'Good point. I don't think anyone suggested it, but it's best avoided. He doesn't need the fishing exercise.  Here a few points / questions:  Can an average joe make it past Semester 1 of a law...|||@Laguna - will be gone for a week. Left you a PM regarding our previous conversation.  When... not if.|||Why do you ask?   Would you ask your boss that question?   If not, why ask it here?  Your question also targets one of the most dominant social skill inadequacy characteristics of individuals...|||You just made all bhuddist monks and nuns redundant.|||I need a woman who is kind, loving, and patience.  And so does every  other ENTJ.  The last thing we need is a spouse who mirrors back to us  our emotional intelligence.  No thanks :) An...|||Speaking from experience, here's a recent short book (I own and have bought copies for several others including both my young daughters) that's got a very useful tool in it that is disgustingly...|||---> poke in the eye...  What happens when there's fire in front, fire behind, fire below, fire above, fire to your left and fire to your right?  You're a fucking star  Shine on ;)|||Fair enough, you've worked out you don't need it. You needn't use a hammer when a spanner will do.  The isolation you experience is common enough and you'll learn to ignore it as under-stimulation....|||@blackstar. Buddy - please do yourself a favor and grab (download) a copy of this test.   It's a reliable (scientifically validated and proven) test many psychs use in professional practice to...|||@blackstar  I hope my post isn't too incoherent.  Nope, your post is clear enuf. At the risk of sounding too-obviously therapeutic...  Emotions are very commonly externally caused. Try and...|||Interesting comment / hazarded guess. I've had similar experience with technically incompetent and low self-esteem teachers, lecturers and professors myself. It's a problem often experienced by...|||Laguna I need some ENTJ hormone injections  I just snorted coffee at that one! Thanks for the laugh|||For the record I see nothing wrong with having nice toys - I've got my eyes on a Lamborghini Aventador and I mean to have it.   It's important to actively make your money go around (in this case,...|||Laguna ...interesting post.  It's almost a law of business that you will get screwed over sometime and possibly three or more times. I've found it a useful learning experience, tho in one case it...|||It may be relevant that I'm a single father (Mr Mom and Mr Dad) - and the above decision-making style is certainly the invention necessary for being and staying competent under those higher...|||You seem less screwed up than just working your way through an apparent contradiction.  Money is an elephant. So this is one of your views:   money  is not a motivator for me in life any...|||If you can meet 80% of your social needs 100% of the time you'd be doing pretty well. The last 20% may be subject to the law of diminishing returns (much greater effort required for much smaller...|||How do you guys detect BS?By the amount of trust they require.|||Nice try.  less this, more this|||Sure. We would all like to be a bit more expansive. But that's a luxury a person 'in command' / with strong task-leadership skills  can't afford if they are to stay competent at their job.  It's...|||LyricalWhip   sometimes I'm not trying to stretch and grow...that shit is painful.....  You could play with him, of course. Ask him for a smart solution to making that stuff easier - lol ;)|||Kudos for noting the bitchiness of apparently ENTJ women. It's amusing, isn't it. Maybe just take it as a useful reminder that IQ has little to do with personality type and statistically (on the...|||@LyricalWhip  Interesting post. I've have had a few female friends express the same predicament about me. It might help to remember we are depth-attenders to the most relevant challenge at the...|||I tried to be reasonable with this guy already;  Do you mean the time when he first told you / went off about your car alarm?|||MsBossyPants - and thanks for the fix :)|||I'm speaking from my own successful experience of several (equally and more heated) misunderstandings.  It's a man to man unwritten rule respect thing.   Only a fool takes a stick (in this case,...|||You could also shorten the odds by talking to him man to man. And yes, it will take him by surprise...but it is usually most effective at achieving faster (in less than 5 minutes) peace of mind for...|||People talk shit when they are angry / stressed. Fix your car alarm and you'll probably find the problem goes away. Give it 3 weeks. Since habits (eg. his being angered by your crappy alarm) change...|||This is all I have to say on the matter.  Let me contradict myself for a minute.  You might want to recall that on any given day behavioral atmospheric statistics support that:  1. 20% of the...|||Wake up buddy.  Here's the point:  Random Thoughts, Tangents etc!|||there's a minority of people that seem to mistake friendliness for some sort of weakness which is an absurdity  that I cannot begin to comprehend.  I've never encountered it. There are perhaps...|||Small-p poetry:   1. subjective (versus inter-subjective) 2. self-focused or indulgently and repetitively self-referent (i-me-my over-autobiographical syndrome)  3. expressing a banal personal...|||It's amusing and irritating watching the dating / mating pickle of single ENTJ and high-achieving women.   I'm thinking of those I know offline. Successful enough but can't quite get their shit...|||You do realize the main male character is an ENTJ|||lol  I doubt there'd be any / enough time to get work done. It might be like eating rice every night. Different color, different shape, same old.|||MNiS... are you implying you never evolved beyond creating 'small-p' poetry? I'd imagine that would be rather trite, best abandoned.|||to: a space whale: I've been thinking about my post above today, and I agree with you. I also think it's a technological problem into the bargain.   For one, I'm quite certain I've personally given...|||If the first mass-produced robot isn't a cleaning robot...|||For one, I think the shame-and-be-damned approach of wiki leaks is immoral and foolhardy. That is, it excludes those whom it is apparently trying to help by attempting to 'forcibly reform' by turning...|||Tell us what you are good at, what you can do.   Make a connection between 2 things that may not be evident.  Tell us what you think, drop the word feel. Ask us what we think about a practical...|||In general, incompetent 'experts'.|||Of those listed, I use this one (only):  The Super-Intellectual Variant -becoming cold and distant -showing no emotion to others -shutting down feelings and increasing factual analysis  I...|||Hi Gandalf, yes I've written a few (20+), and songs (10+) in various genres - mainly for specific (commercial project use) purposes.|||Not being able to find where to buy another pair of my favorite shoes (suede brogues) despite over 7+ hrs searching on google|||Hmm, this is an old thread so I'd guess the issue (for EverSo) is resolved. If not, I'd happy to add something more constructive (methods) based on my own experience ;)   In particular, I don't...|||* entj *|||...said Deng Xiaoping, as he destroyed Communism with 5 words he'd mulled a month over:  To Be Rich Is Glorious  One mental breath, that does it, 5 words, max. I'm as good as Churchill, he thought'