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In this article, I want to focus on a negative attribute, or perhaps more accurately, a downside of Introverted Thinking via an example from my life. Personally, I think people’s negatives are more telling. Positive descriptions are often too easy to relate to. We all want to see ourselves through a positive lens, or emulate […]

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I came across an amusing inferior Se grip example the other day, while watching a television show. Since inferior functions are often a subject of interest, I thought I’d share. So many people look to their inferior function to finally settle their personality type confusion. After all, if you can’t settle on your dominant function, […]

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Recently, I was working on another article about INFPs which touched on the INFP (Fi-Si) loop, and I kept trying to go into way more detail than was necessary for that specific article. (If only I’d realized sooner that an INFP development article really doesn’t require an in-depth loop explanation.) After struggling for way too […]

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In the past, I’ve put significant effort into explaining inferior Fe in a personalized way, which isn’t exactly an easy or natural thing for me. However, I did realize at a certain point that sometimes inferior Fe gets generally confused with social anxiety. (A lot of people can relate to some general insecurities that inferior […]

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The longer I study personality theory, the more I begin to notice flawed ways in which certain cognitive functions are rationalized and/or explained. Sometimes the rationale seems to make sense on the surface, but ultimately doesn’t measure up to reality. My focus in this article will be on a specific misunderstanding regarding Fi vs. Fe. […]

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I’ve struggled for a long time to try to distinguish the morality of Introverted Feeling, or Fi, from the morality of Introverted Thinking, or Ti. Introverted Thinkers, or Ti users, have a reputation of being morally gray: the rogues and the bounty hunters. Amoral. However, this stereotype is largely driven by fiction. I know plenty […]

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Misinformation about Extraverted Sensing (Se) annoys me. Of course, it’s my auxiliary function so that shouldn’t be surprising. Several years ago, I began doubting my personality type, which prompted me to spend an obsessive amount of time trying to learn the core difference between Se and Ne. After all that, after essentially deep diving into […]

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The cognitive functions, Ni and Se, manifest differently depending on which position they hold within the function stack. In this post, I want to go over the Se-Ni / Ni-Se cognitive function pairs. I will go over each of the combinations, and how the different positions change their role and effect on each personality type. […]

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You may have heard it said that Si is about details and Ni is about patterns. While both those statements are true on a superficial level, it removes a level a nuance from the comparison between them. While some may view the statement I am about to make as unhelpful and muddying the waters, I […]

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The cognitive functions, Ne and Si, manifest differently depending on which position they hold within the function stack. In this post, I want to go over the Ne-Si / Si-Ne cognitive function pairs. I will go over each of the combinations, and how the different positions change their role and effect on each personality type. […]