'1) Dual-N-Back games 2) Read everything (looking up vocabulary you do not know)|||This is tantamount to a torrid love affair to a young INTJ.|||I can throw out some possibilities for why INTJs are reluctant to answer on the spot.    1) We are in the middle of a complicated thought process, which means a) Being jarred out of our intuitive...|||If you're in with me and I feel like the relationship warrants it, I can be very affectionate and caring.  As with Jack Byrnes, this circle of trust is quite small.|||It ranges between these two extremes.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAyVfmhgk0s|||What about journalism?  Words have tremendous power.|||Just take classes that you are good at and get a really high GPA.  Summa cum laude looks very good on any resume regardless of major.  This also keeps graduate school open as an option.|||ENFPs feed my ego by making me feel respected and admired.  They also laugh at my jokes.  ENFPs somehow suck me into their vortex and I wind up feeling goofy and out of my element (sometimes), in a...|||Leaves's advice is good.  Electronegativity was the concept that helped me the most.  Oxygen is an electron hog!|||Candide is the funniest book on the planet.|||If you have any aspirations that might require a college degree then a decent high school GPA is crucial.  If you're not sure about what you want to do, then maintaining good grades will at least...|||I absolutely hate when people use physical contact (tapping the shoulder, poking me, slight push) to get my attention.  I nearly stabbed someone today when she thought it would be cutesy to lightly...|||I bet FBI training or even a seminar on micro-expressions would be fantastic, but I hear that his cds are little more than different faces that flash on the screen... like a weird Flash game or...|||@ Calliope: I heard Ekman's software actually kind of sucks.  Since you like neurobiology you might enjoy The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy.  A very good analysis of how psychotherapy can actually...|||I would think the common thread amongst INTJs is curiosity not necessarily academics.  My INTJ cousin is a very curious person but his passions are business and health so he dropped out of college...|||Passive-aggressiveness doesn't involve conscious intention.  That's the flawed premise.  Nearly everyone I've known who has acted passive-aggressively would be/was mortified when I called them out on...|||I can't comment on you specifically (I don't know you), but when ISFJs try their hand at sarcasm or even wit sometimes, it tends to be a bit heavy handed and inelegant; a dull axe instead of a...|||PseudoSenator is 100% correct.  Math is hard work and almost nothing else.  I teach the SAT in Korea and I've seen too many students of mine go from 440 on the math section of the SAT to 770-800 to...|||Bachelors.  Spending the next few months jumping through hoops to get into graduate programs.|||Racism Giving up without trying Insecure, passive-aggressive behavior|||I do tend to become monomaniacal.  Right now my focus is Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.   For a while it was studying psychology.  My favorite moment was, weirdly, of vertigo and fatigue; I realized that it...|||Pareto's principle.    My only point of disagreement with the article is that there is a class of learner that does have its own learning style; kinesthetic learners.  Verbal and visual anchors are...|||One thing that's helped me tremendously in this regard is learning body language and making myself pay attention to facial expressions.  Even still, it's not a natural skill.    This is hilarious...|||Demetri Martin and Norm MacDonald.  Dry, deadpan humor.  For some reason, awkwardly drawn stick figures can make me laugh really hard.|||I'll throw in:  Birth order  Neurochemistry / Body chemistry (testosterone, serotonin, etc)|||Whoops. Sounds a bit like me.  If you find a mature INTJ I'm sure the experience will be different.  I don't have a natural intuition about relationships so I have to learn almost solely by...|||The answer was right above.    It's not that I think empathy is unimportant, it's that arguments rooted in efficiency, productivity, and self-interest tend to be the most persuasive.|||I take wrong to mean what is bad for business and right as what is good for business.  Nebulous, I know, but I thought we had a shared vocabulary to that extent.  To put it another way, the wrong...|||Wrong, both from an empathy and business standpoint.|||I'm guilty of this; not in the sense that I thought the ISFJs were stupid, but I had a perception that they weren't as smart as some others.  I was an extremely introverted child and I should have...|||This one went right past my bat.  I have no idea what you are talking about.|||Can I play?  I second the Giver.  One of the most important books in my adolescence.  It taught me that the world that allows pleasure must also allow pain.  Quite often the pursuit of pleasure,...|||Usually the instance of assertiveness from those who are not normally assertive manifests in two ways:  1) The request is made with unassertive body language, tone, and an unnecessarily wordy...|||I'll add that Clinical Psychology normally involves significant amounts of research which, if you are into that thing personally, would also fit very well with an INTJ personality.    The PsyD is...|||I highly recommend getting some real clinical experience.  This was an eye opener for me and should be for you as well.    Personally I love teaching and tutoring (and would find tough, weird psych...|||Dirty talk was a 1 sided affair; she wouldn't participate.  The rest was great.  She was very, very giving and affectionate.|||I imagine everyone including INTJs has had the feeling at some point (usually in childhood) in their lives at feeling hurt by ostracism.  I grew out of it early on by making very close bonds with a...|||If the truth shall kill them let them die -Immanuel Kant|||Speaking for myself, self-improvement is more of an instinct and a habit than a conscious act.  Part of it is, I'm hypothesizing, that I learned early on that most problems in life can be solved by...|||Consulting might be fun but beware research... I found it the most depressing, banal, soul sucking experience ever.  Please make sure you try it early on to verify that you would really enjoy doing...|||This isn't an issue anywhere else :bored:  You're beginning to bore me.    AFAIK, you actually have to train for this stuff. Doesn't mesh well with the rock star life.  Not sure about pokers....|||Ditto what VIP said.  I took up a Biochemistry major because I happened to be good at Biology and Chemistry and thought, why not?  I tore through my first year's classes because I was being...|||This is not possible for most Koreans.  Only a very select slice (usually the wealthy and the smart who can afford tutors and after school programs) get to go to the Big 3.  If you don't get into...|||Still.  Getting paid 6 figures to play computer games isn't a bad gig for a 19 year old.  Even getting paid 4-5 figures to play computer games isn't bad for a 19 year old... many of whom would only...|||I've heard more than once the depressed, resigned phrase it wasn't what I thought it would be from an ISFJ girl I know.  The part of me that isn't dead inside yet wanted to comfort her, but another...|||Personally I love history.  It's just fun to read and being more of an intuitive learner, I trust that I am learning lessons both implicitly and explicitly.  I was that kid, the one who thought it...|||Only when I'm bored or stressed.|||I have a quick question about ISFJs and group-think.    Do they/you have a clear idea of what is your opinion and the opinions of others'?    When I was younger I did the whole go along to get...|||It's a waste of evolution if we don't use our minds; it's the one advantage we have over every other living thing on this planet.  Not to sound too Objectivist about it, but IMO rational thought is...|||That last part hit it on the head.  Sometimes my feeling is so underdeveloped that I don't even notice that I'm moody until a few weeks after the fact.'