Don't know why, but this kind of popped up in my mind.... I wonder if it's common for Te types to write in a diary.
Do you write a diary?
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Don't know why, but this kind of popped up in my mind.... I wonder if it's common for Te types to write in a diary.
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Well, yes sort of. I use a notebook to keep my thought in order, so it acts sort of like a drawing board, where I can consider things or just kill time with in class.
I prefer to call it a journal though, "diary" sounds too childish.
I prefer to call it a journal though, "diary" sounds too childish.
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I've tried at various points in my life. I just always end up finding it to be tedious. If I'm trying work through some sort of issue, as I'm writing, my brain kind of figures it out ahead of my pen and then I just feel like I'm just finishing writing to write rather than for any real purpose. Also, I have a hard time figuring out how to write...what tone? Narratively? Short word snippets to jog thoughts? Idk. The only time I really enjoyed keeping a journal was when I went on a 2.5 week vacation to Ireland (only overseas trip I have been on) and I documented at the end of each day - what I did, thoughts, etc. It actually made it so I was more "in the moment" each day, noticing more in my surroundings and interactions, gave me improved memory of the event. I re-read it only once, so I don't really use it to look back and reminisce but it was just a neat tool for travel.
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Yes. Though I call it a journal. As others have said, I find it useful to get my thoughts and feelings onto paper rather than just swimming around in my head. It can be cathartic to release them. Best of all, its safe. My journal acts as a trusted confidante with whom I can share my deepest vulnerabilities that I obviously cannot share with a real person.
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i have this thing while i'm doing mine, where this formless sort of sub-list of stuff starts to form up in the back of my brain. things i 'should' say, or at least get onto the record, before i stop for the night. it's a kind of imperative towards truthfulness or completion or something. similar to the way i approach testing something. when i test a feature, i may fly by the seat of my pants and i could easily find myself unable to try all the paths. but i've got this list there, which is all the things that i 'need' to look at before i'll be able to say with a clear conscience that a thing's been tested. it's my 'full coverage' list. it's not exhaustive, but it is all the principal things.
journal stuff has the same kind of due-diligence feeling to it. i try to cover the stuff that i 'should' mention even if i don't go into any of it all the way, otherwise i'm leaving a misleading record behind.
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I can very much picture that, I think I do it as well...which is probably the part I find tedious. I know in my head how it is and the journal is just for me...so why must I finish writing out these XYZ things? Weird compulsion, I suppose. So then I'd just rather not start lol
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Nope. I don't see the use of it, and I prefer not living with the risk of someone finding it.
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yeah, it is. maybe being a long-ago catholic with the whole lifelong concept of 'examine your conscience' which you're expected to do every night got me afflicted with it.
well, ymmv of course. but for me the key is probably that i don't 'know in my head' how it is. or another way for me to put it: this keeps me rigorous about not just assuming that and dismissing the thing. you know how sometimes you don't find out how little you know until you try to do it? same thing. like saying 'oh, i speak [language]' and then you find yourself on a street corner trying to actually say some specific, particular thing.
i guess writing this stuff is my test to myself whether i really do know what my life is up to. it's so easy for me to just gloss right past what's only halfway apparent to me, because i do have that high-level concept of it.
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When life gets rough or I'm really just struggling with something, I will journal, usually extensively. Otherwise I've got all the negative crap around whatever's upsetting me floating around in my head. It helps me get all the tangled up thoughts out of my head into a place I can organize, categorize, and problem-solve my way through it all.
When things are going alright, I forget all about the journal.
When things are going alright, I forget all about the journal.
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Yeah, absolutely I get that. I do think that setting out to have time to journal does give me some structured ability to examine those things that I may gloss over - but even then..I still make that connection in my brain quick about what that examination will turn up or what I am about to write about what I have discovered in taking this time to examine...and then I lose interest in writing because I already know what I'm going to write. It is already then cleared up in my mind by simply taking the "let's sit and really consciously think through this" time.
Anyway.. I do think journaling is a good tool for many people, I'm not knocking it completely
just not generally for me.
Not for a few years now.
I used to, but it got to the point it felt like a duty; like @lilysocks said, all the 'shoulds' for the record.
I figured when I heard Count Rugen every time I started writing ("And remember, this is for posterity so be honest. How do you feel? Interesting."), it was time to stop.
I used to, but it got to the point it felt like a duty; like @lilysocks said, all the 'shoulds' for the record.
I figured when I heard Count Rugen every time I started writing ("And remember, this is for posterity so be honest. How do you feel? Interesting."), it was time to stop.
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I've sometimes used journals to write about my progress on important goals. Right now I just use journals to take notes on important educational materials. Never show your diary to anyone else. I did that one time when I was a kid, and the stupid jerk told people about it in school.
I do not use a diary or a journal. I have contemplated carrying a tape recorder with me to help with recalling specific events. For example "So and so said their birthday is next week" or "I had this thought about a theory today, research more later about blah blah blah thought", also, "don't forget to pick up uniform from dry cleaner."
But, wouldn't that mean I would need two recording devices? One for personal non-sense to remember and another for me to ramble my thoughts away. I'm sure the idea is better in my head than it would be in practice. I suppose the same would go for a journal. I like taking notes, but a journal would feel restricting..
But, wouldn't that mean I would need two recording devices? One for personal non-sense to remember and another for me to ramble my thoughts away. I'm sure the idea is better in my head than it would be in practice. I suppose the same would go for a journal. I like taking notes, but a journal would feel restricting..
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Yes, journal is probably a better word for it. Thanks for sharing!
I don't know why I can't trust writing. As if I will die if I get my thought out of my head and write them down.
I have NOTES, yet again in complex codes ways, that no one could ever understand (even IN my phone).
But I did write a diary when I was 11, maybe a week overall. I was sleepy enough to write whatever I did that day.
And sometimes I used to write like feelings stuff...years ago then I've torn them into million pieces and threw them in several trashes...
I have NOTES, yet again in complex codes ways, that no one could ever understand (even IN my phone).
But I did write a diary when I was 11, maybe a week overall. I was sleepy enough to write whatever I did that day.
And sometimes I used to write like feelings stuff...years ago then I've torn them into million pieces and threw them in several trashes...
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