Well I did read it and, to be quite frank, it made me even more paranoid and nervous about myself!
Thanks, BlueWing, for more neuroses.
There are some very good points, but I felt they gradually became repetition rather than reinforcement.
- Introverted Thinking, when left to itself, feeds
on itself. This leads to an ironic detachment from external facts and reality, causing a gradual retreat into an increasingly elaborate fantasy world based on fragments of internalized knowledge and supposition.
- External facts must be absorbed, usually through Extraverted Intuition, to keep Introverted Thinking grounded in reality. Without Ie, the above situation occurs.
- INTPs have a strong tendency to focus deeply in one or two abstract fields (logic, linguistics, mathematics) whilst losing, ignoring or erroneously asserting competence in most others. Only by staying grounded in Extraverted functions can a realistic self-assessment be made, and then only by dint of much work can the more interpersonal skills be developed.
- Ti can often mimick the function of empathy and intuition found in NJ types, but true depth of intuition, especially based on people, often takes many years of thought and/or deep focus to acheive. It also involves exploring and expanding Extraverted Feeling, accepting such input as warranted and logical.
- INTPs maintain innocent naivete in relationships, but can become misanthropic due to callous abuse of this by others, hiding a confused core behind a cold exterior. Even when relationships are healthy, INTPs can lose track of what it takes to maintain that healthy status, leading to a drifting away from intimacy acheived without hostile intent.
- INTPs, through a balanced mix of Ti, Ne and Fe, can use logical function to incorporate a competency with people, but usually this line of development does not appear until later in life.
Those were the major facts I took out of this. Feel free to add or correct!