'Now that you've added more details:  It seems like you're just way too smart, or way too inside your own head, or both.  Dumb down. Remember, this is just affection. This is not engineering.  ...|||Pick one thing and do it.  Drop all those things that you might like to do. Forget about impressing people, it's a waste of time.  Pick one thing. Make it you. Make it your personal brand....|||If he doesn't want to be friends, he doesn't. I'm not sure why he wanted to stop it, but he obviously did.  And about the first part of your post: I don't know how the hell women put up with us...|||This is too open-ended for most people to respond to, topix.  A few suggestions to become career-centered:  1. Find work that you like. You say that you are stuck in unpleasant work for some...|||I'm currently hiring for a few positions but have encountered a problem. For one position, there are two equal candidates. Virtually the same education. Virtually the same experience. Similar skill...|||Don't worry. Everyone probably already knows you're gay. :P|||10.  I'm not able to lie. I find that it's a waste of energy.|||I can understand why this hasn't  been responded to yet. You're not asking anything.  The implied question is: Why aren't women interested?  If you have the confidence to talk to women, and you...|||For the magazine problem, I would suggest that you re-frame your question as a statement. This is a beautiful thing once mastered.  As it is, Can I have that magazine when you're done? does two...|||1. I believe that providing little details about my private life will weaken the intensity of my personal brand. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.|||I've so been there. I would go to sleep every night thinking about all the things I had left undone. Then I would usually think about suicide. I was being so irrational.  I don't know enough about...|||As above, no one there will recognize you.  Take a break from yourself. Go wild. You might enjoy it.|||Nice to meet you! I'm not an INFP. I'm actually an ENTJ, but with an anxiety disorder that was caused by a health problem. So I think I might be able to give a unique perspective.    Don't feel...|||You have to find a way to quiet or ignore the inner dialogue.  - No one is professional when they first start (this is one I have a problem with, too). - You can pass if you try. - If you fail...|||I, too, have dealt with anxiety and panic attacks in the past. Once in a while, I still suffer. Mine was caused by a health problem and it never went away.  And it was truly debilitating. Like a...|||I think you wrote a very good scene here. It's well told and conveys the exact meaning that you were going for -- it is good to be emotional. You did that by painting your friend in the reader's mind...|||I'm going to add my perspective (everyone excited?):  I don't do any drugs or alcohol. Call it straight-edge or whatever.  I have no desire to get messed up.  The exception is: I'll have one...|||It seems like playing an instrument comes pretty easily to us.  But do we ENJOY playing an instrument? Probably not as much. I imagine, for more than just myself, there is an inability to connect...|||Just a note. I'm pretty sure that I can speak for all of us: an ENTJ likes a person if they talk to them. There's really no riddle.  If we don't like someone, we don't respond.|||Peter Venkman.|||The only imaginary friend I've ever had popped up mostly during my teen years: a six-foot tall blonde woman that was game for anything. Absolutely ANYTHING.  What type would she be?|||Proper artists are poor. But go for it!|||Edgy Alternative Risk-Taking Influential CEO  CEO is a damn word!|||I used to hate getting gifts. I would argue with people: I don't need it! Take it back god dammit!  Then, one day, I realized that being like that made me an a-hole.  So now I accept gifts. Often...|||See that white van sitting outside your house?  It's the FBI. :P|||I'm also the same.  I'm secure in my thoughts and ideas, not afraid of opposition or conflict. In fact, the lively debate that follows a criticism against me actually energizes me.  What does...|||I will admit: you're right in this case. If I was in the situation, I would probably lean toward your advice over my own. But there are many situations in which the balanced honest approach is...|||I can't be on a team. It is miserable. I need to lead and manage. Am I really alone in that?|||I'm pretty sure I was in an ENTJ-ENTJ relationship.  I was more dominant, so she progressively fell into a submissive role and became very unhappy.  It takes a big man to admit such a thing and...|||I don't even know what the hell affection is, to be honest.  Is it that feeling of attachment? When you don't want to miss a second of that person's time?  In which case, I show affection by not...|||I just tell it like it is. But I have learned ways to do it that don't offend people.  For example: even if you hate a person, you can think of several things you admire about them. So along with...|||This is completely me, minus the sweaters.|||Maybe I'm alone, but I don't hate it.  It's just that by the time someone asks me to reflect I have already digested and come to peace with said emotions. Talking about them is redundant, wasteful.|||Here is how I prepare to conquer the world each and every day.  1. I wake up and immediately play classical music. The good ones: the German composers of the late 19th Century.  2. I stand naked...|||I think authority is fine as long as I am the one with all the authority.  Otherwise, I pick apart everything the existing authority does and make it well known that I'm soon to be their...|||You're already in my good book. Kudos!|||1. Does intellect attract you?   When I was younger, I wanted the cougar: experienced, intelligent woman that could show me the ropes. Now, at 26, I don't want that anymore. I'm attracted by the...|||This thread is really interesting.  For my business, would you recommend that I hire an xNTP as my advisor/consigliere?|||I feel emotions, I could express them pretty easily if prompted...They just rarely get in the way.  I hate to see a homeless guy curled up with his dog, sleeping on the side of the road. But...|||I know you guys have tradition around here, but I could really go for the Incredible Hulk hurling a bear over a cliff gif.|||Maybe you softened him up. Made him more aware of his senses... Wink.|||Being general:  If you want the relationship to last, hopefully he's an ESTJ. They seem to build for the purpose of power to provide for family and loved ones.  ENTJ's want the power for...|||Like most trains in rural China, this thread has derailed.|||When you do it, sure.  But not when OP does it.|||Less likely to masturbate while holding pen and legal pad.|||Jobs, careers are ridiculous. Who can pick exactly what they want before the age of twenty?  Get a little introverted. Do the five-year plan like this:  1. Write down exactly as you wish to be in...|||That's fair.  But I believe anything that is predefined is genetic. The two go hand in hand. The only other alternative is creationism: the act of being given a personality--a soul.  Both are...|||Darwin. Natural selection.  1. Women don't get INTJ men. 2. INTJ women don't care as much about getting dolled up, that whole ritual.  That equates to very few INTJ children out there.  Just a...|||Unless they're a criminal, I like everyone. At a distance.|||One: English.  If I ever need to know more in order to communicate, I will learn another. Otherwise, who cares?'