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From: http://personalitycafe.com/myers-briggs-forum/24032-intro-function-theory-more-detailed-descriptions-each-function-attitude.htmlIt is an outwardly exploratory attitude that encourages us to change, reinvent and experiment with the external world in order to find new and interesting combinations and patterns. Ne looks for novel outcomes and imagines how the things around you could be changed into other, more interesting things. Ne sees new information as part of a larger, emerging, as of yet unseen pattern that extends far beyond the self, and whose meaning will continue to change as the context grows and we discover more of the all-encompassing pattern.
If you don't mind, could you explain further.. it would be helpful lol..I know I use Ne a lot, but the way most ENFPs seem..I don't relate. I just don't know if I'm a subdued ENFP or just straight up INFP:crazy:Keep in mind, I'm not completely sure how an INP would compare, but this is it:
I realized that one of my primary drives in life is to explore and figure out the world. I don't know anything about it, but I need to explore it because I want to understand it. I look at it as something bare, to me, and something filled with many possibilities and ideas that I must find. I feel like there's just so many things that I need to explore.
I see how whatever I do or wherever I go could bring something interesting and important to me. So I'm driven to try new things whenever I can. I feel the need to take is as much as I can to build an even bigger understanding of the world around me.
I think that's because I'm Ne-dom...I used the word 'explore' way too many times LOL
Also, the descriptions of Ne make sense to me. They just ring for me and I can tell that it's my dominant function. I'm really good at improvising and idea-generating.
If you need more info on Ne, I could probably give more. I just didn't want to go into too much detail :mellow:
It is an outwardly exploratory attitude that encourages us to change, reinvent and experiment with the external world in order to find new and interesting combinations and patterns. Ne looks for novel outcomes and imagines how the things around you could be changed into other, more interesting things. Ne sees new information as part of a larger, emerging, as of yet unseen pattern that extends far beyond the self, and whose meaning will continue to change as the context grows and we discover more of the all-encompassing pattern.
This encompasses the kind of thinking Ne is. It collects information and tries to put it together into one. It can adaptively rearrange itself as new things come about. It can see many possibilities and believe that those might be the answers to whatever problems. I always have something in me that tells me there is more to find and discover."Extraverted Intuitives are right-brain types who deal with their sense impressions by unifying them into larger outward patterns. An ENP physician, for example, may realize, with sudden insight, that several unexplained symptoms are actually part of a single disease. As an Extraverted type, the physician has no doubt that the disease syndrome really exists. The pattern was always there, waiting for someone to discover it."
Whatever you find, there is something more to find: a broader context, a whole, which will change your understanding of the part.
With basically everything I look at or any situation I come into, I can imagine many different ways it might unfold. It's not a 'knowing' sensation like Ni might give you. It's a perception of the many possibilities and an awareness that there are many possibilities that you may not even be able to realize.Extraverted Intuition (Ne) is the attitude that the unknown is filled with wonderful things. To make use of them, you must be flexible in your goals. If you try to set things up so that only something known to be good can happen, you close your eyes to the zillions of opportunities that you can't know or define in terms of what you know now. As more of the unknown becomes clear, the more it changes your understanding of the (currently) known.
To live, then, you need to continuously welcome the unknown, by always being ready to adjust in unanticipatable ways. What seems like a mistake is not a mistake when viewed in a larger pattern--and it's your job to find that larger pattern.
I look at various things as if they can be put together in a complex form to come up with something that is unknown to people. In the earlier statement about 'knowing how people breathe and why': After I figure that out, I might proceed to an intense curiosity about the overall workings of a human being. Along the way, I'll probably come up with many, many ideas of how humans work. It's very abstract...Extraverted Intuition (Ne) is orientation by what is outside the box and how it could change the way people are thinking if the box were expanded.
How do you not relate? By looking in other ENFPs in MBTI forums? in this case I would say you are wrong, you have to keep in mind that many are mistyped, unhealthy and immature. Mostly I dont relate either, I relate to the rest of NF types.If you don't mind, could you explain further.. it would be helpful lol..I know I use Ne a lot, but the way most ENFPs seem..I don't relate. I just don't know if I'm a subdued ENFP or just straight up INFP:crazy: