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01 Dec 2007, 7:24 pm

If you do have difficulty with people what could be a better resource than watching and modeling after NTs who are successful? What is sizing people up? You try out new techniques that are successful and you have to habituate yourself to discard old and ineffective techniques.


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01 Dec 2007, 9:09 pm

Look, based on my personal experience (very recent) I would say you should not look to some NTs as models. Some of them aren't as mentally high functioning as they like to say they are.


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01 Dec 2007, 9:17 pm

I would say my mother is an excellent role model for me to follow. Most people in the outside world, in my experience, haven't been really good models.



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01 Dec 2007, 9:21 pm

Silver_Meteor wrote:
If you do have difficulty with people what could be a better resource than watching and modeling after NTs who are successful? What is sizing people up? You try out new techniques that are successful and you have to habituate yourself to discard old and ineffective techniques.


I like your positive outlook :)



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01 Dec 2007, 9:33 pm

Silver_meteor,

I happen to have LOTS of historical information INCLUDING key parts of Bill Gates and Steven Jobs lives that got them where they are. Something in my character will NOT let me pull that garbage!



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02 Dec 2007, 12:54 am

I Hate people



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02 Dec 2007, 1:11 am

2ukenkerl wrote:
Silver_meteor,

I happen to have LOTS of historical information INCLUDING key parts of Bill Gates and Steven Jobs lives that got them where they are. Something in my character will NOT let me pull that garbage!


I don't know that much about how Bill Gates or Steve Jobs got to where they were. But since you brought it up, nobody is asking you to do anything illegal or immoral.
There is nothing unethical about modeling the study habits of an honor student if you were barely passing.
If you are starting a restaurant, there is nothing unethical about modeling the habits of a successful restaurant owner who has been in business for twenty years.
So what would be the difference between these two and modeling an NT who is successful with people?


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02 Dec 2007, 1:14 am

SilverProteus wrote:
Look, based on my personal experience (very recent) I would say you should not look to some NTs as models. Some of them aren't as mentally high functioning as they like to say they are.


I agree. There are a lot of dolts that I would definitely not look to. But just because you run into bad apples doesn't necessarily mean the others are rotten.


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02 Dec 2007, 1:33 am

SilverProteus wrote:
Look, based on my personal experience (very recent) I would say you should not look to some NTs as models. Some of them aren't as mentally high functioning as they like to say they are.


:lol: I also enjoyed your quote...


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02 Dec 2007, 3:48 am

Modelling successful nts may be okay but trying to be an nt is unhealthy.

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02 Dec 2007, 4:03 am

Silver_Meteor wrote:
If you do have difficulty with people what could be a better resource than watching and modeling after NTs who are successful? What is sizing people up? You try out new techniques that are successful and you have to habituate yourself to discard old and ineffective techniques.


Nah - I tend to think that what works for an NT won't be the same things as what works for an Aspie. For example, I only started improving in social techniques after I worked out some mathematical formulas for human interaction - and I would never have learned that from an NT...



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02 Dec 2007, 8:15 am

siuan wrote:
SilverProteus wrote:
Look, based on my personal experience (very recent) I would say you should not look to some NTs as models. Some of them aren't as mentally high functioning as they like to say they are.


:lol: I also enjoyed your quote...


:P

I was a bit harsh though. They're not that bad.


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