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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...

I think this may be partially true. And I think it's because the ENTP tends to put forward points just to troll the fuck out of the INTP. I have other friends who will discuss things with me and I quite regularly concede and agree that they've made a good point, but with ENTPs I often find...

I feel that loads of people 'like' me, but they aren't friends with me. And I think that's brilliant. I have a couple of great friends in my flat on campus at uni, but our friendship only works because one of the guys is a definite INTJ and the other is.. hmmm.. ESTP, ESTJ, ENTJ, somethng like...

I'm honestly not passionate about anything at all. Everything for me is a kind of half-interest. I think subconsciously I feel it would be a waste of time to properly devote my life to any one true path, because that would mean shutting out anything else that may come my way. So I'm keenly...

I 50% agree with the OP. I definitely think I can recognise a person's intelligence just by looking at them. The other 50% comes when they talk or act, after which I immediately have a measure of who they are. First impressions count for everything, in my opinion. Generally I do find myself...

1. Learning to talk with strangers is something that just comes with time. You can't just expect to do it. I see you're a keen computer programmer. Well I'm doing a C++ module at university right now and... I wish I could 'just do it'..! But I know it needs time. Everything needs time. It's the...

Where do our types start from? :confused:

Original Post(er) And, just for extra lols... Let me Google that for you. :D

Thanks guys! @Lot - I wasn't exactly depressed as such. I was just utterly lost and hated the way the world seemed to be. I just did what everyone else had done, I finished school and started to play the game of life - earn money, spend money, rinse and repeat. I consider myself quite lucky...

Hmmmm. If you educate yourself enough, you'll find your skills will afford you the opportunity to travel, regardless of whether it's dictated by the job or not. What I mean is, if you're good enough, you'll be able to pick and choose where you work, rather than just going where a company might...

E=mc^2 was a curious by-product from the study of the momentum of particles as they reach speeds near to that of light. It seemed to be that a particle at rest still had some curious extra kinetic energy. This was a theoretical 'rest energy', which was then proven to be correct when pions...

Space elevator = impossible. The only part of the WHOLE thing that would actually be 'floating' is the top part in geosynchronous orbit at 36'000km. Everything lower than that point would not have a high enough velocity to have the correct centripetal force to negate the pull of gravity. So the...

I chose earth because this is actually a beautiful and rare planet with so much diversity, it's enough to melt your brain if you actually take a minute to properly think about it for a second. It's just a shame we have to spent most of our lives not getting to see it all!

I try not to lie at all. Or if I do, it's at the base of a silly joke or prank where I'll rapidly admit I wasn't telling the truth. I read a quote on one of those Facebook likey/sharey things that said something along the lines of, "Being honest is the easiest option because it means you have...

Hello all, new member here, British, studying undergrad physics in London which was best choice I ever made - I did the whole 'INTP lost, bitter and twisted in the big bad world' thing for a few years then thought, "Fuck it, INTPs are supposed to be good at maths and physics." and decided to...