ENTps and obligation

[Joy]

ENTps... do you get anxious when you feel that there is something that you HAVE to do?

See someone, run an errand, finish a project, complete a chore or chores, go to bed...

I do. I dread it and get quite frustrated and put it off.

[Gilly]

Ditto. But I'm not ENTp

[discojoe]

Absolutely. I hate having to do ANYTHING. Hell, I even hate eating sometimes.

[Gilly]

Yea, and sleeping. I wish I didn't have to sleep. Sleeping is a pain in the ass.

[diamond]

Yeah . . . getting me to do things - you have to make me think it's my idea or I won't do it.

[ILENTp]

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[Joy]

I think we resent any form of something not being open, and I think time is part of this issue... most of the time if we have to do something, it has to be done in a certain time frame (if not then we don't really have to do it at all, right?), and time issues irritate us.

[ILENTp]

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[Joy]

LOL you know a lot of people don't eat question eating... it's just what they do. I know what you mean though.

[ILENTp]

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[Joy]

it's a problem for me because I have gotten myself in trouble a few times in the past not eating enough, sleeping enough, and drinking enough water

[ILENTp]

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[Joy]

I am better with the water than the food... water requires much less effort than food does

[angelalala]

hot damn. I never associated this to type. If I feel like I have to do anything, I can't put it out of my head, get overwhelmed and just don't do it ..then I make myself get to it because I don't let myself miss deadlines (or I feel soo guilty)

Ie: responding to emails, cleaning my room, homework

[diljs]

I'm not externally motivated by deadlines. In fact I'm negatively motivated and it decreases my productivity.

If I get up in the morning and have to be somewhere at 3, it ruins my whole day, all I'm doing is counting down to that time I have to be prepared and arrive on time at 3pm. I can't do my normal random hops between activities with no consciousness of time...yuck.

[dbmmama]

I'm not externally motivated by deadlines. In fact I'm negatively motivated and it decreases my productivity.

If I get up in the morning and have to be somewhere at 3, it ruins my whole day, all I'm doing is counting down to that time I have to be prepared and arrive on time at 3pm. I can't do my normal random hops between activities with no consciousness of time...yuck.

Oh god, i'm like that. it's this catch 22 since i have kids and we still have things to do in life. i have set my life up and way of homeschooling where we are very free to come and go and do whatever we want, whenever we want because of this. i try my best to not have many obligations because of this. i never know which ones i may "flake out" on and then feel bad later because i went with something else that inspired me at the time. i prefer to not have to involve others in obligations, but rather obligations i make to myself, for these reasons. life doesn't always work out that way, so, i come off as a flake sometimes because i tend to involve others anyway because i like being with others.

[angelalala]

I'm not externally motivated by deadlines. In fact I'm negatively motivated and it decreases my productivity.

If I get up in the morning and have to be somewhere at 3, it ruins my whole day, all I'm doing is counting down to that time I have to be prepared and arrive on time at 3pm. I can't do my normal random hops between activities with no consciousness of time...yuck.

Exactly! I do the same thing. To me, whatever the first thing I have to do in my day is, that's where I begin my day. In my first year of uni I thought "sweet! Screw early morning classes!" After a year of waking up at noon+ and sitting around twiddling my thumbs on days where I had no class till 7pm, I thought about changing my schedule.

I need early morning start classes to get me started, otherwise I just slack off on facebook or random researching tangents until I have to get out the door.

well put, well put

[dbmmama]

I need early morning start classes to get me started, otherwise I just slack off on facebook or random researching tangents until I have to get out the door.

well put, well put

random researching tangents, yes, yes...that was one of the coolest things about working at a library for 5 years.

[diljs]

random researching tangents, yes, yes...that was one of the coolest things about working at a library for 5 years.

tangents are great.

[dbmmama]

tangents are great.

those smileys are so cute like that with the s.

my hubby is king of tangents. i am too, we just go off in different kinds of tangents, hmmmmmmmmmmmm....

do doms or people with valued take threads in whatever direction they happen to lead.....i've noticed that i tend to do that and that some others don't like it or would rather "stay on topic."