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ArpeggiatingCantata

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So no one thinks SF or NT or anything else but NF? Lol....Everyones reasoning would be very interesting for me to hear if you don't mind. Why not SF types?
 

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probably mainly because you said that you can't live in the present moment, are always in your own head, and feel unfamiliar with your body. an SF would be unlikely to say that. you also seem much too focused on feelings and people to be an NT.

i personally suspect INFJ. INFJs use some Ti, like NTPs, so perhaps that is why you also relate with ENTP.

tell us about how you approach a new situation. let's say you're going to a new class for the first time. how do you feel, what do you do?


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For example, Ni is capable of saying "If you drop an apple, it has a chance of flying into the sky."

Ne will say, "Well no, that's impossible. Through the series of objective occurrences and patterns that have happened, my intuition feels it will always fall." Ne is an objective intuitive function, by the way, so it only looks into possibilities that is restricted by the laws of "reality".

Ni will reply, "Just because it always seem to fall during every observations doesn't discredit that it can't fly up into the sky." Ni is capable of saying this with strong belief that it's possible without having to suppress any part of itself."

hm, no... i do not think that is really accurate at all. Ne never blocks out possibility. objectivity in Ne's case refers to how it relies on information external to the mind - objects, instead of information within the individual - the subject - using it.

i'll do my best to describe usage of Ne and Ni, Fe and Fi, but i probably won't do as well with Ni and Fe, my apologies :blush:
perhaps an NFJ, NTJ or SFJ can help with my descriptions of Ni and/or Fe.

Ne will look at an apple and start flying outward. it will grow a tree of ever-expanding possibilities and associations. apple: cider, green, red, fall, juicy, crunchy, tree, seeds, johnny appleseed, orange, leaves, an apple a day, day, night, clouds, sun, wind, windy fall day, cider, scarf, pattern, warmth, wool, lambs, scotland, rain, hills, green, cool, lush, forest, birds... it goes on and on. a Ne user's advantage will be in rapid connections. a Ne child will see the apple and be surrounded by a rich world of associations, which often aid in seeing multiple sides of a situation and in problem-solving. Ne will know that you are not just looking at an apple - you are looking at something with far greater implications. the fruit of the biblical tree of life and the secret past of every huge, towering tree.

i understand Ni less, but i think Ni will look at an apple and start flying inward. it will move back into essence and archetype... perhaps something like apple is the fruit of a tree, apple is new life of a tree, trees give birth to new life, living things bear new life. Ni is more subjective because it relies on the individual's conceptualization of ideas such as "birth". Ni users come up with new understandings and concepts like that within themselves that do not have commonly-held names. and if i understand this correctly, Ni can therefore "foresee" the future because it distills observations to these archetypal understandings and applies them elsewhere. a Ni child will see the apple on the tree and also expect other trees to have fruit, even expect other living beings, like people, to "bear fruit". Ni also will look inward to see the potential tree within the seeds.

Fi also moves "inward", but in a different way. Fi will look at an apple (in particular its seeds) and see it as something beautiful and unique, something alive and significant to the universe, something that has worked to grow through the cold winter and has bloomed with the warmth of spring, a living thing to be loved and appreciated. it is hard to describe, like Ni, because it operates using very internal scales and conceptualizations. it often manifests more as a "feeling", or "tone", moreso than anything that can easily be put into words. is a different sort of consciousness, one that seeks the inner value of the apple.

perhaps we are pushing this apple example a little far, but i assume Fe looks around the subject, in a similar way to Ne. Fe is concerned about relationships and harmony between individuals. it will seek the value of the apple in the context of how it relates to other things. apples are food for us, they nourish us and make us strong. they are important to the earth because they create new trees. we should take care of apples and trees because they take care of us. they are important to the wellbeing of our environment, and by that token to our own existence.
 

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probably mainly because you said that you can't live in the present moment, are always in your own head, and feel unfamiliar with your body. an SF would be unlikely to say that.

INFJ, in particular because you don't seem to agree with the NFP typings. otherwise INFP.

tell us about how you approach a new situation. let's say you're going to a new class for the first time. how do you feel, what do you do?

Oh okay, thank you =]
I would love to hear more on this "unfamiliar with your body" thing. I haven't really read that before, and didn't know it was an NF thing.. Interesting..

Well if I was going to a new class....
Well I feel anxious. I hope that someone I know or someone I especially wouldn't want to see is in it. I usually check the room number 234523 times because I don't really trust that i've read the correct number, even until the last second (I don't want to walk into the wrong class like many people do.) Then I walk In hoping that one of the back corners are free (If not along the back wall somewhere.) I sit. Look around to check there is no one I know with me, and put my head down or something until the teacher walks in....Does that help? I'm not sure if that's the answer you were looking for. :blush:
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I agree with the order of the INFJ functions also, but I'm not to sure if I use Fe, though, I'm not opposed to it. They also don't use Si....And I'm pretty big on nostalgia and the past and future.... are INFJ's nostalgic?
 

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I'm also gonna vote INFJ as the most likely with INFP second most.
 

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I'm not getting the extraversion. Where's that coming from?

Her focus seems to be on the external. I'm hearing less about her internal world of feeling than her views on the external concepts & possibilities the external world presents. It seems like Ne leading Fi, IMO. The people thing can be misleading....not all Es are social butterflies, just as not all Is are recluses. If she's not ENFP, then I think INFJ, because she strikes me as P-dom. INFP is a possibility of course; I think all the NF types are on the table. Only the OP can really narrow it down for sure.
 

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Does that help? I'm not sure if that's the answer you were looking for. :blush:

lol well, it does make me lean more and more towards NF. i also do think INF.

I agree with the order of the INFJ functions also, but I'm not to sure if I use Fe, though, I'm not opposed to it. They also don't use Si....And I'm pretty big on nostalgia and the past and future.... are INFJ's nostalgic?

i don't really know. ENFPs are not supposed to be nostalgic, really, but i am in some ways. Si is about comparing past to present and seeing relations. like if you pet a dog, your mind will zoom back to all the other dogs you have petted in the past, the way they felt, the situation you were in, etc.

if you just experience nostalgia in terms of remembering how things were at a certain point and loving how that was, that could be not really related. if you tend to do that often as a way of problem-solving, like in the dog example, you might want to consider INFP or ISFJ.
 

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Yeah....Si strength is not just "oh I love this memory of being a kid" ...it's directly using subjectively meaningful past experience for problem solving and actual life construction...also tends to prefer a more linear train of thought...I had this confusion for a while myself because I'm a pretty damn sentimental person.

Si usage is not just about being sentimental, and its perfectly expected for an ENFP to be sentimental or nostalgic...it's just they're going to avoid Si in a more practical sense.
 

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I don't really know. ENFPs are not supposed to be nostalgic, really, but i am in some ways.


its perfectly expected for an ENFP to be sentimental or nostalgic...it's just they're going to avoid Si in a more practical sense.

Well this kind of information is what kind of ends up confusing me :/ so if I'm getting this right then they are nostalgic, just in a different way.... Or what.:shock:
 

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Well this kind of information is what kind of ends up confusing me :/ so if I'm getting this right then they are nostalgic, just in a different way.... Or what.:shock:

My advice is to totally ignore MBTI/Keirsey stereotypes to the fullest extent possible. Don't ever believe that ENFPs can't be nostalgic, or that all highly sexed women are SFPs, or that all xxxx type ARE THIS PARTICULAR WAY.

It will just keep you from finding your real type. Did you read Jung yet?
 

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Thanks for your reasoning....I have a question though if you don't mind since I see you are ENFP....
I've seen this quite a few times on Ne, worded in different ways....do you think you base what you come up with on the real world and things that have happened. Because it's something I can't agree with.

This is something I read on Ne/Ni that someone wrote on another forum.

"For example, Ni is capable of saying "If you drop an apple, it has a chance of flying into the sky."

Ne will say, "Well no, that's impossible. Through the series of objective occurrences and patterns that have happened, my intuition feels it will always fall." Ne is an objective intuitive function, by the way, so it only looks into possibilities that is restricted by the laws of "reality".

Ni will reply, "Just because it always seem to fall during every observations doesn't discredit that it can't fly up into the sky." Ni is capable of saying this with strong belief that it's possible without having to suppress any part of itself."

What is your idea of this?

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...........................All opinions on this are welcome btw. =P

There actually are a few situations in which an apple might fly into the sky...

1. If you're sitting upside down strapped to a chair that's nailed to the ceiling and don't realize it, and you drop an apple, it will appear to fall "up."

2. If you try to drop an apple in outer space, there will be no gravity to bring it down.

3. If you toss an apple into a tornado, it will fly up into the vortex.

Argue with that.

:smile:

Oh, and Ni isn't really likely to say that... honestly, Ni tends to dismiss possibilities that are not likely even more than Ne does. Meaning, if someone says, "I dropped an apple," I'm going to assume that it fell, and possibly got bruised.
 

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There actually are a few situations in which an apple might fly into the sky...

1. If you're sitting upside down strapped to a chair that's nailed to the ceiling and don't realize it, and you drop an apple, it will appear to fall "up."

2. If you try to drop an apple in outer space, there will be no gravity to bring it down.

3. If you toss an apple into a tornado, it will fly up into the vortex.

Argue with that.

:smile:

Oh, and Ni isn't really likely to say that... honestly, Ni tends to dismiss possibilities that are not likely even more than Ne does. Meaning, if someone says, "I dropped an apple," I'm going to assume that it fell, and possibly got bruised.

Okay....Lol....Well you say Ni isn't likely to say that, I don't know what they say, but how do you know? I would actually be interested in reading this information on the functions.

I read this example of Ni on another website, and have seen many other examples like this where they say that Ni makes up what can happen in the real world based on what they think, not on what is really external and has happened before.

And I can't argue with that because it's totally true! Lol.

These are not my ideas, they are simply ideas I have gathered over time from reading up on functions.
 

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My advice is to totally ignore MBTI/Keirsey stereotypes to the fullest extent possible. Don't ever believe that ENFPs can't be nostalgic, or that all highly sexed women are SFPs, or that all xxxx type ARE THIS PARTICULAR WAY.

It will just keep you from finding your real type. Did you read Jung yet?

Okay, well I'm confused....What am I supposed to go by? For example wouldn't nostalgia be an Si stereotype? I find it hard to differentiate the definitions from the stereotypes then..and do they sound like stereotypes? How do I figure out the order in which I utilize my functions and which ones I actually do use and what they actually do instead of stereotypes. I've read on people saying "Oh, I'm an ISFJ with a high Fe." But this to me makes no sense, because some of them claim to use it more than their dominant Si but still say they are ISFJ...Wouldn't they just be something else then? What I'm getting at is that there seems to be so many ways to look at and find loop holes into being all the types. I've heard INTJ with a high Fi....How do people arrive at this, and how would I go about really figuring out my type if I can't go by function stereotypes.
And yes I began reading it, and read what it said on Ne and Ni and though I understand it comes of sort of vague, and cryptic and I find It hard to grasp exactly what he's trying to say.

:doh: :blush:

But it did help a lot, thanks. I'll read it over again.
 

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don't stress, it's a lot of information to deal with all at once, and sometimes it's a bit conflicting.

we'll help you figure it out :yes:

stereotypes

a function is simply a "thinking pattern" - how your cognition tends to proceed.

common stereotypes generally arise because of how certain thinking patterns tend to be correlated with certain thoughts, feelings, or behaviors. for instance, nostalgia is a Si stereotype because the Si process involves tapping into past experience. but there are emotional/value connotations that go along with nostalgia - fondness, longing - that don't have anything to do with using Si. Si is a Perceiving function only - it does not attach value, like a Judgment function. it can conjure images of the past but it does not attach fondness or longing to them.

what's interesting is that, in my experience, the average INFP (with Si as their #3 function) tends to express nostalgia more often than the average SJ, probably because INFPs are strong internal feelers. my ESFJ mom, for example, is not very nostalgic, even though Si is her second function. she uses the past as a primary source of information, but her emotional investment is much more rooted in the present, in her Fe-mediated relationships with others.

XXXX "with high Xx"

there are, of course, individual differences between members of the same type, and sometimes people use the phrase "with high __" to describe that. to take your example, an ISFJ with much higher Si than Fe will be slightly different from an ISFJ with relatively equal Si and Fe. if they've typed themselves as ISFJ, they've decided that they use Si most of all, but if a person has "high Fe" what they probably mean is that their Fe usage is relatively equal to their Si usage (or at least it seems like they use it more than other ISFJs they know). that will probably make them warmer, more directive, and more social than the average ISFJ.

then let's take the INTJ with "high Fi". what can sometimes confuse people when they're figuring out their type is the 3rd (tertiary) function, which can often seem very strong. the key difference between this function and the main two is that people feel like they can turn their 3rd function "off" and "on", while the 1 and 2 feel essentially involuntary. the 3rd function is also known for being a bit "childlike" in usage - often it will seem a little immature in the way it is handled.

given the example of the INTJ, they may sometimes engage strong inner valuing, in particular to deal with situations that their Ni and Te are having trouble handling alone. but unlike an FP, who is very familiar with Fi, and understands and uses Fi in fine distinctions, the INTJ might experience Fi as somewhat clumsy and foreign, and make use of it in a way that is overwhelming to themselves and others - much in the way a child learning to write fumbles with their pencil. an INTJ with "high Fi" is generally someone whose Fi is more developed and controlled than that, and they are therefore able to engage in consistent, mature usage of it.

Ne vs Ni

N functions can be difficult to internally discern between because they are abstract, "jumpy", and often subconscious (Ni in particular). Perceiving functions are also often more difficult to decide on than Judging functions because it's easier to assess how we choose than how we see. looking at a Perceiving function is like looking at a lens - kind of tricky when you need it to see in the first place!

so -

maybe it'll help if i try to boil things down a little? you probably already have read a lot of this, and know a lot of this, but maybe if we try to keep the information really simple it'll help get away from the stereotypes.

functions

the only thing you need to do to know your type is to figure out the 2 main functions that you use. :yes:

i've listed the functions in two sets below - the Perceiving (N/S) and Judging (T/F). try to choose the one that sounds the most like how you think from each one of the two sets. one of your choices will need to be introverted and the other extraverted, so choose what sounds like the best i/e pair.

if you feel like both two introverted or two extraverted functions describe you the best, then try choosing which one between the two you use most, and then consider the other one as a #3, and choose a different #2. for example, if you like both Ni and Ti, then you could consider INFJ, who uses Ni Fe Ti, or ISTP - Ti Se Ni. or if you like Si and Fi, INFP - Fi Ne Si or ISTJ - Si Te Fi.

Perceiving functions: S and N - Se, Si, Ne, Ni

the Perceiving functions describe how you look at information. the two main categories of how to look at information are Sensing and iNtuitive - whether you tend to focus more on what it is (S) or what it could be (N).

  • an extraverted Sensor will focus on what is outside themselves, concentrating on the concrete (often physical) data around them in the present moment. they are good at quickly responding to external concrete stimuli - sounds, sights, smells, tastes, feelings, touch.

  • an introverted Sensor will regularly access an internal database of concrete information ("facts") in their mind, that they have gathered over time. they are good at linking present sensation-knowledge to past sensation-knowledge. they utilize what is commonly called "experiential learning" - wisdom through experience.

  • an extraverted iNtuiter will focus on what is outside themselves, concentrating on the ever-expanding associations that are triggered in the present moment. they are good at quickly linking external abstract stimuli - concepts, ideas, symbols, patterns. "everything is connected."

  • an introverted iNtuiter will regularly access an (often subconscious) internal database of intuitions in their mind, that they have gathered over time. they are good at linking present abstract data - connections and patterns - to universal concepts, and thereby predicting future events. Ni is probably the hardest P function to describe. it's commonly associated with "aha!" moments in thinking and a compelling future "vision".

Judging functions: T and F - Te, Ti, Fe, Fi

the two Judging processes describe how you prioritize information. Thinkers use logic, while Feelers use personal valuing.
  • an extraverted Thinker organizes their external environment based on empirical rationality. they are attuned to how to direct people and monitor systems for best efficiency and productivity.

  • an introverted Thinker is primarily concerned with the internal logic of systems. they are attuned to precision, accuracy, and refinement. they focus on the internal mechanics of how things work, and how to improve them.

  • an extraverted Feeler is highly aware of interpersonal relationships and adept at creating harmony between and amongst people. they know how to motivate and manage others for greater good, and are attuned to social climates and currents.

  • an introverted Feeler is concerned with the "inner wellbeing" of individuals and internal consistency of identity. they are attuned to values, ethics, and emotional nuance. Fi is probably the hardest J function to describe. some writers describe it as internal "Feeling tones". it is often expressed in emotional terms but is a more complex sort of overall visceral experience.

order

once you've narrowed down to two functions, you can decide which one is first. the #1 will be a "leading" function - it will be present in almost everything you do and will motivate a lot of your moment-to-moment choices. sometimes it's surprising to realize how much you use it - i used to think i was an INFP before i realized how much i use Ne. i just thought everyone thought like that!

a helpful trick - psychologist John Beebe described the functions in order as taking on specific roles. he calls the #1 function the Hero, the "star" of your story. the #2 function is a "guiding" function, helping you relate to others and assisting your first function when it has a problem to solve. Beebe calls its role the "Supportive Parent".

once you think you've got it figured out, then you can peruse some type descriptions and see if they seem to fit. there are always going to be some things that don't quite seem right - personally i shied away from ever even considering ENFP before learning about the functions because i'm pretty quiet IRL and type profiles often made ENFPs sound really loud.

you're welcome to post the ones you chose and tell us if they feel right - or if not, why they don't. then we can try to help you more from there :)
 

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you're welcome to post the ones you chose and tell us if they feel right - or if not, why they don't. then we can try to help you more from there:)

Thank you so much for all of that! Lol. It was very interesting to read =]..
As for functions, For the first two, I think I agree with Ne Ni and Fi and somewhat with Fe .......

The reason for Ni and Fe is that I get those so called "aha" moment's a a lot, and see a lot of "weird" patterns with everything, and do have a tendency to kind of feel or tell what the outcome is going to be or what is going on. I agree with it a lot. Fe idk, I care about people around me and care to make them feel comfortable and stuff (Stereotype? lol)

Ne and Fi because I do think everything is connected with each other, and can see how everything just seems to "Fit." I also seems to do that random association thing from time to time. Like "Tree>Leaf>Bug>James and the Giant Peach> Disney movies> Childhood> What age I was when I saw that movie, what I ate and such> I'm full."

Bad example maybe but you catch my drift =P

So I agree with those functions. Now I guess I just have to figure out which over which? Or idk.
Because I know I can't agree with both. So where would that leave me? Lol

thank you, very informative :reading: :popc1:

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Any more guesses are very much welcome and appreciated btw :blush:
 
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Actually after reading it over and over, I agree with Fi and not with Fe.. So the functions I agree with are Ni, Ne, Si, Fi, and Te and Ti I'm not to sure on.

Any one suggestions on how to pick on over the other?

:confused:

Also any idea on what my Enneagram could be? :/
 

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What should I do if a decided I agree with Ne/Ni Si Fi/Fe and Ti....
Does someone have a better explanation for Ne/Ni....
ENFP's use Te which I don't agree with, do they use it differently?
 
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