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It still surprises me how often people confidently type celebrities based on a few things they've said and the public perception and persona they have. For example take one particularly bad example, Celebrity Types.com Looking at the page above I can easily pick out some mistakes - the...

Proved ... Your personality type determines your paycheck You don't usually see MBTI make it into a popular article like this.

Something I've been thinking about, comments welcome. How much can we blame a person for their less savory type characteristics? When does a person cross the line with that? For example, consider the ESTJ. I know several and grew up with one. All of them (as far as I can tell) are narcissists...

Manipulator said I don't think there is a simple mechanistic algorithm I can give to start a career in anything. The reason is that the real trick is that you have to get yourself over a hump of being not somewhere (not a programmer), to somewhere (being a programmer). It's kind of like an...

What are these guys? I don't know what to make of them, but also don't know much about them other than they are rather reclusive. The Matrix series seems to be something that would have come from the mind of an INTP. What does that mean? It means that not only is there a philosophical and...

Realistically, in the context of the modern world, for example you have to go to school. What is your friend situation like? What do you do after school? On vacations? What do you get from your parents? What do you need, want?

PersonalityJunkie pins Gates as an INTP, though most sites put him at INTJ. Which is what I did unconsciously, anybody who built Microsoft has to be an INTJ, right? After some study I'm convinced he is an INTP. If you haven't seen it watch this, it's instructive not just to see Bill and...

INTP Personality Interesting unique point I haven't seen elsewhere. I've seen this to be true with INTPs and ISTPs. I wonder if this is a characteristic of introverted functions. Is Ni more action oriented than Ne, which is more of an advisor or seeker? This seems to highlight why some...

Starting at 00:30 Jung on typology Interesting comment. I don't put much weight on this though, he may have been deflecting criticism that he was trying to reduce people to four letters. Also he's not entitled to judge the importance of his work to later generations. For me personally...

I was thinking about when I make stuff, both physical and virtual. When its physical I don't know where to stop and it gets out of control. Examples ... Fixing a house. It started as a facelift light remodel and ended up where I needed to replace the foundation and everything left, right and...

Do you take it? Ignoring the relationship with the person, is that a life you want, why or why not?

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Another example of a delivery person caught throwing packages around. They got fired naturally, FedEx wants to show they're doing something and send a message to other employees in the company. Interesting to see where we're going with this. Everybody has a camera and video recorder now, it's...

Upgraded my home internet from 25 Mbps - now its 50 Mbps download, 10Mbps upload. Everything just pops now. Fastest internet speed I've ever used. The corporate network is slow, all internet traffic goes through a proxy which is probably rate throttled (mustn't let the little workers surf...

I'm not certain but I'm fairly confident Kurzweil is an ENTJ (Te-Ni-Se-Fi). The way to type a person is figure out their dominant and inferior. Kurzweil looks to be a strong Te thinker. One is he does nothing but explicate his ideas to the world, in print and continual interviews. He also shows...

I've long felt David Souter was a likely INTP. Intensely private, he never married and still lives on the farm he inherited from his parents. He famously avoided every public event he could, such as presidential inauguration ceremonies. He even looks like an ectomorphic INTP David Souter...

Netflix only. Anybody watching this? Cheap entertainment, I'm watching it to unwind. Instead of developing the characters and story it just seems to be unravelling as time goes on however.

A thread about classical music. There's a number of threads here on classical music recently, so I'm going to talk about music I like, I've played, the musical world and anything else I feel like. I'd recommend everybody have some familiarity with this form of music, and maybe I can post some...

Mrs INFJ cued me into this movie. Wow! Refreshing to see such a good movie with so many other bad ones. The main character has some INTP characteristics too.

Some older INTP descriptions say that we (INTP's) like cultural events in our free time. Personality Junkie (Drenth) says that INTP's generally don't. I can't judge as I fell for classical music, opera and Shakespeare early in life, for whatever reason. So for INTP's only please I'd like to...

First-ever human head transplant is now possible, says neuroscientist If true, and AFAIK it is, then you could imagine that in 20 years you can have a clone body grown and then just graft your body onto it when your existing body gets too old.

New articles on Personality Junkie Typology 101 The Eight Functions (Typology 201) The Functional Stack (Typology 301) The Inferior Function (Typology 401)

Staffed only by INTP's. Pretend you're a venture capitalist and you have 10 million to spend on this, and you want it to succeed. What problem is being solved? How would you structure it (managers, artists, ...?) What is the probable outcome, difficulties and accomplishments?

Has anybody read these books? Amazon.com: Facets of Type: Activities to Develop the Type Preferences (9780974375175): Gary Hartzler, Margaret Hartzler: Books@@AMEPARAM@@http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51K1lS1t5FL.@@AMEPARAM@@51K1lS1t5FL Functions of Type: Activities for Developing the...

She is a self declared INFP. Unusual for a public figure to type themselves. Interestingly, as PersonalityJunkie points out ...

Email update from Personality Junkie Of all the personality dimensions, none has more scientific backing than that of introversion and extraversion. This fact is wonderfully documented and illustrated in Susan Cain’s 2012 masterpiece, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop...

Three parts to this question. Look at the previous week - or typical week or month if the most recent was atypical. What were you doing most of the time? What do you think your type is? What would you like to be doing most of the time, if different from what you did? Why? On the first part...

High probability of conceptual artist John Baldessari being an INTP Baldessari This not that

Personality Junkie has a new article taking a look at type and somatics Cognitive Type, Functions, & Eye Movements: Ni, Ne, Fi, Ti, Se, Si, Fe, Te

I only type a famous person when I'm 99% sure of what they are. With many it's difficult to determine, they have a public persona that obscures the real person underneath. Well that's true for all of them to one degree or another. Mrs Archie has determined that Laurie Anderson is an INTP...

From a Personality Junkie email I received. What's amusing is that #4 describes me perfectly. I'm relaxed, receptive and adaptable, but am also neat and very organized. My INFJ wife is firm, direct and very opinionated, but is ... less neat and organized. While she has big dreams to...

So Apple should be announcing a Mac Pro replacement at WWDC next week. I think this is canonical This underlined line will determine the future of my (copious) computer purchases. My guess is that it will support RAM upgrades (with inadequate slots, namely 2-4), drive upgrades (only 1-2...

An open discussion about the pros and cons about programming as a career for an INTP. I've recommended it enough, I'd also like to hear from detractors. Also invited a "special guest" from INTPc to contribute.

Who wins in your opinion and why? I've been studying graphic card technology for a while here and have formed an opinion, curious as to what the forum thinks. Seems to me like Nvidia is the leader. They take the stupid brute force (and hotter) approach but it seems to be working. On the...

How do you spot intuitives? I'm terrible at spotting ENFX's for example. We have a friend who is either an ENFP or ESFP and I just can't decide. I've never natively discovered an ENFX. Oddly I find Sensors easy to spot. Often by body type because they're so into their Thanksgivings...

Want to help map the human brain and play a game at the same time? http://www.eyewire.org It's actually quite fun. Gamification of neuron mapping. Don't bother trying it in Safari or IE by the way, use Chrome.

Sounds like an INTP, or at least is living the INTP dream Unheralded Mathematician Bridges the Prime Gap

Something I'm catching myself doing constantly, curious about other INTP's on this one - do you constantly analyze things that happen in your life? I believe it is the effect of Si on Ti/Ne and I've read about it in the profiles. For example I was invited to travel to be part of an event, but...

A theory I've been working on. The title is somewhat for effect, read on for a deeper understanding of this idea. I think the letters cause the greatest confusion in MBTI, which more properly operates on the functions (Ti, Ne, Si, Fe). My premise is that for all practical purposes the letters...

In the AA thread I posted about this new article by PJ Introverted Feeling (Fi) vs. Introverted Thinking (Ti) This dives deep into something I've puzzled about, which is that for me personally pure Logic has not been the driving force in my life. In this sense comparing INTP's to Vulcans...

What do you do the most work on, prefer, generally like the best? Apologies if you're not mac centric but to keep it simple I cast the vote in terms of an Apple lineup. I think this says a lot about a persons personality too. My vote; 17" MBP. iPad's are only good for very light media...

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I've got a conundrum. My kid has grown out of the simpler games into the sophisticated ones, and I'm enjoying playing with him. I've got a beefed Mac Pro and he has a mini. I need to get him a new computer, but like me he prefers OS X for most things (including games but reports, web, etc) and...

Many or most people seem to misunderstand the basic ideas of MBTI which I'll break out here. I've posted variations on this in many threads recently which is why I think it deserves its own space. Everybody has the following capabilities: E, I, N, S, T, F, J and P. Everybody has the...

Or mostly obsolete? Consider the Google Art Project. Extremely high resolution pictures of art. I remember being in the Louvre and so of course had to stop by the Mona Lisa. It was a mob scene. It's a rather small painting anyhow and behind thick glass, I couldn't get past the Chinese...

I abandoned popular media ages ago, except after 9/11 I started reading Yahoo to see what was going on in the Zeit. I'm getting ready to break that habit as its really gone down hill. Popular media is a horror show to an INTP. What made me think of that on Yahoo was a top line story about the...

I came across the following This is interesting. I've viewed Si as an information gatherer from the past But I never considered mundane tasks related to the Si function. This is a fascinating thought, one of the things about myself is that I can pull off mundane tasks when I have to. A good...

A lot of struggling recently on why or why not typology exists. I thought I'd discuss a theory I've been kicking around the back of my head. § Summary Psychological type exists at all not due to some built in characteristic (e.g. genetic programming or motivational choice), but because of the...

Have anything that will just take out your day? Happened to me today. Had to go to a long meeting. Then got a long phone call from a family member, then had to fix an IT problem on my home network. Somehow all this killed my afternoon, not in any kind of useful or interesting way. pwned

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