In what manners of mental processing are you different from the rest of your type?
What mental patterns characterize you in ways disconnected from your type?
What distinguishes you from other members of your type?
(Posted in MBTI, but can include other typological profiles)
This question should have been easy for me to answer, but it actually took me since the day the OP was posted to think of it.
At first I saw that this was a question of stereotypes in some ways. I'm not a homely professor type. I had friends as a child and didn't spend all my free time reading books. I read encyclopedias or our dictionary if I felt like it. I wanted to read the entire dictionary at one time. But mostly I wanted to play outside, even on rainy days which only changed the type of fun I could have.
Nowadays, in order to reduce the dull dreariness of the daily commute, I might take an interest in racing with other drivers on the long straightaway. But then there are days when I am content to keep myself entertained by contemplating typology and other ideas.
So I'm not a stereotypical INTP but, like most people, a healthy mixture of types.
On my commute earlier this week I was kept amused by some teenagers in a new Kia in front of me with plates from some other county. (People from other counties are terrible drivers.) All or most of the traffic lights on the street have long right-hand lanes, and he was taking advantage of them, and his new car's power, to pass other cars at the lights. I decided to keep pace with him. This was kind of difficult as my car is 9 years old.
When he tried to pass cars at a certain right lane traffic light, he hit the gas at first but then hesitated for 2 or 3 seconds, and suddenly bailed into the left lane as I've seen other cars do there in the same situation. His hesitation made it impossible for me to utilize the right lane advantage. But I was satisfied knowing that, if I had been in his position, with his fast new car, I would not have chickened out but would have passed them all easily.