Ti:
Ti is my own personal Excalibur. It is a powerful weapon that I keep sheathed until the appropriate time. Then once it is needed, it is unleashed and cuts away the unnecessary fat like the proverbial Occam's Razor. It must be kept sheathed because it is inappropriate for most social situations. Nothing can find mistakes in reasoning like Ti, and people hate it when you point out their mistakes.
However when it comes to problem solving, discernment, and the ability to give shape to the raw chaos that is Ne there is no friend I'd rather rely on than Ti. Sometimes I think, "Why do these NFP's cling to such ineffective ideas?" But then I remind myself that they do not have Ti to discern the effective from the ineffective. Whenever I try a new endeavor I already have a good idea of whether or not it will succeed, because Ti has already deduced the inevitable conclusion. A river needs a dam to make it productive and give it shape; uranium needs a reactor. By the same token my Ne needs Ti to give my ideas shape and make them effective instead of being so much wasted energy.
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