Pionart
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I would like to introduce my methodology of typing people via the qualities of their voice.
There are 4 important terms here that describe different aspects of speech: pushes, draws, waves and hones.
Pushes are an outward flow of energy. They indicate the use of extroverted judgement (Fe or Te).
Draws, which means drawing in, are an inward flow of energy. They indicate introverted judgement (Fi or Ti).
Waves are an up-and-down flow of energy. They indicate extroverted perception (Se or Ne).
Hones, which means honing in, are a focused flow of energy. They indicate introverted perception (Si or Ni).
As functions come in pairs, what one wants to do is to identify the pushes and draws and contrast them with each other, asking the following question: where is the emotion being used? Does the emotion come into play when the person is pushing outwards, or drawing in? Likewise, there is confidence, in the sense of confidence in one's assertions. If emotion suggests whether a person is making a judgement of good or bad, confidence, which is emotionally neutral, makes a judgement of whether something is true or false. So by identifying whether the draw is emotive and the push neutral (Fi and Te) or whether the draw is neutral and the push emotive (Ti and Fe) one can identify which of the pairs of judgement functions the person uses (uses consciously).
Next, identify the waves and the hones, and ask the following question: which is speculative in nature, and which is definitive in nature? Intuition will have the sense of being a guess, and will be future focused, whereas Sensation will be more factual and present focused. So if the person is being speculative when they wave and definitive when they hone, they are using Ne and Si, but if they are definitive when they wave, and speculative when they hone, they are using Se and Ni.
The qualities of each of the perception functions are as follows:
Ni is leading. When the Ni user speaks through their Ni, there is a sense of a directed flow of energy that is leading somewhere, prompting the listener to see where the person is going with what they are saying.
Si is emphatic. When the Si user speaks through their Si, there is a sense of pointed emphasis, as if to say "I remember this well, and you should remember it too". When they are hone they are retrieving specific information.
Ne is open-ended. When the Ne user speaks through their Ne, there is a sense of exploring the topic, perhaps brainstorming, and going with the flow of information as it changes.
Se is presenting. When the Se user speaks through their Se, there is a sense of experiential-ness, often as if the person is reliving something as they speak, or adding a liveliness to the discussion.
So an Ne+Si user will be alternating between a wandering around and then anchor with a distinct emphasising of the details, whereas an Ni+Se user will be leading up to things as an evolving process and then present distinct details as is relevant.
Then, for J versus P, notice that the hones and pushes go together, and the draws and waves go together, and try and determine which is the natural and energising pair of functions for the person, and which is the unnatural and de-energising pair of functions. You can make the distinction often based on which is more prominent in terms of volume, but this can go wrong since a person may for some reason be in a mode where they are using their lower functions more prominently.
For introversion versus extroversion, I am less certain, but I think that you can determine it by listening for which come first: do the hones preceed the pushes, or the pushes preceed the honest, and likewise, do the draws preceed the waves, or do the waves preceed the draws? I have noticed that this at least might be the case, e.g. an ISTJ may often start a sentence by honing into specific information, and then neutrally pushing outwards once the information is arrived at, with an overall emphaticness to it, whereas an ESTJ will often push outwards, and the hone inwards, again with an emphaticness.
Any of the qualities of the functions can be determined whether or not you understand the language the person is using. Actually, attempting to determine the cognitive functions of a foreign language speaker is perhaps better because you don't have the distraction of the meaning of the words that the person is saying. You can listen simply to the qualities of the voice, and get a feel for what sort of states of mind that the person's voice is eliciting in you.
And as for anything in typology, these are abstractions. A person is not a pure type, so the presence of contradictory signals is to be expected, but there should generally be a clear predominance of certain signals over others.
There are 4 important terms here that describe different aspects of speech: pushes, draws, waves and hones.
Pushes are an outward flow of energy. They indicate the use of extroverted judgement (Fe or Te).
Draws, which means drawing in, are an inward flow of energy. They indicate introverted judgement (Fi or Ti).
Waves are an up-and-down flow of energy. They indicate extroverted perception (Se or Ne).
Hones, which means honing in, are a focused flow of energy. They indicate introverted perception (Si or Ni).
As functions come in pairs, what one wants to do is to identify the pushes and draws and contrast them with each other, asking the following question: where is the emotion being used? Does the emotion come into play when the person is pushing outwards, or drawing in? Likewise, there is confidence, in the sense of confidence in one's assertions. If emotion suggests whether a person is making a judgement of good or bad, confidence, which is emotionally neutral, makes a judgement of whether something is true or false. So by identifying whether the draw is emotive and the push neutral (Fi and Te) or whether the draw is neutral and the push emotive (Ti and Fe) one can identify which of the pairs of judgement functions the person uses (uses consciously).
Next, identify the waves and the hones, and ask the following question: which is speculative in nature, and which is definitive in nature? Intuition will have the sense of being a guess, and will be future focused, whereas Sensation will be more factual and present focused. So if the person is being speculative when they wave and definitive when they hone, they are using Ne and Si, but if they are definitive when they wave, and speculative when they hone, they are using Se and Ni.
The qualities of each of the perception functions are as follows:
Ni is leading. When the Ni user speaks through their Ni, there is a sense of a directed flow of energy that is leading somewhere, prompting the listener to see where the person is going with what they are saying.
Si is emphatic. When the Si user speaks through their Si, there is a sense of pointed emphasis, as if to say "I remember this well, and you should remember it too". When they are hone they are retrieving specific information.
Ne is open-ended. When the Ne user speaks through their Ne, there is a sense of exploring the topic, perhaps brainstorming, and going with the flow of information as it changes.
Se is presenting. When the Se user speaks through their Se, there is a sense of experiential-ness, often as if the person is reliving something as they speak, or adding a liveliness to the discussion.
So an Ne+Si user will be alternating between a wandering around and then anchor with a distinct emphasising of the details, whereas an Ni+Se user will be leading up to things as an evolving process and then present distinct details as is relevant.
Then, for J versus P, notice that the hones and pushes go together, and the draws and waves go together, and try and determine which is the natural and energising pair of functions for the person, and which is the unnatural and de-energising pair of functions. You can make the distinction often based on which is more prominent in terms of volume, but this can go wrong since a person may for some reason be in a mode where they are using their lower functions more prominently.
For introversion versus extroversion, I am less certain, but I think that you can determine it by listening for which come first: do the hones preceed the pushes, or the pushes preceed the honest, and likewise, do the draws preceed the waves, or do the waves preceed the draws? I have noticed that this at least might be the case, e.g. an ISTJ may often start a sentence by honing into specific information, and then neutrally pushing outwards once the information is arrived at, with an overall emphaticness to it, whereas an ESTJ will often push outwards, and the hone inwards, again with an emphaticness.
Any of the qualities of the functions can be determined whether or not you understand the language the person is using. Actually, attempting to determine the cognitive functions of a foreign language speaker is perhaps better because you don't have the distraction of the meaning of the words that the person is saying. You can listen simply to the qualities of the voice, and get a feel for what sort of states of mind that the person's voice is eliciting in you.
And as for anything in typology, these are abstractions. A person is not a pure type, so the presence of contradictory signals is to be expected, but there should generally be a clear predominance of certain signals over others.
