Hello, fellow INTPs

[foureyedsnail]

Newbie here--teenager, lesbian, atheist, neurotic, soon-to-be physics major, and about as sure about the INTP categorization as you can be without, you know, actually taking the official test.

My question--so as to make this not entirely useless--will hopefully not raise any hackles; I do hate conflict, of course. I've read that INTPs are often

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[bleedsincretic]

it's *a* set of personality classifications that seems relevant, but is not the only one. Besides the 16 "types" - you can have varying level on each variable, which affect the degree of the behavior and accounts for the wide range of those in the 16 types. As a system I find it accurate... a hell of a lot more than the Enneagram - though even that seems to have a little validity in describing preferred input/mode of processing [I'm a 5]... and has no real correlation with the MBTI that isn't speculation based on very obvious factors/is a stretch... because in part it's meant to be a self development system. Hell, you could come up with your own system! Based on the observation of people and a knowledge of psychology... depends on what you're measuring. The MBTI is not be all end all, but it's good at what it measures, IMHO.

[bleedsincretic]

Personally, I tend to get the NTP part and the I and E flux - but my behavior patterns don't match the descriptions of ENTP at all. I especially like the commentary on extroverted feeling introverted etc... it's a good way to keep some things in check.

[invisibelle]

I'm very much a skeptic, and I even think that there might be some level of Forer effect with some of the other MBTI types which seem to be defined a bit less precisely/specifically. However, two things have pretty much quashed my skepticism, the first being that no matter how many times I take the test or how many years I wait in between taking it, I always end up being INTP (took the "real" version at 18 and again at 22, was very sure I would test differently after 4 years of college and lots of growing up, but didn't). Second, some of the things herein describe what I previously thought were my personal idiosyncracies, with such eerie accuracy... I just can't discount it. Very specific things. And some of these characteristics are so odd that I only know one person with whom I share them, and that's my dad -- also an INTP

[bluejuju]

I love classifying things too, but I find that often I use different metrics than most people would or group things based on intuition. I also realise that various classification systems contain flaws and I'm okay with that. So no, I don't think it's wrong, but it's a useful way for me to make sense of people. I've found MBTI very helpful for my interactions with other people, or at least working through why I have trouble interacting with other people

[nimry]

[kiaroskuro]

I'm very much an INTP, although I wish I were more J. That's the only thing I wish I were more of, as far as Myers-Briggs type goes. I love being an introvert when I'm given the time and space to do so; I love being an intuitive, thinking of possibilities, theories, and broad overall concepts; I love being a thinker, trying to make sense out of the world through logic; but as a perceptive, I am a procrastinator, turn things in at the last minute, don't finish a lot of the projects I start, and I wish I could be more on time!