Being cool, means being cool. There's not much gray area to play with there.
If you categorize people. Ask yourself, is that being cool?

Categorizing means prejudicing. You look at a part of another human being and put it into a box that fits it all. Is that being cool?

To me at least; being cool mean, you look past that. Because people will surprise you.

It ain't all how it looks.

 

I have worked as a taxi driver for two years. Talking to all kinds of people. Grandma's, business people, drug addicts, police.
Doing that type of work, surely will chew you up and spit you out again making you ready for life.
If it were up to me I would say every youngster should do a year in a cab. For learning.
All respect to full time cabbies. Much respect.

Today, I drive an ambulance. I do my best every day to save lives.
Weekly I get death threats.
I stay cool.

"If she/he dies. I will kill you" is a standard one.

No. It doesn't affect me. Because noone died in the back of my car yet.
Once that happens, it will.

All of my options, opinions will be revised. But till then.
I'm cool.
Ice cold.

 

I have worked as a taxi driver for two years. Talking to all kinds of people. Grandma's, business people, drug addicts, police.
Doing that type of work, surely will chew you up and spit you out again making you ready for life.
If it were up to me I would say every youngster should do a year in a cab. For learning.
All respect to full time cabbies. Much respect.

Today, I drive an ambulance. I do my best every day to save lives.
Weekly I get death threats.
I stay cool.

"If she/he dies. I will kill you" is a standard one.

No. It doesn't affect me. Because noone died in the back of my car yet.
Once that happens, it will.

All of my options, opinions will be revised. But till then.
I'm cool. Ice cold.

When I said uncool I meant unawesome. I realise that people of a certain type aren't all alike, I wasn't really being serious with that comment.. hence the "" face. I'm pretty sure that not all ISTPs are awesome.

 

We become roses later than the rest.

 

Ironically Mulan is supposedly an ISTP and her father told her that he flower that blooms the latest is the prettiest.

 

Many of the ambulance drivers I know are ISTPs, and I doubt it's a coincidence.

 

Just so you know, I have no idea what type I am, but I'm kinda leaning towards ISTP. I love the ISTP type but I've always thought I'm too uncool to be one

I can't speak for others but I always think of ISTP as the closet dork. Appearing maybe 'cool', but rather really being a dorkis behind closed doors. I think by common perception like in public irl without saying much just in appearance I can appear in a manner that comes off much different then the hopeless goof I can really be.

Anyways, I realised that I have one of three opinions on almost everything/everyone. I either dislike/hate something/someone or I'm okay with something/someone or I'm obsessed with something/someone.

Personally I would say by majority I am often very 'grey', indifferent, and fence sitting. I tend to be extremely ambivalent the majority of my life. BUT... when I am not in a grey zone and go into feeling negative or positive like you it seems like its in heightened states.

And when I say obsessed I mean in an "in my head" kind of way. I will think about whatever it is 24/7 and I'll have very intense emotions towards it but it usually doesn't show to people around me because I always look unemotional (the only emotion that will usually show outwardly is anger) and I don't talk about myself and my interests to a lot of people.

I get obsessed in my head with both concepts/ideas, projects, as well as preoccupied thoughts of people if I get into the heightened negative/positive thing where in my head my irritation/hurt, or enamored feelings can heavily occupy the mind. Like your saying sort of one track mind. Like you I tend to be generally less expressive, but with the exception of anger. Sometime I wish I did maybe cry a bit more and let myself fully feel a bit more hurt (rather then think it or bottle it) because I think it would really cure my penchant for bottled anger. Altho I think it slightly improves with age and being able to recognize your own triggers.

But thing is, my obsession usually wears off quickly and I'll get sick of whatever/whoever my obsession was focused on. And then it's like "why the hell was I obsessed?" And it usually happens so suddenly that it I find it a bit weird.

I do that with my preoccupied thoughts of people (its gotten a tad better with age, it used to be a terrible curse when I was younger). Projects and ideas I don't tend to abandon as quick as preoccupied obsessive thought.

Like, when it comes to people, generally I either don't like you and can't handle being around you, or I'm just okay with you and can handle being around you for awhile, or I'm obsessed with you (but of course it will never show) and then one day I will suddenly not give a fuck about you.

Not sure I go quite as far as usually passionately not liking adamantly anyone and feeling refusal to be around them. Trying to think. Most my loved ones even if they upset me terribly and I feel extreme anguish I will distance myself and preoccupy my mind til what is upsetting me is more distant then current or til I explode.

But like specific acquaintances, associated people, or strangers, whatever type of thing well I can usually handle being around someone even if I think negative of their character. Even if they trespass against me and we have a bad exchange, I tend to move on quickly outwardly. I am not generally a resistant person and adamantly against being around someone, or further more feeling that passionate about disliking most people as a whole because generally if they are just an acquaintance of some sort I am indifferent. And if they are family or friend I tend to usually rationalize the entire scenario and often give a benefit of the doubt, vent it out thru writing, or release my bottled anger where they are confronted with it. Its not that I don't have anger but I tend to not direct it towards not being able to be tolerable of the people. Shrugs I don't know thats just me. Trying to think and theres really no one in my life that I just can't stand to be in the same room with. I tend to like to be alone because I need it for me, but not because I am avoiding anyone.

..And now I honestly don't know where exactly I'm going with this or why I'm posting it in the ISTP forum (this is a ghosttown compared to others) but yeah..

Well no harm in it.

ISTPs, do you relate to this? Is this a type or function thing? Or is it just a human thing?

I related to every single thing I quoted except the part when you referenced being intolerable of someone you dislike, as I said I am usually too indifferent and like to turn the other cheek usually, or as I said if its someone close to me I give the benefit of the doubt or confront it eventually I am not avoid ant tho.

 

I obsess about stuff I'm *really* into learning about. If it's something for a job or a subject I'm interested in.

I think about it, put it together in my head and take it apart. Over and over and over and over again. I figure out the rules, what they say, what they do, what's encouraged and what's discouraged. I figure out ways to try to straddle a rule, radical thinking, far reaching theories and understand them. Understand the psychology behind them and the mathmatics (if applicable) behind it. Then I figure out what I want to do, and how I want to do it.

 

I don't think "cool" is the first thing that comes to mind when someone thinks of me in real life. I am a geek. But I geek out in all areas that catch my interest, and that means I've got pretty high XP in some areas that may not strike you as traditionally geeky. Another trait that many ISTPs share, is that we tend to keep our cool - which too is different from "being" cool in the social meaning of the word. We assess a situation and act in a way we believe is practical given the circumstances. Note that this alone doesn't make a person an ISTP, it's just a common trait in ISTPs.

Anyway, I wouldn't use as strong words as "love" or "hate" about subjects or people that catch my interest or fail to do so. I geek out or stay indifferent. But if I have geeked out in an area, I always have an opinion on it.