'Go for it. I swap around between my painting side and corporate side a few times every year, and have for twenty years! See below for details if interested....
Motorbike Racing! Go Casey Stoner in the Moto GP. Riding Motorbikes is a great introvert thing. Put the helmet on and it is just you, and occasionally your mates together on a winding road somewhere.
Thanks for the feedback!
Absolutely! I used to wallow in it a lot back in my twenties but now in my 40s I dont have any time to be melancholy! My favourite wallowing in it songs from back then... Nina Simone.. Just like...
Hi, I have this thing where I am really into my artistic side for a few weeks, and then something shifts inside, like I swap brains or something, and I then have very little interest in the artistic...
Hi, Does anyone else have an oscillating artistic to corporate temperament thing happening? I am sometimes in art mode, where I paint and draw etc. Then my brain seems to swap to another brain...
Gross Point Blank, Pump up the Volume and Highlander. GPB because of the offbeat humour and the music. PUV because of the music and a quiet person being secretly cool.
I voted for painting, as that is what I wrestle with the most, and have the most output sitting in the garage, but then I realised that I write more than I paint, but the writing is always half...
I loved living alone, having spent about 20 years in various mixed houses and alone before getting married. For me the time alone was magic, wheras with flatmates, it was hard to carve out alone...
absolutely. When I am in the artistic mode, I feel a drug like state just looking at trees and staring at things.
Sydney Aust.
My ideal keeps changing, so I keep chasing it around and around in circles..
I keep coming up with ideas to do grand things which would end up helping parts of the world from my perspective. Just the follow through that it is the issue.
I remember asking people this question years before I had my own kid. All the girls got mad at me for asking, as if it was a rude question. of course you have children. All the guys answered a...
Hey - how about you spend more time alone doing your own thing? We will head off and leave you alone.
John Cale does the best one! I cant believe this one isnt on this thread yet!!! Having said that, even though I love John Cale and his version, it was the first one I heard. Later I also love the...
My handwriting has always been messy. The faster I try and write, the messier it gets. Can draw good quick sketches though! And now I type everything anyway, which kind of sux as I prefered journals,...
I used to be a party smoker, who occasionally built up to 1-2 per day for a few months. Glad I stopped totally. I enjoyed it, but figure the health thing makes it mad
1. Cute. Start chasing, but initially another guy with a bigger motorbike beat me to her. 2. Oscillating over the years I think. And sometimes different tangents. How I think more about the need for...
I keep seesawing back and forth between my artistic side and my corporate side, being very ineffective along the way.
offbeat. Empathic enough to normally get a decent laugh and know what would work.
Corporate job during the day in computers with as little people contact as possible, and then paint pictures when the artistic mode descends.
Absolutely. Worst thing is if you think you have a chunk of time to sit down and do your own thing or read, and suddenly someone has an urgent thing. And you cant just say. Oh but I have to sit here.
I am a christian with a slightly twisted bent, coming up with bizarre theories that are almost enough to get me kicked out of bible study, but mostly just polite grimaces.
Try to be mostly. Enjoy walking down the street not knowing anyone
Fantasy as well. Patrick Rothfuss Name of the wind. Brandon Sanderson Mistborn and Elantris. I used to pretend to try and be a bit more highbrow. But half way through one of Peter Careys novels I...
Definitely drifters. Makes me smile just thinking about it.
I have read the book. The two books that I think are better are Doc Loves the system. Can find it on the askmen.com site, and David Deangelos attraction isnt a choice. Both great ones at trying...
Leonard Cohen
Many weeks of plus hundred hour weeks in a high pressure job that I eventually quit. Later, the guy I worked with said he was worried that I was going to have a heart attack. I look back and wonder...
Sagitarius
Quit my job years ago to instead go painting and develop the garage band. Then the pianist moved to Lebanon to dig things up, I panicked and asked for my job back. But it was gone. Still was great to...
In fact, now that I think about it, I actually feel lethargic and slightly depressed when I finish exercise, which seems to be the opposite to what is supposed to happen!
I was surprise to read on an INFP happiness thread about a guy who loved exercise, as I personally rate it closer to doing the dishes than something I really enjoy. Then I looked again and realised...
A few things that make me happy. Though I go up and down like a yo yo and still trying to figure it out. I fluctuate between artistic mode and corpoarate mode. So when in corporate mode I enjoy...
Wow. Have fun! Loved it when I did it a few decades ago. I had 3 months in europe and a month in the states then back to Aust. I travelled with a friend for the first two months. As I am a guy and...
I am over 40 and saw this a lot in my 20s and early 30s, and with friends of mine also who would change into more childlike behaviour without realising it in front of their parents. It is what it is,...
Thanks for the post. Makes me think a bit. As someone who who has almost found a restless but only partly satisfying answer to the what will I do for money but still be able to have time to learn,...
As an INFP who has been in a bunch of relationships and is now married, I hear you. Have seen more than a few girls walk away and scratched my head. Then I found the ebook by David Deangelo...
I have been recording my mode swings between artistic and corporate/financial interest, and trying to find some link. I mapped it against TEMPERATURE the other day, and it seems there is a bit of a...
Great original comment, and great that this string is still going after almost a year, so that it pops up to encourage us all, and to remind me that as an INFP I am an idealist as well as often stuck...
Songs about feeling. Cant help but mention my two favourite tear at my heart she has left me songs It makes no difference, The Band; and Wedding Anniversary by John Cale. Aahhh great for...
Thanks for the reminder. My last workplace they announced it over the speaker and we all stopped at our desks for a minute. Maybe it will happen again here
I follow a bit of the economic arguments on a useful website safehaven.com Some of the entries talk about a Krondeiff cycle, and other cycles, which point to a likely cyclic downturn sometime between...
Thanks for the tips!
I appreciate the feedback. I have not come across this idea of turning into your opposite before. eg INFP becoming an ESTJ. Will have to dig into that! Maybe that is what is happening. For me, when...
Thanks Krentz. It is tough, but there is also some fun in there. And having recently joined this forum has helped a lot to vent some of my frustrations and so feeling a lot better!
I thought I was an Enneagram 4 for years, and I do paint and do artistic stuff, but now I am fairly sure I am a 5, as I enjoy watching the world go by more than doing the actual painting!. Possibly a...
As an INFP I have learnt that I move between Artistic and Corporate modes and these swings last anywhere from a few days to a few months. I have been recordnig the mode changes for the last year...
Would love to hear some actual real world tips from people who have succeeded in surviving in a hostile environment! Eg for my, in a relationship with a wife who is likely an ESTJ. Controlling...'
