I am an INTP

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I really tried making the title less cultish. Maybe I should change it to Satanist but I will be damned if you recommend activist or some bullshit -ism.

Anyway, I think it was about two maybe three days ago I happened on a personality type video in my youtube feed again. I watched it and the person just happen to make sense. Kinda.

I think it was one of these vids where the guy parodies all 16 personality types in different situations.

A few months before I did take the Myers-Briggs Personality Quiz, because it is a fucking quiz so get off my back... and it is interesting. Shut up.

The results from that test were ISTP.

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So following that I proceeded to skip the videos about all the types and focus only on the ones about my type. A few videos down the line I started thinking there is something off. For example I really liked this one, which was one of the first ones I watched.

I think I like it because it is quite a negative video and that means it has a big focus on the weaker emotional and social aspects.

Other videos about ISTP's were more comprehensive and that is when I realised what it was that kept bothering me about "being" that type. The focus on mastery.

I don't care about mastering any skill really, and I don't go that deep in learning something either. I am definitely more a jack of all trades and master of none.

No biggy, I remember taking a personality test before and although I could not find the results it was definitely one with an "I" and a "P" only the middle two letters I am not too sure about but since I do not think it is the "S" which is that sensing and mastery part then it must be the "N" and second it must be the "T" because the alternative is feeling and really feeling sucks no matter where you put it.

So I am INTP. Simple. So now I can tell Youtube that and find only relevant information. Which I for the most part did. I really like this guys videos, although he is a bit... Soft.

He does make sense and clearly has spent the time considering everything. I think definitely worth a listen even if you are just into happy-clappy self-improvement.

If anyone calls me listening to these videos self-improvement.

So with that and a few podcasts, I have decided that I am definitely an INTP... for now.


So what!


Fair enough, it does not really matter so at the very least I got a post out of it. Other than considering personality types bullshit it is far less than say star-signs, they have a practical and quite reliable use. Unlike your religion.

Now I am no expert, I have only been binging the info the past few days and hardly did the effort to understand the individual components. I like the idea of it all and how things work together and although it is seemingly just 4 definitive characteristics the resulting variables combined with experience is infinite.

That is nice isn't it, here you have something with seemingly infinite variables at the foundation of a persons wants and needs, throw in a bit schizophrenia and account for that and their culture then sure you have a cure-all.

Ok maybe not a cure-all since you still have to deal with pesky free will and feelings and stuff. It is a start though, a nice way to categorize for me at least my actions and intent.

If I can apply it to myself I can apply it to others and with that I can also do a better job of anticipating and avoiding.

I can assert pressure to situations knowing I am playing to my strengths instead of allowing a weaker side of me getting me into trouble. Like all the times I say yes just to get rid of people.


Yip. Agree to suffer.

So it is a nifty little thing. If anything. I will be reading but mostly just listening out of curiosity to more podcasts on the subject.

Since it all falls in the realm of psychology I think the benefit is that you have this whole other side to a field which starts forming part of philosophy because of the understanding yourself nature. What is better than understanding yourself? Well, being able to know for certain that other people are as stupid as you assume they are. Say for example you are in charge of bringing back the death penalty. You have to know this stuff.

Oh and...



Totes, INTP bitches.





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There can't be more than 1 INTP on hive. Therefore you must die!

There can only be one Hivelander!

*unsheaths katana

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I'm an INTP as well - is this potentially fatal?

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I am attempting to stall him until my favourite sword gets through customs. Then I will strike... with a deadly set of selfies. Mhuhahaha.

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Your +8 vorpal sword of selfies?

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Now Now, this can easily be settled if you just admit that I am;

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In the end it will come down to your sword play.

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INTPs UNITE!

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...separately, in our own homes.

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Independently-minded free-thinkers UNITE (but you know, at a safe distance that you feel comfortable with)!

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I am definitely an alien because I'm in neither of the 16 personality traits. 👽

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.... a lizard person, specifically a Chameleon that is why you are not one of the 16 you shift between them all as required.

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Welcome to the LOGICZOMBIE club!

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Thanx... You went on quite the voting binge? Going somewhere? That why you freed up 24hours worth of voting :)

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Just testing out my new hive-power!

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Don't spend it all in one place and have fun. I disabled that blacklist thing so thanx for the reminder.

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The key difference between an ISTP and an INTP is that the ISTP likes to think about things, but PREFERS to actually DO things (travel for example). An INTP likes to actually do things, but PREFERS to THINK about things (watch movies for example).

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:) Yip that was the thing that did not sit well with me the whole doing part, taking action... I am perfectly happy at times just having thought something through thoroughly that I will then consider it done. haha.

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I always thought that ISTPs were insane (until I understood the difference).

Most of my friends are INTJs and ENTPs.

But INTPs are the best.

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Might be the best but seemingly also the poorest... I happened on this now



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(thought) crime pays!

It's really just a matter of finding a good-fit.

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I really thought you were a bout to spell say your type was IPOES when you were changing types.

Little known fact I actually studied psychology. And I do think personaloty tests are a bit svamabke as people tend to choose answers they like to think thty are as opposed to the way they really behave.

There was this cool test we did once at a work team build that actually highlight traits as opposed to putting you in a whole big box. I can't remember the name.

@chekohler do you remember that test Anna made is take at Ts? When she brought her life coach in!

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LOL I did the test and all it told me was UANAAI, so I thought that's accurate. But for real the test said something about us both being like airy-fairy strategy people who can't implement and only see things from a macro view,lol oh well they misjudged, they got it wrong, and yet they still probably got a fat fee for running that garbage to put peoples minds in an echo chamber and shape them into good little soldiers for the cause

Look at this guy getting all these upvotes and comments, so much for being a non-conformist, this hive bootlicker..

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Haha, UANAAI is like "this guy fucks" from silicon valley. I can't see how you would not like that classification. Should have told her you have to look at things from a macro view cause you are hung.

Don't the best insurgents look like they belong?

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Bawahhahhaha!!!! You don't need a test to confirm that's your type!! All the ladies in the northern suburbs will agree!!

But yu right it was an airy fairy.. Said we bad at implementation. I guess I just bad at internal implementation!! Dude this penderis oke just gets all the angry upvotes! Die hivers is gek oor hom!

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I think IPOES and EPIEL are secondary types. However, they are very volatile and many theorize that the only true test is dependent on which foot you put out of bed first.

Think that test of yours was the Enneagram?
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I like the big box but obviously it is not like telling someone you listen to Taylor Swift and no matter how much you try to say you also have other tastes and it is not the one thing they should define you by, they will insist that you have no taste and should probably be shot.

I am guessing I won't really care for the more detailed definitions and prefer the threshold nature of MBTI, lotsa wiggle room :) I would think you like lotsa wiggle room... like in chairs.

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No idea if that's the test but those secondary types are solid leads for you!!i think most people fall into one of the two. unless you are oke casta then you prob fall into both with very little wiggle room. 😂

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