'Since I just logged in for the first time in a while and saw your thanks, it made me wonder.... have you taken a step in this direction yet?|||This sounds wonderful!  The real trick to reinventing your style like this is that it has little to do with your weight or your disposable income and a lot more to do with your confidence. (Even as...|||Having fun daydreaming about this with the alleged $1.5B (actually $900M pretax) Powerball jackpot...   If I won $600ish M I could finally have the hybrid career I've wanted to have:   20% poker...|||Not really. I'm not questioning the term itself because that would just be semantics. I'm questioning the theoretical prediction that certain MB types should have certain cognitive functions.  I've...|||Bumping because I read David Allen's GTD a couple of months ago and think it's fantastic, with just a couple of modifications. Would be very interested in comparing experiences with others who've...|||Ooh, I love your style!|||Cool bracelet. Sorry to hear you were crying--hope things are better today.|||Yah, I love all those, especially the leather jacket at t-shirt punk influenced thing.|||Yep. So how could you make part of what needs to happen to build a career, happen? If you can't last long in a job that's drudgery, would it be a better investment to avoid that whole thing and just...|||Well, first I'm sincerely sorry about your job. That's such an awful experience, as I've lost a few jobs in negative circumstances, and it really hits you on a number of levels.  Advice: As much as...|||Nice!  I love the goth scene, but I came to it late in life, so it's taken me a long time to feel at all comfortable with my own self-expression. What sort of bands do you consider goth?|||Ages ago, I shared with this forum the most emo year of my life, when I fell for an INFJ who had some serious issues and basically ended up breaking my heart because I gave her way too much room to...|||Oh, good grief.... :)  (That's not a good grief of annoyance at you. That's a playful good grief of knowing how we *NF*s talk ourselves out of believing that anyone could ever be in love with...|||Yes! Thank you.... 2 and 3 are directly connected, and it's weird how, having finally learned that it's OK if not everyone likes me, it's so empowering. In fact.... dare I say?, I think I'm actually...|||Ah, looking back at this thread after a while, my biggest thought is, I wish more INFPs would find areas where they're motivated to develop leadership skills! Because I infer that frankly, the world...|||You're drawing unwarranted inferences about a situation you know nothing about. My judgement is that further discussion is unlikely to bring us closer to mutual understanding, so I'm going to...|||Right on, they do work, but I'm struggling with how to organize my life so as not to wall myself off. I know grad school is demanding, and I worry that if I say, Let's meet for coffee Thursday...|||The single academic life is a particularly lonely form of loneliness. I know that I have to be extremely jealous of my time, turning down social interaction that will drain me of energy that I need...|||(never mind, deleted irrelevant and distracting point.)|||The harm is that, in my experience, relatively few people have the maturity to treat this as a highly speculative exercise in seeking to understand Hitler, the individual. Relatively many people...|||It irritates me to no end that people STILL think this topic is worth debating. What a total abuse of the MBTI.|||Looks like this thread has some new life! So I should update it to say that I now have moved on to a PhD program at a different university in a different field. I definitely think INFP/INFJ types,...|||Wow, I'd forgotten how much fun this was.|||Hotspur Lyssah Thanks. I really appreciate the sincere concern and positivity you both project, even though I'm sort of trying to tune this topic out of my thinking because of the pain it represents.|||OK, back to broken record mode. Why is it that everyone else on earth is allowed to find love but I'm not?  At least I'm happy with every other area of my life right now. I just have to dwell on...|||INFP's seem to struggle disproportionately at work (not a scientifically proven assertion, just common sense) because we all want to find significance, and mostly work is just a load of bullshit that...|||Sigh... I've  been in my new home in a wonderfully exciting city full of creative people for 6 weeks. Already I feel the same old ruts and dissatisfaction setting in. So many cool people out there,...|||The hard thing is to build up the self-confidence to realize that, if they're not interested in repairing the relationship, it reflects poorly on them and isn't something you should beat yourself up...|||I love Neruda. I would hunt down something from Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada but I don't know if anyone wants to read a poem in Spanish.    Cool, thanks for posting. I'd like...|||A better question is why INFPs like to draw broad sweeping conclusions based on only a couple of data points. :)  (Guilty as charged... although in this case, I think I have a dozen or more data...|||Yeah, I'm all for tolerance of noobs (not to imply that you're not) but I agree with this need. I've always wondered if a forum like this one would benefit from moderators aggressively merging new...|||Good to hear from you,  Hotspur. I've been really busy with a cross-country move but beyond that, just started to feel like there wasn't much to post about. And candidly, at first I stopped posting...|||It's pretty disheartening that this thread is still going on. This is the kind of stuff that people who don't care for MBTI point to in warning about its dangers; plenty of PerC folks are delighted...|||Introspiritual   Indulge me for bumping this old old thread. First of all, many thanks for engaging on the issues i've posted and not just opposing me with bluster.  I just noticed this point:  ...|||Yeah, CF = cognitive functions    But without empirically verifiable evidence, that could be true of any assertion. I could say, Most human beings speak Chinese. And you might say, That's not...|||Perhaps it's just their overreaction/stereotyping of you based on other fashion freaks who in fact are judgmental in a way that you are not? Just an imaginary monologue: Other people have told me...|||On a message forum (not this one), someone asks a question to which i Google to find the answer. I give the answer, then thinking i'm being helpful, i write:     All of that in my original reply....|||Don't spend years seeking for the one thing you want to do for the rest of your life. It's OK to course correct. Don't be afraid to try one option that you think would be good. Other people may not...|||There's the problem.|||Yep. It's so much more comfortable to leave it all ambiguous and open-ended, right?|||unclebigs: Why the hostility toward infpblog?  I happen to disagree, at least in theory, that alcohol consumption couldn't be correlated with MBTI type. Of course it's correlated more strongly with...|||Glad you're feeling better!|||This is why i've been so absent from here for a while. I literally feel like i have nothing new to say.|||I wish there were a way i could just filter out all the facebook posts about boyfriends, girlfriends, anniversaries, and babies. God help me, i'm getting so bitter.|||Hey, y'all. It's been a while.  I'm still working (temp) for the greatest boss in a near-perfect role for me. However, i'm starting to get the blahs. Part of it is sleep deprivation.... part of...|||Wow, i'm really quite a stranger here. Gotta find an interesting thread to post on. But i only read my subscriptions! Must find something salient to say.... my long time no see posts like this one...|||Sometimes we need to suppress our strong P-ness and accept that sample sizes are always adequate for generalization and that each individual case can be different from the pattern.|||Yeah, that's what i'd been doing, but i think having a very simple task list separate from my inbox is probably a good thing. If nothing else it indicates that i took a conscious effort to think, I...|||I've been working on this the last few days, and it's really got me excited because it's like the antidote to so many of my bad INFP habits:   Original Inbox Zero Articles (2006) | Inbox Zero...|||I'm obviously not real involved here at the moment. (Part of learning to be a happy INFP: Being ok with not doing everything to please everyone all the time... but i digress.) I enjoyed making the...'