'Thanks for the responses! You guys are awesome!:proud:   I do that too, just wondering if it's in my best interest. I have Seasonal Affective Disorder, which means the low light around this time of...|||Pretty much the same as other people here. It's usually people who are almost-but-not-quite-INTPs. Like, and INTJ with a weak 'J', or an ISTP with a weak 'S'. That sort of thing. Also, i have a close...|||This is going to be long, but i'm wondering about a quote from the INTP description on intp.org. Here's the quote:   I know the quote tries to answer this, but my question is, what happens if...|||Just from da Vinci's paintings, i'm leaning toward I. There's an incredible attention to detail in them (Picasso and Van Gogh seem like what E artists would look like - not exactly famous for...|||Most INTPs i meet are pretty shy. Since i'm shy, too, it can be awkward being around them.  Unfortunately, i have to practice socializing constantly whenever i want to get better at it. :rolleyes:|||Good call, there's a broad consensus that she's an INTJ.|||According to MBTI, personality type doesn't change.|||How many INFJs do you know? Usually i find them either keeping their distance from me or smothering me. There's not much middle ground.|||I did look there, but only once. An INTP female had mentioned that it would be so easy to be an INTP male, and then a lot of INTP males were frustrated, because she didn't get it, because while life...|||J-types love putting expectations on other people. They like people to be focused and dependable and what looks from our perspective to be totally boring. (Did you really complain about games?...|||Yeah, i was wrong. Ellen Page is as INTP as they come. This is rude of me to say, but maybe it'll help other male INTPs pick out female INTPs - it's easiest for me to think of female INTPs as first...|||I don't understand why you'd call DeLillo an INTJ. He gives off a very strong Ti-Ne. Do i have to list all the shallow, clever ideas in White Noise?  You seem to say that every major...|||My personal experience is that when i get stuck with my writing and ask INFJs for help, their ideas seem incredibly kitschy, and their plots seem heavily, heavily borrowed from overused Hollywood...|||Agreed that Salinger's not an INTP. That's really interesting about Kafka. I never feel at home with him in the way i do with other INTP writers, so i've never been convinced when i saw him called...|||The first time I quit, I stayed clean for nearly three years. I found I was able to work more productively without the distraction and cumulative unpleasantness of cigarettes... ~Jonathan Franzen ...|||I think of Shigeru Miyamoto (who created Zelda...and Super Mario...and Donkey Kong...and Star Fox...and Pikmin...and cetera) as an INFP, though it's possible he's an INTP. In the last interview i...|||We're withdrawn competitors, for lack of a better way to say it. We're not in-your-face competitive like ENTJs are. But, at least in my case, if i see i have a good chance of winning something,...|||I don't understand this part at all. What do you think my post was about?   Let me know if i'm misinterpreting you. When you put it like this, you make this trust thing seem like a sacrifice...|||Its' both of, course! Itd' all; so be logicle... If Oth. peeps learnt how? 2 gramer properlly sew wee cud spend are tiem lernin hao too comunicate. Two feelerz rathur then ->waist awl ARE TiM?...|||So let me get this straight. You and your girlfriend have different ways of making decisions. You like to make decisions without consulting the other person. She prefers to make them via a logical...|||I'm not so sure about this. I mean i understand that having social skills can have value, but the amount of work and energy needed for an INTP to acquire them seems a bit high, considering the payoff...|||I think a lot of your volubility comes from the fact that you've got a higher energy level than most people's. It's good to know about yourself, but i don't think the MBTI describes energy. Don't get...|||I'm sorry, i'm going to have to stop this discussion. We've hit an impasse, where my response to a lot of what you're saying would be exactly the same as my last post. It seems like you're trying to...|||Yeah...but my contention is that your definitions of the functions are flawed. That's why I consulted outside sources, because it's easy (but pointless) for me to say that I'm right, but much more...|||Must... not call you... a nutcase... =p  I'm going to continue my Appeal to Authority argument about Depp by googling. I try Johnny Depp INFP and get: We both believe that Johnny Depp is an...|||Depp is consistently typed as INFP almost everywhere on the Internet. Aren't you an INFP? That would explain why you can relate so strongly to him.  With regard to Dante, i'd say his strict...|||Conan O'Brien?! :shocked:|||His music seems really inefficient, i'd say he's an extroverted thinker, not an introverted thinker. You might look into modern classical for INTPs - guys like Shostakovich or Messiaean. Have you...|||The Jung-as-INFJ argument i've heard is that Jung's INT type is closer to the MBTI type INFJ than it is to INTP. Again, i don't know this stuff well enough to argue it myself. From what you say about...|||Jung definitely has a strong Ti. The people who say he's INFJ point out that Thinking is preferred over Feeling for males in our society, so even an INFJ male could have a very well-developed Ti....|||I see religion (esp. Christianity) as a more conservative form of atheism. It's easiest to understand this when you look, e.g. at Galileo, who the Christians condemn at first, then, when they finally...|||Weird, my INTJ sister can seem too long-winded to me. INTJs seem to know what they want to say, but it seems like Te has to repeat the points it's making, sometimes several times, to make absolutely...|||There are a couple movie directors i was wondering about. Sofia Coppola and Richard Kelly seem like obvious INTPs, but there are a couple others who might or might not be INTPs, and i was wondering...|||That's probably Seasonal Affective Disorder. It annoys me when I'm depressed and people tell me to man up or whatever and get over it. As if it were that easy. Usually it's not their fault, because...|||Writing with proper capitalization is an attempt to fit in, which is handled by Fe. It's also been proven that homo sapiens can read properly capitalized sentences faster than sentences with no...|||In the short term we don't. If you give us enough time to think about something (hours or days), we can realize we're wrong.    We use a lot of superfluous filler words, Viz.:  really ...|||You're doing it again... :tongue:|||I think a lot of us do. :happy:   ...almost forgot Lisbeth Salander (in addition to -->these<--) http://img813.imageshack.us/img813/8212/lisbeth.png|||Once i was close to another INTP, and i had the same experience. Whenever she had cognitive dissonance, she'd have to give a long-winded explanation of her stance and why it made sense to her. I'd...|||I was about to agree with this, and then i realized that i was only agreeing because of my feelings.  Just sayin.|||Eh. I tried to make an argument. I have to make it out of something, which, unfortunately, means i have to make generalizations.   I thought your argument was that i WASN'T describing an INFP....|||Erm, citation needed?  How bout this one: List of best-selling books - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  Says that Don Quixote is the best-selling book. (It leaves out religious books.) I think...|||The difference i see is that INFPs try to be outwardly brighter/cheerier than INFJs, and INFPs are constantly hopping around from idea to idea, where INFJs can get stuck on one. Not necessarily in...|||I've always preferred Rose Red. But very cool that you chose a character from Fables. :happy:|||[re Ellen Page]    She backs down too easily, especially when people compliment her; that's an NF trait. Look at 4:10, when Craig suggests that she start her own show.  She gets too cutesy when...|||If you look at her interviews, her answers are very verbose, as if she doesn't believe there's such a thing as a simple answer. From what i know of ISTPs, they're very terse.|||Pretty sure she's an INFP. I can give a long, thorough explanation if need be. But i think her characters Hayley Stark and Tracey Berkowitz were INTPs.  Kate Beckinsale is usually listed as INTP....|||I'm not as disappointed that the vamp & woof myths have been eviscerated. I'd like to see vampires and werewolves retired. Hollywood was getting complacent, and we need new myths and new monsters to...|||I also think she's INFP.  ...but i also think the character Amelie is an INFP, and most people say she's an INFJ. :unsure:|||I read the first book and then saw the first movie. :unsure:  Don't ask.  The movie was terrible, :sad: but you don't seem to be asking about that. I'm just frustrated to see a lot of...'