cascadeco
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- sp/sx
Okay those are interesting points and it is good to emphasise the fact that it is just a preference. But my issue is that I think living in observation land takes less brain capacity than living in abstract land. You practically said it yourself using the N as a salesperson example.
To live in N land you have to first live in S land - noticing the things physically around you, then taking them further, thinking about symbolism, collecting physical details about people to get an overall impression. There's more of an intuition about it because your brain is naturally picking up a million physical details all at once to create a certain vibe about someone. That's why I see it as an extension of S. Of course it is a preference, but couldnt we say that Ns are stretching their brains further than Ss every day by thinking of these things that require more brain capacity? And that stretching your brain like this is likely going to result in smarter people?
I actually disagree a lot with you regarding how you're describing N land and the N person supposedly picking up millions of details and then extrapolating from them. You are actually describing how it works for a lot of S's. S's are actually the ones who in theory are picking up lots of details and deciding things based on that. That's why those who prefer S can in fact be great salespeople or can be great with people in general, or with things right in front of them -- because they are in fact reading what is *actually happening right there*. I know N's who might notice one or two things, but miss everything else (or perhaps more accurately, might notice a few things and feel they are the critical elements, thus go down the rabbit hole with just those elements) -- and yet they might base their impressions on *just those one or two things* --- and take those two things and extropolate a world from them. Well, if they happened to notice the 'right' two things (and they might have), their intuitive reading could of course be dead on -- but they can latch onto a few things and they might have actually missed some other super key things -- and then their intuition is ridiculously off (and yet they will sink in the ship with their vision).
Re brain capacity, we'll agree to disagree.
Also I would say that the majority of Ns who find S things boring feel so because there is not enough going on intellectually. There is no deeper complex sophisticated meaning. It's just right there in front of you.
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