Honestly, "developing the auxillary / avoiding the tertiary" is just a convoluted way of saying "be confident in yourself".
- If you're an Introvert, learn to assert yourself in the world and step outside of your own shell
- If you're an Extravert, learn to trust in yourself as an individual, and think about what you're doing.
Believe me, the rest will come naturally.
One of the things I love about your threads and your posts is the way you're able to take complex things and boil them down to the essential point, making complex things simple, which you've again done here.
While I'm prone to over-analyzing things at times, I am however, wondering if this is a bit more complex. There are the people who judge without perceiving enough or introverts that can't come out of their shell. Those are the more extreme examples. However, I think there are more subtle/complex examples which specifically relate to a crisis or inflection point and type development in general.
I'm just reading this book by Lenore Thomson. I've read a lot of books on this stuff and this is the best I've seen. In there, she describes a scenario, which is I think a mid-life crisis, but is probably something that happens to people at different times in their lives under different circumstances. I will attempt to simplify the scenario:
59 year old ESTJ that has worked as an accountant for 30 years at the same place
dominant - extraverted thinking
secondary - introverted sensation
double agents
left-brain alternatives - extraverted feeling and introverted intuition
right-brain alternatives - extraverted sensation and introverted thinking
tertiary - extraverted intuition
inferior - introverted feeling
Someone else acquires the company where he is working. His identity is very much tied to his work. This is a threatening situation to him
He begins to use his double-agents more defensively to keep himself from feeling anxious and they "get out of control". He starts to act more like an "inferior ESP" at times. He feels trapped. He increases his efforts, focusing on his external problems, working to navigate through the situation. However, he does it wrong. He needed more contact with his secondary function in this situation, in order to grow.
The point is that if we don't turn to our secondary function under these types of circumstances or we do things the way we have always done them, the tertiary functions start to take over. They always tell you to "flee" or in some way encourage you to be misguided.
In the scenario, there was not anything about "not trusting himself" or not thinking before he did something.
I've seen other threads of discussion for the other types though more general in nature. So, like for an INTJ, you need to focus your extraverted judgment on yourself. If you have developed a strong secondary, the tertiary can be used more fruitfully.
Anyway, I ask these questions because I read the words and conceptually they make sense (at least now finally after reading this book), but do people really know how to respond/react in these crisis or inflexion points? How you practically apply some of this? If you develop a stronger secondary in the first place, it would seem that you could be more effective in responding or even prevent a crisis from occurring.