I walked with my gf thru the town the other day and we came by 2 times at a street musician. He was playing a guitar and signing, no song I knew. When we approached him the second time, my girlfriend told me she's going to buy a CD from him. I was surprised but went with her and she got a CD from him. When looking at the CD we found out the music is all his and he has a label that produces his music. He prolly just likes to play in the streets, so he wasnt even a beggar or so.
The thing is, my gf does that not out of the good of her heart, no she does that cause she likes the music and wanted a CD. I am different I wouldnt even have recognized the man while passing by him.
This made me wondering, tho I am generally not a disrespectful being and tho I value human company above all else, this only works so far from me. I am big at exploring theories or ideas that intgrest me but I am not very big at exploring human personalities. I definitly have a gift for understanding a personality before really talking to him, but this gift isnt really developed, it more jumps to concrete assumptions which are often wrong and form a wrong image of a person for me.
My gf is different, she is fundamentally intrest in humans, you could call her a scientist of humanology. To me human studies or psychology just never appealed, I cant even say why they just didnt and I deidnt join this site because I wanted to know more about others, rather more about myself.
I dont necessarily think that you need to be an asshole to be a good T-type, as it is with all things in life, the balance is important and I agree with what KDude said: A F - type just is a F-type. One does probably see it the most in primary F-types.
Feelings are a different story, feelings can have all sorts of motivations and they cant really be a strength of F-types only. There's a quote by Mark Twain I think that goes like: "The man that is ahsamed of the most things, is the most respectable one" and I think this means that feeling and sensitivity have a lot to do with intelligence and your imagination of how it could be for others on the world.
There are many people who can outsmart me in a second by knowing every author to every book once written and think they are intelligent. They are, their intelligence can be compared to that of a harddrive; but to learn the language of F-types and to understand their intelligence that's a challenge, because their intelligence nearly always involves making the toughest and personally most unpleasant decisions in life