Finally replying! Sorry I took so damn long.
... and more importantly, I want a concrete example from daily life for each one!
I realise this will take time and thought... I don't need the answer right away but would be interested in a breakdown with simple examples.
Fun question! Here are some examples from my life (that are vague because they happen to me all the time):
Ti: I see a movie with some friends. We talk about the movie afterwards. During the discussion, I list all my likes and dislikes. Depending on which friends I’m with, either we get into an analytical discussion of why we liked and disliked what we did (ending with a final rating from one to four stars), or my friends will go “Stop insulting the movie! I liked it.†I react with “I was just trying to start a discussion!â€
Another example: I hear someone being judgmental about the “other side†of a political view. I play devil’s advocate, correcting them even though I agree with their position, because I’m trying to be objective.
Te: Everything in my life.
Every time I force myself to do something even if I don’t want to. Every time I try to get someone to do something, because what they’re doing doesn’t seem right to me.
Fi: I go to the store, I see that they don't have a CD that I like. That annoys me, not just because I had wanted to buy it, but because I feel like the store ought to have that CD in stock because it's so good. So I go to the desk and ask them to order several copies, not just one, so that way there'll be an extra one for whoever else stops by. My Fi is then satisfied, because I did a good deed. (There’s lots of Te in here too, but I have a hard time separating my Te from my Fi, when I talk about it.)
Fe: I’m at a party, and I walk towards a group of people having a conversation. I say hi, and then stay silent for a while as I listen to the conversation, figure out what people’s senses of humor are like, and finally I make a comment that I feel is appropriate and charming and well-suited to the group’s mood.
Ni: I guess… if I get bad vibes from a situation, and can’t explain why?
I dunno – I don’t really understand the function.
Ne: I go to a garage sale and see a chair. The chair is ridiculously ugly, but it's only $2. My imagination goes crazy - I could strip the chair of paint and put nice wood finish on it, I could re-upholster it, etc. etc. - and I buy it in the hopes that I can make something pretty and fun out of it. Sometimes my Te kicks in and forces me to complete the project, and sometimes my Ne gets bored and the project never even gets started, let alone finished.
Si: I hear a song on the radio. Something just doesn't feel right about it, and I can't figure out what it is. I think about this for a while, and then realize that it's a cover of a song I know really well. What felt wrong was that it was a different lead vocalist, and that the vocalist was singing in a different key.
Se: I'm really frustrated by something, so I listen to some loud music to calm me down. I turn up the volume so that I can hear every sound, every harmony, every instrument, every dynamic change. I don't think about anything - I just let the music wash over me. It’s not meditation, exactly, but it’s pure sensory experience. Noticing absolutely everything.
I have a question:
Do you think type has an effect on the way you learn, and if so, how do you learn best? In other words, what do you hope for in a teacher/instructor/professor, and what kind of methods do you like in class? Thanks in advance.
Yeah, I think type has a lot to do with learning. Not sure how specifically, but I get the impression that Ns like having more broad and conceptual assignments, and S types like real-world applications. I personally don't mind if what I'm learning is abstract, as long as you give me a concrete reason to care. I'm not going to respond well to "it's important because it's intellectually stimulating", or "no one has succeeded in this subject yet, but what matters is that you try"...
A philosophy prof tried that last one on me a year ago, and I automatically hated his guts.
As for what I like in professors... I like professors who value clarity.
Nothing bugs me more, as a student, than a professor who isn’t clear about what they expect from you as a student. You’ll get a vague assignment, ask the prof for clarification, they don’t give it, and you turn it in, only to get a C because you didn’t fulfill the prof’s expectations. I could go ON AND ON about how much that pisses me off
but I’ll spare you
Also, some classes (like advanced math, or economics) tend to have professors who expect you to figure everything out on your own. I can't STAND that. Here's an example of something that happened to me in an economics class this past year.
Prof: Here's how you do the problem. First, you find A. Therefore, you find B. So then --
Me: -- Excuse me, I have a question. How did you get that?
Prof: Well... it's kind of intuitive.
Me (unspoken): Uh, NO, no it ISN'T intuitive, which is why I'm asking the question!!!
Honestly, I'd rather have a boring but thorough professor than a scatterbrained professor who doesn't actually teach you anything and expects you to teach yourself. Neither is ideal, but at least with the first option I'm actually LEARNING something.
As for methods in class… depends on the class. Are you a language prof? What sort of class are you teaching? Is it more based on writing, or memorizing facts? Scantron tests or 10 page essay questions?
I'm glad you like them! One of these days, you should make one too - and perhaps a video conversation might arise 
How much free time does he have, per day? I ask because my dad is INTP and acts similarly. Not with the nagging of things you should do (that's just a type-A xxxJ thing, and my INFJ mom can be the same way) - but with feeling the need to do productive things in the middle of a movie. I think it's because he has so little time at home that he feels like there's all this stuff he SHOULD be doing, that would get neglected if his schedule was breakfast-work-lunch-work-home-dinner-tv-bed (which is what it would be otherwise).
