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I recently got a revelation about Ne.
It's a thing I have known about myself for at least 10 years (long before I discovered MBTI).
The thing is my complete absence of the so called common sense. I just can't seem to see the 'obvious' solutions to problems. As an example, let's say I've never seen a hammer before. I can promise I would ask someone how it works: "How do you use it?", "What should I think about when I use it?", "Am I doing this right now?", "What about now?", "Should I use the same technique when the hammer is smaller?" and so on. Most people think I ask the most irrelevant and annoying questions, but here's why I ask the questions:
When I see a new thing, I literally see every possible way it can be used. If you think about it, there are at least thousands of ways you could use a hammer. Of course, there is only one (maybe more?) way of using it efficiently - but how am I supposed to know the most efficient way before I've either tried every combination myself, or asked someone who has the experience?
I just realized that this is Ne at work. I don't see the hammer as just a hammer: Ne extracts every possible solution simultaneously, leaving me overwhelmed and confused when I have to solve new problems where I have no experience. When I have to do a practical task that's new to me, my mind goes completely blank.
This is exactly what happens when I need to do cooking; drive a car (although I have my license now
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; help out with practical things during, say, a wedding; or fix something that's broken.
The interesting thing about this is that once I've collected the necessary experience and done my experimenting (which sure can take a while), it often doesn't take long before I can radically outperform the people who have 10 years of experience.
So when I start something new, Ne instantly makes me maximally confused. The result is that I appear comically childish. But if I just keep at it, it will give me a deep understanding of the problem that few other has.
Ne is my secret superpower. Too bad I have to go through that long initial 'blank stare'-phase though.
Anyone can relate to this? I've just seen this as an odd pecularity of my personality, but today I found out that it's most likely a product of my strong Ne preference.
I recently got a revelation about Ne.
It's a thing I have known about myself for at least 10 years (long before I discovered MBTI).
The thing is my complete absence of the so called common sense. I just can't seem to see the 'obvious' solutions to problems. As an example, let's say I've never seen a hammer before. I can promise I would ask someone how it works: "How do you use it?", "What should I think about when I use it?", "Am I doing this right now?", "What about now?", "Should I use the same technique when the hammer is smaller?" and so on. Most people think I ask the most irrelevant and annoying questions, but here's why I ask the questions:
When I see a new thing, I literally see every possible way it can be used. If you think about it, there are at least thousands of ways you could use a hammer. Of course, there is only one (maybe more?) way of using it efficiently - but how am I supposed to know the most efficient way before I've either tried every combination myself, or asked someone who has the experience?
I just realized that this is Ne at work. I don't see the hammer as just a hammer: Ne extracts every possible solution simultaneously, leaving me overwhelmed and confused when I have to solve new problems where I have no experience. When I have to do a practical task that's new to me, my mind goes completely blank.
This is exactly what happens when I need to do cooking; drive a car (although I have my license now
The interesting thing about this is that once I've collected the necessary experience and done my experimenting (which sure can take a while), it often doesn't take long before I can radically outperform the people who have 10 years of experience.
So when I start something new, Ne instantly makes me maximally confused. The result is that I appear comically childish. But if I just keep at it, it will give me a deep understanding of the problem that few other has.
Ne is my secret superpower. Too bad I have to go through that long initial 'blank stare'-phase though.
Anyone can relate to this? I've just seen this as an odd pecularity of my personality, but today I found out that it's most likely a product of my strong Ne preference.