'Likes: 1. Extremely intelligent and well educated 2. Physically affectionate 3. Aims high and doesn't give up until he succeeds 4. Commands respect and is well-liked 5. Honest Dislikes:
So in my relationship I'm the ENTP and my boyfriend is the INTJ. So it's kind of a gender swap on your relationship. Have you considered that he might be ENFP? I've noticed people don't tend to...
First thing, I would phrase all of these in terms of concern, otherwise there not really parallel descriptions. Or choose a different term than concern. In fact, for your purposes, I would...
Hi INFJ! You sound a lot like my best friend, who is also an INFJ, and beats himself up a lot internally for not being logical enough, to which he attributes not getting this grade on that, not...
I appreciate the response. [[ I just have to say that I don't think any studies in neuropsych/neuroscience have refuted Jung's theory to date though, no? The issue is more a lack of any real studies...
Well plan A -- I don't let myself get dragged to parties if it's obviously foreseeable that I would have a terrible time. Also, I resist being friends/girlfriend of people who would drag me to...
I think the above is quite true. I've got a large circle of childhood friends (small town, small school, everyone knows everyone) and of the people we've typed, everyone's childhood best friend was...
Thank you so much for this advice!! This is what I'll do -- I'll ask my mom questions to try to help her realize what she should do for herself -- I know from experience she's not convinced by my...
I tend to be up for anything with my good friends, but I'm not up for anything with anyone. E.g., if co-workers I don't like invite me out for lunch, I'll only go if I feel like I have to, not...
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My ENFJ (former) best friend was as you describe. Later though I realized neither of us is perfect, and I can admit I had probably done some things to incite this sort of stuff from her -- for...
My ENFJ (former) best friend was as you describe. Later though I realized neither of us is perfect, and I can admit I had probably done some things to incite this sort of stuff from her -- for...
Really useful post -- thank you. I need to constantly remind myself to be supportive -- sometimes complimenting someone in detail makes me feel like I'm insulting their intelligence, (like they don't...
Thanks for your reply, and sorry for my delayed response (I was away over the weekend.) The part in bold I think is interesting -- I didn't know that. Do I need to emphasize how she / the other...
I really think it is. To me this is as simple as asserting myself and making the other person apologize / act differently, or else break ties with them, but my mom just can't seem to, even though...
Thank you guys both!!! So specifically these comments really stand out to me: While I can't relate to this instinct, this makes my mom's defenses of her friend seem to make somewhat more...
Hi INFPs, I tend to have somewhat strained relationships with you guys, but my mom is an INFP so I really want to make an effort as she is going through a rough time currently, and I find myself...
You definitely need to move around -- I take my lunch break every day and go to a barre class and then sometimes after work will go spinning if I really feel restless. Sitting all day is unbearable....
Haha wow. MBTI, socionics, etc. continue to amaze me with their accuracy.
I consider ENTJs kindred spirits, with some very stark differences however. Here are a few standout examples: One of my close family friends, is a raging hard ENTJ, Harvard MBA, the works. He is...
Thanks for your response, though I don't think I agree with you on most (any) points. Starting off, I don't agree with you that when you use Ti as ENTP, you're just becoming an INTP. It's not...
So I've recently had kind of a breakthrough when it comes to understanding myself (particularly my Ne) -- partly from re-reading Chapter 10 in Jung's Psychological Types, and partly because I've...
I've always not gotten along with ESTPs. They're extremely superficial and when they're nice to you/other people it's because they're hoping to use you/them in some completely obvious way. I think of...
I'm sure this has already been said, but I can't read through all of these posts. The entp is not an ENTP at all. Everything you said to the entp is exactly what I would think / would say to...
Thanks -- If you read my other replies, you can see this is exactly what I've realized. It might seem obvious, but it actually took me a while to figure out. I don't think I like the idea that people...
Thanks so much for your response -- I think you're very right that I have difficulty seeing things from other peoples' perspectives if it comes to relationships/emotional reactions. (Similarly, I...
I think I'm INTP vs. ENTP because I'm pretty sure my Ne is subservient to Ti. I comb my environment for useful parallels and relationships that could support or contradict a series of rules about...
Thanks for the response -- I COMPLETELY understand that mutual friends can't all be mine. I would never ever be upset that she is still close with our mutual friends from home -- those are...
I used to think I was an ENTP, sometimes I'm still on the fence about it. I'm not invigorated by being with other people, but novel experiences that I can do by myself, I am all for. In fact, I...
I have grown apart from one of my hometown friends, who is an ENFJ. We used to get along as kids because I think for the most part, few people out there are truly N, and she had a terrible home life...
I completely get wanting to be part of an intellectual community. However, if I understand you correctly, you're saying that you also worry you can't do it on your own, so you need an artistic love...
I've just been thinking about why I have a tendency to sometimes overanalyze relationships that have ended with me being rejected in some way -- especially when the relationship in question wasn't...
I'm an INTP. The ENTJ in my life is my long time family friend (we have banged in the past but I now have a significant other, he at the time did also, but it did not matter to him because we go way...
Terrible Tamada -- I think those are some swell random thoughts. Americans do overvalue capitalism and equate it with free market -- when truly, you can have the free market without capitalism. Class...
This is totally a thing. My worst trait is that when I'm reading someone else's book/paper/article, whatever, I think about what I would do better instead of actually intaking the material. Which...
Clean, efficient, safe, highest standard of living in the world and you can tell because ervyone there is so pleasant and genuine, I was a lot in the North (like Bergen to Hammerfest, Alta etc.) and...
Welcome!!!! I love INTJ's and also Norway / Norwegians! I went to Norway the frist time a few months ago and it's the best country I've ever seen. Basically congratualtions on being from there!
I concur with your conclusions sir.
Thanks and sorry about that, for some reason I assumed it was a romantic relationship thing. I would still give more or less the same advice just change the pronouns; and I mean you also don't have...
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To get right down to it: (1) Yes I've realized I've been in complete denial before, and in particular recently because of a realization about my Extroverted Intuition. I can give the small but...
^^^ This. I think the extremely human, and enduring belief in God(s), the supernatural, and the paranormal all do something to satisfy some part of our brains that has difficulty dealing with the...
I replied to you a few posts back but didn't quote it - sorry ! But yea, even when I talk to another person I see the words they say instead of an image of whatever they may be describing. Then I see...
So you know how you have an internal monologue when you read something to yourself, (for example, these words right now) --- that's kind of how my thinking always is. I think in sentences as if I'm...
Hmmm... this whole I can't disprove it, so I guess I have to accept it may be real argument could be used to rationalize into existence basically anything. An idea that I will toss into the...
He sounds like he could be an INTP or probably more likely an ENTP ... Unless I missed it in your litany of things though, you seemed to have not commented on the most determining factor for INTP...
I read a shit-ton as a kid, almost always fiction until middle school / high school, where I got really really into historical fiction, and then just straight up history books / or books from...
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Global 5: sloan RLUEI; sloan+ xxU|E|I; primary Egocentric; R(52%)L(52%)U(70%)E(74%)I(72%) avoidant, withdrawn, not usually happy, does not believe in human goodness, loner, moody, avoids crowds,...
I have thought these things. Especially the second thing. I even wrote him a letter to the effect of the 2nd thing because he had written me several things and I had always promised I would try to...'
