Invention

[Flip]

Ok fellow INTPs
I am really curious about this one....

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Note: Just imagine that you work for a big consumer goods conglomerate. They say, "We need a brand new product...what doya got for us?"

[Avengardh]

Not really too good at it...better at design and improving things.

[SensEye]

I'm good with the innovation aspect, but not at all adept at the engineering or building of things. So I gave myself a "3".

[Birnam]

I'm good at design and even sometimes the actual carying out of an invention- but it isn't very often that I get to actually finish something I write up plans for. (except for sewing- that doesn't take a lot of time, and I cheat and use my N instead of T so that I just work away without patterns etc. I consider the type of sewing I do invention :))

[Crazy]

I'm usually really good at thinking up improvements, or inventing things that would make things easier, good at design, just am not good at putting it down on paper. It's a curse.

[Flip]

Hmm interesting results so far. Well, as we all know the common label for the ENTP is "the inventor"

And I too am much better at improving things and innovating.

Basically, I just started improving things that don't exist (I know, i know, i can't really explain it) and found myself striving for inventions.

I was wondering if any other INTP's found a similar experience....

[Strephonade]

"Necessity is the mother of invention."

That about sums up the way the inventive process manifests in my life. It doesn't exist, but we need it, so I get to create it. Usually, I get an intuitive "feel" for what materials would work the best, and when we analyze it, it turns out to be the best, or better. I can visualize as well as build the completed structure (given approximately the right equipment and a workable timeframe), and do a pretty darn good job of building it or a model of it, as well as get some satisfaction out of doing it myself, but sometimes it's really quite beyond me (and I know when it is really beyond me) to build personally the structure, and then I'm happy to delegate to specialists in other areas, a crew, etc. So this means then, that I get to check in on the project from time to time to see that it's progressing according to the design, or the plans.

'Architect' might be a rather good way to describe this personality. Of course, that could also be systems architect, systems designer, professor, lawyer, mathematician, physicist, biochemical engineer, software designer, researcher, fine artist, cgi animator, veterinarian, biologist (another kind of researcher), city planner, entrepreneur (small business), entrepreneur (big business), etc, etc. You can check the careers thread or the possible jobs listings on various personality sites for some ideas.