11 Differences Between Si and Se Users

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Sometime last year, I wrote an article on the 11 Differences Between Te and Ti Users. That article caught some steam, and someone ended up requesting that we write an article for each of the other dichotomy pairs. Of course, I did intend to do that anywayโ€ฆ but forgot. Heh heh. Anyways, hereโ€™s article number [โ€ฆ]

By Mara on January 13, 2020

The Identity Functions: Inferior Ti and Fi

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Iโ€™m piggy-backing this article off of my previous identity functions article, which you can find here: The Identity Functions: Fi and Ti. While I never actually intended to write a second part to that article, Ryan and I had an intriguing realization recently that I felt instantly compelled to write down. Let me take a [โ€ฆ]

By Mara on December 30, 2019

Ne vs. Ni: A Simplistic Example

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This article is going to be more of a story than an actual technical article, but the story does show a reasonably good example of simplistic Ne vs. Ni. Itโ€™s in these simplistic examples that we can more easily break down how each function is actually operating because itโ€™s easy to wrap your head around [โ€ฆ]

By Ryan on November 7, 2019

Function Levels: High Vs. Low Use

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People make varying speculations on the difference between a function in its dominant, auxiliary, tertiary and inferior positions. They have this tendency to attribute negative behaviors of a certain function to purely the lower users, since they should have weaker use. They like to assume that those with higher use of function will nearly always [โ€ฆ]

By Mara on October 15, 2019

4 Reasons Why ISTJs Mistype As INTJs

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ISTJs frequently mistype as INTJs. As per usual, itโ€™s the stereotypes and the general intuitive bias that cause this. Personally, Iโ€™ve noticed that within the MBTI and personality enthusiast communities, the Si doms (ISTJ or ISFJ) seems to be the most hated on. Itโ€™s not necessarily done on purpose, but just reading the different descriptions, [โ€ฆ]

By Mara on October 8, 2019

The Inferior Functions: An Overview

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Inferior functions play a key role in how each personality type manifests. Oneโ€™s inferior function is their greatest weakness, their greatest insecurity, their greatest source of stress, or their life long stumbling block. In this article, Iโ€™m only going to provide a relatively brief and succinct overview of each inferior function. For more indepth information, [โ€ฆ]

By Mara on September 17, 2019

Explaining Introverted Intuition (Ni) Tunnel Vision

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People throw around the comments about how a weakness of Ni, or Introverted Intuition, is tunnel vision, but do you ever wonder why that is? Well, explaining the logic or theory behind the common MBTI stereotypes is something this blog is about, so Iโ€™m going to explain. Iโ€™m sure Iโ€™ve mentioned it briefly in other [โ€ฆ]

By Mara on August 30, 2019

The Identity Functions: Fi and Ti

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A YouTuber gave me a lightbulb moment the other day. It was just a brief side note in the video, so I canโ€™t remember the exact video, but it was by Frank James who talks primarily about INFJs. His knowledge of function theory seems pretty on point. Iโ€™d post a link to the specific video [โ€ฆ]

By Mara on August 9, 2019

Comparing Te Users: Masterminding Plans

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Ryan and I were having an interesting conversation about Te the other day, so I thought Iโ€™d try to get some of the thoughts we produced into writing. Iโ€™m not exactly sure what Iโ€™m going to call this, but hopefully something adequate will come to me by the time I reach the end of this [โ€ฆ]

By Mara on August 2, 2019

The Past Affects Every Type

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Personality theory enthusiasts, even the experienced ones, have this tendency to get lost in weeds. We over analyze everything, attempting to attribute every action or thought to one of the eight functions. In doing so, we essentially drown in a vast sea of function theory, and begin to lose sight of some basic facts, which [โ€ฆ]

By Mara on May 21, 2019