'People want me to be honest with them but can't handle the honesty. So I don't know why they bother. I keep my mouth shut nowadays unless it's with friends whom I know for sure appreciate my...|||5, not sure about my wing though|||Depends on how long I'm travelling. If it's a week or two, I don't mind travelling alone. Any longer, it would be nice to have company PROVIDED it's good company. If it's going to be someone who is...|||Being paralysed physically has come up a couple of times in this thread so far - that is a fear with me too - I guess it's not surprising because it touches on some of the ISTP's main concerns -...|||I'm interested to know what are some of the ISTP's greatest fears.   I have this nightmare scenario: I am a very private person - I share different parts of my life with different friends so all my...|||I'm totally NOT COOL with people pleasers! They can't get it into their thick skull that there is no way one can please EVERYBODY. So why don't they just be straight talking and call a spade a spade....|||I hated school because of rote learning and rules and regulations and the strict schedule.  But after I graduated from formal schooling and did my postgrad, where I was able to do unstructured...|||I bet the ISTP can play mind games better than many other types, it's just that we don't do it because we prefer to be straight-talkers, and direct in our dealings. I have no regards for anyone who...|||I'm seeing a pattern though - are all ISTP females pretty masculine creatures? I scored 0 on femininity and 92 on masculinity. I'm personally not surprised. I've never been a 'girly' girl. My ex...|||Independent Leader|||I'd think it's a little hard to fool ISTPs in general. ISTPs have a sort of clarity in their thinking and like to trace things down to root causes. In the same vein, when dealing with people, they...|||That's really funny! I can totally relate to this!!!  I hate it when people ask me 'How are you? Because to me, 'Fine' or 'Great thanks!' is just such a superficial answer, even though I know that...|||I like people who are not afraid of being themselves, who are sincere and genuine, who have no hidden agenda in their dealings with others. I respect people who have integrity, who stand by what they...|||Certainly not me! I do have emotions and I understand why I feel a certain way. I just don't express my emotions very much because of my preference, not because I cannot, or that I don't know how to.|||er......a bit like how right handers write with their left hands?|||I think relationships are about the worst thing to feel being trapped in. As soon as I even get a mild sensation of losing my space in a relationship, I'm out of there faster than you can say 'Run!'|||Geez - I think I just found my panic button from reading that!!! LOL|||It does sound like she's walked out. I recognise some of those behaviours because I am aware that I do that as well, when a relationship is over. When I've made the decision that a relationship is...|||Nope. Nothing wrong at all. But I've always been totally ill-disciplined with things that are not important to me. On the other hand, when something matters to me, nothing will shift my focus. I used...|||One thing I really love about being ISTP is that I'm always the last to panic in any crisis (except in the case where there is another ISTP around, then we'll go for a hot cuppa and forget about the...|||Scoring 'high' on any of the MBTI dichotomies doesn't mean that you are 'more' of it. Rather, it simply means that you are very clear about your preference. No one is completely at one end of the...|||I double majored in Biology - lab work was a breeze for me, especially in areas where techniques (sterile techniques, electron microscopy, animal tissue extraction, microinjection, tissue culture...|||That's definitely me. I'm always saying things as they are - in those times when everyone knows it but doesn't want to say it aloud. I'd do everyone a favour by just making it explicit. And I do it...|||I don't know about impulsiveness. I don't like it when people make the statement that ISTPs are impulsive. I don't think we are. We are spontaneous but not impulsive. There is a difference between...|||Hear you loud and clear! And thanks for confirming that I am not alone where working around everyone is concerned! Sometimes I feel a little rude about it, but between wasting my time and being rude,...|||Exactly - having someone decide my fate is not my thing!|||What are some of the situations in which ISTPs feel 'trapped' and absolutely hate getting themselves into?  I loathe:  - Meetings in which I am not the chair and have no control over what time...|||Agree on this one - for myself, I do a shut down until I'm ready to talk or interact again. Although, I'm never in a hurry to do this. I'll take as long as I need to think. Sometimes, I don't want to...|||If your friend is really an ISTP, then she's likely to be a master at the blocking game. Total shut down - the walls come up in every known direction. That's our 'armour' LOL. And no one can break...|||Agree with you DJArendee - not enough details, or could even have been an (apparently) TINY detail that has been left out but happens to be something that triggered this guy. I've come to realised...|||I don't think you should make the assumption that your new friend is an ISTP and then start treating her like she's really one :) Perhaps you could ask her or if not, just get to know her through...|||'Listen: I am ideally happy. My happiness is a kind of challenge. As I wander along the streets and the squares and the paths by the canal, absently sensing the lips of dampness through my worn...|||LOL that reads like a description of myself. I'm not a truck driver though. My childhood ambitions were: astronaut, firefighter, explosive ordnance specialist. But I ended up in healthcare! ...|||Exact sentiments. For me, it's never how much the person has spent in terms of money. It's about how much thought has gone into the gesture. Would any ISTPs out there dispute the statement that for a...|||Truly!!!! ROFLMAO....... Keep fucking that chicken.  And I have lots of other inappropriate things that I keep wanting to say at inappropriate times, just o keep myself amused. I work really hard...|||LOL..... you sound somewhat like a profile 8 on the enneagram! ;)|||From this ISTP's point of view:  Consistently avoiding mentioning your girlfriend to others is simply rude. -> It needs to be established whether he is really 'avoiding' mentioning his girlfriend....|||Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn is a line from the 1939 film Gone with the Wind - Rhett Butler's last words to Scarlett O'Hara.  It's so me - I would have said the same thing!   What are...|||There are things about INTP's that really drive me nuts (like the thinking aloud thing) but I find that I do like them in many ways, when they don't go off to airy-fairy land. I understand their...|||You can trust an ISTP to walk away cleanly when a relationship is over. Doesn't matter what the girl does - if your guy is over it, he's over it. And he won't bother to waste any effort or energy...|||Non-fiction that gives lots of practical application tips - definitely my kind of reading material!   Although, I never read instruction manuals! Well, I do - but only the section or paragraph that...|||Definitely NO romance! Yuck! LOL|||Any ISTPs out there a fan of Asimov, Douglas Adams, Gerald Durrell and Black Adder?  Nowadays I don't really have the patience to read a book from cover to cover, preferring short stories that are...|||Yeah...small talk is a waste of time and bores me to death. I'm often amazed at how people can turn the weather into verbal thesis. I try to keep my face expressionless but inside, I'd be rolling my...|||EXACTLY - they have no idea how much fun goes on in our heads!|||LOL....don't even get me started on THE m-i-l...... she's a truly nice lady but I wish she'd stop making silly jokes because I inevitably end up feeling a little mean that I'm not roaring my head...|||I hate family gatherings - especially those on my husband's side of the family. They sit around for hours talking about this or that cousin - none of whom I knew. And it gets worse when everyone's...|||Depends on how angry I am, and whether I am also at fault. I can still reason when I am a little angry. But if someone pushes a really hot button, that's it. Once a doctor in the hospital at which I...|||Second that. LOVE the slow cooker! I throw in whatever in the morning, put the cooker on, and by the time I get home from work, dinner is ready!|||If I care too much for other people's happiness, at some point I will start to resent it. Maybe it's because when I give a lot, I expect a lot in return. And because I rarely give too much of myself,...'