What helps you feel like yourself? It sounds like an easy question until you try to answer it. Is it being around people you love? Working toward something that matters? Going somewhere new? Sitting alone in your house with absolutely nobody asking where the scissors are? Recently, I sent out a survey asking readers when…
ISFPs are some of my favorite fictional characters. They have passion, conviction, and (usually) street smarts, but they’re not talkers. They’re not the ones going on about their grand philosophy while everybody else waits patiently for the monologue to end. More often, we figure out what they believe by watching what they do when something…
Most of us know when we are wasting time in the obvious ways. We notice when we have watched six episodes of something we don’t even like or spent forty minutes reading an argument between strangers on Facebook. We may continue, lost in a trance of sorts, but at least we know what is happening….
I have strong opinions about Donald Trump. I would guess most people reading this do too. He is not the sort of public figure who inspires a shrug and a change of subject. I’ve put off writing this article for a long time, even though the requests I’ve gotten to write it are probably in…
INTJs have gotten a strange reputation online. Depending on whom you ask, they are chess-playing masterminds, emotionally unavailable supervillains, or exhausted people trying to redesign the grocery store checkout system because the current arrangement makes no sense. The truth is less theatrical and more interesting. INTJs tend to take in information through Introverted Intuition, or…
