Okay But That Is Soo NOT “The Secret Life Of INTP- Anna Kendrick”. It’s The Secret lives Of

Okay but that is soo NOT “The secret life of INTP- Anna Kendrick”. It’s the secret *lives* of INTPs by *Anna Moss*

INTP the Chameleon

Unlike most people, INTPs do not come pre-programmed with acceptable social behaviour patterns. Rather, they learn to fit in through conscious observation and deliberate mimicry.

While other people talk, the INTP watches and wonders. They observe what a person did and figure out what they should do as a response. Widening their sight, nodding, and smiling, the INTP responded with a fake social skill.

Like actors on a stage set, INTPs are playing a role. They know that being true to themselves doesn’t fit too well with average people, they slowly accumulate a little acting knowledge to help them get by.

INTPs could be described as a human chameleon or a mirror. If a person is friendly, funny, boisterous, and waves their hands around a lot, the INTP will start gesticulating, speak in a louder voice, and smile and joke more to match the other’s behaviour. And when the person is finally gone, they will turn into their typical self which often is silent, aloof and nonchalant, and slowly cocoon themselves inside their room.

Most of the time this mimicry is unconscious and is basically the result of playing a role deeply enough that it becomes embedded. Chameleons don’t have to think about changing their skin colour to match leaves and branches–it just happens.

Not that INTPs are good actors. They only act because they have to, and only put forth as much effort as is required to get by. An INTP, for example, does not have a giant palette of varied emotional responses that seem totally genuine. Instead, they are controlling their bodies like a puppet-master controls a puppet, and the resulting clumsy imitation of reality is just not lifelike. But it’s enough to get by, as long as there isn’t too much pressure.

If the pressure increases or the situation warrants it, however, an INTP will switch back to their regular selves for as long as necessary, perhaps stunning their acquaintances with a display of cool, clear, cogitant reasoning.

(The secret life of INTP- Anna Kendrick)

Introverts as Lines of Poetry

INTJ: “ From childhood’s hour I have not been/ As others were—I have not seen/ As others saw.” Alone, Edgar Allan Poe

INTP: “ We wear the mask that grins and lies,/ It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes.” We Wear the Mask, Paul Laurence Dunbar

INFJ: “Love is not love/ Which alters when it alteration finds,/ Or bends with the remover to remove.” Sonnet 116, William Shakespeare

INFP: “ Laugh, and the world laughs with you;/ Weep, and you weep alone.” Solitude, Ella Wheeler Wilcox

ISTJ: “Serene, I fold my hands and wait,/ Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea;/ I rave no more ‘gainst time or fate.” Waiting, John Burroughs

ISTP: “ To fight aloud, is very brave–/ But gallanter, I know/ Who charge within the bosom/ The Calvalry of Wo–” To Fight Aloud Is Very Brave, Emily Dickinson

ISFJ: “Hope is the thing with feathers/ That perches in the soul.” Hope Is The Thing With Feathers, Emily Dickinson

ISFP: “Tell me not, in mournful numbers,/ Life is but an empty dream!” A Psalm of Life, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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thetruthwatcher

5 years ago

THEY’RE BACK!

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thetruthwatcher

5 years ago

Do you think INFPs are the type to get offended the most? Or generally that it's an Fi thing?

I think FPs are more honest and open about being offended. When the other types are offended (truly offended– not annoyed) they tend to react in distinctly different ways that aren’t inherently obvious to the naked eye, trends generally include:

High Fi (INFP, ISFP, ENFP, ESFP): Expression

Offended high Fi tends to be outspoken because they know where they stand on issues, they know what they believe is right or wrong, and they know how they feel about people who cross that line.

High Fe (ENFJ, ESFJ, INFJ, ISFJ): Exclusion

Offended high Fe resorts to social exclusion a la Mean Girls. If someone is grossly inappropriate they tend to scold and then minimize exposure to that person by doing things like disinviting them to events, ignoring them when in direct contact, or just plain avoiding them altogether. High Fe also tries to stop the offensive person in question from infiltrating their social circles and influencing their friends.

Low Fi (ENTJ, ESTJ, INTJ, ISTJ): Aggression

Offended low Fi will bury you in facts and counterarguments, possibly toss in personal insults, and then promptly dismiss you as an idiot whose intelligence can’t be salvaged with prolonged conversation by shutting you down and shutting you out.

Low Fe (INTP, ISTP, ENTP, ESTP): Passive Aggression

Offended low Fe likes to troll (harass) which is a form of passive aggression because it’s an indirect form of hostility. They’ll come back again and again until the other person is worn out. The point of this reaction is that low Fe doesn’t want to reveal they’re actually offended but they want to inflict on the offending person the same hostility they received.

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thetruthwatcher

4 years ago

“The whole world is small at a height like this. Almost makes sense the way it lays out, like watching an ant hive. You never look at one of those and consider the politics, the petty prejudices, and all the vanities that drive them, but it’s the same everywhere. The queen has her favorites, her courtiers. The bigger ants lord over the smaller, the more productive over the weak, and the fortunate over the unlucky. We just can’t hear their squabbles. We’re too far above. Instead, they seem so pure of purpose, so simple, so happy. Maybe that’s how we all look to Maribor and the rest of the godly pantheon. Perhaps that’s why they never think to help.”

Royce Melborn (via we-are-but-dust-and-shadows)

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thetruthwatcher

4 years ago

“Because that’s what he is,” Royce assured them as he approached from the direction of the keep, “a big, dumb street thug. I once saw an old woman better him senseless with a butter churn.”

-Hadrian proceeds to own the fuck out of Mauvin, the son of a noble family renowned for their swordsmanship and who was trained in an ancient art of swordplay considered to be unbeatable-

With his eyes on Hadrian and an expression of awe on his face, Denek (Mauvin’s youngest brother) turned to Royce and said, “That must have been an awfully wicked old lady and a big butter churn.”

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thetruthwatcher

5 years ago

Oh yeah