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· MOTM August 2012
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So I'm not sure what you're trying to figure out. You are saying you are caught between wondering if you are really an Extraverted Intuitive, a thinking type, or a feeling type?

First thing to do would be to figure out which of those you are (forget trying to be a XXXX type for a minute). Do you prefer thinking over feeling? Do you prefer sensation (down-to-earth, in the moment, here and now) to intuition (always reading between the lines, never taking anything at face values). The two are philosophical opposites so one should stand out as being more 'you' than the other.

If indeed you identify most with Extraverted Intuition and Extraverted Feeling fine. I would just call yourself a Ne-Fe ENFP (I know technically this isn't allowed in MBTI but there are all sorts of theoretical reasons why Ne-Fe would not be as uncommon as you think). If you absolutely must have an MBTI type to make you happy then the only extraverted types with Ne and Fe are ENTP and ESFJ. One is an intuitive that leans toward thinking, the other is a Feeling type that leans toward sensation.
 

· MOTM August 2012
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Thank you.
I test ENTP most, but I'm really trying to look past the are you feeling or thinking, because we are all both. I should have said Im sure I'm Ne and perspective, and I feel like I'm both Fe and Te. I relate to ENTP INTP INFP INTJ but with major discrepancies in all 4. I'm very new to this site but not to MBIT. I just want to know my "real" type. I feel like my experiences have to much of an effect on my self-description and how I compare the type descriptions to myself.
I really like DaveSuperPowers explanations on youtube.
I've heard everyone has a true type and its apparent around age 3 and doesn't ever change, people may change, but your cognitive process doesn't. Is there even a way to know for sure?
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There's tons of theoretical disagreement on this (and a lot of criticism of DaveSuperPowers to boot). Also in a basic sense Feeling vs Thinking or Sensation vs INtuition are valuable because they do not exclude one another but complement one another. Being a feeling type (a person who is generally evaluative -- good/bad, like/dislike, pretty/ugly) vs a thinking type (evaluating based upon whether or not something is logical or fits a specific formula) are not exclusive to one another. Everyone evaluates (feels) everyone thinks. But typically, at least in the dominant position, one will tend to supercede the other. If you ask people are you more logical or do you tend to lead with your head, for instance, most people have at least some sense of where they stand on that continuum. Doesn't mean they can't be logical if they choose 'heart' just that its not how they typically operate. If you find yourself thinking of exceptions, then that process probably isn't one you habitually use since a dominant process would be employed so much as to seem transparent. Someone might have to even point it out to you. When someone told me I was an intuitive I didn't believe them until I sort of stepped back for a moment and realized literally everything I was doing was driven from the standpoint of intuition (which gets me into a lot of trouble from time to time because people want facts not hunches).

It is precisely that type of self-assessment that will help you get to where you want to be.
 
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