magpie
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One of the most important things a person can do is learn to take responsibility for their own communication. If you want to be understood, the impetus is on you to communicate in a way that's understandable to those around you rather than expecting them to bend over backwards to understand you.
The more complex an idea or "intuition," the harder it is to express with words. There are a lot of things I struggle to wholly explain with language because the language ends up being a reductive element that can't translate the idea without changing and diminishing it. Part of communication, though, is finding a way to express those things as best as possible in order to be able to consciously know why you think what you do and back it up or explain it in discussion with others. This goes for all people, sensors and intuitives alike. Also, having to work through the idea in this way helps it move beyond the part of your brain that just "knows" (your soul/subconscious) and into the more conscious parts of your brain that can help create analyses and intellectual understandings.
Ultimately communication about abstractions is possible on a direct soul to soul level where you just know or get what the other person means through attunement to their "wavelength." But that's not always possible and it's lazy to expect that, since that entitlement can make you never work to develop yourself. It also makes me roll my eyes when people (usually Ni users) bring up a concept, I ask them questions about it to confirm/challenge their point of view, and they can't explain themselves at all. It's not actually because the concept is too abstract to be expressed with words. It's just intellectual laziness with an inability to explore your own psyche on the side. Usually in this example what's being talked about by the Ni user isn't even that complex or abstract at all, and it's not impressive when that's claimed as an excuse. It just seems like conceit.
The more complex an idea or "intuition," the harder it is to express with words. There are a lot of things I struggle to wholly explain with language because the language ends up being a reductive element that can't translate the idea without changing and diminishing it. Part of communication, though, is finding a way to express those things as best as possible in order to be able to consciously know why you think what you do and back it up or explain it in discussion with others. This goes for all people, sensors and intuitives alike. Also, having to work through the idea in this way helps it move beyond the part of your brain that just "knows" (your soul/subconscious) and into the more conscious parts of your brain that can help create analyses and intellectual understandings.
Ultimately communication about abstractions is possible on a direct soul to soul level where you just know or get what the other person means through attunement to their "wavelength." But that's not always possible and it's lazy to expect that, since that entitlement can make you never work to develop yourself. It also makes me roll my eyes when people (usually Ni users) bring up a concept, I ask them questions about it to confirm/challenge their point of view, and they can't explain themselves at all. It's not actually because the concept is too abstract to be expressed with words. It's just intellectual laziness with an inability to explore your own psyche on the side. Usually in this example what's being talked about by the Ni user isn't even that complex or abstract at all, and it's not impressive when that's claimed as an excuse. It just seems like conceit.