Comments on: I’m a thinker, not a feeler http://intelleto.com/2008/03/23/im-a-thinker-not-a-feeler/ the process of seeing the underlying pattern beneath appearances Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:29:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: Alexa http://intelleto.com/2008/03/23/im-a-thinker-not-a-feeler/#comment-823 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:23:41 +0000 http://intelleto.com/2008/03/23/im-a-thinker-not-a-feeler/#comment-823 You rock. I got a 38 on the Empathy test... and I don't think it's cause I'm brash, I'm just usually busy thinking about other things and systemizing abstract things. I "only" got a 42 on the systemizing test (still at aspergers levels), but it's because I was kind of polarized: There are some things I'm absolutely obsessed with analyzing, and some things I just can't get into: I'm obsessed with understanding and analyzing abstract things (social relationships, language, philosophy, money), which hardly interest Seth at all, and Seth is obsessed with understanding and analyzing concrete things (physical networks, geology, history), which hardly interest me at all. I'd really like to figure out which personality trait causes that difference. I'm guessing it's extroversion (as in externally-oriented) vs. introversion... You rock. I got a 38 on the Empathy test… and I don’t think it’s cause I’m brash, I’m just usually busy thinking about other things and systemizing abstract things.

I “only” got a 42 on the systemizing test (still at aspergers levels), but it’s because I was kind of polarized: There are some things I’m absolutely obsessed with analyzing, and some things I just can’t get into:

I’m obsessed with understanding and analyzing abstract things (social relationships, language, philosophy, money), which hardly interest Seth at all, and Seth is obsessed with understanding and analyzing concrete things (physical networks, geology, history), which hardly interest me at all.

I’d really like to figure out which personality trait causes that difference. I’m guessing it’s extroversion (as in externally-oriented) vs. introversion…

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