I was the same way when I got engaged. My husband and I had agreed to get married several months before he formally proposed to me. We hadn't made any substantive plans, and neither he nor I wore an engagement ring. At the end of last August, I offended him horribly by referring to us as "quasi-engaged." This prompted him actually to get down on his knee and propose, which shocked me since I've never been much for tradition and I'm certainly not much of a romantic. I kept it quiet for several days before telling any of my friends, and even then I only relayed the information in a very factual LJ entry. I finally had to let the cat out of the bag when he and I showed up at our respective workplaces with very suspicious-looking rings on our left hands.
That reminds me...I still need to get his ring engraved in honor of our wedding.
INTJ's come up with ideas out of nowhere and then try to impose them on reality. If they can't, they throw the idea away. While I do happen to come up with ideas out of nowhere (even from my own perspective), I don't even try to implement even a small fraction of my ideas in reality because they're just not practical. While I don't tend to dwell on or obsess over non-practical ideas, I also don't think I throw throw them away -- I believe they float around in the back of my mind and surface later. I find it likely that many of my ideas that "come out of nowhere" are just reinterpretations of ideas that weren't immediately useful when they came up.
They know exactly who they are, and what they value. I believe that's the Te he's seeing. He doesn't seem to be familiar with the Ni side
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I think the author himself is somewhat aware of his tendency towards bias--as he says:
"And they both can be somewhat arrogant and snobbish to those they don't consider equals, though they generally mean well. (and one might pick up a hint of defensiveness in their cynicism.)"
What you're picking up on might be his INTP arrogance/snobbishness towards INTJs, and indeed the entire rest of the world--no matter how much he might mean well. :)
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That reminds me, an ex girlfriend always called me Spock. And not in a complimentary way...
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Just another stereotypical INTJ
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That reminds me...I still need to get his ring engraved in honor of our wedding.
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While I do happen to come up with ideas out of nowhere (even from my own perspective), I don't even try to implement even a small fraction of my ideas in reality because they're just not practical. While I don't tend to dwell on or obsess over non-practical ideas, I also don't think I throw throw them away -- I believe they float around in the back of my mind and surface later. I find it likely that many of my ideas that "come out of nowhere" are just reinterpretations of ideas that weren't immediately useful when they came up.
They know exactly who they are, and what they value.
I believe that's the Te he's seeing. He doesn't seem to be familiar with the Ni side ( ... )
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"And they both can be somewhat arrogant and snobbish to those they don't consider equals, though they generally mean well. (and one might pick up a hint of defensiveness in their cynicism.)"
What you're picking up on might be his INTP arrogance/snobbishness towards INTJs, and indeed the entire rest of the world--no matter how much he might mean well. :)
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