'I'm here to report that contrary to all me expectations, squeeze balls seem to be helping. I'll report back in a few days!
Hmmm . . . very encouraging advice, I must say. I didn't even once think on these lines.
Nice! XD
And let it make me bitter and eventually . . . insane? Jokes apart, I think you have a good point there. I can let is fuel itself and become my drive rather than my loathing.
Not much, I concede. But it tends to feed on itself and build up over time. :
|Daily? To myself or to them? XD
Yeah, I know.
So do I, but how can I avoid interacting with the people in my office? :(
Ask me! You bet it does! But like a true INTP, I'm willing to try it and see what happens. I know the cure is to clam myself down, and sometimes when I really make the effort (by trying to...
Now that's a good idea!
Thanks. I agree about the high blood-pressure bit. :( But I don't care much about promotion, either. Maybe I can be happy with the fact I'll gradually become amazing at my work while they'll be...
I'm put off by (most of the) people around me. They neither take their work seriously, nor do they make an attempt to improve. It's especially the case when I come across people who share my skill...
So true! Very, very well said. That's precisely what I LOVE about programming. Want something to be made? Then tell me exactly how it will work, down to the last detail. And if it doesn't...
Well said! Perhaps you are right on target. What I find more smothering is not the work itself, but the environment around me. It's very hard to spend eight hours every day in the knowledge...
Precisely what breaks my heart. I'm tired of putting so many concentrated hours into one thing that I REALLY want to master and live by -- only to throw it into the dustbin the next morning (of...
Comfortable job, I imagine? Not much use for Ne, though, as I see it. Like it? Hate it?
Ah, finally someone agrees with me! Feels like a soothing balm on my wounded soul! :) Well, well. You might have just uttered the most profound words. Makes me think, for sure. I always...
Please answer if you are an INTP and professional programmer for quite a while (let's say, 5+ years?). I'm an editor by profession, but of course, retain a high degree of interest in computer...
Or even INTJ and INTP.
Such as? And why not? I'm about to buy the ebook and your perspective will be helpful.
How interesting. In that case, may I ask how this relates to my question?
Ah, and which of a kitten and a rabbit is abstract and the other applied?
I actually can't quite believe you consider pure math to be easier! But I think the real issue is doing the hard work, which we INTPs hate? Thinking about something and pursuing ideas in your head is...
Thanks for answering! I'm actually looking for, I guess, personal takes only, perhaps to convince myself that abstract studies are really my thing and that I should not be so paranoid. So it helps a...
I have heard many INTPs say, and felt so myself, that they much prefer the immediately practical to the abstract. For instance, many argue that pure Mathematics becomes a pain in the butt, but they...
So, then, please tell me: What is it? How did it come about? :)
:) So let me put it to you this way: Are you fed up of this scattered mental process yet? Wouldn't you agree we could REALLY do with some sense of stability in life? I mean, it sounds good in...
Makes me want to cry. :( :( :( I too wasted SO much time it's not funny anymore. Everyone around me thinks I'm a joke, and I probably am. :(
Finally someone on my side! :P :P Yes, that's why I tagged the threat as INTP and addressed the question to the INTP. But never mind, as long as lots of INTPs responded. :)
How old are you? Does it never bother you that you'll never make up your mind?
I think that's a very good answer! Maybe someday I'll too quit struggling accept that it's okay to keep floating like a leaf in the wind. The reason I'm making such a big fuss over life's purpose...
:P
I so envy you! :D
Hmmm . . . See, it never used to bother me so much, but now I'm 29 and I have a string of unfinished endeavours. And the things I'm fundamentally interested in, I don't chase them hard enough! Makes...
Some specific examples would REALLY help here! How old are you? What do you do for a living? What do you do in your spare time, etc., etc. :)
Great thought! How's it been going? Along with managing the everyday life, I mean.
And none meant, honestly! I'm not that knowledgeable about types, so thought it best to restrict it to my type. :P :P You are most welcome, though. :) :) :)
I take it that's your goal? And you aim to accomplish that while being lazy? :P
Precisely why I like math, too! I miss my younger days when I used to have loads of time on my hands and used to chase butterflies, philosophical or otherwise. Now the office+travel just kills me. x.x
That made me ROFL!! :D :D
Same here. The somehow is killing me. :D
I'm working as an editor/content writer right now, and would love to drift to being a programmer and/or mathematician. But when I sit down to do the actual work . . . boy do I cringe (it seems boring...
Hmmm . . . so what do you do for a living? How do you spend your time?
Care to give me some examples? :) What have you studied of late? And what do you wish to study? What do you do for a living? Aren't you incredibly bored with it?
So if I worry about one, perhaps I've got my type wrong?
Thanks! I just changed the color of the hidden sentence, though. :P And oh, great profile pic you have! :D
Interesting . . . Mind telling me what you do for a living and how you spend your spare time?
Sorry, INTPs only. :P
A goal is, be definition, something that you badly want, so I don't it'd hamper you in any way. I too love my flexibility, but sometimes I'm wondering what use is all this flexibility? Ten years from...
Good thought. Are you working right now? If yes, how do you manage to stick to what you do?'
