Hi everyone! Ive always been interested in MBTI but recently Ive been taking some time off work, picked up 'Gifts Differing' by Isabel Myers Briggs and have delved back into it a little deeper! I now understand the theory that every human has a dominant extrovert process, and a dominant introvert one.
I think its a stroke of genius that Jung/MB managed to deduce what the four optional processes were - and from my own observations of people, and who they are attracted to friend-wise and romantic-wise, I think its accurate. As a self typed INFJ, my best friend is an INFP and I am romantically drawn to ENFP females, in a pretty textbook way. As in I only like ENFP females, and MBTI predicts that.
My question is not to do with MBTI not standing up to observation, but one of internal logic:
Why cant someone have Intuition as both their dominant introvert and extrovert process? Or Sensing or Feeling or Thinking? Why cant all four functions be present in a person's introvert and extrovert processes? Why the dichotomy, the division? Does anyone know what the reasoning is for this?
I think its a stroke of genius that Jung/MB managed to deduce what the four optional processes were - and from my own observations of people, and who they are attracted to friend-wise and romantic-wise, I think its accurate. As a self typed INFJ, my best friend is an INFP and I am romantically drawn to ENFP females, in a pretty textbook way. As in I only like ENFP females, and MBTI predicts that.
My question is not to do with MBTI not standing up to observation, but one of internal logic:
Why cant someone have Intuition as both their dominant introvert and extrovert process? Or Sensing or Feeling or Thinking? Why cant all four functions be present in a person's introvert and extrovert processes? Why the dichotomy, the division? Does anyone know what the reasoning is for this?