Risen
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- 9w8
I've been alive for 20 years. I am an INTP, and thus, my strongest function is Ti. I have encountered many things in my life, and found myself in many different types of social situations. I'm quite confident I have explored nearly the full limitations and potential of Ti. Through having the MBTI system revealed to me, I have made great strides in the past couple of years in terms of personal growth and understanding (of myself and others). Recently I have fully come to terms with one simple truth: Ti is vastly limited in usefulness for personal social situations. On its own, it is just not equipped to deal with the variability, ambiguity, and emotional/irrational aspects that come to play in our interpersonal relationships. Its tendency towards inner analysis is far too inefficient to be of use in the present, or to actually hash out solutions and clear understanding of others through post-situational analysis. While the combination of Ti and perceiving functions like Ne can yield some great insights, these "insights" are, in fact, not things that can be regularly applied and are thus not very useful in the personal world. This form of thinking and analysis is wholly unfit and fruitless when one wishes to simply enjoy interacting with people and relating to people in "normal" ways.
No, the limited ability of Ti and Ne to pick apart what little can be objectively observed about the people around you, and all the blind spots filled in through intuitive extrapolation and personal experiential information that fits the pattern (Si), makes for a combination that is most wieldly in the world of social manipulation. The level of understanding that one can cultivate about others through these functions is not simply for standing idly in the flow of life's waters, to enjoy experience with other people for the sake of experiencing, not to empathize with others and display true compassion, or to move about the world taking in whatever our base desires call for. No, the true purpose of this cognitive unit is to ascribe algorithmic function to human behavior, and to manipulate and control it as we see fit within ourselves and in others. That is Ti's only social utility as a leading cognitive function, with the aid of Ne and Si.
And even when this arrangement has been able to map out the schematics comprising the makeup of the social creature's thoughts and behavior, it is still unable to very well utilize the knowledge and control other human beings skillfully. For mastery of the final act, extroverted judgment is needed in addition to high empathetic understanding to peer into the hidden core behind human behavior, their feelings and emotions. What is needed is Fe. A development of Fe equal in maturity, but subservient, to Ti. An unholy partnership between two forms of judgment that will finally fulfill their true purpose, to rise and take everything in their wake until all is in its rightful place.
*End babbling*
No, the limited ability of Ti and Ne to pick apart what little can be objectively observed about the people around you, and all the blind spots filled in through intuitive extrapolation and personal experiential information that fits the pattern (Si), makes for a combination that is most wieldly in the world of social manipulation. The level of understanding that one can cultivate about others through these functions is not simply for standing idly in the flow of life's waters, to enjoy experience with other people for the sake of experiencing, not to empathize with others and display true compassion, or to move about the world taking in whatever our base desires call for. No, the true purpose of this cognitive unit is to ascribe algorithmic function to human behavior, and to manipulate and control it as we see fit within ourselves and in others. That is Ti's only social utility as a leading cognitive function, with the aid of Ne and Si.
And even when this arrangement has been able to map out the schematics comprising the makeup of the social creature's thoughts and behavior, it is still unable to very well utilize the knowledge and control other human beings skillfully. For mastery of the final act, extroverted judgment is needed in addition to high empathetic understanding to peer into the hidden core behind human behavior, their feelings and emotions. What is needed is Fe. A development of Fe equal in maturity, but subservient, to Ti. An unholy partnership between two forms of judgment that will finally fulfill their true purpose, to rise and take everything in their wake until all is in its rightful place.
*End babbling*