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What does an INTJ who hasn't developed their Te look like?
Someone who's in their imagination alot and daydreams about what they'd like to achieve rather than actually taking the steps to make it happen.
I'm slightly confused on what it means to use Te. The only knowledge I have on it is the fact that it's used to organize the environment. Is that its extent, or does it have other purposes as well? I apologize for my ignorance.
It determines the plausibility of Ni's ideas? Does that sound like a good summary?
Te does not just organize data, it uses data. I'd say it's the most "data-dependent" of all the functions. Te eats data. Here's a good description I found the other day, better than most:
Basic, Passive Use: Follow steps, points and time tables.
Developed, Conscious Use: Create structure, reason by measures and evidence, and implement complex plans.
In other words, while Ti finds truth by saying "things work like this, therefore this should be true," Te works by saying "this is true, therefore things work like this."
Agree. The ones who doesn't use Te (and Se!) generally suck at real life things and being in touch with reality.
Most of us probably play a lot of computer games when younger. That's a crap trap.
The hard part is to get out of it in time and start "leveling up" in real life, instead.
Whatever that means to you is entirely subjective, I wasn't referring to wealth or success specifically.
In the book, "The 8 Keys to Self-Leadership," there's a chapter on Extraverted Thinking. It tells what it is, how it's used, and goes into great depth on improving and developing your own use of it. You might want to check that out, maybe get it from the library or something.
Here's a link, Te is covered in chapter 7:
8 keys of self-leadership: from ... - Google Books
Have you found anything specific, in life or out, that helped hone your Extraverted Thinking?
Yes. It also constructs experiments to test feasibility, to determine what will happen if you do X. I am not an INTP, but I suppose, by contrast, they would be more likely to theorize about what happens if you do X.In the case of an INTJ, that seems about right. It's also what actually does the planning to make them reality if it finds them to be plausible.
Yes. It also constructs experiments to test feasibility, to determine what will happen if you do X. I am not an INTP, but I suppose, by contrast, they would be more likely to theorize about what happens if you do X.
As for honing Te, I was helped immensely by mentors, people who challenged me to explain my ideas, and fed my Te with all those facts and data against which to measure them.