A quick question for the masterminds: is it right to automatically dismiss anything 'incriminating' (cruel, ignorant, hateful, etc) that people say when they're angry? Are we to just forget it because they said it when their emotions were flying around, or is there some glimmer of truth to those words ( Read more... )

I used to be an INTJ. I think I'm probably more like an ENFJ at this point.

But, I'm not actually concerned too much about the type. What I'm concerned with is my lack of logic. I used to follow logic and common sense (well, when it works; I know common sense doesn't always follow logic), but for some reason, in the last of half of 2008, I seemed ( Read more... )

I know that a lot of INTJs can be percieved as unfeeling or robotic. Obviously we have a thinking reasoning preference, but I find myself being very deeply emotionally effected by many things ( Read more... )

Does anyone experience "So how did you like it" on par with "How are you"?  In that, it's a question nobody ever really wants to hear the answer to?

We just got back from seeing the Dark Knight.  At the end, Partner asked what I thought.  I told him.  Then came the very familiar, "Can't you just enjoy the movie for what it is?"  And why do I have to ( Read more... )

What's the general way you deal with grief when you've had a great personal loss (I'm referring specifically to someone dying, but other forms of loss could also qualify) and do you find that your ways of dealing with it are different than others? As I've gotten older I've internalized it quite a bit more, and in some cases have mentally worked out ( Read more... )

I wrote a pretty long background and then decided it was just too personal to post.  So, instead, I'll just put my question and a short response:

Do you find that you form stronger attachments and have more emotional ties in opposite sex friendships than in same-sex ones?

I'm very interested in female-INTJ responses, since I am a female.  And I ( Read more... )

Excerpt from hereWeaknesses of INTJs ( Read more... )

I don't have much time this week so this discussion series post will just be a few "discussion starter" questions ( Read more... )

Do you find intellectual conflict/debate exhilarating or draining?

Do you find interpersonal conflict exhilarating or draining? If draining, how will it affect you?

Things are much better now that my husband's job has changed (past year), but prior to that, when he was overwhelmed at work, if we got into any conflict he would call me a "weekend ( Read more... )

First time poster ( Read more... )