User:Shollingsworth/Genius INTP

Genius INTP - Where the Brave Dare Not Go - a personal story of a new Philadelphian.

Intro

In some way it's appropriate that I'm now a Philadelphian. The U.S. was born here - and, for the last 14 years, has partially been defended from here.

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Foundations

Kathe's death in 1975 devastated us - but left me with a martyr to live up to. I would go on to dedicate my life to making the world safe for gentle young women.

The massive breakdown in 1994 very, very nearly killed me. The effects did kill my career as a nuclear core design engineer. It wouldn't be until 2004 that I would really be able to work adequately anywhere.

But my story here starts seven years before 2004.

Inception

I was not sane in 1997. There's no other way to put it, I was definitely not sane - but I tried to work anyway. That's what brought me to live in Upper Darby - a job in Bala Cynwyd.

The medicines in 1997 - although orders of magnitude better than those in 1993 - were not totally effective (as Abilify nearly is today) and had such horrible brain-fogging side effects that sufferers could barely stand to take them.

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Self-analysis

I'm almost certainly not a real genius. My GRE scores got me into the Triple Nine Society, but I've never had a reliable IQ test (except for possibly the DLAB, the results of which are classified). My IQ is probably, at the very best, in the low 150s.

But my IQ is not my primary strength. I'm a Myers-Briggs type INTP, the rarest of those types - and the one most capable of insightful thought. The books say that INTPs are literally not all here - that we, by nature, are always half-present and half reflecting on the past or future. And that we fully re-evaluate the current situation every ten minutes.

And as an engineer part of my education was to identify trends and evaluate them dispassionately and logically.

As a result of the above traits I can literally often see what is not there (but certainly has to be) - and I can discern the pattern long before anyone else.