sulfit
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- Aug 5, 2010
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- MBTI Type
- INTP
- Enneagram
- 6w5
- Instinctual Variant
- sp/so
I've covered a few points in the OP. Most people become interested in it because they find descriptions of intertype relations to match their real life experiences, and they want to gain a deeper understanding with what's going on in their family or with their significant others, their boss or co-worers. Once you know your type and understand the basics, then you get access to detailed relationship articles like this one.This isn't the first I've looked at socionics. It's just never resonated in the past so I tossed it aside. I thought I might as well check it out again. What's the point of socionics anyway?
Another interesting aspect is that socionics examines the societal impact of types. It doesn't treat them as separate and unrelated entities as does MBTI. From this come theories like quadra progression which attempt to explain what is happening on political scale in terms of jungian types and information aspects. This kinds of subject you won't learn from MBTI. The issue is that MBTI has been developed in the West as a corporate tool for career testing, while Socionics has been developed in the East as part of academic research and science. So they've discovered a number of interesting implications that MBTI never goes into, because MBTI is a simplified and dumbed down version Jung's typology created for corporate use.
"Vivid mental landscape" doesn't really define the IEI type. Any type can be imaginative, just think about all the authors and artists and movie producers, living or decreased, who have been of other types besides INFx. If you type yourself relying on such stereotypes, then you may very well start to associate yourself with wrong types.I have a vivid mental landscape like the IEI and very much get that out in art as they say Ni does.