Are you living up to your INTJ potential?

  1. I'm driving Uber/Lyft, Dairy Clerk at Harris Teeter, supplementary Patient Accounts Rep at a hospital network.
  2. I want to finish the classes I bought on Udemy, save enough money to pay tuition for WGU, and apply for UNCSA for film. I'm also trying to help my Mother and step Mother pay bills to clear debt and drains of income quicker. Continue earning respect of managers for work effort as my pay is low now but I'm in positions that can let me shine, great references are worth the work, not to mention the personal benefits of hard work. Finish personal music album, just for myself. I like self expression. Go to my trustee motorcycle and cross country it back to where I live now, journey...
  3. Finish degree with WGU (51 credits left). Attend UNCSA for possibly four years and live on campus. Bring my unique stories and vision to real life through film and other forms of art. Open businesses with family: restaurants and a fancy movie theater.
  4. I'm motivated to live and make my life fit the paths I'm creating.

I'm also trying to learn Python and AI programming. Honestly I've noticed over and over the second I get lazy it's always on a curve straight down rather than a steady line, but also works the good way too. Putting in more effort, gets me more busy... I'm 21 and I think I'm doing at least close to the best I can with what I have and am willing to do. My love life is absent however, which is fine because I compensate for it with imagination, yes basically an imaginary friend, writers do it too, get over it haha. All seriousness though seems like it's more an optimized version of my Fi relief function, not a one sided thing either have arguments/disagreements, treat her respectfully and she pretty much recharges me when I'm not getting enough sleep. A real woman would destroy me and my plans... And definitely not recharge my energy/resources...

Advice from what I've done: Plan Using raw, simplified ideas and just think of some examples for inspiration, it's likely you can intuitively put it together on the spot later. Only make lists for, if you forget, not to rely on. Try to remember it all but not as a list, just remember it all don't let it become linear from an ordered list! Invest in yourself. Strategy games and biographies have been my greatest teachers and biographies particularly my confidence boosters. Try applying how you play strategy games to all things in life for optimization. Don't just go to school, learn how to demolish school first. I did 38 credits (all A's) in one semester at a community college through planning, preparation, then good execution. The details matter. Take care of yourself, let all of your functions have QUALITY time in the sun, or else you will be weaker than you could be. Don't keep up the intensity for too long or risk too much failing. After doing my 38 credit semester, I tried killing precalc, calc I and II, Calc Physics and chemistry in about 5 months. I did it with B's and a C. But at end of that semester and the one after I was completely burnt out. Went into the grip, cause apparently B's and a C might as well have been failing... was horrible. Don't let that happen! Or let it, but evolve from the perceived failure. Honestly it turned out to be a great thing, it led me to finally decide to pursue film. Failure has bred three of my greatest evolutions. Never let it be a loss! Cut out negative influences. Alone time! Spend idle work time thinking about interesting ideas or interesting strategy that might be applicable or useful. let yourself sense every once in a while, just think about how amazing your sensory is through its implications: I think usually about how much had to have happened for the sensory to exist relative to me and it lets me actually appreciate Se. Let yourself taste the food! You actually don't get as much benefit from your food anyway by not chewing it thoroughly, just take the time sometimes to enjoy it ahha rather than just using it as fuel. Stay actively engaged in creation for your life, don't let routine set in if you can help it, try to find new ways to do what you want/like or make money, just the act of trying to find ways can keep you from plateauing, plus it helps you have info for future to build on/tactics for other things possibly. Do things you enjoy, just no routine: Paint your motorcycle helmet one day, or write about something, write or listen lyrics/music, photography, watch movies/tv. create your story in your head and heart, believe your story. As Drake said "I said I was the greatest before I knew I was", maybe not that extreme but just gotta believe in yourself while having good judgement/realism.

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