Personality profile of your host
I did a little self-assessment using some form of the Myers-Briggs personality test. I can’t believe how they’ve pinpointed so many of my traits. For those of you out there keeping score, I’m an INTP: Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking and Perceiving. If you can find one of those free tests out there, you’ll be surprised how much you can learn about yourself. It’s useful in figuring out what you’re likely to be good and not so good at. That way you can concentrate on your strengths and stop beating yourself up over your shortcomings.
Here’s a little self-serving quote about my mind (ha) from some web page (which may or may not be of dubious quality):
The mind of an INTP is both a finely-honed analytical tool and a playground of ideas. Its strongest function is introverted Thinking, which is supported by extroverted iNtuition. In other words, INTPs interact with the outer world intuitively, observing the big picture and its implications. They use their introverted T to process this information logically and abstractly, analyzing new ideas until they understand every aspect.
I don’t know if you find that interesting at all. If it was your brain — perhaps you would.
Also — I’m back on the blog after a prolonged absence. So tune in for ramblings about entrepreneurship, technology and music. I was suffering from blog fatigue. But I am no longer.
P.S. Listening to Skream - skreamizm volume one — some of the best dubstep I’ve heard thus far — but I’m admittedly new to the genre
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Glad to see you back!
I’m happy that you’re back too!
I’m a fellow INTP. Thanks for introducing me to INTP.org, which was new to me.
That site made me think more about the primacy of any of the four Myers-Briggs scales: David Keirsey is quite vocal that N vs. S is the most important one, while other people argue otherwise. My suspicion is that N vs. S matters so much because the population is so skewed: Keirsey seems to think it’s at least 85% S. (This doesn’t appear to be widely known; I even know a certified Myers-Briggs trainer who was under the impression that each scale is 50-50. I pointed out that it is impossible for some types to occur more frequently than others, as she did believe, if the scales are all 50-50, but she insisted that she’d been taught that they were. Oh well, what could I expect: she’s an NF so she doesn’t have an NT’s concern for logic! She may have mentally thought of me as a Vulcan.) No wonder society views S-oriented people as normal while the N-oriented are oddballs. I feel a kinship with fellow NTs while romantically I have only ever been attracted to NFs (which explains a lot, because they’re rare), so Ns are “my people” - while I’m surrounded by Ss (including both my parents and my only sibling). I do however find it easy to engage in small talk with Ss: just talk about everyday things, never about concepts. I often find this relaxing, to my ongoing surprise - though I sometimes blow it by openly musing whether, for instance, some particular piece of fluffy news indicates something larger about society. This is fine with an N, but an S will often tune out.