Recent content by HAL9000

I think I've grown as a person thanks to the learning of my MBTI type. It made me think more about myself, my strengths, my weakness, and accept me for who I am. I feel a lot better now about the fact that I never properly connected with any particular social niche, and that I was always...

So being socially awkward is a medical disorder now, is it? Just get the fuck outside and gain some exposure. The only hard thing is finding a reason to go and do it. I think most of us here will agree that it's quite insulting for someone to suggest we need need medical treatment for being...

Actually I didn't say I was having any problems at all. I said I'd built a big concrete wall around my emotions. I guess I should explain more. Firstly you've jumped way beyond the line with your conclusion about me having some kind of long list of girlfriend after girlfriend. My 'most...

Totally agree with this. I chose to study maths, quite literally because I read a bit deeper into the INTP profile and learned I was meant to be good at it. It turns out I am good at it and am now doing a degree in theoretical physics and love it! I think INTPs just take longer to find their...

I did a module on c++ at university. It definitely isn't just memorisation. It's a language that you use as a tool for solving problems and designing other complex stuff at more advanced levels. Once you know it, it's quite hard to forget. Ok you can make little errors, but you'll never easily...

Ok ok, I'll add a final point that I didn't want to mention because it throws a huge spanner in my works. The one person who hated my method of 'sympathy' was my ex girlfriend. And guess why she's my ex...? Mainly for that very reason! Haha. Other girlfriends have not been like this though...

Very much agree. I try so hard to not be a cynic towards my studies. I know most of it is purely for the sake of me passing tests to get the bit of paper to hopefully make me go further in life, but I really feel so annoyed that I'm 'wasting' time covering things I don't care as much about. I...

Definitely agree. Thanks to books, the Internet, documentaries, etc, I often have moments where I quite starkly realise our planet is just as amazing as the one put forward in the film 'Avatar'. Really I think earth is just like that. We just don't realise it because we see it every day...

Hawkeye 1 - 0 Socratus Special relativity: Time dilation: Where L0 = the actual distance travelled, and L = the distance the moving object perceives. For v = c, L = 0. This means photons play their own game and as far as I'm aware it's yet to to be fully understood. Because of course if...

Typically we're known for our unnecessary cynicism and general detest at the wider functioning of the world around us. I know my friends think this of my character, and some find it quite tedious. Yet deep down I honestly think the world is a fucking fantastic place, full of curiosities and...

Primarily I tell people that the most important thing in life is to be able to look back and have stories to tell. I like how vague this is because it means I don't have to set any specific goals at all, other than to make sure the path I take is something I personally find to be worthwhile or...

Heh, jumping to conclusions over how I execute said technique, are we? I presume you're thinking I say things which may be summed up bluntly as, "Cheer the fuck up, nobody cares." But surely you know a key INTP trait is the desire for overall logical satisfaction of the party, so we're damn...

I agree with the above. Everything bores me greatly. I will only do something if I can associate meaning to it. For example these days I'll go out of my flat to walk around the city, not because I like casual walks, but because I know I need to go outside and - BINGO! - the reason I should go...

When people are sad I just tell them why they don't need to be sad. I never comfort them or try to sympathise, I just tell them why they don't need to care at all about their troubles. Works for me, so I assume it should work for them!

Possibly a cultural factor but I drink myself to oblivion at most social events. I'm the same 'me' but of course more drunk, and the main thing that happens is I'm not at all anxious about any kind of social fear, unlike when I'm sober and I just can't be bothered to talk and think socialising...