Eric B
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- sp/sx
My “super short†intro to type is here www.erictb.info/temperament2ss.html, but I’m testing out another way to introduce it:
•Type is formed from a dominant orientation (introversion/extraversion; yielding the first letter) and two functions; one dominant and the other, auxiliary.
•The two functions are the two middle letters of the type.
•Of the two functions, one is "perception" or "information" gathering (S, N), and the other is "judging" or for rational conclusion or decision-making (T, F).
•The functional perspectives:
S tangible data that is seen, heard, etc.
N conceptual data; what things mean or possibilities
T Impersonal evaluations, true or false regardless of affect
F Evaluations of what affects us as emotional beings; good or bad
•Introverts (people with a dominant introverted orientation) are overstimulatable by the external environment, and thus turn inward, to the “subjectâ€. Extraverts (dominant extraverted orientation) are understimulatable and thus merge the subject with the external “objectâ€.
•The dominant function bears the dominant orientation (called “attitudeâ€), and the auxiliary bears the opposite one.
•Extraverted functions deal with the external environment, and the introverted functions deal with internalized data such as things memorized.
-This changes certain aspects of the four functions, generating eight different perspectives that define type; (denoted by the capital function letter followed by the lowercase e or i).
•The last letter, J or P, indicates which of the two preferred functions (denoted by its “judgment†or “perception†class) is externally oriented, which Myers determined would be significant in personal interaction. (This is called a "pointer variable").
-So this factor changes the orientation of both functions when the middle two letters are kept the same; and what looks like a type that is similar from sharing the first three letters is actually very different, functionally.
-It also has some meaning of its own as a standalone factor, as functions sharing the J/P attitude (extraverted Thinking or Feeling with introverted Sensing or iNtuition; or extraverted Sensing or iNtuition with introverted Thinking or Feeling) do have some things in common (even though the opposite functions with the same attitude and same functions with opposite attitude are radically different). This dichotomy has been generally been associated with "openness" vs "closure" and organizational skills, even though this cannot be generalized too much.
Always trying to make these things as short, yet informative as possible, since I find I have a hard time getting a lot of people to understand type.
•Type is formed from a dominant orientation (introversion/extraversion; yielding the first letter) and two functions; one dominant and the other, auxiliary.
•The two functions are the two middle letters of the type.
•Of the two functions, one is "perception" or "information" gathering (S, N), and the other is "judging" or for rational conclusion or decision-making (T, F).
•The functional perspectives:
S tangible data that is seen, heard, etc.
N conceptual data; what things mean or possibilities
T Impersonal evaluations, true or false regardless of affect
F Evaluations of what affects us as emotional beings; good or bad
•Introverts (people with a dominant introverted orientation) are overstimulatable by the external environment, and thus turn inward, to the “subjectâ€. Extraverts (dominant extraverted orientation) are understimulatable and thus merge the subject with the external “objectâ€.
•The dominant function bears the dominant orientation (called “attitudeâ€), and the auxiliary bears the opposite one.
•Extraverted functions deal with the external environment, and the introverted functions deal with internalized data such as things memorized.
-This changes certain aspects of the four functions, generating eight different perspectives that define type; (denoted by the capital function letter followed by the lowercase e or i).
•The last letter, J or P, indicates which of the two preferred functions (denoted by its “judgment†or “perception†class) is externally oriented, which Myers determined would be significant in personal interaction. (This is called a "pointer variable").
-So this factor changes the orientation of both functions when the middle two letters are kept the same; and what looks like a type that is similar from sharing the first three letters is actually very different, functionally.
-It also has some meaning of its own as a standalone factor, as functions sharing the J/P attitude (extraverted Thinking or Feeling with introverted Sensing or iNtuition; or extraverted Sensing or iNtuition with introverted Thinking or Feeling) do have some things in common (even though the opposite functions with the same attitude and same functions with opposite attitude are radically different). This dichotomy has been generally been associated with "openness" vs "closure" and organizational skills, even though this cannot be generalized too much.
Always trying to make these things as short, yet informative as possible, since I find I have a hard time getting a lot of people to understand type.
