MBTI Weirdo Olympics
My very serious argument for why INTPs are the purest and bestest MBTI weirdos.....
The root of weirdness, I propose, is the NT combination.
N, intuition, pulls you away from the concrete and conventional and toward abstractions, possibilities, and things nobody asked you to think about. But darn it, this matters so you are going to think about it anyway.
T, thinking, lets you follow the idea wherever it goes, untethered. It’s the logic of the idea that matters, not what some normie might think. They are clearly wrong anyway, otherwise we wouldn't all be in this mess.
This therefore only leaves four competitors.
4th place, ENTJ
We can eliminate them immediately.
The E and J channel their weirdness toward external goals. They have things to accomplish. Organisations to run. People to boss around. They are way too productive to qualify as a medal receiving weirdo. In fact there’s an argument INFJ should be here, that's how pathetic a weirdo these lot are.
Bronze, ENTP
Now we are getting really serious. ENTPs are clearly and very obviously weird. To the less observant, they are the favourite for the gold medal before the competition begins. But their weirdness is social. They debate it. Discuss it. Bask in it. Their extraversion makes the weirdness entertaining and provocative, but somehow that makes it more performative and less pure. A true weirdo does not require an audience. The sunlight helps disinfect it. A disappointing third for such a promising contender.
Silver, INTJ
Introversion allows the NT machinery to operate privately for way too long, going further into the rabbit hole. They consolidate and build layers. They test it, mould it, optimise it. It's not for amusement. But the INTJ has a fatal flaw. They must eventually surface.
J(udging)
Eventually they want closure. They turn to you at a party after sitting silently for an hour and say:
“Urban planning is downstream of supermarket carpark design.”
WTF.
If you don’t leave immediately (don't worry, most do) it makes sense after 5 minutes of their increasingly aggressive yapping.
The INTJ is therefore the most opinionated and arguably most annoying weirdo, but ultimately pulled back toward reality by the need to reach a conclusion and to also boast about it, so people can understand their hidden genius.
Gold, INTP
The purest, truest and bestest weirdo. Completely unconstrained. The P removes the INTJ’s unfortunate urge to actually finish thinking. The rabbit hole goes deeper.
An INTP can spend hours on a question, reject the question, invent a better question, forget why they started, have 20 browser tabs open, and end up with a tentative theory, and opposing counter arguments, that furries are an unintended consequence of the Protestant Reformation. That you tell nobody. You’re in it for the love of the game.
I therefore hereby award you the Gold medal for bestest and purest weirdo.
Good night you gold medal winning weirdos, I stayed up too late and worked too hard on this post.