How to Know If You’re Passionately Stoic

I know when someone is passionately stoic because they are a lot like me.

But since you don’t know me, that answer won’t do you much good. So maybe some what follows will help.

Using Myers-Briggs Type Indicator terminology, I believe most of us are xNTx. We take in information using Intuition in preference to Senses and make decisions using Thinking more than Feeling. This means we jump around through different ideas and possibilities when facing problems. We look at the big picture first before digging into the facts. And find symbols and metaphors more indicative of reality than actual experience. We look for logical explanations, notice inconsistencies, and demand fairness and justice. The truth is more important to us than tactfulness, so we appear to be uncaring or indifferent. “Unrefreshingly honest” is the phrase which a colleague used to describe one of my best friends.

The Passionately Stoic are generally competitive. We like to win, especially when victory can be achieved through some clever stratagem rather than brute force. We are loyal to our side though, even when they are perennial losers.

Science and technology interest the Passionately Stoic, but they also dig history and philosophy. We love music and the arts but tend to spurn the latest developments in today’s popular culture.

Some of us are creative: writers or musicians. Others tend more toward engineering, helping to construct someone else’s creative dream.

Being Passionately Stoic means genuinely caring about what goes on around us. This often lead to despair. Especially lately. We see what is broken and desperately want it to get fixed while realizing that the momentum is all moving in the wrong direction.

We are in the world, but not of the world.

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