mlittrell
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Are you saying functions are useless to personality? That's like saying happiness is useless in examining the overall well-being of the person. I disagree. You must first understand the fundamental building blocks before you look at how they interact. Otherwise you're just making it harder on yourself when you don't have to.
Development of MBTI as a whole, yes. Furthering our understanding of the implications on the model, no.
no no noooo. functions are insanely useful. they are useless as individual ENTITIES. meaning by themselves. you must understand, the way Te is used in an ENFP (Ne, Fi, Te, Si) is completely different when used in an ENTJ (Te, Ni, Se, Fi) and even an ESTJ (Te, Si, Ne, Fi). you need to look at functions as a whole within a personality and not indiviually to know how they work. even Ne in an ENTP and an ENFP are used differently. believe me, functions are the second most important thing in MBTI imo. they are extremely helpful in so many different ways. BUT, you cannot look at Ne as just Ne or Ti as just Ti or Fe as just Fe or Se as just Se and so on. ya you can make some very vague generalities with an individual function but thats it. this is why you need to look at it as a team. even though every team might be similar, they way they operate is still going to be different between the types.
i would disagree with me too if thats the way i took it lol. and our understanding of the current model are already layed out. there isn't much more we can delve into without getting ourselves caught up into a technically logical system that has no application or point for that matter. MBTI is just a model for something we dont understand. we can use Si to explain something that happens in the brain but exactly what that is...?