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Hi. I will begin by announcing that tests don't tend to work for me. You only take out what you put in, and the questions that determine what I'm trying to find out tend to be precisely the questions I'm really unsure about. So I read the descriptions of the functions on the official M-B site, and figured I was probably an ISTP. But then I read the descriptions of the types there, and figured I was more probably an INTP. Intuition, however, is perhaps the vaguest of the functions to me. I tend to be extremely skeptical toward intuition in the usual sense of the word. But perhaps that's not the sense meant by Myers and Briggs, or by Jung.
I'm most certainly an introvert. I also understand what the J/P dichotomy means: whether one's Perceiving or Judging function is extroverted.
Now supposing I'm either an ISTP or an INTP, consider this. I sometimes take apart things like video game controllers or my PC's mouse in order to fix them. I wouldn't if it wasn't necessary, though. I can swap my PC's hard drive or memory and stuff like that, but again, I wouldn't if it wasn't necessary. I can also work quite well with computer programs. But what I voluntarily put my mind to tends to be stuff like this:
- solving philosophical problems logically, i.e., resolving seeming contradictions, grasping how links in a chain of thought logically follow upon one another, etc.;
- figuring out how to break out of the Plato-Nietzsche cycle I envisioned;
- understanding what Heidegger meant by this statement: "But such becoming-a-being becomes a being that comes-to-be, and does so in the perpetual transformation of what has become firmly fixed and intractable to something made firm in a liberating transfiguration." (Heidegger, Nietzsche, Vol. II, chap. 26, trans. Krell);
- translating these lines literally: "si quis amans per amare mereri posset amari, posset Amor michi velle mederi dando beari."
I also really liked the puzzle video game Limbo, but the related Braid I don't like so much, because to actually carry out the solutions to the puzzles in that game is usually too much of a hassle for me.
I hope this is enough information. If you need more, please ask.
I'm most certainly an introvert. I also understand what the J/P dichotomy means: whether one's Perceiving or Judging function is extroverted.
Now supposing I'm either an ISTP or an INTP, consider this. I sometimes take apart things like video game controllers or my PC's mouse in order to fix them. I wouldn't if it wasn't necessary, though. I can swap my PC's hard drive or memory and stuff like that, but again, I wouldn't if it wasn't necessary. I can also work quite well with computer programs. But what I voluntarily put my mind to tends to be stuff like this:
- solving philosophical problems logically, i.e., resolving seeming contradictions, grasping how links in a chain of thought logically follow upon one another, etc.;
- figuring out how to break out of the Plato-Nietzsche cycle I envisioned;
- understanding what Heidegger meant by this statement: "But such becoming-a-being becomes a being that comes-to-be, and does so in the perpetual transformation of what has become firmly fixed and intractable to something made firm in a liberating transfiguration." (Heidegger, Nietzsche, Vol. II, chap. 26, trans. Krell);
- translating these lines literally: "si quis amans per amare mereri posset amari, posset Amor michi velle mederi dando beari."
I also really liked the puzzle video game Limbo, but the related Braid I don't like so much, because to actually carry out the solutions to the puzzles in that game is usually too much of a hassle for me.
I hope this is enough information. If you need more, please ask.