I desire to be an 'expert' (INTP/5w4)

This video addresses the desire to be an expert/specialist in something. Wasn't going to post this but I guess I changed my mind if you are reading this.

I guess I could've put this video on my other channel...

I'll try and do a thumbnail later at some point.

00:00 Personal update
03:15 The video

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[dawnb]

Sarah I'll be 48 in Feb, about to get an ADHD diagnosis after years of being misdiagnosed and I have absolutely NO clue what I truly want to do with my life so believe me when I say - you're doing great 🤗 Its such a blessing to get thr right diagnosis at a young age. You have your life ahead of you and you're already helping so many people with your channel xx

[iv]

Thank you for sharing about your journey with us. I can relate to some of your challenges and also am glad to hear what works well for you. I think it's time to learn to support each other any way we can, when we have similar problems especially. Greater awareness from a place of honesty really helps. 🌷

[SantiagoOchoa]

I'm also an INTP 5w4 and like being an "expert" in certain science and philosophy areas. I also got very good grades in school and university and was also lazy in doing more than the minimum required. When I was 34 years old (2003) I was an "expert" in Transhumanism and even worked for a few years with the WTA. Went to conferences, gave a few presentations and radio interviews, met Nick Bostrom and Aubrey de Grey. The problem was that I suffered from public speaking anxiety (glossophobia) so I stopped doing all that in 2005. All the knowledge I gained from my Transhumanist studies made me interested in understanding the concept of life from a systems/physics point of view (what is life? why are organisms alive?) since I realized that scientists do not yet understand what life really is. I've been working, for the past 17 years, on a theory of life as a cybernetic system and not the limited dogmatic and taxonomic biological point of view. Anyway, now I've been studying MBTI and Jung's personality typing theory for the last two years.

[johnhill]

Imo, nothing wrong with admitting that you’re more intelligent and logical than most other people. Doesn’t mean we are “into ourselves”. It’s just honesty.

The fact that you can be very lazy, disorganized, and unfocused and yet still get pretty good grades just shows how well you would have done if not for that, and so just how naturally gifted you are at academics. Most others would’ve dropped out (lol).

We INTPs should be more comfortable with acknowledging our own intellectual or academic strengths. Nothing wrong with admitting it.

Also, as 5w4 INTP I also have an obsession with music. In fact, I have my own YT orchestral composing channel. So it’s pretty much all I do all day. (It’s even how I cope with trauma.)

Also studied philosophy and was told I have a gift for it by many of my professors. :)

I also probably have Asperger’s.

If not for that, I would have either studied music composition, gone to law school, or gotten a PhD and become a philosophy professor…

I almost finished my BA in philosophy before realizing there was no point. Asperger’s is socially crippling.

I can never manage to keep friends and at this point I’ve given up trying. 🤷‍♂️

Hopefully you end up better off.

[MeshalAlhussaini]

We share a lot of strengths and weaknesses. I am an Intp and i think I suffer from adhd but i didn't get it diagnosed. I feel normal but there is this edge of 'being in the present' that other people have over me that got me thinking i might have it. My thought process is cloudy but when i am interested in something it is supremely clear. I wanted to ask what differenced have you noticed in your social interactions after you took adhd medications?