As a female INTJ I can totally relate to your views on growing up. As a child I couldn't wait for the Americana Annual Encylopedia update to arrive so I could hunker down in my room to go through it cover to cover. I also think that wrting comes naturally to INTJs since we tend to be voracious readers who can retain huge amounts of facts and figures. Writing, usually non-fiction, gives us an outlet to tie together this huge amount of data and the consolidation of ideas that happens during the writing process can often uncover errors. Thus the end product is often big-picture assessments that are helpful to those types not so focused on data or complexities. My friends will often say "how do you know that stuff" or "how on earth do you remember those things." I can often cite the periodical, book or documentary, some of them 50 years ago, where the idea first appeared. I only came to understand that this trait is not common by having so many people tell me over the years that it was weird.
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As a female INTJ I can totally relate to your views on growing up. As a child I couldn't wait for the Americana Annual Encylopedia update to arrive so I could hunker down in my room to go through it cover to cover. I also think that wrting comes naturally to INTJs since we tend to be voracious readers who can retain huge amounts of facts and figures. Writing, usually non-fiction, gives us an outlet to tie together this huge amount of data and the consolidation of ideas that happens during the writing process can often uncover errors. Thus the end product is often big-picture assessments that are helpful to those types not so focused on data or complexities. My friends will often say "how do you know that stuff" or "how on earth do you remember those things." I can often cite the periodical, book or documentary, some of them 50 years ago, where the idea first appeared. I only came to understand that this trait is not common by having so many people tell me over the years that it was weird.