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I'm still trying to figure out the functions in layman's terms. I read about them but they never make sense (probably because all the descriptions are written by incomprehensible INTP's, haha). Please feel free to add your input. I believe every function has some special trick that all the others lack. Sorta like superpowers. So far the only examples I can come up with are Se, Ne, Fe, and Fi.
Ti- filling out a logical chart in your mind, or believing conclusions to be fact so long as they follow logic, heavy skepticism.
Te-taking logic and acting on it, tend to think out loud
Fi- personal involvement, really makes a good gambler, its voodoo to me (that's about all I can come up with)
Fe- feeling the feelings of others, and knowing how your actions will affect others?
Si - inner sense of rules one follows (an example with british WW2 pilots: don't fly level for more than 30 seconds in a dogfight), able to recall facts extremely quickly, and have an enormous storehouse of facts available, ranging from vocabulary to history to science etc.
Se - more voodoo, even to myself (ISTP). Acting on instict, spidey sense in sports, curiosity, loves pretty colors, being able to FEEL your memories, visualizing the feel and physics of objects before you touch them. I have a theory that people weak in Se like earth tone colors while Se doms love fluorescent colors, while one ISTJ (doesn't have Se) I asked, didn't even know what his favorite color was (with an aggravated tone that indicated it was a stupid question to ask him). I believe that everytime you hear yoga instructors or kung fu masters say something like, "feel the rock, become the rock,"
that's them trying to teach INFJ's how to utilize their weak Se and sense their environment.
Ni - I'm still trying to understand this one. I think it connects the dots between facts, sees correlation as causation. Ni doms require less facts to reach a valid conclusion and can sift through facts quicker understanding what is the most important, Ni weaklings require many facts to reach the same conclusion (percievers typically). An example: I'm in the woods looking at a map, I'm looking for every map, river, hill, contour and landmark to validate where I am on the map. An Ni dom would notice that the tallest peak on the map is also the tallest mountain right next to us, and using this one fact would reach a conclusion.
Ne - More voodoo, seen as very presumptuous because even the Ne users themselves don't realize if what they're saying is true or not, even though it often could be so long as its supported by their other dominant function (ENFP's spewing information based on their Te or Si is usually wrong, while information about other people's feelings is almost always correct; that's my theory at least). Ne doms can spew information and learn all by themselves, and pull facts out of thin air. I'm not sure how it works with sports, but my INTP brother said it served to determine probability of the other person's moves in a sparring match and help him prepare accordingly. Usually pretty abstract thought, loves to think about the ESSENCE of things while Se users like to think about what its like to interact with them.
So those are my current understandings. Please feel free to add your own.
Ti- filling out a logical chart in your mind, or believing conclusions to be fact so long as they follow logic, heavy skepticism.
Te-taking logic and acting on it, tend to think out loud
Fi- personal involvement, really makes a good gambler, its voodoo to me (that's about all I can come up with)
Fe- feeling the feelings of others, and knowing how your actions will affect others?
Si - inner sense of rules one follows (an example with british WW2 pilots: don't fly level for more than 30 seconds in a dogfight), able to recall facts extremely quickly, and have an enormous storehouse of facts available, ranging from vocabulary to history to science etc.
Se - more voodoo, even to myself (ISTP). Acting on instict, spidey sense in sports, curiosity, loves pretty colors, being able to FEEL your memories, visualizing the feel and physics of objects before you touch them. I have a theory that people weak in Se like earth tone colors while Se doms love fluorescent colors, while one ISTJ (doesn't have Se) I asked, didn't even know what his favorite color was (with an aggravated tone that indicated it was a stupid question to ask him). I believe that everytime you hear yoga instructors or kung fu masters say something like, "feel the rock, become the rock,"
that's them trying to teach INFJ's how to utilize their weak Se and sense their environment.
Ni - I'm still trying to understand this one. I think it connects the dots between facts, sees correlation as causation. Ni doms require less facts to reach a valid conclusion and can sift through facts quicker understanding what is the most important, Ni weaklings require many facts to reach the same conclusion (percievers typically). An example: I'm in the woods looking at a map, I'm looking for every map, river, hill, contour and landmark to validate where I am on the map. An Ni dom would notice that the tallest peak on the map is also the tallest mountain right next to us, and using this one fact would reach a conclusion.
Ne - More voodoo, seen as very presumptuous because even the Ne users themselves don't realize if what they're saying is true or not, even though it often could be so long as its supported by their other dominant function (ENFP's spewing information based on their Te or Si is usually wrong, while information about other people's feelings is almost always correct; that's my theory at least). Ne doms can spew information and learn all by themselves, and pull facts out of thin air. I'm not sure how it works with sports, but my INTP brother said it served to determine probability of the other person's moves in a sparring match and help him prepare accordingly. Usually pretty abstract thought, loves to think about the ESSENCE of things while Se users like to think about what its like to interact with them.
So those are my current understandings. Please feel free to add your own.
