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Yes. Technology fields are best here, surprisingly core science fields like Physics are not so much. I got bored in particle physics, decided Higgs wasn't worth waiting for. Also you might not expect it, but a field you'd expect to be stable but isn't so much is law. At least I've read from...

The examples weren't clear enough? Seriously ... Pick any white collar career - lawyer, doctor, dentist for example, you can find a way of doing that that an INTP would probably like. As a lawyer you could work as a professor, tech law (you have to understand tech), or on the Supreme Court say...

I'd recommend staying in the field you've chosen, and just find a job/situation that works better for you. Big career changes rarely work out. On finding a better situation we can't help you, you have to figure it out as it's specific to your circumstances and opportunities.

It's not so much the career but how you go about it primarily, and secondarily it's something in STEM. Say you like physics, well you could be a solid state experimenter, which you'd probably not enjoy (all the SS experimental guys I knew were ISTX's - literally every one). Or you could go into...

Bayesian statistics.

That's not good either, but specifically they make the interesting point that any body weight above lean (muscle or fat) is hard on the cardiovascular, because the heart has to work harder in both cases to pump blood.

Is there a problem here? I lift weights, but it's been a lifelong impossibility to grow much muscle, I just get stronger. Which isn't a bad thing, I've been told by several doctors they they don't like having patients get muscle-bound as it's bad for their health (puts a strain on the...

I'll tattoo every word you write on my forehead from now on.

Suicide. Well actually I'd be surprised to see the parts to sell for anything, old computer parts are worth jack shit. I'd certainly just build a new one. On the old computer my guess would be a blown power supply since it's coming up dead cold. For one thing did you check the resettable fuse...

I used to sail a lot. Total PITA but fun when you get out in the water. Describe the boat for us. It always is.

Also while the Ne of one individual won't generally be much different from another of the same type, the same isn't true of Ni. This is a characteristic of all the introverted functions. The extraverted ones, being outward and taking cues from external role models (e.g. prominent people...

For me it's the opposite. My eye presents images to my brain, but what I see (how I think about what I see) is more in the particular framework behind the image. For example, when I see a person, I'm viewing them more through their type than through the surface pixels my eye picked up. I note...

It was all about music. I wanted to get out of the hell of school and large extended family (actually they're pretty good, but can't help it that every one is a strong Sensor) and so worked on it. Rose to professional level by 18 - loved computers (Commodore 64 was the rage then) but ignored...

Well whatever it was. The thing with computers is the field is so vast you're continually learning/relearning whatever you need for the present project. I basically purge details from past technologies (heck it'll probably be obsolete by the next time I get back to it), and just pick up the...

I'll give you some advice for the fundamental skills you are developing here. "What's wrong with my code" questions mean that you haven't tried enough ideas to figure it out on your own. The consummate skill of an excellent programmer is that you know how to look at a problem from many angles...

The easiest giveaway is if you're not a, variously described, 'lone wolf', "listen to the beat of your own drummer", and so forth. INTP's are the most independent of the types and this is the one singular feature I know of. The best ideas derive from this concept. You like being in crowds? Not...

Optimal living. Take a small example, people frequently use their inferior to make poor job and relationship decisions. Just knowing that can help a person avoid major mistakes in their lives.

Yeah, I try not to start thinking but slowly fail. The only reason I stay in bed another hour or less is I know I'll be able to work more (work=think) you an INFJ or something?

Sure I thought to mention but didn't want to tldr; Generally people often have sleep issues as they age, due to kids/schedule, stress, alcohol, etc. I think for me it's habit, plus there's usually something interesting to think about so when I start to think which wakes me up.

I wake up automatically near the 7 hour mark. Annoying, not sure why it happens but can't shake it, anyhow I doze for another half hour to hour.

Three Stooges actually, one of Curly's lines.

If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking until you do succeed.

What conclusion, that it worked well? Not sure of the question. If the question is devoting yourself fully to something then yeah - no halfsies, no holding back - usually pays off. Either positively in that you succeed, or negatively in that you fail and know it was the wrong path. Come to...

As others have said, clearly an ESTP. I know a couple, very similar. Not an N at all.

Learning to focus and work hard is THE predominant problem that INTP's face. General advice? I'm not sure any exists. We all have to struggle with and defeat - or be defeated by, that daemon. The solution though isn't really defeating it, but merging with the problem, becoming it. It's the...

No, because giving thanks is invariably to some deity or another. I do believe in giving thanks to Humanity however. To all of the billions of individuals who have gone before me, and spent their lives, blood and tears building the wonderful work I live in. But nobody understands this point so I...

Read A.J Drenth's book "The INTP Quest" available on Amazon. What worked for me was I wanted to find my path so badly that I threw myself fully into whatever I did. Scorched earth policy, I blew up everything behind me and went forward with all I had. Then, after making some success at it, if...

Didn't read the site or do the test, but thoughts on multitasking in general ... You're correct that Ne types do need a level of distraction depending on where it is in the stack. However it is true that for all people actual task shifting does require a cognitive shift, including Ne types*...

I get along with ISFP's the best. ISTP's are OK, but generally boring and less understanding. ISFP artists are interesting and fun.

$1k - the first sub 1k full genome test (startup co-founded by George Church.) I've been waiting until the $1k genome came around. Everything. It tells me every base pair with an online system (app basically) which relates all known information about each one. Frankly though I think...

Steel cut oats; smoothie that is mostly kale/collards, and tea. When in season a vegetable like Brussels sprouts.

Just live a relatively normal life. 'normies', though, I like that. I actually would very much like to regularly use Facebook, its a great way to manage my relationships without having to actually talk to any of them. Unfortunately I'm allergic to it. I honestly can't stand Facebook, it's like...

Deep Work Recommend reading. I think its more than likely the author is an INTP. The book is annoying written mostly for the business crowd, probably to sell more copies, but could well have been titled "The Intuitive Work Handbook". Nothing I didn't really know but never really thought...

Facebook? HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAlooooooolll ... rotflmao

If you're trying to sell something make sure its appealing to a dominant Sensing personality If you're trying to meet compatable people the most you can hope for is to get lucky occasionally

Working on it, check back later.

My day job work was used in the experiment which is kind of cool. We do scientific instrumentation and it's neat to see see the places it ends up, I think it was also used on the ISS and the latest lunar flybys. There are several possible explanations I've reviewed, my favored version is that...

23andme many years ago, before they partially gimped it. Recently did a full genome, waiting for the results. Not so interested in ancestry, it didn't tell me anything I didn't already know. If the full genome says I'm related to Catherine the Great or somebody that might be slightly amusing.

The story of my life. Large extended family, I've had to battle them for all my days. Then I grew up and figured I was free, only to have my siblings and cousins start up a new one, and pressure me to go. Despise reunions, it's all about some sporting events. Inferior Fe manifests in many...

Knuth gave a talk on this. Personally I don't think it's an art, or a science, but it's own thing that is both, and neither. I don't know what it is, other than I use science daily in my practice of it, and skill and experience is necessary for good work. I'm a straight up engineer, don't...

How so? It can be a bit of a grind converting everybody but that's the battle Thanks for that, I didn't know there was a wide/tall playstyle idea, looking into it.

Yeah, there's implications for us all, but I have no control over it anymore, so hit the exits. No it makes sense. What mattered was being involved before the election, now afterwards this is little anybody can do, other then make real contributions in doing our thing.

I'm normally apolitical but given the extraordinary nature of this US election took up studying it deeply as I could as a once in a lifetime event. I did make the vow that once it was over I would get out, and now is the time and my public declaration of such. I'm going back to my navel gazing...

OK thanks. Maybe I'll find the time.

oh my god 47 minutes? I spot checked a bit, something about millennials inheriting a dysfunctional society from Baby Boomers (mostly agree) and a few other points. Thanks but I don't have a leisure life.

Re: Ideal MBTI female companion for a male INTP Sure, on the wishlist of things I should do but will surely never find the time In my experience there are always those two aspects. And since most women are dominant F's, therefore most INFJ's are female you get a monthly tie in. I get the...

Re: Ideal MBTI female companion for a male INTP I agree there is herd behavior here, mainly because it's difficult to test or have first hand information on it. However I think there is good evidence and logical reasons for this First, observationally people tend to align on the first two...

Usually.

An interesting introduction for once ... 1 indicates probable dominant Sensing 2 indicates something other than Ti, probable Te, and also a bit of S 3-5 indicate external Judging (so XXXJ) 6 indicates dominant or auxiliary Si 7 indicates dominant T, with an ISTJ or INTJ flavor but we'll take...

The funny thing about non native English speakers is the good ones always apologize first, and the bad ones never do. Why is that?