Apologies

[orange_coat]

It seems like my last post offended more than a few INTJ's, and then the comments in the post became a discussion about ethics/values/love/the-meaning-of-life/etc.

I'm going to try to be more clear. I wasn't necessarily interested in those ideas per se, but I was interested in the T function... how it operates compared to the F function (I'm an F

Comments

[lectrix_lecti]

It's difficult to be specific... I can try to give you a small overview of what happens in my brain

[darakat_ewr]

May I point out that the original post was quite a INFJ thing to do?

[rj_anderson]

An ST might be able to outline the steps they use to get from A to G, but the nature of N is that we can't really explain how we do it, we just *do*. The mind leaps off in some new direction and before we know it, boom, an out-of-the-box solution

[orange_coat]

That was awesome!

[willfully]

I agree completely with everything in this comment. Very nicely put. :)

[rj_anderson]

Thank you. :)

[indicolite]

I am not a huge fan of Robert Jordan, but he does often mention a simile that applies in this case: "birds teaching fish to fly."

Hmm, an exercise to make oneself into someone one is not. Without being able to comprehend what the target you are striving for; you can exercise to do the leg splits, say, because you know what it will look like when you achieve it, but how would you know it when you've become a T? NTs can try to tell you, but...I've had numerous conversations with INTJ friends as to what Ne and Ni are like, and very often some phenomenon described as Ne in one article or conversation is very similar to one that gets labelled as Ni in another. We can try to meta-know what it is we're doing, but there is no real well-defined standard of what that is. More like tendencies and clusters of probability.

I wasn't necessarily interested in those ideas per se
That, I think, is a shibboleth, though. All Ts I know are interested in ideas.

~ENTP

[m_danson]

Please add tags to you posts, thank you.

~ Co-Mod