My Advice for Younger INTPs
(based on my teenage self)
Do you want my two cents?
No? Keep scrolling.
Maybe? You’re caught at this sentence. You shall never escape.
Yes? Keep reading.
Don’t be too quick to find patterns and to judge. Allow room for complexities. Humans and the universe aren’t easily crammed into one box and one box only. Understand that the box is six-dimensional and even that’s not enough. You need to connect different boxes, throw some out and forge new ones out of nothing. It’s a puzzle, but you know neither the picture nor the pieces, only the space it takes up.
Admit that the unknown scares you.
Do not predict the future and freak out over it. You’re no good at future. You’re good at present. Realize that the future you envision, no matter how logically feasible, just doesn’t exist. Play through the most likely scenarios, find a sound solution, be equipped and LEAVE. IT. BE. Do something fun, enjoy your life. If you can’t find a solution, ACCEPT. IT. Walk in empty-handed. You don’t need to have an answer for everything. You’re quick-witted. You’ll think of something. Flex your Ne.
If you do mess up, stand by it. There’s always room to improve and you’re not perfect. I know. I know. You won’t do something, unless you’re pretty damn sure you can do it. And if you can’t, it hits you twice as hard, because you thought this through! You planned this! You perfected it!
But you didn’t. You only perfected it in your head. And there IS a difference between your head and real life – to close this gap, you’ll have to fall into the crack between them numerous times.
It will hurt. But the sooner you learn to handle this pain, the better you’ll be prepared for the future.
Analyse your personal abyss.
Chart it to know your way around your darkness.
Learn to love surprises. Life will surprise you. People will surprise you. You will surprise you.
Only give people advice after asking “Do you want my two cents?”. If they don’t, respect that they can think for themselves. If someone shares their advice, listen to 1)learn more about them, 2)learn more about how you appear and 3)search for valuable wisdom.
There are many kinds of intelligence and you can learn something from everyone (even if it’s how NOT to do something).
Don’t run when no one is chasing you - there is no honour (or result) in running away from your thoughts, faults or feelings. Face them calmly, but respectfully, approach them as equals, listen to them, tame them, own them, rule them. You’re not a robot. Your subconscious knows more than you do – what does it want to tell you?
Take walks and imagine that you can influence the world around you - pick up that car, put it on that streetlamp, so that it’s like a lampshade, start rotating it until it rises into the sky, hang the white stripes of the street onto it and make it a flying merry-go-round while the houses sway like grass around you. Stuff like that. You’ve got a hella weird brain - no drugs required for hallucinations.
Play the Professor Layton games. Just. Just do it.
Remember that life is a riddle. Do you really need anything else to keep going?
Yes. You need others. Not just as a way of comparison, but because they give your existence meaning and the right ones can bring out the best in you. All collaborations are hard, especially for you. But two minds united can be far stronger than two on their own.
You love humans. You may hate humans, but you love humans. Deal with it.
You’d rather die than admit it, but you’re such a softy. You’re weak to tears and pleas and suffering and just wish everybody could be content for once. You WILL jump in when you see injustice. You’re a horrible liar (unless you enter Total Relativity Stage) and you work best on a clear conscience. Be aware of how that can be used to manipulate you.
If you’re overwhelmed, let it grip you completely. Acknowledge it, invite it and accept it to gain control. See what it can teach you.
Try to be someone that you could respect.
When you have a sudden urge to do one thing or another: roll with it. Abandon routine or other plans and just dive in real deep. This will be your best work.
Last, but definitely not least: Do not shy away from dark places – illuminate them with your mind and form your own opinions – but do not jump down the rabbit hole. It’s tempting to just give in to the temptation of wild, unruly, chaotic, real, savage thinking. Thinking without abandon, without brakes or ever slowing down, ever falling, falling, falling down into the dark rabbit holes of the human mind until your logic is distorted and your thoughts colourful, bizarre and cut open. This will lead nowhere, except founding your assumptions on the blood of reason and living in a happy world of denial.
Instead, climb down ever so carefully. Reassess your steps so far, amend any inconsistencies and pause to think your whole mission over. Make these pauses your memory points, in case you’ll reach a Game Over. If you just charge full speed ahead, it will be fun, but you’ll end up mentally dead and without any results.
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