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A friend and I were discussing our personal failings one day. We each had a litany of miseries–we were terrible failures at this and that, we were misunderstood constantly–and the challenge of digging ourselves our of our pits into respectability seemed impossible. As we complained about how we didn’t measure up to what we should […]

I’d like to continue my comparison of INTP and Enneagram 5. Although a preference for INTP does not necessarily mean a preference for Enneagram 5, I think this is a case of exception proving the rule.
The previous excerpts from Thompson are followed by:
INTPs who make a deliberate attempt to apply Extraverted Intuition to themselves feel […]

When I was a kid, I was considered “gifted.” It meant I got sent off to book-rooms to read stuff outside of the normal curriculum and that the whole group would take special field trips to interesting places.
When I graduated from high school, the “gifted” label dropped off. I was just a kid […]

In Jungian theory, we pass through two adulthoods. The first adulthood consists of our moving within the constraints of our understanding of adultness. Our understanding is based on what we see in those we view as adults–we accept or reject the models presented, but we work within the influence of those models regardless.
Not all people […]