'You just succeeded in making my day :D I think you're right, too--you would be INFJ enough for both of us!|||And moderator fail. Going back over the videos, I saw a few times where you started to say something and I never gave you the floor, but in real time, I was trying so hard to give you an opening when...|||Yes, yes we do! Not tonight, thought--you available Saturday morning? If not, we can set something else up :)|||Fat Bozo & Celebok  Finished your video, and loved it, of course. Jeff, I think you get NTP pretty darn well. Having achieved five guru levels myself ;) I have, in fact, encountered the exact...|||ENTP 2w3 answering the call :) I've got two vids lined up currently, but if you don't mind a little wait, I'm game|||Last call for ENTJs, ENFJs, INTPs or INFPs to join the Great Child Function Symposium and Knowledge Expansion Vortex!  Celebok, pneumoceptor, Fat Bozo, I will pm you with possible times by...|||And another! I chat it up with hallstrigity about cognitive functions, ENTP-itude, and the question of morality. With detours for Vikings and Leprechauns:  ...|||Teddy and I did an ISFJ-ENTP chat--check it out:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH4VUPL90rc  (The rest is further up this thread, or go to my YouTube channel-- jendragon42)|||Yay! Will try to set up times as soon as we get word on an S-tertiary.   And I can only assume that it's the physical object consortium at work once more. I'm under a life-long ban for insufficient...|||Too late! I accept your challenge. I'm trying to work out a sched with auclairedelune00 and replying shortly to @hallstringity, but would you mind adding yet another ENTP to your list?  Also:...|||Fat Bozo & hallstrigity--  Very cool. And yes, Fat Bozo, power to the P-e's for doing something unexpected just because we can :) Like turning a soap dispenser into a Dalek miniature. Sometimes,...|||hallstrigity, I'm always down. Lemme know!|||Well, you're certainly right that it's complicated!  I guess there are two separate issues for Ns (in my experience): the symbiotic, reciprocal process of Ni/Ne and the...|||We do, although the directly analogous relationship is between Ne and Ni--which is also exactly the same kind of symbiotic relationship in which Ne generates, then Ni distills. The difference seems...|||Um, this is where being an ENTP 2w3 gets embarrassing. I mostly don't care about helping people in the abstract. You have to get me to care about you first, then I desire with my whole soul to help....|||When I was trying to wrestle out my type, and I finally realized that I was looking at the head types because my brain is my image. I value knowledge in and of itself, of course (2w3/5w6/9), but what...|||Fantastic combo, 'cause I'm 2-5-9, nearly a triple play!  I like power. Love me some power. It's hot. I enjoy having it in and of itself, although I don't actually like using it except to protect...|||It does depend on why they're withdrawn--if it's for introspection and truth seeking, for example, this will not apply, but in general, for fear/shame/hurt/etc-withdrawn people, I wish to come along...|||Thanks for answering my questions! If I may pose another--what would it look like if frustration at failing INFP personal standards became the central focus of your life? (And you lived in an Ne-rich...|||Awesome answers, rd93. Follow-up: Did you feel disdain for that process because you saw the problems it caused within yourself, or was it related to external stressors (the way other people treated...|||I have to preface this by saying that I'm suffering from acute Stupid-Professor-Brain this afternoon. It's very similar to the conditions that I call 'sleep soup' and 'fiction-coma', only the result...|||rd93: Yes, yes, that was exactly the info-cluster I was looking for. Thank you!  You are a beautiful, beautiful human being, and I'm glad to have known you, even if only online.|||Do you feel that tendency within yourself, or do you suspect that it doesn't develop until the middle of life? I know you talked about consciously rejecting assumptions in your talk with...|||Have you ever wondered what we'll ramble about when we're 80?  Not that your mother or ESFJ church friend are 80, but my ESTJ grandma and ISTJ grandpa are, and the stories they ramble about now,...|||I have an (I think) INFP brother who was extremely difficult to type, and it might shed some light on our process if you could talk about INFP and perfectionism, pessimism and anger. Thanks!|||My MBTi plate is now empty, so if you'd like to do a vid with me, I'd love to :)|||Can I 'over-use' my secondary 5 fix...I need to think about that one. It's always been such a reliable workhorse for me for such a long time. I identify it with my Ti-aux, which is pretty robust by...|||Meadow:  I really like this set of descriptions! I find the 2 description more adaptive for those of us who aren't (S)F(J), while not excluding those trends for the type. I especially resonated with...|||Investigating the meaning of free will. If the above choices are indistinguishable in your experience, or a distinction without a difference, then that's input, too. I just want to find out how...|||Because I can...  I am throwing a philosophical question into the aether and would love to see what comes out.   I have been pondering the question What do you want?  It seems to me that that...|||Lady Lullaby and I talk all things Type 2!   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvuqYnkn7Kk   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mjlsLWlBbI  Hope you enjoy!|||Yes, yes, and yes.  And yes.   This is the family curse.|||Um, yes?  My posse and I were discussing our plans for post-apocalyptic survival. I will be the compound magister--my mission before things go wrong is to study Galen and memorize as many exciting...|||Hatshepsut's Beard, by ZOMG Smells. Also Nuee Ardente, Oort, and Chasing a Tiger While Calling Your Mum Long-Distance.  Hatshepsut's Beard - ZOMG Smells  They had me at Large Hadron Collider.|||We just wear our bad-assery on the outside :D  But despair not--we get you. There aren't very many of us, but we get you.|||You totally should. It's a university town, we've got plenty of use for communicative biologists :)  And you have a standing invitation to stay at the Unrespectable Convent and Alliance of the...|||It's a 3x3 matrix of {environmental/mental/social} feedback cues multiplied by {sensational/volitional/contemplative} experience of existence. I may find better words than that, but that's the most...|||The discussion? Well...I might be able to skype you in if we move the venue to my place instead of Village Inn :) We're using the book Turning Points by...guy...last name starts with an 'N'...I...|||@Ovinnik, thanks for the comment! As a fellow ENTP, you'll understand my desire to understand the snot out of the enneagram system, and then pass judgement ;) After a week-long wrestling match with...|||Darn. There's that research problem again ;)  Well, at least it was a first for both of us--just like in sports, you can manufacture a significant statistic if you narrow the field creatively!|||Aaaaand because I'm a busy, busy girl, my chat with @travelgirl1981!   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpklLozKncc   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8COMz5TvYk  ...|||So, at long last, here is the above-advertised discussion! (The part we recorded, anyway :) Hard to stop that Ne-Ni theoretical discussion!)   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvw22305hQA  ...|||And the chat I had with teddy564339 this afternoon, bridging at last the great NT-SJ divide!   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH4VUPL90rc   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTw6i5VGUDo  ...|||Behold the magnificence of my non-J-ness (ha ha!): Here is a discussion I had with @Flatlander a week ago about the different typologies and Ne-Ni synergy:  ...|||I never mind a question--NTP talking here :)  I got several things out of it, actually. The first, most important thing was perspective. Learning from the inside what different people need from...|||I actually feel similarly, but not in quite as strong a form. If I seriously can't see myself ending up with someone for life, the Rule Utilitaria is don't start. If I realize that it won't work...|||That people are more judgmental about what other people believe than why they believe it.  Go team P!|||Somewhat, but I don't think the need for individualism is a strict corollary of Kiersey temperaments. Although I'd bet that there's a better corolation between individualism and introverting your...|||Yeah, mostly. See previous post.|||Theoretical conceptualization is Ti, which is as counter-productive for ENFP as Fi is for ENTP--7th out of 8! Te is conceptualizing the thing in front of you. Does that work better for you?'