this perception just means you trust different data sources (external or internal) than they do, and consider your data sources as superior to theirs. naivete is only measured in relation to your personal idea of what is truth and your perception of the trustworthiness of various data sources.
what if truth is to be found from the mouths of babes? data
source is insignificant if the data itself can be supported logically.
and what if, in confidence in my own intellect, i have missed something or presumed something is true, that is not? the premises of one's own logic are as deserving of questioning as the premises of others.
I'm with @
Psyphon Now, could you explain something to me? What is it about the way ENTP's communicate that lends its hand so readily to critique from INFJs? We're on the same side as the INFJs. Why are they always up in our grill? Or is there something I'm missing here?
are we? we don't mean to be, and i'm sorry ~ i enjoy ENTPs since their conversations are creative, and never boring; and i tend to assume (maybe incorrectly?) they welcome debate over ideas.
...maybe we just like playing the devil's advocate game as much as you all do.
sometimes.
it is not meant as a
personal critique, insult, or affront against anyone ~ rather, it is Ni getting to the heart of the matter...tracing ideas to their source assumptions, glancing behind actions to discover their source motivations...in essence, tracking down the meaning behind everything. we approach this search for meaning intellectually and view this as sharing insight rather than as criticizing a person. a counselor must dredge up the depths of the soul in order to help someone ~ this requires a relentless pursuit of what is
actually the truth, something which Ni minds are wired to do ~ we tend to view diagnosis as a necessary prerequisite to health, and factual critique as the pathway to truth.
we apply this same "truth" microscope to our own actions and analyze them to their source motivations...and (in my case, anyway), often do not like what we find, and therefore try to improve.
take it for what it is - Ni. Ni always wonders what has been missed in the equation, and likes to conjure up the possibilities that we think should never have been laid to rest, and entertain them for a while.