u/TheSnugglery

There have been several experiences in my life that forced me to realize things don't work how I thought they did.

One example for me, is I thought the housing bubble popping in 2008 meant that prices would never go up again. Like beanie babies? I knew that was a bubble too...so that was my reference for a bubble popping. Turns out houses aren't beanie babies 🙈

Also, I bought the crock of lies we were sold about needing a college degree to be successful and that taking out student loans was an "investment" in yourself. Turns out it was just an investment in the worst Us job market of all time with a 7% interest, unrefinancable loan.

Do you have any examples like that?

I think it's a very istj thing because we're naturally aware of what "everybody thinks" and it's so easy for us to cling to conventional wisdom but, turns out, you can't see the water that you're swimming in and nothing is true in every context.

So I see a lot of stereotype stuff out there like "not having a check list" or whatever, but here's something we actually hate:

Someone wanting to "help" us, but we have to help them help us.

For example, someone wants to help you with your laundry but they need to know where it is, what setting to put it on, what needs to be folded how, where things go when they're done...etc.

Or someone wants to cook you dinner but they need to know what to make, where all the ingredients are, how you want this or that cooked, where are the plates, where are the spoons... Anyway. You get the idea.

Yeah. I think we all hate this.

I see it a lot in this sub even. We love just kinda stating our observations. And it's different than the way some other people do it. If an istj bothers to share their observations with you, they've already gone over them and weeded out the ones that aren't interesting or relevant. The issue is...relevant to what? Lol. It's like we're gathering evidence but we don't know what the crime is yet. And isn't it interesting how we know what observations/details/information is the most important or interesting when we don't even really usually have a clear hypothesis that it might be for? It's almost like, I know if I gave all this data to someone else, surely they would have a hunch about it. Me? Oh no... hunches aren't my thing. We really would make good detectives because we're so unbiased... anyhoo...just an istj not making a point ✌️ take it easy, friends