When my cousin came out to visit suddenly everything clicked.
I'd been obsessing over how he could be so solitary, so analytical, and so disinterested in social conversations that asked 'how was your day' in the most general sense to get a feel of the other person's day. He was completely oblivious to these questions and refused to answer them at times. He spends most of his time reading about topics that interest him, mostly Science things, and when asked his opinions of things it appears he filters it very naturally though the logistics of things.
I'm not capable to do that at all. I lose my concentration while reading things and am not able to go with the 'learn everything you can' attitude and enjoy the actual learning.
I rely a lot on social interaction- the point he isolates himself, he doesn't talk to anyone but his parents and siblings. That would drive me nutters.
Sure, there is a variety of INTJs. I have a female cousin INTJ who is a lot more socialized and able to talk about her day and have opinions that aren't filtered by raw logic, but she is still an INTJ.
She loves absorbing information and is a stickler for the details. I don't even know how many books she reads per week. Her interest in Science is as great as my other cousin's and talking to both is wonderful because they are so concise in their opinions, so well read and research driven. They don't have a 'feeling' that something is this way or that way- if they don't know, they say they don't know.
I also noticed a trait that may not be true for all of them, but my cousin in particular and some that I have conversed with online seem to have the trait to be uninterested in social games, and social things at all. They are polite [to an extent] and do not really ever put specific judgements on other based or base theories around other people- they leave that purely for theoreticals and rarely if at all have opinions on other people. Sometimes they will refuse to respond.
I also like the fact that they keep to themselves and don't have to be around other people. INTJs have a certain factor to themselves that they can withdraw inside of their shell and 'live in their own world' meaning that essentially their thoughts are always floating around in their head and they can go days and even weeks without talking to people as long as they have a book or new information to process.
I lack all of these abilities naturally and am inclined to be drawn towards them. For brief periods of times I am able to present myself in a way that an INTJ is, but I cannot sustain it, and I wish I could.
All hail the majestic INTJ!
(Oh, and ENTJs aren't half bad either. I haven't talked to them often enough though).
I'd been obsessing over how he could be so solitary, so analytical, and so disinterested in social conversations that asked 'how was your day' in the most general sense to get a feel of the other person's day. He was completely oblivious to these questions and refused to answer them at times. He spends most of his time reading about topics that interest him, mostly Science things, and when asked his opinions of things it appears he filters it very naturally though the logistics of things.
I'm not capable to do that at all. I lose my concentration while reading things and am not able to go with the 'learn everything you can' attitude and enjoy the actual learning.
I rely a lot on social interaction- the point he isolates himself, he doesn't talk to anyone but his parents and siblings. That would drive me nutters.
Sure, there is a variety of INTJs. I have a female cousin INTJ who is a lot more socialized and able to talk about her day and have opinions that aren't filtered by raw logic, but she is still an INTJ.
She loves absorbing information and is a stickler for the details. I don't even know how many books she reads per week. Her interest in Science is as great as my other cousin's and talking to both is wonderful because they are so concise in their opinions, so well read and research driven. They don't have a 'feeling' that something is this way or that way- if they don't know, they say they don't know.
I also noticed a trait that may not be true for all of them, but my cousin in particular and some that I have conversed with online seem to have the trait to be uninterested in social games, and social things at all. They are polite [to an extent] and do not really ever put specific judgements on other based or base theories around other people- they leave that purely for theoreticals and rarely if at all have opinions on other people. Sometimes they will refuse to respond.
I also like the fact that they keep to themselves and don't have to be around other people. INTJs have a certain factor to themselves that they can withdraw inside of their shell and 'live in their own world' meaning that essentially their thoughts are always floating around in their head and they can go days and even weeks without talking to people as long as they have a book or new information to process.
I lack all of these abilities naturally and am inclined to be drawn towards them. For brief periods of times I am able to present myself in a way that an INTJ is, but I cannot sustain it, and I wish I could.
All hail the majestic INTJ!
(Oh, and ENTJs aren't half bad either. I haven't talked to them often enough though).
