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This is a really difficult poll for me, and honestly it changed once I started learning to code (3 or 4 months ago). I used to read comments and articles of pe
by austenallred 13y ago
This is a really difficult poll for me, and honestly it changed once I started learning to code (3 or 4 months ago).
I used to read comments and articles of people that liked quiet space and time to think, or of people who hated open office spaces, and think, "They probably just don't like being around people," or even "They probably just don't like people." I thought that the idea of being "wired in" was just as ridiculous as someone calling themselves a "rockstar," or "killing it," and was something that most people pretend to do because it seems cool in the movies but nobody really does.
Then I started to program. Nothing earth-shattering and no big data, just simple applications with a little bit of logic behind them, and everything changed.
The little chat and text notifications would kill my concentration and make me lose large chunks of time and thought. A good pair of headphones wasn't just for music, but for blocking out the rest of the world (even soft, classical music was too distracting to my thought process). There was some really cool stuff happening, and I had created it.
And sometimes, to be frank, the code is more interesting than the social situation I tend to be in. It's not that I don't like people, but even though I consider myself an extrovert (or I used to be an extravert?) I would rather be in a quiet room coding.
My parents say they saw at an early age how intense I was when I played video games (and how agressive I became), and forever banned them at my house and in my life. I feel like that was a major determining force in my personality and who I am today.
Now it feels like there are two people fighting inside of me. I can still go to a party and really enjoy myself, I'm still late all the time, and I still am on the more extraverted side of a lot of the answers and laugh it up and have a very wide circle of friends and barely-acquaintences I love to keep in touch with, but sometimes (and a growing amount of the time) I just want to be left alone so I can figure things out. And I don't crave to be around people like I used to.
It's not hard, when taking a test like this, to see which personality type the answers are lending themselves to, and most of the time when taking them I am thinking to myself, "It depends." I really don't know anymore. And interestingly enough, I feel like my personality is more a result of the things I do than who I am.
For the record: I scored Extravert(44%) iNtuitive(62%) Feeling(62%) Perceiving(67)%
- farinasa 13y agoI find it interesting that you feel a struggle yet your scores show a very solid personality. I have the same struggle. I have always been right in the middle. Used to be a class clown and popular but also had extended bouts of depression where I didn't want to interact. Nowadays, when working, I want to shut everything out and just code. But I used to be the opposite. Was in service and loved talking to people. Even if I'm not very good at it. When I was in service, I would usually only hang out with a core group and only occasionally. Now that I'm coding, I want to experience everything in my free time. Meet people and be uncomfortable. Although I did answer "it depends" to probably 75% of the questions, I think my results reflect somewhat accurately. The only thing that is solid is intuitive. The rest are right on the fence. Extravert(22%) iNtuitive(62%) Feeling(12%) Perceiving(22)%