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Mal, if you predominantly use TiNi cognition, then you're an ISTP who is regularly in a dom-tert loop.
When they're in a dom-tert loop, then yes, this is the case.
There's also a complicated matter of Se actually being a part of their cognition, but in a "sneaky way".
You, for example, tend to take a lot of input data in in a very "Sensorish"/Se kinda way.
You don't question it (i.e., your initial impression) very much, which is a more "iNtuitive" thing to do.
As such, while you may be in a TiNi loop, I wouldn't say you have an advanced form of Ni usage.
It's more like you use Ni in an ill-conceived way, to "bandage up" your disparate ideas about reality.
It's like Ni becomes a glue to hold together all these crazy ideas you just accept at face value (Se).
Yeah, actually, you will.
Thagirion9, an INTJ on Youtube sent me this message explaining why I am not ISTP in their opinion but rather INTP:
You can not change your type. You are either one or the other. You can switch temporaritly and dabble in the other side, but that drains you and at the end of the day your true colors will show. I worked at a museum giving shows and classes. I had to be very extroverted and talk to lots of people. I was very good at this. But at the end of the day I was zonked and I could only do this part time not full time. Was I an ENTJ? Not at all. I can play the role but it's not permanent. INTP and ISTP have very different functions.
INTP is the Architet with Ti, Ne, Si Fe
ISTP is the Mechanic with Ti, Se, Ni, Fe
You're both analitical for being lead introverted thinkers but where the INTP bakes on the idea and keeps it theoretical ISTP wants to jump in the car and BE the test dummie because of his extroverted sensing second. ISTP's are more competitive and athletic because of this. They're also system builders third and don't use much intution because of this. INTP has extroverted intuition second. Very important for creativity, dreaming, pulling ideas from outer space. ISTP can not do this. This is the big difference in the two. This is too radical of a change to make permenantly unless you've been ISTP all along and need to really revaluate yourself and be introspective. I highly doubt that by the videos I've seen and how verbose you are. Not an ISTP trait.
No prob. I like analytical discussions. I told you that. I don't think type is hardwired from birth but that personality starts to develop in early childhood. Possily during language aquisition which is up to I think age 11, or was it 6? I can't remember right now but it's early. Children are difficult to type because they haven't really developed. Few are set earlier than that. Though I have memories from being 2 years old where it seems I had intuition.
"since 99% of intellectuals type themselves as well as other intellectuals as N."
Hehe as being in the rarest type I'm very happy to be in your supposed 1% as well. I'm good at typing others and I call it as I see it. S types are more common and in real life I don't say everyone's an N. I've typed several S types. I prefer to type fictional characters as they are more fun.
". Me acting the ISTP is also largely for humility because it is a very simple "I could be wrong", or an "I don't have all the answers attitude" unlike the narcissistic "I'm smarter than everybody" N attitude. "
"I could be wrong and I don't have all the answers" is typical INTP unsuredness. I'd say ISTP's come off more confident because of Se competitiveness in the second place. They could be mistaken as extroverts. Here's another example that N's don't type everyone as N's because they want them to be like them. On all the websites you'll find Hannibal Lecter typed as INTJ. I like Hannibal Lecter. As much as I'd like to have him in our camp he's not. He's ISTP. He's competitive and narsistic in a great confident way. He's one of the ones I will eventually talk about on one of my videos and do a point by point of why the websiters copy and paste each other and are wrong since they do not bother to check if what they are perpetuating is so.
"It's also funny to look more fun loving and foolish than you really are. INTP is hiding under the mask lol."
You are merely saying this because you are insecure and keep hearing from society that being an introvert is wrong. You "need to be more out going and open". You have not accepted your introversion that it is not wrong but just another way of doing things. Of the four traits introversion and extroversion are the only parts you are born with as they are a function of your brain pathways. See Laney's awesome book, "The Introvert Advantage" and I agree introversion is better than extroversion in most cases. Be proud to be a rare type, the second rarest there is. Good to admire INTJ's like Tesla, no aspire to their confidence and suredness.
"Thanks for the analytical feedback! That's interesting that type is hardwired from birth, maybe in the DNA. Frankly I'm just saying ISTP to be extremely unorthodox, since 99% of intellectuals type themselves as well as other intellectuals as N. It's almost hilarious. Me acting the ISTP is also largely for humility because it is a very simple "I could be wrong", or an "I don't have all the answers attitude" unlike the narcissistic "I'm smarter than everybody" N attitude. It's also funny to look more fun loving and foolish than you really are. INTP is hiding under the mask lol.