'Spot on.   I think our desire to hold the 'mask' up fades with time and gets replaced with the urgency of feeling accomplished. When you're young, you care more about impressing your peers, even at...|||I second trolling, if you have to suffer the stupidity of another person, might as well get some fun out of it. However I live in NYC where people get aggressive for no reason so I tend to ignore in...|||Long term, NFs with a preference for xNFJs as they round out my NTPness rather well. My current girlfriend is ENFJ with a weak E, which is pretty close to ideal. I wouldn't want to be with a strong...|||Haha, this is def an ENTP thing. I avoid driving if I can, because I always picture that split second where I'm lost in thoughts and my car gets totaled. I think INTJ's are better at driving long...|||All I know is, the race card has been completely overplayed in this case. The problem with media and social media is, everything gets distorted and sensationalized. Even if GZ was guilty of say,...|||Yep. I'm also completely uninterested in the party scene, after doing plenty of that in college, especially since I have a girlfriend and my main motivation for going out was meeting girls ;) It...|||I just turned 26 and I noticed that my social life is really not what it used to be. My closest friends are dispersed in different cities and I end up seeing them fairly rarely. Even amongst my...|||It's really two extremes: - If I think the friendship/romance is worth salvaging, I'll usually take some time to collect my thoughts, write them out and confront that person about it.  - Otherwise,...|||I've been working on a Healthcare analytics start-up with my INTJ friend for about a year now. We both used to work in Healthcare IT and got sick of our jobs and the day-to-day nonsense of corporate...|||I've been working on a data analytics start-up with an INTJ friend for over a year now. It's been an amazing experience and the learning curve is like nothing you will find elsewhere. Will write a...|||One of my good friends is an INTJ, and we get along really well. Any conversation flows seemlessly, and we often come to the same conclusions, albeit in different ways. One big thing is that I don't...|||Thanks for your thoughtful response. What you said I something I've surmised intellectually, but have not had enough relationship experiences / passing of time to understand emotionally. I'm 25, so...|||Hello crew,  Well, I've been busy working my ass off on my start-up and haven't been on here for a while! It's good to be back. Anyways, I wanted to get some perspective from those of you who have...|||That's BS. I think INTP have plenty of qualities that set themselves apart: the ability to deconstruct complex systems and understand them, artistic and philosophical sensibility, writing...|||Okay I'm gonna chime in here, on a little more serious note. I find the whole media/social media 'feel bad' campaign on the tragedy despicable. There's something about this public grievance...|||Okay NTs, please tell me what you think of my theory.  Time flies, life is short. These maxims are in my mind figurative  ways of expressing the same and only cognitive phenomena: your ...|||Thanks for sharing your impressions. Seems like we do have common aspirations.  Day  to day work really varies in a start-up. Some days I'm brainstorming  high level strategic decisions,...|||After one and a half years in IT Consulting, dragging my feet to work every day and feeling depressed, I went into a start-up venture with my INTJ friend. I've been working on it full throttle for...|||I'm working on a start-up which forces me to be fairly generalist since I have to handle Business Dev, Relations, Product Development and Software Architecture all at the same time. However...|||Haha it seems so. I actually know one INFP who is not at all like that, but rather edgy, so I'll take it back ;)  Glad we agree on Louis CK though - def ESTP.|||I have read C. Jung's essay on cognitive functions (albeit a couple years ago), so instead of making demeaning remarks, please enlighten me with your wisdom.   His inconspicuous demeanor has some...|||What?! He has a very inappropriate sense of humor and definitely no clear set of 'values', which to me screams NOT INFP. All INFPs I know are respectful and have strong morals.   I woulda gone with...|||Politicians are professional opportunists and sweet talkers. The US hasn't had a politician with real vision in a long time. The current level of political discourse is so pathetic, combined with the...|||I had an INTJ friend who used to work with me at my previous job and we shared views on the stupidity and meaninglessness of the work and the people there. We both quit around May and decided to...|||Cause we're all geeks... After inappropriate humor, this stuff is my favorite.  1) Absolutely hilarious Onion article from a few years ago already. There's definitely some truth to it - you lose...|||The perceived greater intelligence of Introverts is only due to the fact that they are more likely to engage in solitary, intellectual activities and less likely to be sidetracked by their...|||The issue of ENTP's being commitment-phobe and detached in a relationship is a classic.  I've been in relationship with an ENFJ for 2 and a half years - and I can tell you that even though it's...|||Funny this thread was revived. Anyways, I'm currently working on a startup and very happy with my new lifestyle, as it provides me with constant change and new challenges.|||So I'm sure you all know how badass of an ENTP Nikolai Tesla was.. Well The Oatmeal, an awesome online comedy blog (Comics, Quizzes, and Stories - The Oatmeal) is organizing a charity fundraiser to...|||There are two ways of answering the question:  1) Deductive reasoning (aka flawed syllogism): Upbeat and careless people tend to be dumb, ENTPs tend to be upbeat and careless, thus ENTPs tend to be...|||I LOVE Sim City. Could play that game for hours.  Frickin' APM. Interestingly, I find Zerg to be the most intuitive race. It's fairly streamlined in term of production and allows the most in-game...|||Cheat sheets for developers: Cheat Sheet Roundup - Over 30 Cheatsheets for developers  Free programming books: http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/programming.php|||Technically, high ice cream consumption would cause frequent brain freezes and may reduce effective IQ.   Definition of BRAIN FREEZE : a sudden shooting pain in the head caused by the refrigeration...|||Agreed, in fact beyond a certain point the marginal return of extra APM is close to nil. However I would argue that NTs (from my experience and watching others play) rarely reach that critical level...|||I agree with the planning vs. dynamic play difference.  Regarding Starcraft 2 I would actually say xNTP's have an advantage because no two games are ever the same and so even though planning and...|||Since I'm a newly-minted entrepreneur, I'll share a couple more that I think are very informative:  - Lecture notes from Peter Thiel's (co-founer of PayPal) class on Entrepreneurship at Stanford....|||Normal socialization and working prefrontal cortex means that you will have emotional responses to situations, no matter how much you dismiss your feelings or claim to be 'T'.  According to...|||Interesting, that's also what I observed with my INTJ friend. Thanks!|||How do you gauge people (I mean literally, the thought process)?|||I am in a similar situation to devoid.  I have a great relationship with my xNFJ girlfriend, although it took a lot of work to get here. I am also very selective about the people I let into my life,...|||I find a total lack of mental stimulation very hard to handle as well. I tend to fill my days with educational or thoughtful activities. However lack of activity does not equate lack of intellectual...|||Oh man, milking breasts. Top 5 sexual fetishes.  I think ENTPs are famed procrastinators because we spend upwards of 50% of our time lost in erotic daydreaming.|||I fear the nothingness of death, also the idea that I haven't realized my full potential on this planet/done all the things I wanted to do. There is something tragic and wasteful about spending all...|||Haha, I am full of joie de vivre! You're right, I'm over it. I just needed to release my rant of neurotic thoughts.|||So I'm turning 25 today, and I'm really looking forward to the day being over.    Why celebrate the day I was born according to an arbitrary construct of time?  I use to feel neutral about my...|||Liberalist, academist and environmentalist. The three things most lacking in the world right now, especially the USA (and its conservative tide of nonsense).|||I had the exact same problem in college with my engineering classes. With classes like E&M or Fluid Mechanics, I loved reading the theory from the book but we would whiz through the class so fast...|||Tall and athletic here. I have a rather wide chest so it helps for weight lifting.|||As much as I am concerned about the livelihood of my friends and family, I'm chiefly worried about my own death. Perhaps this is selfish, but at the end of the day the world only exists through our...|||So I've been reading up on Entrepreneurial Business theory and I came across an interesting set of graphs which I believe illustrate the differences between cognitive functions well.  The basic...'