And she was happy, living in her little INTP world, doing semi-productive and often baffling INTP things, like cross-referencing ancient poetry and never dusting.
But one day, as she was making her biweekly visit to Extrovert-World, she said something not-nice, and the people gasped. "That's not NICE," said no one in particular.
"What?" The INTP was befuddled.
"Not NICE," repeated no one.
"Oh," said the INTP.
The INTP returned to her little INTP world and thought hard about what she had said. Though the intent was not to hurt anyone, someone had been hurt. This made her sad.
"I must not have this 'NICE' that they speak of," she concluded, vowing to do her best to find it. But search as she would, she could not find the NICE that seemed to come so easily to everyone else.
The INTP's visits to Extrovert-World became fewer and farther between.
"Better to be safe than sorry," she thought.
TO BE CONTINUED...
"What?" The INTP was befuddled.
"Not NICE," repeated no one.
"Oh," said the INTP.
The INTP returned to her little INTP world and thought hard about what she had said. Though the intent was not to hurt anyone, someone had been hurt. This made her sad.
"I must not have this 'NICE' that they speak of," she concluded, vowing to do her best to find it. But search as she would, she could not find the NICE that seemed to come so easily to everyone else.
The INTP's visits to Extrovert-World became fewer and farther between.
"Better to be safe than sorry," she thought.
TO BE CONTINUED...
Thank you
ReplyDeleteI've trained myself into learning to overwrite some of the seeming negative behaviours associated with being an INTP - I make it a point to be open and connect and appreciate other humans (customer service interactions are one of my strengths) and though they show up in other areas (able to be so conscious about feelings with those I love and respect but diminishing returns when someone has demonstrated that they only want me to care about their feelings and not reciprocal).
ReplyDeleteOn another note, I'd like to strengthen certain other INTP traits like building good systems. I find that there's an overload of information that i get bogged down in. Any tips or systems that help you organize a lot of info?