[Rooshie]

So are there any non-INTP things that you do? Or do you have some have non-INTP qualities?

[Molock]

If you don't know me well, you could mistake me for an ISTP. I love talking about cars, engines, guns, and I'm pretty decent with tools. I build and fix stuff all the time. I also favour briefness and directness in conversation so I typically answer with one liners and without any BS (I mean exactly what I say).

[Psychosmurf]

When the moon is full, I am transformed into an INTJ.

[Electric Nate]

Hmm, i'm annoyingly over-emotional and sensitive a lot of the time, although I suppose my choice to hide it at all costs in public is a very intp trait.

I also have a fondness for machines and devices like Molock described, although I only really know enough to talk to the talk and walk the walk, I couldn't fix a car engine or anything without doing a lot of reading and then taking it all to bits, losing several key componants, giving up, and buying a new one I'm kind of obsessed with taking stuff to peices actually, I think pretty much everything i've owned has been dismantled at some point just for the sake of it.

I have a huge love of animals and nature, which seems to me more like a INFP thing? I don't know. I get very attatched to pets and always have a great friendly relationship with animals. I've yet to meet an animal that I haven't gotten along with. Even the most picky and antisocial cats seem to be cool with me.

I'm always creative. Logic is the pattern of my life and the way I interpret the world, but my creativity is the one thing that i'll allow to fly in the face of logic. Analysis can come later, after the creative process is done, there's no sense analysing something if you can't look at it as a finished, complete whole.

[feefafo]

Sometimes I can get really emotional...but I just end up trying to figure out and rationalize the emotions, so...

I like art. I think this is just outside the STEREOTYPE of INTPs, though. I'm sure a lot of real INTPs enjoy art.

I can't really think of much else, but I'm sure there's a lot.

[Thrifty Walrus]

I am very ENTPish in public

[SomeWeirdGuy]

I have lots of ISTP qualities. This is mainly because I like to do things regarded as ISTP-ish. If you gave me any type of gun, I could probably learn to clean and strip it within a few minutes and then a few minutes later I could tell you how it works in detail. I design guns that would almost certainly work in real life.

(related: Samuel Colt made the first true revolver when he was 15, so thats what I'm shooting for (no pun intended))

Also, I like to find how stuff works, I swear a lot, and when I am around motors and stuff, I get wild and complicated ideas to make homemade airplanes and stuff like that.

[Arusnem]

Nice thread idea.
Maybe it can compensate a bit for the not-always humourous tendency to try to fit oneself and the others into a stereotypical anecdotic detail-oriented view of the mbti.
"Oh my! You showed a feeling and are able to plan what you're going to do 2 minutes ahead, you're certainly a mistyped esfj!"

On topic : I often seem very ENTPish in public too.
Very useful behaviour that keeps people at the right distance, seduced but not able to get too close.

I am very conscious of my environnement ; not in a "Se" way though, more the paranoid awareness.
(like for spotting bugs on a wall or someone looking at you).

[Valdyr]

On topic : I often seem very ENTPish in public too.
Very useful behaviour that keeps people at the right distance, seduced but not able to get too close.

I am very conscious of my environnement ; not in a "Se" way though, more the paranoid awareness.
(like for spotting bugs on a wall or someone looking at you).

I also seem to have the ENTP public persona. I suppose this is because when I force myself to be extroverted (like for a new social situation, a meeting etc.) I can send my Ne into overdrive to come off as charming and move things along at a brisk pace as well, while underneath there's still my calculating Ti, and my very well-developed Te. I imagine this is much the same for ENTPs as well except they do it naturally and without the draining effect it has on m energy reserves. I have mis-typed as an ENTP before.

I seem to have the "paranoid" environment-consciousness as well. I won't be pointing out things like "wow, look at that car, it's got such a nice color" or "the wind feels so good on my face" a lot, but I will notice things such as m spatial relation to objects and people, cars, the behavior of people around me, security cameras...I also unconsciously "map" out everywhere I go. I'll often describe the security setup and potential security holes to my friends when we go places. I remember that when I was 14 I found a hole in the security at an art museum which allowed people to bypass security/payment/ticket check entirely. I told the person at the help desk and the next time I came back they'd fixed it. :D

Usually I'm very laid-back about scheduling, however when something is of significant importance, complexity, or involves enough logistics, I become a taskmaster of scheduling and planning, and become very forceful about it. Situations that get me like this are going on a day trip with friends, going to the airport etc. It may be somewhat hypocritical, as most of the time I'm "whatever" about plans and schedules, but I get annoyed when others' inability to plan efficiently and follow their plans interferes with a goal. I don't enjoy such scheduling or do it naturally (or often for that matter), but I suppose that I have trained myself to do as such when it really counts.

In a similar vein I have a tendency to be a leader in a similar way to an INTJ. I don't necessarily naturally crave leadership, and if someone who is competent is in charge I'm content to let them handle things, but more often than not, the leaders aren't up to my standards of competence, so I step in and take over. I would prefer it if everyone was competent and independent enough to not need a leader/be a follower, but it seems that in reality this is rarely the case, so I somewhat reluctantly step in for the sake of a good outcome. I also can't stand being dominated, so in some situations I compete for leadership just to avoid being dominated by someone whom I see as either my equal or inferior in competence.

As many others in the thread have said, I'm a big fan of the arts, especially music. I get be moved to a state of powerful emotion by art, though I never let it take over my actions or decision-making. I can rationalize the emotions away very quickly if need be.

In short, I'm a very INTJ-like INTP with an ENTP public persona who can turn into an ENTJ in very specific situations.

[honestfi]

Another borderline ISTP here, 50% on an online test, I was approx 60% N in the Form I written test.

I have no interest in taking things apart to see how they work, but I do at times surprise myself with my multitasking abilities. (Not as much as has been described on some forums - e.g. Brush teeth whilst juggling three chainsaws with your feet and bouncing a football off your head) I'm rubbish at driving, but can actually see future tasks and how they can all fall into place to achieve the main objective - as long as it is me doing them.

The main difference is occasional "literal thinking", for instance I frequently miss analogies, and call a spade a spade. I actually have to think long and hard sometimes to see beyond a problem or concept to see the larger possibilities. Something that grasps my imagination immediately though - no stopping me.