'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?'