spent half the day, since i got home from classes, talking to yen (yes, i started going to classes again today) about various various. very amused by this article which she sent me, from the atlantic, on how to care for introverts this is quite amusing because i'm on an intp mailing list, which, coincidentally yesterday, started debating whether there's such a thing as a "jolly intp", or whether the concept of a jolly intp could exist hypothetically. hee. i suppose that depends on your definition of jolly. yen and i were talking mbti, and how amazingly accurate they are. i was just looking at something on why intp fail:

INTPs lack follow-through and this can isolate their ideas from practical examination. Their notions become over-intellectualized and too abstract to be of practical benefit. With their sharp critical thinking and analytical abilities, INTPs tend to nit-pick, hair-split, and generally overdo simple issues. Their desire for accuracy and precision exacerbates any error they may perceive in themselves or in others — they are, in other words, highly self-critical. Wanting to be competent and know everything, their standards grow increasingly higher. When fear of failing becomes overly pronounced, INTPs are quick to feel unintelligent, slow, and powerless. If stress continues, the INTP's mind seems to freeze and block out the vital information it has worked so hard to accumulate. Their creative juices stop flowing and they suffer from stage fright, writers block, and a general inhibition of their ingenious thinking and fluent language skills. Preoccupied with performance failure, INTPs become self-consciously distracted in anticipation of their failure. If the stress becomes too overwhelming, the fear of blanking out prevents them from taking risks in areas they desire to succeed in. Attempting to avoid incompetence, they fail to gain the expertise and mastery they so desperately need.

that's me, exactly, at this moment.