(Part 2) Best products from r/entj

>For me, if a woman is too good in bed then she might have had too much experience - prone to infidelity / being adventurous. That is not bad for short term but STD is a concern.

Hardly correlated. My best partners in bed were little experienced, moreover. Infidelity is correlated to childhood and relationship with parents much much more than with experience. Read "The Truth" by Neil Strauss to learn more about it, how a womanizer became a good husband by chasing past demons.

>Also if a woman is still a virgin at say 25, that is a bit weird.

Not really. In most cases it's just shyness and/or lack of self confidence so actually nothing at all.

There are also psychopathic ENTJs... ;-)
When I was looking for information about the "evil" psychological disorders, there was no way around “The Science of Evil”. It deals with empathy and what people with a lag of it are like. It's awesome!
https://www.amazon.com/Science-Evil-Empathy-Origins-Cruelty/dp/0465031420/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491643106&sr=8-1&keywords=the+science+of+evil

Besides that, I totally agree. Whenever I have a goal in mind, there is nothing I am not going to break through!

PLEASE UNDERSTAND ME is a great first read. Primarily the product of an INTP, with an INTJ co-author making the contents less opaque and more concise.

https://www.amazon.com/Please-Understand-Me-Character-Temperament/dp/0960695400

I would recommend this book. Really fantastic read. https://www.amazon.com/Charisma-Myth-Science-Personal-Magnetism/dp/1591845947

Yes the more research I do the more I see that an F type wouldn't be the best fit. Its hard to find good resources online, I just bought Please Understand Me II and I plan to read that on a flight this weekend so maybe I'll post a short review when I get back. My logic was an F balances out the T, but now I agree that some F's drain me.

Discipline is a muscle that you need to work on. Start small, but continuously practice it and build up your ability to concentrate. Take breaks (look up the pomodoro method). Read some books about this topic (Deep Work is my favorite), search around on the Internet for strategies to overcome procrastination, identify the situations that cause you to procrastinate and build systems and routines for dealing with it.


No other way about it. The tendency to procrastination is human and has nothing to do with ENTP, ENTJ, whatever. It's up to you to find a way to manage it.


Do the work. Be the prize.

I got Scott Adams' book. It's got some great advice there.

You probably are, there's nothing wrong with it.

On the funny side: http://www.amazon.com/Assholeology-Science-Behind-Getting-Your/dp/1598699105

If you've got the time, you'll get the best understanding of the concept by reading Naomi Quenk's Book Was That Really Me?

https://www.amazon.com/Was-That-Really-Me-Personality/dp/0891061703/

...of which you can read an excerpt here:

http://www.the16types.info/vbulletin/content.php/135-MBTI-Form-of-the-Inferior-Functions

The core idea is that when you get stressed out or stuck in a rut, you may find yourself stuck in the behavior patterns of your inferior function, but in a clumsy or maladjusted way. Basically what redditingfromthevoid said.

'David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants" by Malcolm Gladwell

Sorry for the delay. Whatever you want to call them, trolls, bullies, con-artists, terrorists, etc, people with aggression issues make up at least 10% of the population.

Wikipedia: Warrior Gene

http://saferelationshipsmagazine.com

bullyonline.org

Love Fraud

neurologicalcorrelates.com

psychopathfree.com

C. Nathan DeWall, Ph.D., University of Kentucky Social Psychology Lab
Director

Books:

Snakes in Suits, Paul Babiak & Robert D. Hare

Without Conscience, Robert D. Hare

The Sociopath Next Door, Martha Stout

Just Like His Father, Liane Leedom

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Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood

• Meritocracy in the U.S. (probably global world) is a lie and being poor is complex and intergenerational
  
  
  Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
  
  
• Statistics is cool
  
  Fablehaven
  
  
• Made an entire D&D campaign based on Fablehaven's premise of a magical preservation sanctuary
  
  The Origins of Totalitarianism
  
  
• How totalitarianism is built and maintained
  
  Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
  
  
• Humans are weird

Inferior Fi users "in the grip"/under extreme stress can be highly emotional, irrational, and prone to blow-ups. Basically, the opposite of what they consider to be normal behavior. I can relate.

When I was younger I had a lot of stress things happening and would blow up at people that were close to me all the time. I changed my diet (long story - it's related to sugar intake, etc) and realized that I was so on edge all the time, I didn't even know I could feel "normal". I didn't even know what normal was.

This book, Was That Really Me? by Naomi Quenk (here's the amazon link), does a great job of discussing inferior functions and their role in extreme stress situations. It definitely made a lot of sense to what I was feeling.

So it's possible he may just be an ENTJ in the grip. of course, he could also just be an asshole :(

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Maybe someone will clone him. He is loaded now.

> what are his other flaws?

So I smelled his farts and he very much smells like a human.

I like him overall but ...

In how many ways does he stink? Let me count the ways ...

While his verbal ability is undoubtedly high, his tech skills/thinking is limited by his own admission. He tried to answer a question on Quora about the speed of light using the verbal part of his brain and it was painful to read. He confused very fast with instantaneous. I can't give a good answer on the spot either and I have taken more physics classes than Peterson did, but something I would not do is talk out of my ass on the subject. The internet is full of answers to at least some answers. I would just link to a good one if I could find it within a reasonable amount of time.

By the same token I would not trust his knowledge of statistics. I would suspect that he knows just enough of it to get a paper published. Psychology students take a class called stats for psych majors or something to that effect and it is a horrible memorization fest that is hard for an NT to get through. Take one step into the unknown territory and you are lost because you never understood it in the first place. Lots of people don't really get statistics, even engineers sometimes. I suck at it right now but I could get better if necessary. Though Peterson himself admits that much of psychology is quackery, he does have faith it psychometrics - things that you can measure. Problem is - you have to be aware of the limits of your knowledge. Peterson praises the IQ test highly. It has a high correlation - like .5 or something like that which by psych standards is very high. First of all, that's not high at all. Secondly, it is just correlation.

Nassim Taleb took a shot on the IQ tests recently. While he uses plenty of logical fallacies, his overall message stands. https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle-f131c101ba39

If Peterson is happy with relatively low correlations in general, I wonder just how much of his academic work is useful. I do not have the time to try to figure it out. Got better things to do with my time.

• He follows the so-called "alt-right diet". Ok, that's a joke. He basically eats just beef and water and hardly anything else. His daughter follows the same diet and does not take vitamins and blogs about it. Well, that seems dumb. She is gaining followers. Humans are omnivores who can't synthesize vitamin C and therefore rely on it being in the diet along with other vitamins. Sure, Inuit people also eat mostly deer meat but they eat the whole thing including organs, they also eat seals and whale and those store vitamins in their fat. Inuit also eat plants whenever they can, which is not often but happens. And finally, they could have evolved to be different over several thousands of years. Peterson should be taking vitamin supplements and so should his daughter and they should warn people about scurvy and other deficiencies.
  
  
• You can't take much of what he says literally. He "literally" did not sleep for 30 days. Bullshit! He would die.
  
  He likes to use metaphors like "the eagles are all eyes" (while teaching human psych to undergrads). This is a bullshit artsy-fartsy statement, not a matter of fact. Nothing against artists or comedians or otherwise creative people BUT you have to separate the metaphors and fucking around from trying to build an argument. Sneaking metaphors into a cause and effect kind of conversations should generally be an illegal move.
  
  
• His definition of the word "truth" is uber-confusing and allows mixing things that should not really be mixed: facts and stories, arguments and metaphors. Pick one world or another. Don't just slide in and out of the rational territory. Peterson has one foot firmly planted in the rational-ish world and one in the irrational. His arguments better be scrutinized. Sam Harris was right not to let him get away with his own definitions.
  
  
• Peterson claimed that dolphins aren't that smart because they can't manipulate their world very well. Their snouts is all they have. Well shit, what about living in social groups and having a sophisticated language? Intelligence shows up in species in unexpected places. Octopi are fucking smart and they evolved from very dumb mollusks. He is trying to use his intuition and he failed. Some birds are very smart and some - not as much. It depends on their specific path of evolution. There are many variables at play - not mere presence of hands or tentacles.
  
  
• He often claims that the Christian cross symbolizes the intersection of infinite and finite. Oh really? Here we go with artsy fartsy reasoning again. He pulled that straight out of his anus. How about a cross is one of the simplest shape you can make with two sticks and if the sticks are large enough, you can make it resemble a human and nail a person to it. I want to troll him and ask him what does the shape of an airplane symbolize? I am sure that he will think about it intensely and come up with something convoluted and his followers would swallow it. I don't feel like paying $300 just to see him.
  
  
• He spoke about the interpretation of dreams and he believes in that stuff. I listened to his interpretation of his dream he once had (can't find that clip) involving several hurricanes moving through the ocean. He read very carefully into the meaning of the number of them and how they moved, etc. he made as much sense as the bullshit artists who are trying to sell you a black painted square for a few million bucks. It's just a fucking square!!! And his dreams are just that. They can be interpreted in MANY ways. Somehow he is sure of his interpretation.
  
  
• He opined on the Brett Kavanaugh controversy and it was a shit show. He should have kept quiet on the subject.
  
  
• He has gone mainstream. if he is charging $300 per ticket, he is raking in millions per month. He pretty much stopped doing anything other than lectures and books. I think (my subjective opinion) that he is moving fast toward being an out of touch intellectual who has not done anything in practice in a while. Having $ does not make him evil but I do not think he is providing equal value to the millions of confused young men who do not have a father figure and who have been plastered with feminist propaganda from all directions to confuse them even further. Given that he is interpreting the bible rather subjectively and is getting paid a lot to do so, it is borderline quackery. I strongly prefer capitalism to communism but the overwhelming majority of those who made money are not John Galt. Plenty of "MeToo" business models bring revenue. Plenty of companies sell shit that people do not actually need but aggressive marketing combined with the gullibility of da masses brings in the bacon. They have not technically stolen but I'm not going to congratulate those who made the money that way. Anyway, Peterson has now gone on some mainstream shows and in the process he had to sign some of his freedom away. Maybe he thinks it is worth it. Owen Benjamin talked on this topic and his CAA (not CIA) conspiracy theory. Sounds interesting but given Owen's erratic behavior as of late, a lot of what he says needs to be taken with a large dose of lithium salts. That said, I am almost always curious what a semi-bipolar creative person (like Owen) has to say. Interesting ideas rarely come from totally sane people.
  
  
• I do not know how credible this part is but apparently JBP pissed off enough people (mostly Christians who do not like his interpretation of The Book and also some alt-right antisemites) so that a book was written discrediting him. https://www.amazon.com/Jordanetics-Journey-Humanitys-Greatest-Thinker-ebook/dp/B07JY9XV38
  
  Vox Day, the author is a self-styled genius (and so is Owen) who runs a social media echo chamber (and so does Owen, well sort of). They "got" Peterson on the "Jewish Question" (as in no - Jews aren't smarter than the rest, they are just conspiring and prefer their own). Of course they are loonies but if an entire book was written about him, then maybe there is some truth to it, even if it is 10 or even 5%. I have not read the book though.
  
  I am sure there are other things. Peterson once congratulated a leftist attempt to appeal to the working class when they made some moderate propaganda video. I can't find a video now. I thought it was lame. It was still shit propaganda, but a milder form of it. The enemy is trying to adapt and to look more palatable and less threatening. Their trick is so fucking transparent. Fuck that! 30% shit is still shit. Peterson should have called their bullshit but he did not.
  
  Also some of his arguments start in a weird place. To quote/paraphrase Doug Stanhope, let's start the argument where it starts.
  
  It should be: you can't have my freedom to speak, my freedom to protect myself with a gun, you can't have my stuff because ... go fuck yourself! That's where the argument starts. Not - well if you aren't free to speak then how can you develop sophisticated ideas? Yeah like that argument works with Stalinists. Why try to negotiate with someone who plans on doing the immoral? Peterson kind of does that. I understand that persuasion matters and raw power can be off-putting but he sometimes starts in a weird place.
  
  I've written enough. I think I covered the most important points.