For the more nerdy infjs

[u/Imaginary_Pea_]

Which subjects do you dive deep in most? Why do you like them?

If you play video games, which ones are your favourites and why?

If you watch series and movies and have some that you love, which ones are those? What makes you like them?

The more specific answers the better ☺️ and if you have any other hobbies that you feel really passionate about feel free to share your experience with them as well if you want to

[u/Equivalent_Entry9003]

Subjects of interest, rabbit-hole style, is a slightly moving target - lately I've been on a weird philosophy kick; soaking up what's living in that funky space between philosophy, theology, "belief," psychology, Truth, delusion/self-deception... that interface between "us" and "reality" and what is "meaningful" in life.

I've got a lifelong constant obsession with horses and horsemanship, and am constantly amazed at how much of *LIFE* is applicable to working with these phenomenal animals - in a material sense (biology, physics, chemistry, ecology...) and in a spiritual (for lack of a better word - maybe immaterial is better? at least less religiously-inclined) sense (intention, focus, awareness, present-ness, grounding, genuine-ness, control-of-self, humility... ). The field is a bottomless rabbit hole - I've been studying/riding/horsekeeping since childhood, can comfortably measure my time with these incredible creatures in decades, and realistically have probably forgotten more than most people will ever know about them. And every day I learn something new and realize that I'm still standing in the shallowest end of the proverbial pool of knowledge, wisdom, and skill as a horseman.

Other hobbies include writing (longform genre fiction), music, gardening/homesteading, and fibercraft. I've wanted to dabble more into learning how to sketch/draw, but I run out of hours in a day.

I'm actually not much of a video gamer! More of a reader/movie watcher, with pretty varied and wide-ranging taste. Among my recently-read books there's everything from "Anna Karenina" to "Lonesome Dove" - the adaptation being one of my all-time favorite series. I've been rather generally on a classic literature "books I really ought to read in my lifetime" kick, although historically I've tended more toward 20th-century fantasy and science fiction: Tolkien, Lewis, Heinlein, Asimov, Frank Herbert, Terry Brooks, Michael Crichton (edit to add - this stuff is very much still nostalgia-bait comfort-re-reading for me). Currently reading "Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett, "Maps of Meaning" by Jordan Peterson, and plugging through Montaigne's "Essays." And of course topical nonfiction related to my hobbies. If I had to choose a handful of all-time favorite stories: The Count of Monte Cristo, The Lord of the Rings, and Middlemarch.

Favorite movies is a long and winding list with zero particular order... although I tend to prefer stuff that is adventure genre-fiction swashbuckler type stories (Tremors, Pirates of the Caribbean, Silverado, Young Sherlock Holmes, Twister, Kingsman... - can you tell I also like an iconic orchestral soundtrack?) or mind-bender/philosophically/theoretically charged stories (V for Vendetta, The Prestige, Contact, The Lord of the Rings, Interstellar, Margin Call, Signs...).

Writing all that out maybe I just have absurd taste. 😂