Intuitives Can Handle Details, We Just Need A Vision First

Intuitives Can Handle Details, We Just Need a Vision First

I have read and researched a bit about MBTI and dabble in the theory as a hobby. I am definitely not an expert in the field. It peaks my interest, so I learn a little here and there at my own pace.

One thing I have learned is that those with the “N” or intuitive trait, are less common than the “S” or sensing trait. As a result the world’s systems and structures are more geared towards sensors, so intuitives can struggle to fit into their surrounding world.

I often struggle to fit into my surrounding environment. I have simply learned to “play along” to survive. It makes life easier, but at the same time I feel so fake or alienated from what I consider “reality.”

College is a perfect example. I love to learn. I am a student at heart, and always love discovering a new piece of information. However, I really hate the traditional ways of how college trys to teach. It seems to stifle my thought process by requiring stupid standards such as memorization and timed tests.

Really? This is what “learning” boils down to? Tests and memorizing don’t capture the essence of knowing something, only regurgitating facts for the sake of a grade.

As an engineering student, I believe everything I have to learn is taught in a backwards fashion. We learn principles of math, physics, and etc..but the grand purpose or “big picture” isn’t made very clear. At least from the beginning. We are given a path of classes to take, but taught to take it as is and not question the why or how these classes work together.

The further I get in my studies, the more I realize how it all works together. For example; calculus really didn’t make sense to me until I took courses in physics that actually explain how calculus works in an applicable manner. Before that, it was too abstract and unconnected to the world around me. I managed to get through it, but to me it was just shuffling numbers and equations around to acheive the right answer for a grade, nothing more. I often thought, if physics were explained first and it’s applications, calculus would have been so much easier to understand.

This continues with the higher level physics courses I had to take that were heavy in theory, but null in relation to applicable uses. When I started taking courses in upper level civil (my emphasis), only then did I really start to understand what I should have supposedly known by taking the general theory courses such as thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, dynamics, and etc..

I would have greater understanding by taking the courses that only require minimal knowledge of a heavy theory course, then work deeper into those theories once the “big picture” is put in place. I could have received a better grade, but no, learn meaningless details first, then we will teach you simpler ways to apply it. This is such B.S. and completely backwards to my thought process!

Thus said, I often bitch and complain my way through college because the method currently implored is ass backwards to actual “learning.”

Perhaps sensors feel differently, IDK, it is frustrating as hell for me! I need to see the end result and fruitation of a concept first, then start to understand the details necessary to achieve that end result. If I have to muddle through meaningless details first without understanding their significance in the first place, I struggle. I tend to think in metaphorical terms anyway, so a small task before me must play a part into the whole machine at work. If I cannot connect a small task to the machine as a whole, I do not see the point and cannot make sense of it. I actually can be very good at details and relish them, but I must simply understand why those details are necessary in the first place and give them proper direction. If no vision is present, I have no guidance into what the details should look like. There is no point in making detailed “messes.” I am only interested in making detailed masterpieces. /p>

Laughing because

Here we have

• Sherlock texting Irene back

• Flying halfway across the world to take on armed terrorists to save her

• “Oh, but I will have the cameraphone, though.”

• “The Woman. THE Woman.”

• Just him imagining her in an extremely intimate and sentimental manner in the middle of a life-or-death situation, NBD. (And it’s made clear that this is not unusual.)

• “The Woman Will Cry”

• Irene as the very first of Sherlock’s pressure points:

• The red rose she sent or left Sherlock in his hospital room (red roses are symbols of ‘one true love’). The fact that he took it with him when he snuck out.

• Sherlock having a conversation with John about Irene’s importance to him in his Mind Palace, including the fact that he kept a picture of her in his pocket watch:

• Every single person involved with the show to any significant degree giving numerous quotes supporting Adlock.

• And of course, The Lying Detective, where it becomes canon that Sherlock kept her moan text alert five years and several phones later, and that he does indeed reply to her.

People who ship That Other Ship in her tags:

• “WhY is this ADlock being forced down our throats out of NOwhere?!?!?”

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erkology

9 years ago

The problem with Intellect

All my life I have grappled with my own self-driven need to acquire more and more knowledge constantly and the consequential spiralling thoughts of worthlessness when I cannot comprehend a theory.

When I was young it was a fairly innocent and vaguely competitive trait. I had to have read the most books out of my classmates. I had to score the highest on my reading comprehensions. And when the row of yellow stars next to my name on the poster hanging from the door of my first grade classroom I would grin with silent satisfaction and return quietly to my seat.

As I got older however, this constant need to accumulate more and more knowledge became a sort of complex. No matter how much I succeeded, it was never good enough for myself. Often times I found I couldn’t internalize my own successes or realize that they were direct products of late nights spent studying and days spent agonizing over a single page essay. In my own mind, I am consistently inferior to my peers.

And so, as I have grown and matured, I have become nothing more than my intellect. Without it I have nothing, I am nothing more, and so here lies the root of my problem with intellect. Perhaps these are the very reasons as to why I sympathize so much with the likes of Sir Arthur Canon Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and other idiosyncratic minds. Just as the great detective said in The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone “I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.”

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erkology

8 years ago

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erkology

9 years ago

Intj and travel

Despite my protest that we just stay in the hotel, despite the seizure inducing lights, despite the loud music and despite the numerous amount of people surrounding me.... I actually enjoyed the night. I need to venture out of my comfort zones sometimes.

How To Start Conversation with MBTI Types

ESTP: ask them where to get the best offer for something

ESFP: ask them if they’re going to *insert a popular band’s next concert*

ISTP: watch a gory movie, guess how they do the effects

ISFP: ask for song recs, ask their fav band and said band’s best song(s)

ENTP: scroll through 9gag/other meme page/mutual fandom tumblr tag together, then compare your headcanons

ENFP: ask, “Which movie(s) you’re definitely going to watch in cinema this year?”

INTP: ask them to explain one of the logical fallacy

INFP: self-inserts yourselves into a serial you both love

ESTJ: ask their help to assemble IKEA products

ESFJ: ask about work, their last holiday, anything, and/or tell them about your (crappy) day

ISFJ: invite them out to your gang’s get-together

ISTJ: ask tips to stay organized. Avoid too many small talks

ENTJ: discuss about your state’s/country’s/world politics. And politicians

ENFJ: talk about what you aim for in 5 or 10 years later.

INFJ: talk about whether euthanasia is morally right

INTJ: discuss ideologies. If you don’t know much, ask them to explain what Communism is and isn’t

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erkology

9 years ago

Go somewhere you've never been

You might be an NTJ if ...

NTJ refers to ENTJs and INTJs.

You do a cost-benefit analysis on nearly every aspect of your life

You admire people who check you, challenge you, and call you on your shit

You often feel you should have your boss’ or coworker’s job and salary because you’re smarter and more competent

People view you as an overachiever, but you see yourself as an underachiever with still so much more to do

Your introverted friends have summoned you for assistance as their representative, lawyer, or gladiator

You know an idea is stupid and won’t work before everyone else and you’re waiting for them to catch up and realize this too

You have high expectations of other people and often want more for their lives than they want for themselves

You spend half a debate/discussion/conversation conveying your ideas and the other half convincing the other person you weren’t angry this entire time

Small talk is excruciating

The gifts you love the most are the ones you can really use

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erkology

9 years ago

Holly Martin, Fairytale Beginnings (via bookquotesbook)

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