'The OP shows a writing example.  According to uclassify.com which has MBTI writing classifiers. The text is INTJ. I write a blog. Most of the posts are INTP. I am assuredly ENTP. I suspect that we...|||7w8, 8w7, 3w2|||Struggling to do something means there's a problem somewhere. Either its like trying to put a square stick in a round hole, or you don't have skin in the game. Find a round hole.  I decided at 14...|||I went to comfortable and quiet places like the music room in the student union, the library, an empty classroom, the 1970s verion of Starbucks.  When I had papers to write, I bought a new pen and...|||I learned long ago about many of the symtpoms you identify. I became a troubleshooter. I went to projects and organizations which were in trouble and found and helped them find ways to succeed. They...|||Neither Brain Nor Ghost - W Teed Rockwell  Truth and Predication - Donald Davidson  The Dictator's Handbook - Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alistair Smith|||My writing enjoyment began in a creative writing class in college.  I have also enjoyed technical writing; especially when the writing follows along with the solution to some problem.  In such cases...|||Or it may be to display his amazing insights to someone in the group that he was really interested in.|||There is the possibility of another perspective here regarding our ENTP growing preference for non-fiction.  Anthropologist James Fernandez wrote a chapter in his book, Persuasions and...|||Currently, I have around 80 books on or within 4 feet of my desk.  Two are fiction.  Twenty years ago, it probably would have been a large fiction majority.  Except for engineering, chemistry. math...|||I am on the other end of my life.  Looking back, I worked for three employers and myself for the last 16 years.  The thought of settling down as described in the OP still bothers me.  Any particular...|||In Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everday Life, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (apparently pronounced chick-sent-me high) has a chapter on the autotelic (literally self goal) personality. ...|||The instant before the first transaction Gray's balance sheet Horse - 60$ and cash of 20$.  Net worth - $80  After the final transaction Gray's balance sheet  Horse - 90$ and cash 0f $0.  Net worth...|||Animated Inventor  Confidence 98  (No! Really? My wife thinks my confidence comes across understated) Openness 98  Extroversion 96b (This one ws a surprise.) Empathy 10 Trust in others 98 ...|||It sure would be nice if there was a recipe.  I googled the number of journal articles on leadership.  Between 1986 and 1996, there were 17,200!  Does it sound like anybody has a clue about...|||I've seen the palpable fear objectivists have of the subjective, or rather the ridicule and belittlement of other objectivists.  I have seen the similar fear in subjectivists of the purely objective....|||I think we're stuck in that never ending quandry between objectivism and subjectivism along with the notion that there is no other choice.  There is no other choice - or is there?|||ENTP - Paul following Christian (non-denom is its own denom nowdays). Raised agnostically.|||In the days before laser pointer, we had the telescoping variety.  People would collapse and expand them nervously while giving the equivalent of a power point presentation.  They would play with one...|||I don't accept that INTPs have difficulty gaining tacit knowledge.  I suspect that they/we (I'm borderline - but I am Ne-dom except when I am writing theoretical stuff - strongly INTP) have...|||If you think of love as a collaborative work of art where art is merely a possession for display then I can see how you get to illusion.  However, if you and the significant other are the...|||hammersklavier and LemursGT,  I am perceiving that INTP is not only what you are but also who you are and want to be.  If so, I'd say the self fulfilling prophecy is working.  I hope that I'm...|||LemursGT,  Of course, the analogy falls short.  The bicycle can't refuse to be ridden, and is not self-aware.  That does not mean that you are prevented from deciding that you want to master human...|||hammersklavier and LemursGT,  Let me me switch to Ti ;).  Tell me how you know how to ride a bike.  You just know.  Its called tacit knowledge.  Tacit knowledge comprises things you know, but...|||You don't begin by writing a thread about it. :laughing:  Just begin.  Learn by doing.|||I knew a guy that intended to get a double major in chemical and electrical engineering in two years.  He had junior stnding after one. Then he discovered women.  It took three more years to get a...|||Whoa! Surprisingly close fit right on down the line.|||I took Keys 2 Cognition - Cognitive Processes|||Ne Ti Ni Te Se here.  I am in the throes of writing a book, so at present Ne and Ti are switched.|||Lets consider a different metaphor for argument.  Say: argument is a journey.  It works because we say things like: - We have set out to prove... -  When we get to the next point... -  We will...|||Stuck there in the Bible in Romans 10:4 is this:  Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth.  Go a little bit further and you'll find that the law ministers...|||We use metonymy when we say and act like debate and argument is war.  With the war metphor, the outcomes are win, lose or draw.  I think what you see above is that many ENTPs get into debate as a...|||Trait  Score Percentile|||I learned long ago that the most likely debate outcome is putting a person down.  The next most likely  is related to: A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.  As a result ,...|||006 said:  I just sound bi polar or worse seems like one of those stupid women who are intrigued by ambiguity and unstable relationships. Shoot me now, please.  At your age, the inferior function...|||006,  Lawyers are predators.  You identify with predators based upon your avatar.  If that's the way you go, then you represent the legacy of the first predator who asked, Hath God said...?  Your...|||I wonder why a bear would want to slow himself down with chainsaw arms?  My guess is the artist has no concept of the utility of of paws and claws.  If the artist is aware of that then chainsws don't...|||I traded in high salary for autonomous life.  During my early professional career, I maintained flexibility to do something else.|||Sexual ||||||||||||||||||||| 62%   Social ||||||||||||||| 42%|||Coomitment phobe?  - wrong metaphor.  You're in uncharted territory.  Just beyond the horizon in any direction you want to pick you'll find the unknown and the unknown bothers you.  Think of crossing...|||I think in terms of a comfort-discomfort scale.|||The wind blowing outside my office.|||But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.  - ...|||Been there done that, and they can keep the T-shirt.  I came to an understanding after viewing a long period of my life.  WE ENTPs ARE POLYCHRONIC!!!  Go find the definition if you must, but it...|||006,  So the initial issue related to a cost/benefit analysis of a relationship has morphed into something quite different.|||Accuracy?  Obviously, I never checked out the validity.  When I check personal emails, I get ENTP without fail.  When I check my management consulting work I get INTJ (weak I and J) - the more...|||Gut instinct since I can remember.  My first recollection of such a thing was about 10 years old.  I don't believe its a judging thing at all.  It has nothing to do with whether a person is good or...|||006,  All that I've seen on this thread sounds like you are an ENTJ wannabe who is an ESFJ.  But don't take my word for it.  Check out this thread...|||My ISTJ wife pushes me to make ideas reachable by anybody.  Then she jumps to these infernal conclusions which require clarification.  She's great at it.  She developed the skill while working with a...|||Think fractal.  I'm older than all of the posters so far, and I still look at the same horizon as you all.  What's beyond the horizon?  Among other things, more horizon.  What's over the horizon is...'