'I tend to listen to audiobooks while playing videogames or working out.  Get a nice, exciting audiobook plus blowing the heads off of zombies coupled with intermittent physical exhaustion = win.   ...|||I think most other people don't understand the joy of understanding and solving a problem, and so they think that this sort of manic behavior is unhealthy and causes us stress, whereas the opposite...|||I'm pretty sure it's the S vs N difference, and my S vs N split isn't very high, which is why school was easier for me than many ISTP's.  Personally, I just considered the whole grade system to be...|||I think it's not really about whether education is Ti biased or not (Nor did he mention Te bias at all).  The main point is that most ISTP's find the undergrad engineering experience to be difficult,...|||See: How the Enneagram Personality System Works  Basically, the arrows attached to a 5 go to 7 and  to 8.  There is an explanation in that article as to what this represents, but the tldr is that a...|||When a Type 5 is unhealthy (depressed, whatever), they express behaviors and attitudes similar to an unhealthy Type 7.  For a while, I, too, scored as a 7, though I'm confident that I am a 5.  This...|||For me, the whole touching thing has nothing to do with just not being used to it and it has everything to do with being uncomfortable physically.  It's like telling a child they should get used to...|||IMO, academic integrity requires that PhD coursework be performed relatively independently.  It is one thing to request help for better understanding of a subject, but quite another to require...|||I like the excuse to meet up with friends and family, but don't otherwise really care for them.  Mostly, I hate gift giving expectations.|||ISTP's make good gankers: we're the kings of taking advantage of the situation to turn the tides.  So, any combat class with large amounts of burst damage and the ability to be able to apply it...|||This is an important point: being able to actually offer a solution, and have the person listen for and take that solution, can make such conversations rewarding, energizing, and worthwhile long...|||Being given the responsibility for someone else's emotions is simply frustrating.  It's like trying to have a blind man solve a Rubik's cube by telling him whether or not it is solved in its current...|||Parents tend to forget what it's like to be young, so they tend not to respect the combination of lack of experience and a strong zeal for life that is the realm of the young.  What you see as new,...|||Chunky would require actual peanuts, and they can't make it low fat with actual peanuts.|||Or, she'll feel like you're creepy because of undue scrutiny/attention.  It all depends on her perspective towards you to begin with :).|||That's a screwy problem.  The answer is B, 1 will light up.  3 shorts the left and right sides together, so the only voltage drop is across the top one.  All the others have the same voltage on both...|||I was listening to Oz Reimagined, and the story by Rachel Swirsky called Beyond the Naked Eye has this quote, which really resonated with me (the quote comes from the life perspective of a...|||I was listening to Oz Reimagined, and the story by Rachel Swirsky called Beyond the Naked Eye has this quote, which sums up an ISTP's view of this issue (the quote comes from the life perspective...|||I had thought 9 was a possibility for a while, but I'm more of a 5 with a pretty heavy counterphobic 6 wing.|||This...is one of my biggest pet peeves.  It's like talking to a high earning sales person: so many red flags go up that it becomes difficult to think of them as anything but a blood sucking leech.|||I researched it for a long time, and determined that it made a lot of sense for me.  I have major problems interpreting facial expressions,  body language, and tone of voice; I have the secondary...|||I always have trouble taking that enneagram test, especially the last sections: they all equally don't apply, or they all equally apply, and it's very hard to pick, which makes my answers sort-of...|||Yeah, now that I think about it more, I think the real reason I suffer in silence is that it's hard for me to understand what relevance my discomfort has to someone else.  Seems pointless to tell...|||In the book Armor by John Steakley, there is this scene, where one of the characters shares a story from her childhood.  She had a much younger brother with a little puppy, whom he loved.  They had...|||I have a toddler....it has its up sides and down sides.  I think I don't talk enough to him because he's not really using words much, but he finds other ways of communicating like bringing me his...|||Yeah, I certainly wouldn't apply this practice to just anyone.  It's rude anyway, so I don't do it as much as I'd like.  It really depends on the audience.|||This too shall pass - Ancient Hebrew Proverb.  However, basically one of the main themes of Ecclesiastes.|||And...another INTJ bites the ISTP humor bullet...pow!  Seriously though, it makes little sense for an ISTP (or INTP for that matter) to intentionally discipline themselves to meditate given that...|||I had a friend, who had a horrible compulsive stutter.  He appreciated it when people finished his sentences because it was actually less embarrassing than having to continue the stutter-fest.|||And then there's the whole finishing people's sentences because you want to just get on with the conversation already!|||By Meditate, I'm sure he meant play Halo or whatever distracting obsession you have.  Oh, and this same pattern happens to me all the time.  I tend to get in a slump at some point, and, after...|||One of the main differences between an ISTP and INTJ on forums is actually in the style of posts.  An ISTP will tend to make short statements, which are only loosely connected, depending on the other...|||I love this quote.  The basic concept of allowing the difficult feelings/experiences pass over and through, and then analyze it and learn from it is sort of a life-mantra of mine.  I use this...|||I went through a period in my life after a fairly severe depression, where my project was to get in touch with my own emotions as well as those around me.  I just think about being who I was then,...|||I find that, when I get angry, I stop being careful.  I develop this screw it attitude and use least energy (mental) approaches to everything.  This means if I need something moved, and it's on the...|||I gave my wife a box of chocolates for Valentines day, and wrapped each chocolate with a piece of paper saying something I love about her, so she gets something sweet with her sweets.  I reused this...|||ISTP's usually place themselves outside of power dynamics, which, in different situations, can seem domineering or submissive, depending on the other person's perspective.  A good example of this is...|||This is likely a case of not having the same vision for the project.  If you can convey more of the vision and the why of it and your expectations, he should be able to operate better under the...|||I remember the old days, when I had banner ads and pop-ups.  Then I got AdBlock, and I haven't seen them for a while.  (true story)|||It doesn't actually matter whether you had ulterior motives or not because no matter your motivations, the situation is a generally negative one.  Next time, if you want to get him something, just...|||Needed, absolutely not: that means I have to do something, or I let someone down.  Appreciated or Wanted for my ability to do something, yes.|||Actually, the call for coffee may be interpreted as both checking up on him again to make sure he will come over, and obligating him to follow through (how dare he not, now that you have purchased...|||Already posted in the ISTP subforum....recently:  http://personalitycafe.com/istp-forum-mechanics/123528-epic-istp-battle.html|||The key is dissociation.  If you can say you have/had feelings about something without actually showing those feelings, you are going in the right direction.  For example, I can be angry about...|||We are our interests....you are your feelings.  My core is your superficial and your core is mine.  The key to interaction is mutual respect/interest for what is important to each other.  If you...|||Congrats on your relatively minor encounter with the self-appointed morality police brigade. Ya never know where it's going to show up, though the ISTP subforum is usually less plagued with this...|||Separating yourself from the relationship for a while is certainly a good idea for figuring out what to do about it.  Relationships go through their ups and downs, but some time away can give you...|||My wife seems to have a need to emotionally rant about stuff (sometimes she even needs to rant about me/my decisions to me).  I find it not only frustrating, but difficult to pay attention to her...|||I think this depends much on the ISTP in question.  To me, expressing your feelings about something, and even with some tears isn't so bad, but the general need to say the same thing over and over...|||Well, what seems to happen is that, once the ISTP realizes there is no way to avoid the anger no matter the response, the anger loses all emotional/moral meaning.  It becomes like a boulder rolling...'