INTPness
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ENTJs do think in abstract terms but when communicating, we've consolidated the abstract into its simplest terms so that anyone, regardless of intelligence level or type, can understand us. No use communicating if people don't understand you.
I sometimes find this very challenging. By the time I put my "ideas" into a more simple, easily explainable form, they aren't really my ideas anymore. They're just some modified version of my idea. I've explained ideas to people before, in a way that they might understand them (because they didn't understand the original, more abstract explanation), and I walk away going, "No, that didn't come out right. That's not my idea at all. That was just a failed attempt to explain it in a way that they would understand." Not easy.