Siúil a Rúin
when the colors fade
- Joined
- Apr 23, 2007
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- MBTI Type
- ISFP
- Enneagram
- 496
- Instinctual Variant
- sp/sx
If a person is paying attention to authenticity, then hopefully they'd get the whole picture including the truth of an INTJs motivation. There were often times i was impressed by such people when their honesty was apparent. If they looked like someone who could challenge my mind, then there was even a potential smidge of... It is true that i sometimes felt sorry for teachers who were confused, but i also felt disappointed not being challenged. Once the answer was clear in my mind, i'd move on to observing the interactions and the method by which the teacher arrived at the answer. I started analyzing the social/psychological aspects of what was going on. That's partly why i hesitated to interrupt the natural process, it was more interesting to observe. Time to put on the anthropologist hat.I am reminded of Keirsey's claim that demonstrating competence is key for NTs whereas NFs pursue authenticity. I'm sure the more gratuitous of my corrections must have elicited cringing from my NF classmates who probably caught the same error but couldn't care less about getting credit for it.
For my background, there were added layers of gender and socio-economic expectations. Being a sweet, skinny, poor girl caused people to often reject my intelligence. It was like rolling a boulder uphill, so i gave up. I've put my thumbprint on the world, proved it quietly and throughout the course of my life, the path of least resistance for me. I admire people who can push the boulder uphill, since i can't.