KarenParker
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- Mar 3, 2009
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- MBTI Type
- ESFP
- Enneagram
- 7
How would I know which one I am? I read both of them and I'm having trouble deciding. My percentages are in my signature.
How would I know which one I am? I read both of them and I'm having trouble deciding. My percentages are in my signature.
Extraverted Sensing occurs when we become aware of what is in the physical world in rich detail. We may be drawn to act on what we experience to get an immediate result. We notice relevant facts and occurrences in a sea of data and experiences, learning all the facts we can about the immediate context or area of focus and what goes on in that context. An active seeking of more and more input to get the whole picture may occur until all sources of input have been exhausted or something else captures our attention. Extraverted Sensing is operating when we freely follow exciting physical impulses or instincts as they come up and enjoy the thrill of action in the present moment. A oneness with the physical world and a total absorption may exist as we move, touch, and sense what is around us. The process involves instantly reading cues to see how far we can go in a situation and still get the impact we want or respond to the situation with presence.
Extraverted iNtuiting involves noticing hidden meanings and interpreting them, often entertaining a wealth of possible interpretations from just one idea or interpreting what someone’s behavior really means. It also involves seeing things “as if,” with various possible representations of reality. Using this process, we can juggle many different ideas, thoughts, beliefs, and meanings in our mind at once with the possibility that they are all true. This is like weaving themes and threads together. We don’t know the weave until a thought thread appears or is drawn out in the interaction of thoughts, often brought in from other contexts. Thus a strategy or concept often emerges from the here-and-now interactions, not appearing as a whole beforehand. Using this process we can really appreciate brainstorming and trust what emerges, enjoying imaginative play with scenarios and combining possibilities, using a kind of cross-contextual thinking. Extraverted iNtuiting also can involve catalyzing people and extemporaneously shaping situations, spreading an atmosphere of change through emergent leadership.
So, which of these do you relate more to?
Also, how do you view life? Do you look more at details or patterns?
Boy. It's really difficult for me to judge which one sounds more like me because I would need them both to be explained with concrete examples. But I definitely use my imagination constantly and find hidden meaning in things. I really live for the moment though. I am always thinking to myself, "Really enjoy this moment right now."
I view life as something where you have live every good feeling to it's fullest and really savor it. And I also feel like we could die at any moment so we need to not play it safe and do the things that fulfill us the most no matter what the cost.
I think I see patterns in things without even thinking about it. When I tell a story or respond to a post on here I am sure to respond to everything fully.
Se is about the taste and feel of the can of Dr. Pepper. Like the satisfying sound and feel of crushing that aluminum can under your shoe. Ne is about the things you can do with the can other than recycling or tossing it in the trash. Does that balance out the fun factor?
Hmmm... well if we're talking beverages, I'm probably leaning more toward the sensor thing. Even if it's not fun! haha! I had a beer with a friend the other night and I didn't try to do anything with the bottle but I do remember thinking that I liked drinks in glass bottles. God, maybe it is more boring to be a sensor...
They're more zany, off the wall, etc. They have a sense of the theatrical that ESFPs don't....
Boy. It's really difficult for me to judge which one sounds more like me because I would need them both to be explained with concrete examples.
But I definitely use my imagination constantly and find hidden meaning in things. I really live for the moment though. I am always thinking to myself, "Really enjoy this moment right now."
I view life as something where you have live every good feeling to it's fullest and really savor it. And I also feel like we could die at any moment so we need to not play it safe and do the things that fulfill us the most no matter what the cost.
I think I see patterns in things without even thinking about it. When I tell a story or respond to a post on here I am sure to respond to everything fully.
I am easily inspired and I'm always getting ideas for creative things like movies and plays and stories and music.
I get excited about the future more than the here and now.
I love to fantasize about the future. For example, my future house and how I would raise my children and future vacations.
Sometimes I can best describe something in a really abstract way like I'll tell someone, "you're a piece of seaweed on the ocean floor" and that is honestly the best way I can describe to them what I think of them. I do think it's boring when other people talk that way though.
At every job I ever worked I felt like my co-workers were stupid because they never looked at the big picture of the business in the entire world and would get hung up on stupid things like a procedure for wiping down our computer screens.
Lastly, I'm a very intuitive person. I know what other people are feeling and what their deepest motives are even if I've just met them.
I like to come up with ideas that have never been done before.
When going for a drive, which do you tend to think about more:
1. Worrying about which direction to take after the next direction you take
2. Not really worrying at all and just deciding when you get there
You'll probably have a bit of both, but you'll find that you might have a slight preference for one or the other. atm, I'd say you might be an ENFP.
I think that many S's feel they need to change to N after reading this forum for a while.
Karen, I think you are an ESFP, based on what you have written in several topics. Even in this one, you ask for concrete examples. That's something that S types tend to ask for, and not Ns. Most of the N types here seem perfectly happy talking in hypotheticals and abstract stuff that never goes anywhere. You've come off in your posts like when you ask a question, you want a practical, usable answer, not just a vague "impression" in response. I can't remember how old you are, if you told us that, but thinking a lot about the future is something that pretty much everybody does up until a certain age, because they don't really have a whole lot of past experiences t dwell on. For me, it was around my mid twenties to thirty when I started to think less about the future and more about the past when I drifted from the present moment.
But if you read the topic I made about "not living in the here and now", you get the idea from the N types, that it's not just a matter of thinking about the future, but according to them, it's extremely difficult for them to experience the present moment for what it is, like their brain is always projecting backwards or forwards automatically, not as like a daydream, but as a constant state of mind. Now, I'm just basing this on what I have read from people here, but your descriptions of your future-thinking doesn't seem to match that. And your feeling like you know what others are feeling could be an example of that Introverted Feeling function that is used heavily by ESFPs as well.
Wow! That makes so much more sense now! I've always felt on this forum that people would make posts that now I see were just them conceptualizing and I just wouldn't get it as to why they would bother to post it because it couldn't be applied to anything. But now I see that they just do it for fun and I can't really relate.