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I. Information-gathering
The way of taking in information is either via sensing or intuiting.
a. Sensing
The process of taking in the sensory information in your environment without application of judgment or evaluation. Sensory information is concrete. Facts and data. The focus is on the experience itself. Sensing is a perpetual process, registering concrete realities of a situation or recollections of an experience.
1. Extraverted Sensing
Experiencing the immediate stimuli. Being active in the physical world, being aware of changes and opportunities, accumulating experience, noticing visible reactions, recognizing “what is”. There is no reflection, but only pure experience. Seeking excitement of the senses. Extraverted sensing is used in the here and now to explore and adapt to the physical world. Examples include eating chocolates, playing an instrument, or reading... strictly for enjoyment.
2. Introverted Sensing
Thinking about past experiences, recalling past impressions, accumulating data, recognizing the way things have always been. Relating the present sensory input to the past. Comparing and contrasting the current situation with similar ones. Noticing something doesn't taste the same as usual, being reminded of someone else by a person, associating prior feelings with am image, nostalgia or longing for the past.
b. Intuiting
Becoming aware of abstract information, such as symbols, patterns, meanings. An intangible knowledge of meaning, relation, or future occurrences. Comparable to a sixth sense.
1. Extraverted Intuiting
Interpreting situations and relationships, seeing hidden meanings and connections, being drawn to changing what is, noticing the meaning connecting multiple contexts. Being aware of the possible things you may communicate on a nonverbal level. Extraverted intuition allows for the retention of many different ideas, thoughts, beliefs, and meanings at once with the understanding that they may all be true. Concepts appear among multiple here-and-now interactions. Being aware that there is always another view. Example: wondering what “the real story is” because there are often multiple sides to a story.
2. Introverted Intuiting
Foreseeing implications and consequences without external data. Being aware of what will be. Conceptualizing new points of view, envisioning change, getting an image of profound meaning, envisioning yourself in a certain way. Having a grip on the big picture. Realizations that come from introverted intuition have an imperative quality that demands action.
II. Decision-making
The process of making a rational choice based on the data received from the information-gathering function, which is sensing or intuiting.
a. Thinking
Thinkers prefer to make decisions from a detached point of view, using logic and reason. They abide by a set of rules, and use them to make consistent decisions. Evaluation and judgments are based on objective information. Thinkers detach from their values and make decisions based on concrete, sound principles. Analysis and cause-and-effect reasoning are processes of thinking.
1. Extraverted Thinking
Organizing for efficiency, applying logic, checking for consequences, setting boundaries, and deciding if something is working or not, organizing ideas through charts, tables, graphs, flow charts, outlines, and so on involve extraverted thinking. It allows us to compartmentalize many aspects of our lives so we can be as efficient as possible.
2. Introverted Thinking
Figuring out the principles on which something operates, identifying inconsistencies, clarifying definitions for precision. Noticing the fine qualities of something, using just the right word to express something, identifying precise distinctions. Taking things or ideas apart to figure out how they work.
b. Feeling
Feelers make decisions or evaluations based on personal or universal values to achieve harmony. The needs of the people involved are considered. “What is important?” is often considered. Ethical and moral issues are considered.
1. Extraverted Feeling
Meeting the needs and honoring the values of others. Adjusting to and accommodating others. Deciding if something is appropriate or acceptable in the external environment. Shoulds or shouldn'ts are considered. Considering others and responding to them appropriately. Extraverted feeling implicates social graces, such as being polite, nice, friendly, considerate, etc. Examples include selecting a gift based on what the recipient likes, keeping in touch, laughing at jokes when others laugh, and trying to get people to get along.
2. Introverted Feeling
Deciding if something is of worth or significance, valuing something or someone. Is expressed in the undercurrents of tone or action rather than words or gestures. Protecting one's values, detecting insincerity. Introverted feeling causes us to feel kinship with others whose values and beliefs are like our own.