please appreciate us.
also i have so many random skills that are completely utterly useless lmao
what does magic mushrooms or DMT do to an INTP?
Ed Collinsu magic man, doing it alone in good set and setting is one of the best experience of my life
Both have opened doors and more possibilities for me. The experience will manifest what you need, you just need to decipher and examine the information you get. Psilocybin therapy has been extremely beneficial to me as an INTP and also my husband who is an INTJ.
Didn't try dmt yet. But mushrooms are amazing. Do it alone or with a good friend. Stay away from larger groups
Trip alone, you may be doing mental gymnastics that others cannot comprehend.
I've got allot of experience with all psychedelics.
Thankyou.☺️❤️
I desire all of them
Could someone explain level four for me? How does Myers Briggs define the terms: Judging, Perceiving
For the first three levels in Myers Briggs, E or I, N or S, and F or T, I understand what each means in context.
In contrast, I'm not sure precisely what Perceiving and Judging mean in cotext.
You must be aware of a thing (aka PERCEIVE it) in order to make a JUDGEMENT about it.
Our JUDGEMENT of a thing is based on how we PERCEIVE it and what we PERCEIVE it to be.
Both JUDHING & PERCEIVING seems intermixed
Also, judging vs. perceiving was the only classification that was not extremely skewed. INT are greatly skewed. For example:
Feeling 2%,Thinking 98%
Am I having a hard time dufferentiating between J and P because I have balance in these two or hice versa?
I think J types make decisions based on “what should I do” in context of norms. P types throw away norms and just look at possibilities to solve a problem. Also when plans go wrong, the J type usually is annoyed. The P type rolls with uncertainty much better. I think J is lazy thinking, almost low IQ. P thinking just considers more angles to a situation. Of course J types stick to plans better.
Maybe "actor" the catalyst concept resonates.
when this dude tells me i know it's a play! xD
my fucking face man, that is hidden knowledge you can't just say that on a video.
i'm looking to get into multimedia cause i think i figured something out.
just got accepted for multimedia studies lol, wish me luck.
as for what i relate to hmm
reviewer and actor
i'm here to analyse systems and change them, at least from my own interpretation of what exactly it is that i do...hopefully change for the better.
btw one reason intp's stall out on making decisions until all information is considered is because we know we have more potential for change than we can comprehend ourselves. best not push that in a direction that could potentially end us all going by the frequency of world changing ideas coming from intp's.
Thanks for the vud :-)
Shit pretty heavy on all those last questions. Super all over the place because of it, pulled to one or another at different times
somewhere between writer and director ... some scientist too.
Exactly. What if I do this, what will be their reaction, what if i say this, what will be their response.
Man, you know me so well.
I play an entire simulation in my head before participating in any situation
Oh similar to entj...my shadow function....
While this is enlightening; this understanding of myself, my actions, it helps me little. But, as an ego driven human I'd say
: Seems I'm more the actor...or maybe the reviewer...or maybe the writer. Seldom the director.
I'm an Intp, a can speak English, French, Spanish and Japanese, but I can't still tell her my feelings :c