As a restless daydreamer, confirmed bibliophile and unrelentingly unemotional, internally overly-emotional, wacky human being, I have often wondered if there is a sort of survival guide out there for myself and fellow INTPs. Never having found one, I have resolved myself to thinking about the things that bind us together as the weirdos of the analytical MBTI spectrum, in between the construction of my detailed plans to take over the world (that I will ultimately be too lazy to execute).
So, if you're an INTP, you are undoubtedly here in the midst of an intense bout of procrastination, bored interest or the throes of a violent, passionate fit to exponentially increase your general knowledge within the span of... oh, I don't know... about 45 minutes. That should triple it.
If you're an INTP, you know how to have fun (by yourself, bundled in front of your laptop with only your cat and a mug of tea to keep you company). You know the things that make you unique, separate you from the illogical masses of the more primitive, touchy-feely personality types (except INTJs, who are actually tolerable, on a good day). You know that right now, there's a subconscious itch in the back of your mind, silently pleading with you to scroll down the page...
Here are 10 things that INTPs excel at doing... possibly even more than procrastination.
1. When you have a detailed plan perfectly worked out in your head, and you watch it all fall to pieces when you attempt to verbalize it.
2. When you mourn the loss of logical thinking in what seems to be all of humanity.
3. When you mispronounce a word and you're like, "But I know exactly what it means!"
4. When you mentally commit to reading only one Wikipedia article per night... but then things just complicate themselves and you're awake until 4 a.m.
5. When you spend a solid twenty minutes painfully constructing a message that it takes the receiver approximately 0.7 seconds to scan and dismiss.
6. When you win all of the many scintillating arguments that go on... in your own head.
7. When you're so wrapped up in your own thoughts that you never hear the person practically screaming in your ear, trying to communicate like a normal human. Or the blaring car horn warning you not to cross the street.
8. When you have a notebook full of scrawled project ideas and ideas for project ideas that you know you will never complete (or even begin...).
9. When you immediately spaz out and start orating the minute a topic within the realm of your interest/knowledge enters into the conversation.
10. When you go to take a personality test, and you can manipulate your outcome by strategically choosing the answers leading to it.
