I was hypothesizing, and started wondering if I even had an understanding of Ti. Ti it seems is where I would need to put something logical together, like doing a math problem. However, in other classes, or juts getting by in life... is it possible to just use Ni solely to come to conclusions? Especially in classes such as Philosophy/History/English and things of that nature, i.e. writing essays in the abstract about them.
I was busy pondering and I was thinking about the whole Ni/Ti connection, and I'm not even sure I'm using Ti at all, but maybe just pure Ni the whole time and getting by with that without much studying whatsoever. As I recall, I generally hated classes which were "memorization" oriented and multiple choice exams, where as I can piece together a vivid essay almost naturally, while it might not be *perfect* it's pretty damn close.
One of my most hated classes was Accounting, largely b/c I think it implored the use of Ti and prior I had been getting by with almost pure Ni.
I find my natural state is *contemplation/pondering* and not so much *thinking/tinkering*
Anyway, I am just trying to delineate the difference between Ni and Ti. I was thinking I might have overstepped the Fe part and gone into a Ni/Ti loop in my development, but now I'm thinking it's possible I never really used Ti much at all, just stayed in Ni world to solve my issues and come up with ideas, mostly using my somewhat unconscious inferior Se.
When I am reading these descriptions of "thinking" ... it doesn't really sound like my thought process whatsoever.
So it could very well be I got by with almost pure Ni up to about the time I was 25...then I started to develop my Fe and wonder "is what I'm doing serving a greater purpose, I need to do something more purposeful and useful"
I have been posting a bit in the INTJ forum for about a week to bounce ideas off folks, and it seems the biggest difference is our "job choices." ... The job choices they seem to like seem completely irrelevant to me, lots of people working in corporate environments, law firms, engineering firms. All of which I would feel like I am just doing a "job" ...and it is hard for me to reconcile just doing a job for the sake of income. In fact I think I've narrowed it down to only a few things I could see myself doing, being a university professor in philosophy *to teach society* or being a journalist *to help/teach society* ... I'm running out of options and have been on about a 3-4 year "contemplation crisis" about what am I here for.
Does Fe serve as a motivating factor? Meaning, does Fe better predict your job you are likely to choose?
Also I don't see myself as much of a people person, are other INFJ's "people persons". I am all about equality, but I am still pretty introverted.
In many ways, my current thought on the matter is that my preferred job roles or positions from an outside standpoint, seem to line up more with say, INFPs... The problem is, I don't think I actually THINK like them at all and generally all the threads on there are far too touchy/feely and boring. I can relate to INTJ's and how they think about things, and like their discussion topics, the problem is when it's time to do something, I often disagree.
thanks in advance.
thoughts?
I was busy pondering and I was thinking about the whole Ni/Ti connection, and I'm not even sure I'm using Ti at all, but maybe just pure Ni the whole time and getting by with that without much studying whatsoever. As I recall, I generally hated classes which were "memorization" oriented and multiple choice exams, where as I can piece together a vivid essay almost naturally, while it might not be *perfect* it's pretty damn close.
One of my most hated classes was Accounting, largely b/c I think it implored the use of Ti and prior I had been getting by with almost pure Ni.
I find my natural state is *contemplation/pondering* and not so much *thinking/tinkering*
Anyway, I am just trying to delineate the difference between Ni and Ti. I was thinking I might have overstepped the Fe part and gone into a Ni/Ti loop in my development, but now I'm thinking it's possible I never really used Ti much at all, just stayed in Ni world to solve my issues and come up with ideas, mostly using my somewhat unconscious inferior Se.
When I am reading these descriptions of "thinking" ... it doesn't really sound like my thought process whatsoever.
So it could very well be I got by with almost pure Ni up to about the time I was 25...then I started to develop my Fe and wonder "is what I'm doing serving a greater purpose, I need to do something more purposeful and useful"
I have been posting a bit in the INTJ forum for about a week to bounce ideas off folks, and it seems the biggest difference is our "job choices." ... The job choices they seem to like seem completely irrelevant to me, lots of people working in corporate environments, law firms, engineering firms. All of which I would feel like I am just doing a "job" ...and it is hard for me to reconcile just doing a job for the sake of income. In fact I think I've narrowed it down to only a few things I could see myself doing, being a university professor in philosophy *to teach society* or being a journalist *to help/teach society* ... I'm running out of options and have been on about a 3-4 year "contemplation crisis" about what am I here for.
Does Fe serve as a motivating factor? Meaning, does Fe better predict your job you are likely to choose?
Also I don't see myself as much of a people person, are other INFJ's "people persons". I am all about equality, but I am still pretty introverted.
In many ways, my current thought on the matter is that my preferred job roles or positions from an outside standpoint, seem to line up more with say, INFPs... The problem is, I don't think I actually THINK like them at all and generally all the threads on there are far too touchy/feely and boring. I can relate to INTJ's and how they think about things, and like their discussion topics, the problem is when it's time to do something, I often disagree.
thanks in advance.
thoughts?