[NT] Why are NTs individualists?

[CJ99]

I realised the other day that one that factors that motivates me loads is how i have this huge need to be different! The strange thing is I can't figure out why so i wanted to see if anyone here has any idea why NTs in general feel the need to different?

 

[professor goodstain]

Whould you stop lookin up at me. Specially with a maze designed shirt. Please.

 

[digesthisickness]

i see a contradiction in being an individualist and a longing to be 'different'. if you're truly an individual, then you'd be yourself whether it was different from others or not.

 

[Cool]

I know what you mean! I cut my hair into a mullet to be different from my piers. I get irritated on how people like to follow trends and focus on little details. I want to be different because I don't want to be like the others, and believe me I'll go out of my way just to not blend in.

 

[CJ99]

i see a contradiction in being an individualist and a longing to be 'different'. if you're truly an individual, then you'd be yourself whether it was different from others or not.

hm interesting point! I am individual but for some reason i want to break the social norms for the hell of it just to be different anyway. No idea why though which is what i'm trying to figure out!

 

[CJ99]

Whould you stop lookin up at me. Specially with a maze designed shirt. Please.

Don't dis JJ!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[professor goodstain]

Don't dis JJ!!!!!!!!!!!!

The lookin up at is fine. The maze designed shirt is too individual.

 

[Lasting_Pain]

I assume I am an individual.

 

[Frank]

Sounds like an nf thing to me.

 

[Shaula]

Sounds like an nf thing to me.

Maybe it's an intuitive thing?

 

[Frank]

Could be. Based on my very limited exposure to this stuff on ths forum I would say nfs seem to seek out originality or authenticity while nts look more for efficiency. This search for efficiency coupled with the view that most things, people are illogical and inefficient could definitely make an nt want to be different.

 

[Orangey]

I think it's more about contrariness than anything else. I know that if too many people are agreeing on something, I get the urge to disagree just for the hell of it. It's not something I control, either.

 

[nozflubber]

I think it's more about contrariness than anything else. I know that if too many people are agreeing on something, I get the urge to disagree just for the hell of it. It's not something I control, either.

Lol I always blame myself for doing this cuz I'm well aware of what's going on at the time

 

[norepinephrine]

I think it's more about contrariness than anything else. I know that if too many people are agreeing on something, I get the urge to disagree just for the hell of it. It's not something I control, either.

Yeah, particularly if they come off as smug and morally superior. In that case, I can almost always argue the opposite.

Just for the hell of it.

 

[527468]

Probably just a you thing.

I am a straight up Jew.

 

[Athenian200]

I assume it's a potential manifestation of their competitive nature (T), combined with their interest in the novel and original (N). Thus, they feel themselves in competition with others to express themselves in a distinctive, effective, and original way.

This is one of the things that makes me certain I'm not an NT. I have no need to be different from others just for the sake of being original. I simply don't necessarily strive to conform, either. I tend to do what feels right for myself, and what accords with the ideas I choose to value, regardless of whether doing so makes me different or not.

I may strive to conform superficially if I feel genuinely threatened by people I can't avoid as a result of a quality that makes me stand out, but I strongly prefer not to conform to things that don't fit with my perceptions due to the discomfort this creates.

 

[527468]

I assume it's a potential manifestation of their competitive nature (T), combined with their interest in the novel and original (N). Thus, they feel themselves in competition with others to express themselves in a distinctive, effective, and original way.

This is one of the things that makes me certain I'm not an NT. I have no need to be different from others just for the sake of being original. I simply don't necessarily strive to conform, either. I tend to do what feels right for myself, and what accords with the ideas I value, regardless of whether doing so makes me different or not.

I may strive to conform superficially if I feel genuinely threatened by people I can't avoid as a result of a quality that makes me stand out, but I strongly prefer not to conform to things that don't fit with my perceptions due to the discomfort this creates.

I guess NTs are a bit more trendy then, hm?

 

[ceecee]

i see a contradiction in being an individualist and a longing to be 'different'. if you're truly an individual, then you'd be yourself whether it was different from others or not.

Right. Isn't striving to be different just conforming to being different and no more individual than the same old same old?

 

[527468]

Right. Isn't striving to be different just conforming to being different and no more individual than the same old same old?

Except for the part where conformism is an individual choice.

 

[Totenkindly]

Except for the part where conformism is an individual choice.

An individual choice based on one's past upbringing, environment, culture, experiences, and learned world perspective, yup.

i see a contradiction in being an individualist and a longing to be 'different'. if you're truly an individual, then you'd be yourself whether it was different from others or not.

Yup, exactly. It wouldn't matter what others thought; your "fitting in" would be irrelevant to the decision of doing whatever you choose to do. The template is internal, not external.