What Are INTP's Passionate About?

[tvrgvryen]

i'm passionate about sci-fi, astronomy and technology

 

[Grayman]

I am instinctually passionate about staying alive. Its almost an obsession really. I cannot seem to stop.

 

[Grayman]

Having children

 

[HAL9000]

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 interested in a lot of things, but I'm more than happy for those joys to fade and be replaced by something new.

 

[ActiveMind]

Martial arts, drawing, setting a new and better example, new technologies, imagining and coming up with ideas for new technologies using existing hardware, altered states of consciousness, etc.

 

[BigApplePi]

What am I passionate about? I can't name it, but it would be about something new. New means exciting, overflowing with possibilities. That is something to be passionate about for me. But not the emotion. It's the topic. What I want to do is take in, break down and use the topic. This means getting rid of the passion. A strange contradiction.
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Would this be like consumption? That is, on the sensual level one may be interested in eating something great. But the object is not to continue eating over and over. The object is to go through the eating PROCESS, biting off, chewing, tasting, and finishing down the gullet.

I seem to be missing something but can't put my finger on it. What's missing?

 

[sonofo]

Passion is a unpractical emotion.
That being said, finding something worthwhile to with this thing called life might qualify? it is where most of my conscious energy is spent. Of course there is the ever changing subjects that occupy my thoughts, but perhaps they are better classified as mild obsessions?

 

[BigApplePi]

BAP Passion Error

What am I passionate about? ... I seem to be missing something but can't put my finger on it. What's missing?​

Answer: Why I'm passionate about thinking! I must have been blind. How could I have missed that? INTP = Ti Ne Si Fe. My Si told me I was missing something and described it in the quote below but my Ne failed to catch it. Why? I didn't want to admit it (Fi unconscious). It's embarrassing.

Would this be like consumption? That is, on the sensual level one may be interested in eating something great. But the object is not to continue eating over and over. The object is to go through the eating PROCESS, biting off, chewing, tasting, and finishing down the gullet.

Thinking begins with a topic. The topic may come from subconscious Ni or conscious Ne. Then it enters Ti (conscious). It is bitten off, chewed, savored and consumed. Assuming it is finished, it is goes down memory lane to be forgotten until something external arouses it or indigestion occurs.

There is another reason for missing this and it is awful! To admit to being passionate about thinking would be to admit being an INTP. What is awful is society* would put binds on me where I would be restricted from entering the world of INFP, INTJ, ISTP, ENTP, etc. I don't want that. I want to know those other beings. I don't want to be trapped in some restrictive INTP thing that I'm not even sure exists!
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*I included myself
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[Double_V]

What am I passionate about? I can't name it, but it would be about something new. New means exciting, overflowing with possibilities. That is something to be passionate about for me. But not the emotion. It's the topic. What I want to do is take in, break down and use the topic. This means getting rid of the passion. A strange contradiction.​

Would this be like consumption? That is, on the sensual level one may be interested in eating something great. But the object is not to continue eating over and over. The object is to go through the eating PROCESS, biting off, chewing, tasting, and finishing down the gullet.

I seem to be missing something but can't put my finger on it. What's missing?

+1

Exactly.

 

[Double_V]

And once it's gone can it be gotten back. Or is that it, it's over? Does it evolve? Does it just get used up? Idk.

 

[nexion]

Anything and nothing, whatever and whichever suits me.

EDIT: INTPness disputed.

 

[Variform]

I don't know. A passion means something truly and deeply affecting. I felt it only for some girls.
I could say I am 'passionate' about finding answers as to why I am so fucked up. Or my personal TOE. But really, are these passions? It is something I do. And maybe I do it because of compensation.
I said I'd like to write. But when I think about it it doesn't make my heart race and my eyes aren't glossy with feeling. Maybe I don't have real passion.

Maybe I have interests. I have an interest in writing, making music. Maybe I live under a big gloomy umbrella shielding me from more intense sensations, like passion.

Or maybe when I feel passionate, immediately this is undermined or canceled out against a debilitating inability to go for it. Maybe it is dysthymia, that I suffer from. I don't peak upward or downward.

 

[cockroach king]

I'm passionate about music.
In MBTI terms:

Ti - My brain is addicted to the mathmatical-logical aspect of music. The system of 12 notes that all relate to each other in a very scientific way, combined with the math of rythym, is fascinating to me.
Ne - Pretty obvious, music puts me in a world of creativity, imagination, introspection, etc.
Si - This is a biggie, especially in terms of performing music, or even tapping along to the beat
Fe - Music has a large capacity to touch me in the deep emotional cavern, most people can relate to this.

 

[HAL9000]

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 interesting at that time. It also accounts for the INTP issue of flitting from one thing to another without ever firmly going in one direction; I don't care if my progress through life is disorganised and chaotic, as long as it involves an endless reel of sporadically awesome stuff (even if the stuff is comparably boring but I personally find it great) then I'm happy and the passion is alive.