Sorry you weren't able to take advantage of an opportunity like that.
Thanks, me, too, but I don't regret spending time with my dad.
I found your comment on divergent thinking interesting. It got me wondering what exactly "divergent" thinking is. So, I looked it up.
Thanks. I have wondered if he called me that because he couldn't quite figure exactly how my mind worked. He only knew that it worked differently than anyone else he knew, so he labeled it divergence. I mean, after all, he wasn't a professor psychology. He was a professor of pedagogy.
I'm not actually sure that divergent is a good way to describe Ni
Good point.
The Ni-dom will come at things from a completely different perspective - turning a problem on it's head so to speak
. Well, that's what I did and he called it divergent.
Maybe that would appear divergent to someone else who has a different point of view.
Ha, well, I should have waited!
Then I'll ask questions - I'll engage in a dialogue on something and through that dialogue this thing that is bothering me comes up in the conversation. Sometimes, I actually use the other person to help me shape things into words. That technique seems to work especially well with INTPs and Si doms. Then when they say what was in my head, I'll be like yes - that's exactly it or what my concern is or whatever
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That is a very good technique.
I'm curious - do you know what your enneagram instinctual subtype is? I have wondered if the "umph" thing has something to do with being Sx.
Actually, I'm still working on it. I have been watching videos, reading articles, taking tests, etc. and I'm having a very difficult time with it, despite all the great help that people here have offered me. I'm an amateur, that's what I am!
