Brian’s Comments (group member since Aug 23, 2014)

Brian’s comments from the INTP group.

I notice I have trouble getting into a book unless I'm referencing and relating it to a thought or debate I'm having. (with myself or someone else)

I have to have my highlighter ready and theories in mind or I wander off.

I noticed a similar approach in Bruce Lee's library. Ti precision in his case. https://youtu.be/iFWeLM5h7Dg

I do audiobooks, but I tend to forget it more than I'd like and I can't easily highlight something that stands out.

I'd like to read for it's own sake, collect information for its own sake, but I'm not sure it's in me (or us)

Yeah, I'm in. I put an avatar up to see what everyone thinks.

I have a couple of ideas I'll put together.

How fitting, I forgot you posted about that already.

Can we get a group image/avatar? I want this group to be a thing.

Leif: Just picked it up used on Amazon. Maybe the book I need, the preview sold me.

I'd say "Mind Wide Open" may be too sophomoric, but it's fun as Steven Johnson is an effective writer.

Leman: It's a spare time thing. I like to "play" with ideas, not apply them. I don't have the energy when it comes to being practical. (causes anxiety) I'm a strong *repressed* auxillary iNtuitive. INTP. "It" has me, I don't have "it"

"Mind Wide Open" by Steven Johnson. (the PBS "How we got to now" guy) I serendipitously found it sitting on table at a Barnes and Nobles. (I was looking for political books at the time)

I was an INTP without a theory so everything seemed frantic. That book brought me to life, gave me a foundation. It wasn't the book itself necessarily, it's the paths it opened up. I spent the next year just hanging out in Barnes and Noble reading.

I'm not sure I got the essence of your question? I can't pin point to one book and think "That's the one" I can only point to where I started and a collection of authors.