A little more research into my Meyers-Briggs personality type, INTP.
Mathematics is a system where many INTPs love to play, similarly languages, computer systems—potentially any complex system. INTPs thrive on systems. Understanding, exploring, mastering, and manipulating systems can overtake the INTP’s conscious thought. This fascination for logical wholes and their inner workings is often expressed in a detachment from the environment, a concentration where time is forgotten and extraneous stimuli are held at bay. Accomplishing a task or goal with this knowledge is secondary.
It’s really amazing how much this system really does mirror my interests, I wonder how someone on the complete other end of the spectrum would be defined, or explained, generalized, whatever.
Errors are not often due to poor logic—apparent faux pas in reasoning are usually a result of overlooking details or of incorrect context.
The only reason I ever did poorly on tests in math class would always be that I worked my problem so quick and almost surely, on every test, there would be a problem where somewhere in my arithmetic I would have reversed the digits of a number, put the decimal point in the wrong place, multiplied instead of divided.
I’m of the type INTP. I remember testing this way ever since I was in sixth grade, and oddly enough my dad is of this type also. They really don’t fall far from the tree.
INTP: Introverted (78%) Intuitive (50%) Thinking (50%) Perceiving (11%)
Don’t ask me how those percentages work…
How fast can you type? 80 words/minute over here.