OrangeAppled
Sugar Hiccup
- Joined
- Mar 20, 2009
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- MBTI Type
- INFP
- Enneagram
- 4w5
- Instinctual Variant
- sp/sx
For you, Fi is your auxiliary function which makes it feel pretty natural since it's well developed. Same as Ni feels for me.
By the time Fi hits the inferior level, it becomes an achilles tendon, especially if your leading functions are ordered as Te/Ni/Se. These three cognitive functions are logical and rational. Fi is not when it's not been well developed and is an unfamiliar decision maker since it feels really needy and overboard, very much a cognitive dissonance. Te/Ni/Se fight it, as a decision-making function. Kind of like:
Te/Ni/Se: That makes no logical or rational sense. Take a look at the world around you and look to future consequences so you understand the impact of your attitude.
Fi: But it feels right.
Te/Ni/Se: WTF does that mean and what's the significance of it?
Of course we can try to develop it and many try to do so, including myself. But it's constant effort and no amount of effort has made it feel natural for me. Maybe in a couple of decades, it will be modified to feel more natural or at the very least, not unnatural.
That's precisely it - people's own understanding of it is through how they experience it, and when it's an inferior function (and especially a shadow one), then it seems uncomfortable, to say the least...
I think that's partly why so many iNtuitives look down on Sensors - their own use of Se or Si is shoddy and they wrongly assume that kind of thinking comprises Si and Se users.