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ummm... not to sound like I'm telling mods/everyone else what to do, but doesn't most of this stuff belong in it's own special little thread somewhere instead of changing the topic of the origional thread? :huh:

and, your posts are all too long :tongue:

At that though- I think that the idea that a person only really uses 4 functions is bullshit- there are 8 functions in use and all of them have some effect on us- more or less depending on their strengths and weaknesses

I'd also define a type based on their two strongest functions as opposed to a sequence of 4, because if we did that honestly, there would be very few people of any of the 16 types! (I'm Ne, Ti, Se, Te, Fe, Ni, Si, Fi.... not the conventional Ne, Ti, Fe, Si :tongue10: and I still exist!)

Just because you lack strong feeling functions doesn't mean that you're unethical or cruel in the least- I'm nice because it gets me what I want... it's just easier that way. Learned behavior over time though, I was an evil scheming little bitch when younger :laugh:
 

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Again, the key to properly understanding the eight functions is to go back to (start with) four; --but without the "attitudes" (orientations). i/e orientation is really a preference of the ego, not the functions. This was Jung's original "four function" concept, though I have seen the claim that Jung later modified it so that the orientation is fixed to the function.
The dominant function is merely used in the preferred dominant attitude. The other three then follow suit in an alternating order (aux--opposite attitude, tertiary--same attitude, inferior--opposite attitude.

Once you understand it as the ego setting the orientation, it becomes easier to see how that same ego could switch the orientation of the functions at times, for various reasons. This discussion has the "eight functions" as these monolithic solid entities that cannot all "coexist" with each other, but the functions are not entities; the ego is, and the functions are only utilities of the ego. So what you're saying is like saying if I normally use a hammer to drive nails, I can't ever use it to remove them. (i.e the other side of the head). Then, you make them into two separate tools; one to drive nails, and the other to remove them, and you can only use one.
So the ego will tend to prefer a particular orientation for a particular function, but can switch it, especially under stress, when the preferred combination is not solving the problem.

the psychoanalytic project is how jung discovered the cognitive functions, but i think many people on this site re-interpret the cognitive functions into a different context.

i think the enneagram is better for psychoanalysis. i'd use the beebe model as a bit of a bridge to the enneagram, but that bridge is the weakest element in connecting cognition to the ego complex. understanding the correlations between enneatypes and mb types/cognitive functions is the most undefined grey area present in typology.

i think it's possible to see the cognitive functions as physical processes, actual brain pathways. nowadays it's more interesting, in my mind, to re-interpret the cognitive functions in a cognitive context. cognitive psychology and cognitive science, during jung's time, didn't exist. now they do, and cogsci in particular, is home to the most interesting research into intelligence, the mind, etc. it's the best academic site with the most interesting intersections.

i find that what jung ultimately discovered was less a perfect psychoanalytic theory (his was ok), and more of a developmental theory of human consciousness, information processing, etc. this is what i find most usable from jung's work. that this gives birth to a specific range of psychoanalytic approaches, defense mechanisms/blind spots, ego complexes, etc makes sense, but that connection is still in progress as far as theory goes. and those questions emerge/are formulated in other places/discourses as well.

thinking of the cognitive functions as brain pathways leads in a different direction than thinking about them as an ego complex. where you have like aerobic and anaerobic mode, where you flip a switch and live in your own shadow consciousness, where the orientation of the functions reverses direction completely. if that were the case, it would seem like some strange version of schizophrenia, bc nothing would be mapped out or learned in those brain pathways, and no instincts would be developed, and you would have no way of framing experience, finding meaning, or sorting information.
 

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Glorifying one of your functions as the key to it? :huh: That's not what's going on here.

We're just trying to explain to you that all T's have F. Plus, everything that I've bolded is you describing Te, not Fi. No one said ENTJs can't love or care for people. Who the hell claimed such a thing? Most - if not all - people have the ability to love. Who ever said that ENTJs in general are insincere? Certainly not me and I didn't see Sim doing it either. He said that a person who "cared" for others simply as a means to an end wouldn't actually be empathetic or moral. No one ever singled out ENTJs.

I, for one, was challenging the notion that ENTJs are inherently, as a type, more caring or empathetic than NFs. That's all. I can't think of an ENTJ in particular that I dislike, for the record.

It's a consequence of the theory you are floating. I get sim missing it, was surprised you were though. I've been saying the same thing every post, and it is a reply to what was put forward. Ethics, empathy and emotions don't require certain functions to consider. I'm still not sure what planet either of you are on or how a means of processing information excludes focus on certain topics. I can see some approaches correlate better with the focus on these topics, but it is not what was put forward. The argument put forward just needs one exception or one minuscule piece of doubt because someone decided to state it as an absolute. If it happens once for any reason, theory=dead.

To add to that, I was saying ENTJs do consider emotions without resorting to their F. I consider the details of projects without using my Si. To put it simply, the idea that these things can't be understood by T style thinking is as stupid as the idea that logic can not be understood by F style thinking. It has nothing to do with having more functions, I've always thought the idea came from a complete misunderstanding of the way we think. You've simplified these things to simple descriptions, built a model from them, and assumed because it makes sense it is right.
 

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Suppose. I don't see my approach as much different. I just see stuff will happen if I do stuff, so don't do stuff. It's really no less logical. It just involves a different object.

Right, it's not less logical; it's just based externally. You are ENFP if I recall correctly, right? Te fits there.
 

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Can I just ask a small question? It's on topic.
Would it be better if us Fi-doms asked you how you felt, or would that still be interperted being told how you felt?
Or it would it be interpted as needing reassurrance?
Curious.
 

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the psychoanalytic project is how jung discovered the cognitive functions, but i think many people on this site re-interpret the cognitive functions into a different context.

i think the enneagram is better for psychoanalysis. i'd use the beebe model as a bit of a bridge to the enneagram, but that bridge is the weakest element in connecting cognition to the ego complex. understanding the correlations between enneatypes and mb types/cognitive functions is the most undefined grey area present in typology.
I think this one here is the best: Enneagram - read free online

I also think a better correlation would be made by allowing stacking of different types along the instinctual variants. sp might then fit the Keirseyan groupings, while so and to some extent sx might be Interaction Style.
i think it's possible to see the cognitive functions as physical processes, actual brain pathways. nowadays it's more interesting, in my mind, to re-interpret the cognitive functions in a cognitive context. cognitive psychology and cognitive science, during jung's time, didn't exist. now they do, and cogsci in particular, is home to the most interesting research into intelligence, the mind, etc. it's the best academic site with the most interesting intersections.

thinking of the cognitive functions as brain pathways leads in a different direction than thinking about them as an ego complex. where you have like aerobic and anaerobic mode, where you flip a switch and live in your own shadow consciousness, where the orientation of the functions reverses direction completely. if that were the case, it would seem like some strange version of schizophrenia, bc nothing would be mapped out or learned in those brain pathways, and no instincts would be developed, and you would have no way of framing experience, finding meaning, or sorting information.
I don't think of functions as the complex, but rather the functions as utilities of the complexes.
 

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Can I just ask a small question? It's on topic.
Would it be better if us Fi-doms asked you how you felt, or would that still be interperted being told how you felt?
Or it would it be interpted as needing reassurrance?
Curious.

Personally, I'd much prefer being asked how I feel to having my feelings dictated to me by someone who doesn't know me.
 

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Personally, I'd much prefer being asked how I feel to having my feelings dictated to me by someone who doesn't know me.
What if I asked you, am I supposed to take that statement at face value? or, is there a barb in that statement referencing our previous encounters on this forum?
BTW, this is a genuine question, not intending to inflame at all.
 

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What if I asked you, am I supposed to take that statement at face value? or, is there a barb in that statement referencing our previous encounters on this forum?
BTW, this is a genuine question, not intending to inflame at all.

You are supposed to take it at face value.
 

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To put it simply, the idea that these things can't be understood by T style thinking is as stupid as the idea that logic can not be understood by F style thinking.

I never said that. You are completely missing my point, and I'm not sure how after I stated in my last response that most (if not all) people have the ability to love and care for others, and that has nothing to do with T or F.

You just don't believe in functions. That's your prerogative.
 

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I never said that. You are completely missing my point, and I'm not sure how after I stated in my last response that most (if not all) people have the ability to love and care for others, and that has nothing to do with T or F.

You just don't believe in functions. That's your prerogative.

I accepted the care and love for others part. I'm arguing that you and Sim are defining functions at the wrong level. I believe in cognitive functions as forms of information processing (see definition of cognitive and Jung's descriptions). What you are arguing about is something far higher level. In this domain there are preferences for certain styles, but not the definites that are being put across here. Ne can do the logic, Fi can do the logic, Te can do the logic. Obviously someone with all of them will use whatever combination feels most natural, but someone without them will get good at doing these things using a different approach.
 

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I accepted the care and love for others part. I'm arguing that you and Sim are defining functions at the wrong level. I believe in cognitive functions as forms of information processing (see definition of cognitive and Jung's descriptions). What you are arguing about is something far higher level. In this domain there are preferences for certain styles, but not the definites that are being put across here. Ne can do the logic, Fi can do the logic, Te can do the logic. Obviously someone with all of them will use whatever combination feels most natural, but someone without them will get good at doing these things using a different approach.

I think we're arguing cognitive functions as underlying value systems that have more effect on our perspectives that we can consciously recognize.

We don't agree with functions as simple labels for observable surface actions.
 

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Crap split elsewhere to die. If you'd like to carry on personal discussions we have a wonderful system called PMs.
 

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Sorry it's taken me a while to get back to this. I meant to sooner but will wave my ENP badge here, thank you very much (my best Elvis impression) :smile:

Actually, Jung never said that. The "we use all eight functions" model was introduced by Berens, Beebe and other more recent authors.

I haven't read much of the original Jungian literature, in any depth, on the functions. I wanted to at least do that before I questioned the above. I realize now while I have the inclination, I simply won't have the time to do this before posting a response. Woe to my real life responsibilities that served as a strict reminder this week that they do take priority over fun pursuits. :doh: So, I'll pass on this for now and post a request instead: If you have suggestions for reading material where I can explore functional processes better, do list them here. I'd be interested in gathering the resources and going over them carefully.

I find this discussion interesting because I think cognitive functions are where the action is, so to speak in MBTI theory. The ability or skill with which one is able to use one's functions (4/8/16/32 - whatever your belief on the matter), in my opinion, relates well to the enneagram health levels. This also provides the diversity with types that we see.

I'm curious as well, if you think people only use their top four then why did the authors present all eight at all in a certain order. What was the point of referring to the bottom four in any sequence?

Okay, let me be clear--nobody has any empirical evidence for any typology system, myself included. I'm arguing why I think this interpretation is most internally consistent and describes people's motivations most effectively. Everyone's interpretation of something this amorphous is obviously subjective; typology is just a form of philosophy, not science.

Yes and we disagree on the thesis and the explanation for it. If the topic is that subjective then we could potentially have several different explanations regarding the internal processes which could all theoretically hold since they are dependent on the subject. By saying that there is one internally consistent or effective explanation, you imply it is an objective topic (any time this decision/thesis is made by someone on the outside, by definition). You're doing the same above and my point was that this is not consistent with the idea of a subjective topic.

I won't say it's totally impossible that such a shift could happen more than once, but it's not a voluntary or controllable reaction, and it's certainly something that would happen very rarely. It'd be like a religious conversion--some kind of huge revelation via profound life experience would have to convince you that the entire basis for your worldview has been completely wrong all along. This could theoretically happen to someone more than once throughout life, but it certainly would not be a routine occurrence and this still wouldn't allow people to use Fi/Te without completely getting rid of Ti/Fe's influence (or vice versa.)

Frankly, this is the hardest part to agree with as it implies mature folks who say they experience functions from their lower eight as per their type would necessarily have to get rid of their original preferences which have been honed, practiced and formed a basis or foundation for their behavior and worldview. This is the part that is least compelling.

I would like to know what leads you to believe that people use all eight attitudes routinely, then.

I think we have some miscommunication here. I don't, by any means, think people can easily tap into and use all their eight functions routinely. I think that would take away the usefulness of the types altogether. I agree that we have a preference ordering that is inherent to our type leading to a hierarchy of eight. These functions, the top four reflect the order in which we approach the world and when the top four are well-developed we see a healthy individual who may best reflect the stereotypical behavior of their type. However, being products of our environments as much as our internal cognitive processes, I think people may build different skill sets and develop different functions because of their environment. A Ti dom/aux with parents who are Fi dom/aux may in a positive environment be encouraged to develop that internal process not just the external manifestation. I think it can happen. As a function of our types, we are naturally more skilled and have greater access to our top 4 but life experiences and demands may encourage people to develop the lower eight with some or great difficulty.

But this is just a question of semantics regarding our definitions of Fi. I would define these "alien experiences" as manifestations of Fe, but obviously we're not going to agree on that. I don't think "I felt something emotional that was unfamiliar" is necessarily Fi, because I don't think the Ti dom in question is fully aware of where these feelings are coming from. For all we know, they might be validated externally even if the Ti dom doesn't realize it.

You seem to be listening to these experiences and deciding that they constitute Fi, without really knowing where the feelings came from or what the root cause of them was.

I'd rather people shared their own experiences than my posting and highlighting someone else's which they may or may not want highlighted in this context, which is why I was hoping we would have some Ti doms/auxs share their experiences and their own interpretation of those here as being Fi or not.

Listen, I'm not arguing that our brains are biologically incapable of using the shadow functions--just that switching to them requires permanently changing into a different personality type via some sort of life-changing experience. It's a dramatic shift in perspective that would edge out our old perspective....

So if I go along living my life and get to the point where I realize Fi actually makes more sense to me than Ti, then Ti has been pushed out of my functional makeup. If I reach a point where Fi truly resonates more clearly with my perspective than Ti, then Ti is gone--I'm not going to just switch between the two whenever I feel like it. The difference between Ti and Fi is that profound. If this happened to me, I would become an ENFP, which is possible but not something that would happen overnight or whenever I feel like it. And changing back to ENTP would require some equally powerful experience to convince me to rebuild my worldview again.

So when I say we don't use all eight functions, I mean we have a mold of four that makes up our worldview and that our worldview has to change profoundly and significantly in a way that clearly contradicts our old worldview in order to move into using the other four--and that once this happens (barring a similar revelatory experience in the other direction) there's no going back. The people I'm taking issue with are the ones who say things like, "Yesterday I used Fi for this and that, and today I'm using Ti for something else! Later this afternoon I'll use Fi again, but then I might use Ti tonight!" That's not how this works.

So my theory is that we're holding four tools at a time. At some point we may eventually decide to set down two (or even all four) of them and pick up some other ones, but this would be a very gradual and life-changing decision, not something people do on a daily basis. Picking up new tools requires setting other contradictory tools down--we can't hold all eight at once.

Again, this is not what I or most other posters here have said. Most of us acknowledge that we have a certain preference ordering and the shifts between them require a lot of work and a great deal of discomfort. I don't think we disagree here. I disagree that on the scale - that it would require a complete breakdown and rebuilding to be able to use one of the lower functions even weakly. I also don't agree that an ENFP can turn into an ENTP or vice versa. No. We don't choose our cognitive functions or type - these are innate. We can't choose our type as much as we'd like and even with life altering circumstances. We can however choose to work on honing or tapping into weaker functions as we find them to be more useful with age.

On the very last part about contradictory functions, it makes sense that we couldn't use Ti and Fi simultaneously in the same context. That is absurd. I think the disagreement is on the subject that you're suggesting these couldn't be used by the same user at all without completely abandoning the other in all contexts and life experience from there on and I think that is extreme. They could be utilized in different spheres with practice although always accompanied by some discomfort.


I believe that this theory is more representative of Jung's original model (which never actually says that any one person uses all eight functions routinely.) I'll continue to support this theory in my functional discussions until such a time as I change my mind.

Maybe later I'll end up deciding that we do use all eight functions--but that won't mean that I was a four-function believer and an eight-function believer at the same time, or that I had "access" to believing the eight-function theory before changing my mind. The point is, the four-function theory and eight-function theory cannot simultaneously be true, so I can't believe one without rejecting the other first--Ti and Fi share this relationship.

To continue the religious conversion parallel, I could be an atheist at one point in my life and later become a theist, but I'd have to discard atheism first and I would not routinely waffle between atheism and theism because these are really fundamental parts of one's worldview that simply don't change that easily. I see cognitive functions the same way--it's possible for an Fi/Te user to become a Ti/Fe user, but not without discarding Fi/Te first.

The religious parallel does not work because religion is ultimately a choice whereas cognitive functions - the hierarchy of these functions we inherit or is innate to our psychological makeup is not a choice we make for ourselves . Having said that, the disagreement is more about whether people use only four at any given point of time (a clear dichotomy) or whether they have access to using the weaker functions too (not simultaneously but not requiring a life altering experience either).


Digression on the subject of dichotomy in a religious context:
People do, in fact, change their religious beliefs, denominations, faith in a higher being -- all of it and for some, more than once.

Also, religion itself is far more complicated than the dichotomy expressed above. The way people approach their religion is also complicated. Being a theist or atheist is simply one choice, to make that leap of faith or not. People adopt one or the other as an identity but below that lies a far more complicated approach to their beliefs and motivations based on those beliefs. People, in practice adopt all sorts of weird combinations of beliefs and behavior that may or may not fit the simple choice of label. Some religious folks believe that humans have great and final agency in deciding their future which takes away from the complete faith in a higher being. Some atheists believe in less agency for humans while pointing to luck or a draw of cards as playing a large role in a person's life and experiences. It's all fascinating and more complicated than a simple dichotomy. There are also people who separate religious beliefs in a personal context from behaving in ways that would imply atheist leanings in other contexts. All that to say that this clear dichotomy does not even exist in this realm of clear choice.

I wanted to take the time to clarify the point about using these functions simultaneously and with great ease, flipping between them, as I do not hold that opinion. I do, however think these seemingly contradictory functions can be used by the same user at different levels of skill at different times during their life.

I think it would be fair to end with agreeing to disagree on this subject. I know better where you're coming from and will keep that in mind in future discussions of the topic. Thanks for playing! :cheers:
 

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I think this is spot-on in regards to the NF/NT dynamic (at least NTP/NFP). NTs get argumentative, and NFs subconsciously associate argument with hostility while NTs associate argument with fun analysis. NFPs tend to take arguments personally while NTPs just see them as a game. I guess both parties involved just need to understand this so as to tone things down a bit and not offend each other.

I just wish that the NFPs I know didn't take shit so personally though when we get in heated discussions, especially after I tell them that I myself treat most arguments completely impersonally. But I'm sure most NFPs wish that I wouldn't get so caught up in trying to prove a point because oftentimes the argument isn't worth the social discord that it brings. It's just two perspectives that don't mesh well at all. Not sure how to deal with it though.

I don't want to read the whole thread, but I think being an Fi user, I can understand the NFP perspective, even with my relatively low feeling preference.

Fi absolutely hates being told that it should or shouldn't feel a certain way. I can't find the post now, but you said something about how the NFPs shouldn't feel offended at something or other. It might have been that they shouldn't be offended at your post, I can't remember. That's what set them off. An Fi user will understand just as well as an Fe user that there are certain inappropriate actions, but feelings are a whole other matter. You can't help what you feel, at least, that's the Fi perspective, and therefore telling people that their feelings are wrong is seen as cruel and inappropriate.

Just my analysis.
 

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I don't want to read the whole thread, but I think being an Fi user, I can understand the NFP perspective, even with my relatively low feeling preference.

Fi absolutely hates being told that it should or shouldn't feel a certain way. I can't find the post now, but you said something about how the NFPs shouldn't feel offended at something or other. It might have been that they shouldn't be offended at your post, I can't remember. That's what set them off. An Fi user will understand just as well as an Fe user that there are certain inappropriate actions, but feelings are a whole other matter. You can't help what you feel, at least, that's the Fi perspective, and therefore telling people that their feelings are wrong is seen as cruel and inappropriate.

Just my analysis.


lol ...yeah...Fi is more like "feelings are never wrong, it's just the way you express them" and "embrace your feelings" and sometimes it can look like
lots of shocking irrational feelings...I have irrational loyalty, to certain individuals, for example...and I've witnessed it in others with Fi.
 

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this thread is really interesting to read. i'm not all the way done yet, but to chuck in my two cents...


  1. yes. Fi unquestionably gets pretentious sometimes.

    though as a pretty strong Fi myself i feel it more in the arena of black-and-white morality much more than when i'm discussing emotions with a Fi user. i think this instance is more like dumb Fi guessing. what i mean is that:


  2. in terms of discussing feelings, if you don't share with me, i don't have many better options than to guess.

    Fs are pretty up front about showing feeling via external signals; Ts much less so. and not necessarily emotion - but Feeling. what you value and do not. because NFPs work off of internal subjective consistency, if you do not share some of that with us, we are resigned to a place of either having to switch to Ti, which we typically suck balls at, or to guess. of the two evils, guessing is a generally safer route. Ne fortunately allows us to correctly read many people - but usually not NTPs, because your outer signals, as many of you have attested, don't always - or even often - correlate. NTJ has Fi high enough in their function order that it's less of a problem - not to mention that they Te things out in a way that's fairly clear to us, if it does seem unnecessarily cruel sometimes. and Ne will mess up more here than Se will, because Ne will jump to broad conclusions based off of perceived patterns. but, as noted, we generally will change our tack immediately if you tell us we are incorrect. and in truth we'd love nothing better than for you to just tell us. we like to understand you, not be superior towards you. (that's NFJ's thing. :devil:)


  3. sometimes Ts seem to send lots of emotional signals externally, and don't realize how much it comes off to Fs.

    my NTP dad and brother pull this one often. Fs feel swept in negative emotion and do not understand why you are choosing to direct it at us (when in fact it usually seems that you do not mean to direct it at all). in an F frame of mind, negative emotion towards us means we have done something wrong - thus the OP coming off in a hurting way to Fi dom/aux. and because we interpret it as an emotional attack, and Fi is very protective of identity, we raise anger as an emotional defense (whereas Fe/Ni is more likely to just close off to you.) then you see us as more irrational and get more frustrated and send out more emotion. it is a vicious cycle. as an example -- phrases that sound especially emotional to me in the OP: really pretentious, overwhelming urge, annoying, so much better, rock the world, arrogant, heartfelt issues, bashing. and somehow that disclaimer about Ti came off more arrogant than no disclaimer. :sad: if i did not know you were NTP, i would take this as an attack. coming from a Fi dom/aux, this would be an attack. my first emotional reaction was to interpret it thusly. fortunately, i am learning. :yes:
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as for an anecdote to share -

a few weeks ago my dad (INTP) came home from work somewhat early. when i greeted him - peppily, because generally him getting home early means it was an easy day for him at work - the first thing he did was to point out the single dirty utensil in the kitchen that i had spent the afternoon cleaning and to describe how "gross" it looked.

so what i saw was him deliberately narrowing in on something i missed despite so much other effort (it was obvious - our kitchen had been pretty messy) and speaking harshly to me, which i did not feel like i deserved, especially after doing something for him at no personal gain. i felt unappreciated and that it was further evidence that i can never do anything right in his eyes (good intentions aside, he is high on criticism and low on affirmation). so i went on counterattack: i blasted him for what i saw as an unjustified attack in response to a gift. later, when my mom (ESFJ) pushed us to discuss it, i discovered that he had been impressed with the kitchen, but saw little point in discussing it, and had simply seen the dirty utensil as an oddity and was intellectually engaged by how out of place it seemed! he thought its grossness funny, and thus it struck him as something to comment on. he had additionally been very frustrated as a result of a hard day at work, which seemed to have rubbed off on his behavior and speech with me.

thus i was wrong to assume that he was attacking me - i overinterpreted his signals, not realizing that his emotion was directed towards something else completely - but he was also wrong in that he was sending out signals he was wholly unaware of (my mom commented that she could feel his negative emotion quite explicitly too). to me as an NFP that seemed like he was holding up a You Suck sign and saying he really is appreciating me deep down. how was i supposed to know that he was really quite neutral despite the emotional You Suck? i have learned that i have to listen to his words and give far less weight to his emotional signals, whereas for me, i have asked him to do the opposite - to give less weight to my exact words and more to my emotional signals. we are both helped if we meet in the middle more.

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in conclusion, i think there are a lot of NTP-NFP misunderstandings and i am grateful for the MBTI's way of delineating the differences between us, because it's been helping me to get along with and understand my NTP family members like never before. and i do think it's a 2-way street. on one hand, i need to calm my immediate emotional responses and verify if they are justified. on the other, i would be appreciative if NTPs would also be willing to look at their way of expressing things and try to avoid directing emotional signals at me when none are intended.

sidenote - most of the drama related to the OP could have been easily avoided if tesla just mentioned a thing or two about NFPs she really liked before the rest of the post. we just need an outward signal that you're not attacking us. plus we're suckers for compliments. :yes:
 

Kenneth Almighty

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I get bothered how Fi users I know don't... seem to have an opinion. They just listen, even when you play to their weaknesses and their anti beliefs

It seems condescending
 

Amargith

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Which part is condescending? Your playing to their weaknesses or their rising above that? ;)
 

skylights

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I get bothered how Fi users I know don't... seem to have an opinion. They just listen, even when you play to their weaknesses and their anti beliefs

It seems condescending

lol so we seem condescending because we're chill even when you purposefully antagonize us?

we're usually pretty go-with-the-flow, really. i'm just happy with a lot of things, hence not often having an intense opinion. you know how Ti dom/aux are really opinionated about things you guys know a lot about (i don't mean this sarcastically at all) - but pretty open to things you don't know a lot about? it's the same with us - Fi users are really opinionated about things we Feel a lot about, but are pretty open to things we don't Feel a lot about.
 
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