hurl3y4456
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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 find it odd that you'd only like ENFP females....There's overlap between types, which implies certain attractions between types will overlap (set theory)....Suppose each type is represented as a set. If we take the entire population, you will find that there will exist inclusion among all types as well as exclusion in terms of attributes. Some types will orient toward other spheres such that inclusion is predominant relative to other types. If you confine all ENFP's within a larger sphere encompassing each individual sphere, you will find that such attributes will be spread broadly to encompass all other types. Let's define your standards within a separate set. Based on your premise, the set is mutually exclusive from all types with exception of ENFP....Based on the aforementioned assertion, your premise only holds if and only if there exists unique traits for all ENFP's which attract you toward them. Assuming you have a certain level of standards that have to be met, it would follow that only ENFP unique attributes meet the requirement. But this would imply that your set of standards is confined so much so that it exists outside all other types (such that no overlap exists)...I believe there is possibility that some attribute is spread among all types (since all functions can be represented in some order)....Therefore, there is very likely overlap for some types other than enfp.