So when an INTx picks apart someone's idea for sport it's in the pristine pursuit of knowledge. Whereas if someone calls out an INTx for saying something blatantly wrong, then that person's "priorities are out of place" giving the INTx some sort of ultimate moral high ground.
Yall could have saved a lot of words and just said "Well, I just take my ball home when the other kids don't play nice. Hmph!"
I'm not sure I understand the motivation behind this thread.
Is it that you:
- Are normally 'outsmarted' by intj/p so you get very pleased with yourself when you outsmart them;
- Find intj/p to be arrogant and condescending and so get great pleasure from proving them wrong;
- Get annoyed at intj/p for constantly trying to undermine your ideas and picking faults in things so you feel you need to bring them down sometimes?
I know you'll say the second or third options even though we (intj/p) know it's really the first
....
I'm sure we all know people that correct others just to be an ass. And I'm sure plenty of them are INTs. I dislike it when anybody, INTs included, make a sport out of it. When I correct others, I make a conscious effort to do so in a polite and non-abrasive manner, because I am aware that at times I can come off as terse. But I never taunt them or attempt to make them insecure. I find people respond better when they can tell you're saying something to be helpful, not to satisfy your own ego.
I just find it a bit pathetic when somebody's main objective is to outsmart another.
Seriously, people? Outsmarting? That's what gets you giddy?
Whatever for?
Achievement? Are you for real?I've probably "outsmarted" an INTP or INTJ at one point. I've certainly outsmarted myself at one point are another.
I've noticed that apparently it's an achievement to outsmart the "smart" people in a group of friends.
It's flattering to be considered smart, though.
When I was much younger, I did reflect a know-it-all behaviour that I imagine others didn't appreciate, but it was because I honestly didn't understand why others didn't know what I did. I didn't think of myself as exceptionally smart, so the inability of others to catch on to new concepts as quickly as I could didn't make sense to me. But as I matured, I learned patience and how to appreciate differences in people's strengths and weaknesses. I don't really hold people to the same expectations that I hold myself. If somebody is weaker than me in one area, I don't look down on them, because it's guaranteed there's multiple things they're better at than I am.
Now why am I so pissed off by this thread?
I always figured people join in on a project or they don't, and if they try fucking with the project, you cut them out of your will, at least.
A tad ironic though that INFJs should enjoy screwing with course charting.
One can only imagine the horseshit people must go through dealing with Fe and Ti together if there is some persistent need to outsmart and pwn showing up at type level.
You're not seeing the big picture.