In your case, I daresay you’ve never gone through a formal self-discovery process, so you haven’t had the opportunity to consider and sort matters out with a proper expert’s help.

The bottomline is, I acknowledge and appreciate your willingness to take another look.

I believe that self knowledge (especially through typing) and the self development that it possible through all that is the reason that I can do so much.

I think my working so hard might be seen in a more “infj” light if you look at your own extensive work on infj.com. - looks to me like you have found a way to work on something you have passion for too? (for which I am so glad you did!) Introverted intuitives cannot be doing nothing - the world would surely cease to rotate if no introverted intuitives worked for their degrees, or worked to hold down jobs or sat and did nothing while “Rome burns”.

I still need to take the four month summer break doing nothing to get over the doing so much during the college term.
I know this will sound like I’m trying to be humourous but it is both funny and true -while I was writing this I forgot to set my timer and burned a pot of potatoes. There is this extraordinary thing about timers, apparently they only work when you set them lol!

So here’s what I’m noticing. My blog post and the other two commenters talk about how we just don’t DO that much, but wish we did, and try to fool others that we do.

Your case seems diametrically opposite — you’re leaping tall buildings in a single bound, and people somehow think you “aren’t doing anything.” That seems 180 degrees the other way around. :-/

In your description above, you write, >>I did so well in one verbal exercise, because of a flash of intuition, that a huge argument broke out with students shouting at the lecturer about how I could possibly have gotten my conclusion so instantly.< <

It reminds me of a story Dr. John Beebe told at a workshop once. Apparently when he was a teenager he subbed as a regular on a television game show for a while. He tells about how they would give clues, and they would guess the answers. At one point, they asked a question about a famous person with some “metal object.” John hit the buzzer and said “Lizzie Borden.” People were stunned that he got the answer so fast! How could this be?

John chalks it up to his *extraverted iNtuiting.” He describes extraverted iNtuiting as “anticipating,” and gives lots of examples for this. In a nutshell, he uses it to “read people’s minds” and to anticipate “what’s coming.” He also uses it to “read the room” when he’s presenting.

He compares the difference between his dominant Ne and others’ dominant Ni as to that between “hunting” and “trapping.” He says he uses Ne to “hunt bear.” He “goes out” to meet his iNtuition, compared to my Ni, that patiently waits for my intuition to come to me (and it’s rarely on time, either, sigh). Certainly my iNtuition is worthless when I’m in a roomful of people staring at me — which happened to me last year in Indianapolis when John asked me a question and I simply shut down and couldn’t think. (I got the answer after I went to my room and sat alone for a minute.)

Kaz, my point is that you might want to consider EN_P as a pattern. Have you ever considered that as a possibility? It might explain a lot.

…how did you come by your type pattern?

Last week I was on the phone with my ENFP girlfriend, who mixed, baked, and served chocolate chip cookies to her four-year-old niece while we were on the phone together. I can barely even load the dishwasher while we’re talking because my focus gets thrown so much. (Sometimes I don’t like driving people places for the same reason — I’m afraid I’ll get so caught up in the conversation that I’ll run off the road or miss my turnoff.)

I don’t know how you do it.

Multitasking is something I am really really good at and take great pleasure in. I keep my laptop with me for research and essays at all times. I use time at the school gate for reading and highlighting texts. I use timers when I’m cooking so I can continue reading or writing without burning the food. I double cook and freeze one dish for the times that I have a deadline to meet. I always put on a laundry wash when I’m cooking. I also have every kitchen gadget to try to save/manage time so my timer, my bread machine, my slow cooker and my steamer will sometimes all be going at once. The only waking hour during which I genuinely am not doing something is during my lunch time when I spend 30 mins (on a timer - lol) alone in my car meditating. During the academic I seldom get the opportunity to really switch off. When the year ends I have no choice but to switch off (collapse) for at least one week when I just about get the basics of life done. So much for lazy LOL!