#intjs

Ladies and gentlemen, INTJs procrastinate.

And it's all thanks to the visionary, mystical Ni.

Ni is extremely picky and sceptical when it comes to every-day work. It wants to do only what it thinks is the most meaningful and important. It doesn't trust Si at all, while Si in order to achieve a goal would patiently follow these mundane steps that Ni has dismissed, because it knows that big things consist of small pieces, which alone may appear pointless, but combined lead to an aim that Ni (especially immature) wanted to go to using a shortcut.

I think that when Si users want to write a book, they sit down and write words. But Ni-doms have a much more holistic approach to that and they would want the book either to be written (obviously in a perfect, as Ni has envisioned, way), or to stay in their heads forever. The moment when they realise that they need to compromise between their vision and undeveloped abilities is the point where procrastination starts. INTJs hate practice. They want the results.

I believe that what can help INTJs with such problems is taking up activities that are built of multiple small tasks, so that they get used to follow structures. In my case it's learning to play the piano - I have an Ni vision of conveying my emotions and showing what's inside me by playing music, but in order to achieve that I need for example to practice some etudes, what not only is quite boring itself (they often aren't pieces of art), but also leads to something that isn't necessarily my goal, because I don't want to play etudes fluently, but to apply the acquired technical abilities in other pieces that I like (and, by the way, haven't even learned yet). But thanks to this I learn to trust methodical processes that eventually give the results I've aimed for, and also greater satisfacion of completing a bunch of challenging activities instead of achieving just one, single goal (what wouldn't happen anyway without taking those steps).

I don't know whether procrastination works the same way in other NJs, because teritary Fi may also contribute to the perfectionism that INTJs are struggling with, however I believe that 90% of these problems are Ni's thing, so probably many ENTJs, ENFJs and INFJs will relate to them.

Team up against all of our friends and dominate

Tea time

Partner up for partner projects at school

Mix different chemicals in the art room for "educational purposes"

Discuss the deeper meaning behind poetry

Theorize about extraterrestrial life

Convince people that cereal is a soup

Plan how we will take over the world

Debate about magic, what it is, how it works, and the scientific aspects of it (we both believe in the supernatural)

Hypothetically redesign the education system and how we think it should work

Fight about random things just for fun

Play Othello

Play card games

Go looking for wildlife and observe it (we like ants especially)