...after reading some strongly-worded comments on various forums.
I used to think of social life as a game. But as I became more deeply entrenched in it, I began to see it differently and take more seriously energy spent developing one’s ability in it. If, after all, your ideas are in perfect order, but you are completely incapable of communicating them, then your life begins and ends with you. This is not enough for me, and frankly I feel people who stubbornly refuse to accept that the weaknesses in others could have been completely warranted are foolish, even by their own systems. Socially sensitive people are sometimes more perceptive than these types, and anyway, there are often reasons for the weaknesses of any type. I believe I was previously an INTJ (with a weak J function, bordering INTP), and because I chose to gear my efforts toward personalities outside my own does not mean I am an INTJ who has ‘strayed the course.’ All of my perceptions are reflections of myself, and I still have no tolerance for idiots. There is a difference between being an INTJ & being a pompous ass. I welcome anyone to argue with me the value of my perspective, that it is inherently less than that of an INTJ who refuses to budge from their position.
I used to think of social life as a game. But as I became more deeply entrenched in it, I began to see it differently and take more seriously energy spent developing one’s ability in it. If, after all, your ideas are in perfect order, but you are completely incapable of communicating them, then your life begins and ends with you. This is not enough for me, and frankly I feel people who stubbornly refuse to accept that the weaknesses in others could have been completely warranted are foolish, even by their own systems. Socially sensitive people are sometimes more perceptive than these types, and anyway, there are often reasons for the weaknesses of any type. I believe I was previously an INTJ (with a weak J function, bordering INTP), and because I chose to gear my efforts toward personalities outside my own does not mean I am an INTJ who has ‘strayed the course.’ All of my perceptions are reflections of myself, and I still have no tolerance for idiots. There is a difference between being an INTJ & being a pompous ass. I welcome anyone to argue with me the value of my perspective, that it is inherently less than that of an INTJ who refuses to budge from their position.
