Hello fellow INTP's.
I have recently become more self-conscious of my Ti-function and failed to retype myself as an ENTP. Although, I have for long tried to come up with, and find, a good reason to still consider myself an ENTP instead of an INTP, only this one trait has divided me the most. Apparently, INTP's lack confidence. Is this true? Especially in social situations, the lack of confidence should be very noticeable.
I am trying to exceedingly deflate my ego by saying that my childhood required of me a lot of learning to realise confidence in different areas, especially those of social. Heck, I even used to be bullied a lot. Today, though, I find myself confident in social situations. I have yet to find anyone, whose eye-contact I would avoid. I study in a university with big intellectuals and leaders of the academic world of philosophy, and I can confidently have a conversation with these people without some irrational fear of eye-contact. Some people even tell me that my stare startles them, and I can definitely recognise that in them.
Now, I ask you, does this divide me from being an INTP? Most other stereotypical traits there are of XNTP seem exactly the same to me, not kidding.
I have recently become more self-conscious of my Ti-function and failed to retype myself as an ENTP. Although, I have for long tried to come up with, and find, a good reason to still consider myself an ENTP instead of an INTP, only this one trait has divided me the most. Apparently, INTP's lack confidence. Is this true? Especially in social situations, the lack of confidence should be very noticeable.
I am trying to exceedingly deflate my ego by saying that my childhood required of me a lot of learning to realise confidence in different areas, especially those of social. Heck, I even used to be bullied a lot. Today, though, I find myself confident in social situations. I have yet to find anyone, whose eye-contact I would avoid. I study in a university with big intellectuals and leaders of the academic world of philosophy, and I can confidently have a conversation with these people without some irrational fear of eye-contact. Some people even tell me that my stare startles them, and I can definitely recognise that in them.
Now, I ask you, does this divide me from being an INTP? Most other stereotypical traits there are of XNTP seem exactly the same to me, not kidding.