I'm a new member who is having quite a difficult time figuring out my type.
I'm told that I am very mysterious and the curiosity of what I'm thinking is what draws people to me. On the other hand, I've also been told that I can be intimidating. But I suppose that might also be another reaction to the mystery.
I'm a college student and have a hard time navigating the social scene. I don't really care for any of it. I'll go to the bar or club with friends but it's draining. I feel like I have to perform and it's more freeing to act a fool and dance around and have fun than worry about what the cute guy across the room thinks.
At work I'm called upon to solve technical problems such as "the register is on the fritz, what do we do?" I have no idea why people assume I know these things. I just start trying things out and see what works and easily pick up on what needs to be done.
The biggest obstacle I have with people is their fear to try something new. The fear of being embarrassed (or worse the fear of not liking something!) and also my disgust for people who mock those who have made a mistake. You never know until you try.
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As a rule I only ever apply theories/systems that other people have developed. I can have my own interpretation of them, granted, but I've never invented or developed anything on my own. (Well, to the exception of modelling damage in World of Warcraft, but the models I make are just really rudimentary sets of assumptions that I can use to make predictions, basically.) As you said later in your post, much like an ILE, I tend to apply these systems fairly flexibly based on "what makes sense" or "what is useful". For example, Rick's sentiment that Socionics is bunk because it's not a perfect system that is not perfectly applicable to every situation all the time perfectly is really alien to me. Socionics is a fairly loose kind of a system that makes very useful and accurate predictions and tends to ring very truly with reality. That's all I need to consider it good and useful, and useful it most certainly is.
