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INTPs spend a lot of time in their heads, in a world of ideas, possibilities and theories. They love nothing more than solving complicated problems in their heads. They believe that they can solve anything in there, and they often can.
They hate details and realizing their ideas themselves; they can have a great idea and then not finish it just because to them the product is already finished, because it was finished in their head. INTPs may also have problems with being overall lazy and being overconfident about their intellectual powers but not doing anything with these intellectual powers they believe to possess at the same time out of fear to discover that they weren't as smart as they thought.
They are extremely open-minded about ideas; everything is possible and everything can be changed. This combined with their abstract introverted thinking skill makes them the ultimate theory builder. This is demonstrated by the fact that many of the most successful scientists and thinkers are INTPs.
To the outside world INTPs are often seen as calm, imaginative and private. However, they can be very goofy and fun and some INTPs have really developed this. They don’t care what they look like and don’t understand the purpose of fashion except when they decide to make fashion one of their interests. This is because they can master almost anything they find worth the effort to master. Therefore INTPs can be found anywhere doing anything and are often experts in area's known as INTP weaknesses, but you can spot them by the way they go about doing the things they do.
Often really confusing to beginners who try to read INTPs is that they seem extremely precise about very tiny details, yet they are big picture thinkers. However, they’re not precise because they look at the details; on the contrary, they do that because they have a very deep understanding of a lot of things and know that that tiny detail is very important to the big picture. They will never look at unimportant details and can get really annoyed when people get too deep into these.
Special INTP personality traits:
- They are not demanding with simple daily needs.
- They are often not practical.
- They often have a child like passion for their interests.
- Often bad at expressing emotions, some INTPs even believe they have no emotions (which of course isn't true)
- Creative, imaginative and often brilliant
- They have no problem with taking risks
- Sometimes have problems with communicating their idea's and thoughts and therefore keep them private.
Love life:
INTPs are passive about the search for love and are often not very sure about how to logically deal with their desires. In their partner they look for someone they respect, and someone they can share their ideas with.
Even though any type can successfully link up with any other type, the INTP personality is most likely to link up with the following types placed in order from the most likely match downwards: ENFJ, INFJ, ENFP, INFP, ESFJ and ISFJ.
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Difference between:
ENTP and INTP: The ENTP is way more outgoing and social and got excellent communication skills. They are focused on the outside world.
ISTP and INTP: The ISTP is down to earth and practical and less enthusiastic about their ideas.
INFP and INTP: The INFP has a very good natural understanding of emotions and has no problem with consciously making decisions based on emotions. Another good sign is that the INTP is likely to get into discussions as a sport; an INFP would never do such a thing because they hate conflict.
INTJ and INTP: INTJs are better at finishing things they have started and INTPs are far more likely to do crazy or dangerous things. Furthermore, being goofy is an INTP trait and not an INTJ trait. INTJs are usually 100% certain that they are right INTPs are a little less certain about their ideas.
