Pro at being INTJ

Status: Inactive | INTJ 5w6 | I obsess with science, math, and black holes. Note: Background and avatar images do not belong to me.

[introvertdear]

The Q&A Guide to Understanding Introverts

Q: Why are introverts quiet?

“The more I learned about introversion, the more my life started to make sense.”

[prospective-intj]

Intj here as well. That"frequency" pseudoscience-ish post makes me question your blog. Benefit of the doubt, however, as you're also an intj.

It's metaphorical...

[prospective-intj]

hogwarts houses as latin phrases

gryffindor: aut viam inveniam aut faciam (i will either find a way or make one)

slytherin: pedes in terra ad sidera visus (feet on the ground, eyes on the sky)

ravenclaw: timendi causa nescire est (ignorance is the cause of fear)

hufflepuff: ex nihilo nihil fit (nothing comes from nothing)

[s-c-i-guy]

The Planck Length

The size of the Planck length, 1.616199(97)×10−35m, can be visualized as follows: if a particle or dot about 0.1 mm in size (which is approximately the smallest the unaided human eye can see) were magnified in size to be as large as the observable universe, then inside that universe-sized “dot”, the Planck length would be roughly the size of an actual 0.1 mm dot. In other words, a 0.1 mm dot is halfway between the Planck length and the size of the observable universe on a logarithmic scale.

[rudescience]

That’s pretty fucking smol. 

[askaninfjyo]

MBTI ASK MEME

Red: What’s your MBTI type? Yellow: Have you ever typed family/friends? What are their types? Green: What is the thing you love most about your type? Brown: What do you hate most about your type? Scarlet: What stereotypes about your type are true? Black: What stereotypes about your type are wrong? Ochre: Have you ever met someone of the same type? What was your relationship like? Peach: When did you first start identifying as your MBTI type? How did you figure it out? Ruby: Would you change your type if you could? Olive: Advice you’d give to a younger person of your type? Violet: Which characters do you type in the same type as yourself? Fawn: What do you think contributed to developing your type? Cream: What form of MBTI do you use most (Jungian psych/cognitive theory, myers-briggs, etc)? Crimson: Which types do you get along best with? Silver: Which types do you get along worst with? Gold: Are there any types you tend to admire? Azure: Do you ever talk about MBTI outside forums/blogs/etc geared towards it? Lemon: Which cognitive function (non dom/aux) do you wish you had better control of? Russet: Do you ever mix psychology or personality tests, like the Enneagram or horoscopes? Grey: Are there any other types you think you might have developed into when you were younger? Purple: How is your relationship with your auxiliary and tertiary functions? White: What function are you currently developing? Pink: What color do you associate with your type? Orange: Favorite MBTI blog? Blue: What is your relationship with your inferior function? Ivy: What do you think of shadow functions?

[cinnamonrolltypes]

Now this is how you get to know someone

[leiabenna]

👀 these are cool

[random-esfp]

Omg I got some of these on pending I’ll try to answer them today 😅😅

[bevsi]

hermione and luna!

[infj-misc]

Everything changes when you start to emit your own frequency rather than absorbing the frequencies around you, when you start imprinting your intent on the universe rather than receiving an imprint from existence.

Barbara Marciniak

I love this so, so much!

(via infj-misc)

[mbtipical]

Much as I’d rather be theoretical, the facts don’t lie.

Ti-Ne be like (via mbtipical)

[prospective-intj]

...The discovery of a complete unified theory, therefore, may not aid the survival of our species. It may not even affect our life-style. But ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved an understanding of the underlying order in the world. Today we still yearn to know why we are here and where we came from. Humanity's deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for our continuing quest. And our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.

Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

[wanderlust-and-stars]

“Why are you so quiet?” It’s all purple guys…. From introvertdoodles.com

[super-space-time]

I found this in my developmental psychology textbook.

[grradical]

Seeing studies like this always make me want to scream at the people who say that men are naturally superior in science and mathematics and women are simply naturally oriented toward literature and history. Imagine if girls were just raised like boys and given the opportunities to be successful or encouraged to pursue STEM education. How much “smarter” would women be if we began the race at the starting line instead of 100 feet behind?

[smitethestate]

Wowwww.

[motherofhermes]

You start out as a young person with lots of vitality, and enthusiasm, but all this is gradually destroyed by the conditioning influence of your parents and teachers with their prejudices, fears and superstitions. You leave school and go out into the world filled with information, but you have lost the vitality to inquire, the vitality to revolt against the traditional stupidities of society. You sit here listening to all this - and what is going to happen when you have finally passed your examinations? you know very well what is going to happen. Unless you are in revolt, you will be just like the rest of the world because you dare not be otherwise. You will be so conditioned, so moulded, that you will be afraid to strike out on your own…There is no real initiative, there is no freedom, there is no happiness; there is nothing but slow death. What is the point of being educated, of learning to read and write, if you are just going to carry on like a machine? But that is what the world wants. The world does not want you to think, because then you would be a dangerous citizen, you would not fit into the established pattern. A free human being can never feel that he belongs to any particular country, class, or type of thinking. Freedom means freedom at every level, right through, and to think only along a particular line is not freedom. So while you are young it is very important to be free, not only at the conscious level, but also deep inside. This means that you must be watchful of yourself, more and more aware of the influences which seek to control or dominate you; it means that you must never thoughtlessly accept, but always question, investigate and be in revolt.

J Krishnamurti, from a talk to students (via 01030104)

[prospective-intj]

NT Moments - Schedules

INTP: So, I was taking this online course-

INTJ: How do you have time?? When do you sleep??

INTP: Well...I don't sleep for like 5 days a week, then sleep the whole day on the weekends.

INTJ: Really? That makes sense.

INTP: It does?

INTJ: I want to take online courses too, but I'm a very scheduled person, and introducing some new activities into my life would require me to rearrange my whole schedule. It's so much work.

INTP: I...have never had to do that...ever.

[mbtiandothersuchthings]

Some people are so desperate to define themselves by their type that they don’t even attempt to work on their flaws and just embrace them as being ‘part of their type.’

Fuck that. If you have a problem, grow the fuck up and solve it. If you struggle in social interactions, don’t just sit around blogging about how you struggle with social interactions; study behavior, acting, psychology, and whatever else you need to study in order to become socially adept. If you struggle with procrastination, don’t just accept it; Google ways to stop procrastinating, test new strategies for dealing with your procrastination, don’t just sit around and say ‘ENTP problems!’

If you attribute your problems to your type, you are simply hindering yourself from working on them. You are merely accepting your own flaws, even when they’re changeable. It isn’t terminal cancer, with radiation treatments and chemotherapy you have a high survival rate. Stop defining yourself by your type, and start actually fucking improving yourself.

[intj-dictator]

Great advice. Your actions and words are the only things you can change. You cannot change other people’s choices and behavior, opportunities presented to you, natural phenomena, etc. - other than by influencing these with your own actions. 

[mr-entj-deactivated20170125]

ENTJ vs INTJ differences from an ENTJ

This was asked a few times and deserves its own post.

Minor Differences

Healthy ENTJs and INTJs are similar, like two sides of the same coin, because they share all the same cognitive functions just in a different order (Te-Ni-Se-Fi for the ENTJ and Ni-Te-Fi-Se for the INTJ). Minor differences I’ve observed:

INTJs are more deliberate in their thought process, more thorough, but less mobilizing.

ENTJs are more decisive, more agile and more responsive to unexpected events, but more at risk for making snap judgments.

INTJs (Ni-Te) will perceive (Ni) before they judge (Te): “This is what I perceive and these are the facts I’ve observed to support it.”

ENTJs (Te-Ni) will judge (Te) before they perceive (Ni): “These are the facts I’ve observed and this is my perception of the situation.”

INTJs are excellent idea generators and value intellectual merit.

ENTJs are excellent idea implementers and value utility and practical application.

ENTJs would get an adrenaline rush from being the center of attention such as public speaking, delivering presentations, and leading a team. 

INTJs would feel a certain anxiety with the spotlight pointed straight at them. INTJs can (and will) lead if necessary but it’s not their first instinct. 

Both will cut a bitch. We don’t fuck around.

Leadership is not a skill or capability difference between the ENTJ and INTJ as both would do a great job, this is more a willingness to put up with people’s crap thing. Something along the lines of ….

ENTJs: “I’m taking the lead now so you don’t fuck up.”

INTJs: “Fine, I’ll take the lead because you’re fucking it up.”

Major Difference

Unhealthy ENTJs and INTJs are distinct and that’s where it’s easier to see the difference. ENTJs have an inferior Fi and INTJs have an inferior Se which means certain behaviors surface when they’re in a bad state of mind. The major difference:

An unhealthy ENTJ (inferior Fi) looks like a depressed Fi-dom that suffers from self-doubt, a sense of futility, fear paralysis, and will internalize blame (ex: ”I failed because I wasn’t good enough, I’m incompetent, incapable of succeeding, and useless. I’ll never make it.”).

An unhealthy INTJ (inferior Se) resembles a hedonistic Se-dom who disregards consequences for immediate rewards and will externalize blame (ex: ”The world is fucked up, everyone’s a disappointment, I don’t give a fuck anymore so fuck it I’m going to do what I want.”).

Both will still cut a bitch. We don’t fuck around.

Are ENTJs just born more social?

No. It’s important to note that a loud NTJ isn’t necessarily an ENTJ and a quiet NTJ isn’t necessarily an INTJ. I’ve seen INTJs expertly play the social game (I even know one who joined a sorority) and I’ve seen ENTJs slow to open up to strangers. Both can and will feel drained in social situations where there’s nothing to learn and an excess of small talk. That’s not an introverted or extroverted thing, that’s a stop-wasting-my-goddamn-time thing.

INTJs have an introverted dominant function (Ni) that takes information from the external world and processes it internally. ENTJs have an extroverted dominant function (Te) that takes internal logical frameworks and imposes it on the external world. That variation causes the introverted/extroverted split between the two. INTJs need downtime to process the information they’ve taken in which is why they can feel drained or overwhelmed from too much socialization, exposure, and input. ENTJs need continuous information (similar to how a car needs gas) to feed their Te and utilize it which is why they feel energized by socialization, exposure, and input.

Both will cut a bitch regardless.

When in doubt, go to the cognitive functions. I hope this helped.

[geekremix]

Hermione Granger was good at school and magic because she worked hard and asked for help from her professors. She was not just naturally talented.

If you feel like you are struggling and are too shy to ask for help, remember that you can role play as Hermione Granger.

[jinxmyride-deactivated20161103]

I don’t think people understand that I don’t just want books to read them - even having them around makes me feel better. Stacks of books on my desk and a paperback in my hands, even just seeing a book, it makes me feel calm and safe, their presence is magic.