'I would recommend keeping in mind that, biologically and psychologically, we as a species live in very artificial and unnatural societies compared to what we are adapted to. It tends to inch us near...
Well, the first example that comes to mind is Phineas Gage. Like Phineas some people, as they age, unwittingly ram probing rods into dynamite and proceed to have the rod thrust via their cranial...
Unaffiliated. Owing loyalty to a house seems pretty unnecessary. Most likely we'd pop out as the dark horse, defy class and birth. Start out as nobles and end up as brothel owners in Braavos. Earn a...
@saltana : Well, my dear, since you've got so few replies thus far, I'll give you a dozen replies' worth. I hope you wore pretty undies, because you're in for a reaming. Energy, time, and...
@Geoquail Damn, girl, how did you even find this thread? It's from 2012, it must've been buried down with early mammalians and Mick Jagger's innocence somewhere. And Literotica is pretty classy, for...
Pretty easy. Take interest in new subjects, meet new people, go to strange places and try new things. Extraverted Intuition paired with Introverted Thinking isn't an ability as much as it is a...
http://emptystress.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/resigned.gif Even if somehow a meta-post, it's still terrible. Man.
I just finished a downright murderous exam, and I don't even feel relieved because the one tomorrow is literally twice as hard. This gif has never been more appropriate. ...
Politicians shouldn't be criticised for changing their opinions or policies after being elected.
If you don't think being good at math or physics is a talent, you should spend a day in my shoes with a 10th grade math book.
Awesome, great work! And a great opportunity to revisit my German.
Quite the debate, though. The universe isn't deterministic, certainly. Quantum events here and there. At the same time, the human brain is simply too coordinated and too complex to be affected by...
I was about to verbalise the thud! of my jaw on the tabletop, before I caught myself. It's easy to forget the considerable financial investment that goes into education in America. To risk ending up...
Correct. Correct, with Introverted Thinking instead of Feeling, our behaviour is regulated by less volatile motivation than emotions - hence, we don't get it. Correct, this is how regular folk show...
I mean as in being young. And there are some long-term impairments. Some physical weakness, impairment of vision, and in the case of removal of the language-dominant hemisphere, some impairment of...
The railway stake would be the famous case of Phineas Gage. And there are many interesting cases of patients suffering damage to the frontal lobe, where our emotions, decision-making, conscious...
Yes, this is a long post. Very typically me. Just read it. Did you know that if you don't learn a language by puberty, you never will? Language, and specific instances of language, are simply...
http://i.imgur.com/m4nnxy4.jpg The original Citizen do u even lift? from the greatest of ENTPs.
So, I've gotten some comments lately that have turned me more self-conscious. Specifically, I've had this constant idea that I have a warm, big-eyed, open kind of demeanour and appearance. I smile a...
Alright. My original post might only really make sense to me, so I'm making the tl;dr version: ENTPs aren't good at chores. We're bad at organisation and arbitrary menial tasks, and we feel a...
Oh, I don't think this thread would be going anywhere useful, anyway. I think nearly every ENTP has already answered something here, and there's only so many ways you can reiterate being awesome is...
It was really clarifying! I was confused, because I just did not see where ENTP's drew the line. Of course feelers also make this distinction. If we wouldn't we would not be able to have values,...
Seeing as the role of emotionality is compulsion towards various trends and norms of decision-making that, statistically, win through. So the difference between decision-making focus in TiFe and FiTe...
Well, to put it in one phrase, Fe leads to a sense of acceptable and expected behaviour. If we feel socially ostracised by our behaviour, depending on how pigheaded we are, I suppose we start pulling...
Could you take out holy and use almighty instead? Because it sounds a bit too much like enneagram-style religious pseudoscience when... ... taken out of context.
You're actually spot on, there, even if it doesn't matter in the everloving slightest. Although I think you might need additional context. TiFe and FiTe are, in any way that really counts, two...
What you have to remember, though, is that Fe doesn't mean playing nice, Fe means automatically and often unconsciously responding to in-group expectations and the subtle dynamics of others'...
For some reason, I now visualise you as being a... this centaur-thing with a crustacean lower body. Yes, some of us aren't into the whole chitinous carapace thing. The Little Mermaid made it quite...
@Derange At 170 - Excellent topic, well-written. And important. I believe the problem here is people misunderstanding what emotion and empathy actually are. Usually it's harmless, people...
Can't you just answer the original question about where you get your energy from? ...
This, mate. So, so much this. It's our social sensibility, though. As long as people respond positively, it's simply fun to talk about whatever is on our minds. I know that I perceive, and talk...
For days I just didn't know how to begin writing an essay. ENTPs, I gather, have no problems being exceedingly productive and persistent at any task that is self-organised, that is to say, where we...
Hahaha, well, I'll be able to pick her out in the lecture, yes. Let's hope I don't meet her before then. And that I have some kind of retort by then. If I can't spot her, I'll just sneeze a few times...
I hope you would pick your timing better. The room was booked for the next lecture, and dozens of medicals were milling in, so my big fan was just kind of fighting uphill against a steady current of...
Hah! An interesting thought experiment. And also the focus of much of my personal research and study, so I'll sugarcoat the science in all the collegiality pent up after drinking three pots of coffee...
Thank you. If more details help you forecast how your future confessions will go: I tried to retort with Oh, it's not that awkward. while she was running away from me. So obviously it kind of was a...
Until someone hits you with a crowbar while your eyes are closed.
At the lecture today, I sneezed a lot, so I sat away from my friends as to not annoy them with my sniveling sniffling. There happened to be a girl sitting a couple of seats off to my side, and I...
Three flavours of us folk, I think. The assertive, confident ones. The ones that seem assertive and confident, of course. And then those clueless bastards too dumb to be insecure. I was in the...
Dear @Brother, Thank you - made me laugh! :laughing: I do hope you found a balanced diet for your woodlouse. Signed, An INFJ who needed a laugh[/QUOTE]
Dear woodlouse, I reckon I found you in the sink because you fled into my apartment to get out of the cold. I think it's unfair that you're putting that kind of pressure and responsibility on me....
As an INFJ, you can wrap it any way you like, and we'll still beg for more. Generally. The ENTP moment in conversation is when something you say triggers a sudden leap of association, maybe an...
What the MBTI recognises as types, are simply differently balanced compositions of neural nuclei and neurological pathways that manifest as patterns of thought and behaviour. In other words, it's...
We both know that's a ridiculous exaggeration, if you're dominant Ne you'd have thought of a billion things. I read, I think it was at IFLS, that Tyrannosauruses most likely used their arms to...
This is exactly how the clichéd insecure girlfriend-question would go in my case. --- Would you still love me if I lost my arms, like in an accident? *makes blank face* I knew it! You...
The opening line of William Gaddis' A Frolic of His Own reminds me of you badass ESTJs. Maybe a good stereotype, maybe a bad one, but I think it's admirable nonetheless. x93Justice? x97 You get...
Being in a targeted subset like that, I find is pretty similar to disease control. If there was a disease that primarily targeted Nordic genotypes, and I just got off the plane in Italy, I would...
Intuitive Thinkers, and among them INTPs, are the most likely to develop personality disorders, according to a major study. They're overrepresented in every category except Histrionic Personality...'
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