'You're welcome, Moonious.    So guys, anyone here actually made use of the Strengthsfinder results to find their talents, and make use of them?|||In case you believe that focusing on one major or specialisation is limiting, consider this. The time you spend digging a shallow but wide hole can be equally spent to dig a deep but narrow hole....|||Hey Moonious,  Are you secretly Bat-Woman? :) Why else would the image be upside down?|||Bump.  Basically, INTPs tend to have either Intellection, Ideation or Learner as their top themes. I have all three myself.|||I've tried tons of things.   Go from general to specific. Understand the general message first, then try to fill in the details if necessary.  Use techniques related to attention, visualization,...|||I'd like to know too. Gimme a message when you find out.|||The more Jungian of you will recognize that Jung defined Extroversion as ESxx and Introversion as INxx, that is, extroverts naturally prefer the sensory and introverts prefer intuition.  This is...|||It depends on the circumstances. If you have a multitude of passions to fulfill, and having a passionate career will disable you from fulfilling most of them, then I'd say that a career that pays...|||@PeterTheGreater:  Does it matter whether we do the career of our dreams (especially those  which are hard and underpaid), or a job that allows us to live the way  we need/wish to?  If you...|||Some time ago I made a list of 40+ things I want to do before I die. Don't know where I placed it though.|||For the past one year I have a similar experience. I'd try and get a 'complete' understanding and get stuck due to lack of material that explain things sufficiently (I'm mostly doing independent...|||NingenExp:  I did not do any research on tritype theory. Question though, if tritype theory is accepted, how do the proponents suggest we distinguish between a 641 and a 461? This problem is...|||It's not really the artistic part...  Art is simply a consequence of being a Four. It is not what Fours are centred on. Fours' attention revolve around their uncertainty about their identity. They...|||N i t s u r e i:  However, I hope I'll be fine here for as much as I'm here, and I will  talk about interesting things, disspare some of my doubts about MBTI,  and answer some threads when I 'll...|||Loose structure, but good rhyme and rhythm. Enjoyable.|||Parallel worlds exist, and each world contains different challenges.  I'd mainly prefer a martial arts world, Renaissance-like world and a world based on Norse Mythology.|||To follow the analogy of boxes, there can be a box within a box.   For example, we have four separate boxes A, B, C and D. Inside these boxes we wrote down character traits on paper. The character...|||Another interesting way of thinking about this is that within any given variation, microscopic variations exist. That doesn't mean that each layer of variation cannot be categorized.  People can...|||1. Most judgments about human beings are generalizations, not absolutes.  If people can keep this in mind, they would not complain about other people making and using generalizations....|||Describe your own appearance.  Ugly.|||First, we should consider that perhaps the cognitive functions as we know them today are a recent emergence, and hence the time for our extinction has not yet come. Anyone who tried to learn about...|||You can try out the VARK Learning Inventory test. If you score low on Reading that might explain it.|||Please note that MBTI doesn't 'box' people in; it's more of a which description fits you most? kind of thing. The thing with hypothetical constructs is this: defining the elements of a construct is...|||I neeeeeeed to philosophize.|||A friend of mine who is not from the US wants to apply to a US college. He has not taken his SAT tests yet. The next SAT test won't be any time soon, so is it too late for him to start college in...|||You're welcome. :happy:  I'm not appealing to them about my emotional welfare. I told every one  of them about me being depressed and the end result led to this.  Honesty isn't always the best...|||The fact is they do not have your best interests in mind now. So now, you have to devise an alternative strategy. Don't make decisions based on delusions.      A man convinced against his will,...|||VivianeScrooge:  Being a multi-modal learner (see VARK learning model for information), if I combine audio-visual, reading and kinesthethic learning techniques I will learn very quickly. Hence, if...|||Only true for things I find trivial or tedious.    This happens all the time. :(|||I only enjoy sleep when I'm sleepy at the time I go to sleep.|||For those of you who entered or are entering university/college during the second half of the year (July-December), what was/is the month of your intake?  Additional information for how long it...|||He doesn't. But he feels the need to be understood. If he can't trust people to sincerely listen to him and offer help, he can't fulfill that need.  Of course, for me, I would rather re-examine...|||The painter smudges the sun with pitch black ink, This doesn't look right he then thinks, He colored its surroundings with black and blue And painted the sun ecliptic white too.  They then...|||@PWarren:  Since we got the same answer despite using different methods, the figure should be correct. Figuring out the equations was fun.|||Snow Leopard:  Very often there is no heavenly and elegant equation with a solution for careers.  Career decision making might be easier for SJs though, given that they often gravitate towards...|||PWarren:  Can you state what values you got for X when S=1 using your equation?|||Don't you have some grade 12 math knowledge if you are doing some economics question?|||On your other thread it seemed like you already got your answer though. I'm not familiar with programming so I couldn't check the answerer's work. And notation on computers are atrocious T_T. I...|||Lack of drive for externally measurable excellence.|||Consider that if people learn what they really should learn, political people and those in power would have a hard time controlling the masses.   That aside, I'm all for the Trivium curriculum...|||So...regarding the probability of admission to top tier schools, a foreign student with 3Bs for his A Levels would definitely get rejected right? Let's say he wants to go for a Mathematics program.|||Arrow:  Assuming that the observation is true, it could be because men were given more opportunity to develop such functions in the first place, hence causing them to become differentiated as...|||Provide these answers:  Let wealth = x, size = f.   What are the interval sizes of your wealth data? I am assuming you are using continuous data, so it would be something like this:  0 <= x <=...|||Skepticism and open-mindedness are not opposites. Cynicism and open-mndedness are.  It is not necessarily true that science is about discovering what is false. Rather, finding falsity is a...|||Here's my take on this:  The thing with gender is that it is randomly determined by biology. As for personality types, there is a period in which individuals are undifferentiated. This 'trial'...|||Care to fill me in, site administrators/founders/etc?   EDIT:  Admins, please move this thread to the suggestion forum. Thanks.|||As an INTP, it would benefit you greatly to experience tons of things in your teens. Do all kinds of things. Have one major project (doesn't involve achieving anything, just experiencing what it's...|||It's usually a good thing for a Perceiver to obtain enough information before making decisions. That said though, there are information that can only be obtained through self-experience.   If this...|||Dear 5w4 INTP,  You have a ripe imagination. But you often use it to create an imaginary and illusionary foe. You idealize the obstacles to your goals. You make the goal seemingly insurmountable....|||Hm. OK.  The OP phrased the question in a realistic context, so I chose the one I find to be more stable.'