'Where does your wisdom come from?  Specifically, I liked the part about optimists avoiding the bad.  Avoidance is usually seen as a negative coping mechanism, but here it sounds positive.|||Commerce is too business-extroverted-people related for me.  I'm planning on clinical psychology, but I don't know where to go from there.|||PLEASE tell me which type you think I am!  (Don't say A just because I'm curious about how I come across to others.  The curiosity is personal, but we all have personal inquiries now and then).|||I've wondered why we INTJs care so much about proper grammar.  It seems more like a sensing issue than an intuitive one.  Even though it bugs me when there are errors in books (hello editor -...|||Nope, PA not FL.  Where did the whole Nate the Great thing come from anyway?|||I've always preferred the temperaments, too.  The cognitive functions theory has a lot of correct points, but I don't think everything it contains is accurate.  So far, though, I haven't found any...|||More female friends|||Most definately.  Or if not, then something related to it.  What label has been applied I can't exactly say as no one's ever said it to my face.  I just get the looks, you know?  At least I think...|||Caffeine - no.  It physically hurts me (which actually can be the effect for some introverts).  Soda - no.  Sometimes when it's diet AND caffeine free, but at that point I think, why not just have...|||I sit right up front.  That way, I don't have to see all the uninterested faces and make class more miserable for myself than it has to be.  Ha ha.  I usually find something at least somewhat -...|||I eat to live.  This doesn't mean I don't enjoy food.  I do.  I like either doing things in abundance or doing them at a high intensity, though.  Since eating intensely (swallowing w/o chewing much I...|||Why do you think you're weird?|||I don't drink or do drugs.  I like having control of my mind.  Any alteration - even if it's positive - is unnatural.  I really dislike making the unnatural a part of me.  TV and all that is...|||Introverts have been proven to be use more acetylcholine; extraverts use more dopamine.|||NatetheGreat someone had that nickname at the hs I went to.  I don't think my hs was thug infested, but then again I wasn't really part of my hs.  I did my work and that's about it.  Do I know you?|||RainetheWolf, that was how I felt when I took my composition 2 class!  It involved critical thinking so I thought I'd be excellent at it, but it turns out my professor was a STRONG S, and she...|||How could you NOT think about this?  Though it's true as an introvert that I would prefer a small group of friends or sometimes even no one around at all, the fact that I feel that way just seems so...|||I guess the glasses aren't pointless then (they ARE increasing my GPA).  They're just boring in the highest!  What about the fact that I must take these boring classes?  Are you suggesting I try to...|||I usually withdraw from the world with utmost gladness.  It's only when I'm talking about something that interests me (psychology or philosophy primarily) that I become a confident presenter.  Well...|||OK cool.  This fits.  I'm 5w4.|||I'll be a sophomore in college this fall, and I go to a liberal arts school.  I can't stand the way we're required to take general education classes in order to expose us to variety or something....|||I'd prefer words to images. (Not that I wasn't confusing readers enough already with my post.)|||It's just that most INTJs I know are terrified of public speaking.|||hard scienceu2002  x96noun  any of the natural or physical sciences, as chemistry, biology, physics, or astronomy, in which aspects of the universe are investigated by means of hypotheses and...|||I'm 5 w 4 for what it's worth.|||The hard sciences bore me to tears.  The soft are fun though as long as I don't have to get emotionally involved - contradiction much? I know.|||Absolutely.  I wonder if it's any coincidence that I always feel cold (temperature wise)?|||Michael I LOVE LOVE LOVE your post!  That was so beautiful it hurts so much!!!  You have GOT IT!  Don't feel bad about going on and on because I got upset when I had to stop reading because I...|||I highly agree with INTJs as being scientists.  However, I absolutely hate the fields of physics and chemistry.  I like doing experients, but  not with potions and such.  I like doing life...|||Come on now.  Who else out there uses isolation and withdrawing as almost a life rule?  People suck and I don't give a f*** a great proportion of the time.  Why do you put up with nonsense?  Love?|||I've done my research and I'm definitely INTJ.  I can be highly outgoing though and have no fear of public speaking.  Somewhere along the line I heard about these special type introverts and I was...|||I was wondering when someone else was going to show his or her true introvert self!  I had acquaintances in hs, not really friends.  People I spoke to about schoolwork if I could.|||I second this completely!  I've been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), yet I'm NT and calm as well?  It doesn't add up.  Even if Kiersey was looking for the overall pattern, I have a...|||I listen to mostly pop music - I'm 19 I guess.  I listen to the lyrics, but I imagine how they could apply to my life.  If the song's about a relationship, since I'm not all that experienced, I might...|||Maybe it's set to the N's?|||^^ You're on to something (about me that I thank you for because I haven't figured it out myself yet).  Can you go into selfish productivity more?  That feels like what I mean.  Having the...|||The concept is rather obvious, but I think HannibalLecter brought it up because he was feeling a strong agreement with the statement at the time of his post.|||I also love if people correct me on something I wasn't aware of.  If I've done my research, I'll be pissed at people for correcting me (then feel grateful later if I realize they really did point out...|||I thought you were putting the last two quotes together!|||I guess I should explain further (to myself and you all).  I don't just want productivity; it's very true that even doing something like watching TV is accomplishing a task.  I want admirable...|||I like this - I like ALL the replies, but this whole short vs. long term concept never so simply occured to me.  I'm definitely a long-term productivity seeker.  I maybe get distracted by the...|||Tine and I started to get this thought in her feelings thread, but I decided to open it up specifically here.  Who out there is also a highly sensitive person (HSP)?  We sense (through our five...|||It's so cool that I found another HSP buddy!  You prove my theory wrong that we're all INTJs too.  Don't worry, I like being proved wrong (or right) cuz that means I can move on, searching for more...|||My dad keeps presenting this idea to me, and I typed him as ENFP...I wonder?  I'm a highly sensitive person. This results in my feelings being so powerful they can shock my body so much so that I...|||This coloring the font red/blue is a technique I use when I'm doing my own fun research.  Must be an NT thing :)|||INSIGHTFUL OBSERVATIONS:  Empecinado mentioned that the plot is already known.  As T's, analyzation is a joy inexplainable.    I believe N relates to the joy in finding more (new - not ever...|||JHBowden, opinion may not have been the best word.  Viewpoint/perspective may have been better.  I just was curious to how other NT's thought about this topic.  Kiwigrl, of course you're always...|||I do it more to myself.  Choosing to listen to others and let their ideas bother me is MY decision after all.|||Some parts of that were so dead on I literally felt pain (it hurts me to be understand I suppose because it's uncomfortable to me.  It's uncomfy because I'm so unused to it).  The interest part...|||Peter: (I keep addressing you this way - by name- because quoting your entire passage would waste space, and I have a serious aversion to waste - I think an I pattern).  I have always pondered...'