Comments by "Robert Morgan" (@RobertMorgan) on "Psych2Go"
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Also, as far as imagination, it depends on how I direct it.
I can imagine fanciful fantasys quite well, for decades I've built a world for some characters I've created, someday I'll write a book. It's a narrative I use to occupy processing power when I'm bored with other stuff, like running 5 miles a day.
My real mind power is my realism imagination. I can start at the end and work backwards until my vision exists in reality. It's great for work projects on infrastructure like I do. I can 'see' every step, every part going together, how it lies underground, interaction with other systems, parts and tools I need, lists form. I still have to write it all down and draw it.
Example: I'm hand building a cabin in the shore of my lake, and it's a huge process. For me, it starts with me sitting on my balcony off my bedroom in said cabin, looking across the lake at dusk, supping a nice cup of evening tea, watching the fireflies start to blink in the evening...now I just need to draw the house I see, note all the features I see in my vision, and work backwards from there to build it.
I know that might sound crazy but I can't imagine doing it any other way. Present me with all the parts and materials in a pile to build exactly what I want, I'd be totally lost. Let me design what I want in reverse and I'll give you a list of everything I need.
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I would say yes. I test as an ISTJ, but I also crave attention at times and have big golden retriever energy, but a lot of that comes from being an adoption survivor, a lifelong trauma that affects all of me, including my personality. In fact it's probably what drove my ISTJ traits, I value honesty and integrity very highly, because I started life being lied to by the people closest to me, for a good reason ostensibly, but still dishonesty.
I'd rather hate someone for what they honestly say to me than for saying nothing at all and making me suspect them.
It's an odd mix of introversion, and demand for attention. It may be why I work a thankless but vital public service job, the community needs me and I get to do it in the background.
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It's why I think God has the most possible compassion: if he's omniscient and omnipotent, that means he knows everything that's going to happen to you AND he could finger snap handwave snowplow all of that out of your way, BUT you are trusted enough with free will that he knows you can deal with it. Some would say that's kinda fucked up, but letting people fail, especially when you see It and know it's going to happen, because that's how people grow, and we see the kids of snowplow parents and how they never did grow because they never faced adversity and never on their own. That's not loving your kids, that's hating them. That's like having a kid that's 20 but never learned to walk, but he's so SAFE, no falls, no skinned knees, no broken bones or injuries, but also no quality of life. They're a prisoner to safety.
We all NEED to fall, it's how we learn to get back up.
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My memory isn't spectacular, but my ability to know I remember is pretty fucking spectacular. By that, I might not know exactly what it is I need to know immediately, but I always almost instantly know if it is something I do know, if that makes sense.
Example: something happens at my job, I'm the guy saying "Yeah I remember how that went down last time 5 years ago, yeah, give me a second, I know I have it here, gotcha! Here's the photos and notes I took with my phone 5 years ago, with all the data and specs and part #s we need."
I might not remember what I need, but I remember HOW to remember and I never throw any information away, because someday it'll be useful, somehow.
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Also, it's not photographic, but almost. Recent example, in needed a bunch of long, complicated part numbers for some maintenance parts. I know I made copies of the labels to get all the info on one page, I could not find that page, but I remembered precisely what it looked like, down to the sizes of the labels and the length of the part numbers, lol, but not the actual data. I can look right at it with my mind and see a very close representation of it, but not quite it. Probably with practice, but I'm already 40, probably a bit late for super spy mind training.
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Think of House MD as the example of ISTJ emotional distance. House has emotions, he just hides them behind the blinding brilliance of his outward focus on others. He's a master at deflecting questions towards himself with more insightful, pressing observations of others that almost always puts them on the defensive, and when you're defending you can't be on the attack.
Like, someone says let's talk about what's bothering you, and you reply something like "Yeah I have stuff going on, but let's talk about you and that thing you did that no one else wants to talk about, comfortable now?" And hope they grab that and go and forget about you in the process.
That's the emotional distance I think they mean. Anyway, it's an introvert dominant type, let us be alone, damnit! What's with all these questions?
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Anytime someone starts "Thing/Behavior/Process, DOES it work?" I always get worried narratively, because the fastest way to tell if something does work, at least a little bit, or it did work well in the past, is if it's still being done. Humans have an amazing talent to LEARN. We keep what works, and we throw away what doesn't.
With institutions and traditions that were put in place to solve very real problems, and then continued for hundreds of thousands of years across all human societies and cultures, we know they work or at least are perceived to work, because if it didn't work, we'd replace that with what DID work.
Does flirting work? Yes, obviously, if it didn't work, we probably wouldn't do it.
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