by mmasters » Tue 26 Jun 2007, 21:42:47
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'I') mean, what is this? Jung proposed four basic traits in humans. Emotion, Intellect, Intuition, and Sensuality. He proposed these as the human four prime movers. Guess what, you combine these and you get 16 primary human types. Just what the scheme is based on. As Freud said, Jung is too mystical. I would say he he was too human. We don't fit those schemes of interpretation.
I disagree, I see everyone falling into one of the 16 types and it's helpful for reading people and better understanding yourself. It is powerful stuff when understood properly which is very rare.
So here's MMASTERS advanced lesson on myers-briggs!
You got three of the 4 traits right, Feeling, Thinking, Intuition. However the fourth isn't sensuality, it's sensing. That is, being in touch with the physical world through your sensing.
So each of the 16 types has 4 letters and two possibilities for each.
1) Introvert/Extrovert
2) Intuitive/Sensor
3) Thinker/Feeler
4) Judger/Perciever
We all feel, intuit, sense and think. And some of our abilities are naturally much stronger than others. Of the 16 types they can be generalized or divided into blocks of 4 based on the dominant 2 tendencies. The four basic groups are the NTs, the SPs the SJs and the NFs. Here's an excerpt from a website that can articulate it better than I can on the fly:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')P - Action: These people like activity. All the best athletes are SPs. Soldiers are usually SPs (but officers are usually SJs). The best salesmen are SPs. Lots of really good programmers are SPs - they're they guys that just love programming, I call them computer jocks. To be really good at something, you have to love to do it over and over again, only SPs are capable of this.
SJ - Order: These people love to make order out of chaos. They love directing things, planning things, organizing things. A lot of bosses are SJs. Good secretaries are SJs. Most schoolteachers are SJs. Lots of good programmers are SJs - they're the ones that will research and plan before methodically carrying out the task.
NT - Ideas: These people like thinking about ideas. They like solving problems (not the administrative kind), inventing algorithms, and architecting solutions. Most scientists and engineers are NTs (though a lot of engineers are SJs). Lots of good programmers are NTs (I'm one of those), but they're likely to view programming as a means to an end rather than an end in itself (in contrast to SPs).
NF - Empathy: These people like to help people and express themselves (to people). Naturally, they gravitate to the helping professions: teaching, medicine, social work, social advocacy. They also fill the ranks of artists, writers, journalists. I once saw a claim that they make the best salespeople, and I believe it, but few NFs are interested in sales. NFs are not likely to be interested in programming, but when they are they're motivated by the notion of helping people by what they write, or pleasing the boss.
http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/003474.html
For fun, on average the types that get laid the most to the least are:
1) SPs -- most
2) NFs
3) NTs
4) SJs -- least
Now more specifically what distinguishes each of the 16 types is orientation of the 4 basic traits? Again they are: Thinking, Feeling, Intuition and Sensing. Thinking is the polar opposite of Feeling and Sensing is the Polar opposite of Intuition.
Now let's expand on the core types of NT, NF, SP and SJ and discuss Perciever/Judger. Most people do not understand what this really means beyond its literal definition which is quite misleading.
Intuition and Sensing are both Percieving functions. Some percieve the world starkly through their senses like a stunt car driver. Or some percieve the world through subconscious abstraction like Einstien and aren't as in touch with the physical world (Einstein would walk into Trees and walls often. He wasn't as in touch with the outer physical world as most people).
On the other hand Thinking and Feeling are Judging functions. I don't think I have to explain these.
When somebody is a Judger that means their main judging function (whether it's Thinking or Feeling) is an EXTROVERTED ability. And in turn their, their main percieving function is INTROVERTED. Lets do some examples to illustrate:
So in the case of an NTJ:
Because of the J for Judger, their judging function of thinking is extroverted while on the other hand their intuition is introverted.
If they're an NTP then:
Because of the P for Perciever, their percieving function of intution is extroverted while on the other hand their judging ability of thinking is introverted.
If they're an SFJ then:
Because of the J for Judger, their judging function of Feeling is extroverted while on the other hand their percieving function of sensing is introverted.
Get the idea?
Now, the variable of Introversion/Extroversion tells us which oriented trait is DOMINANT.
To repeat the same example above:
If they're an SFJ then:
Because of the J for Judger, their judging function of Feeling is extroverted while on the other hand their percieving function of sensing is introverted.
Now lets say this person is an ISFJ, In that case introverted sensing is their most dominant trait. If they were an ESFJ their most dominant trait would be the extroverted Feeling. Get it?
Might have to read it a few times for it to click.
To illustrate further here's what an ENFP looks like:
NF is their type and P distinguishes that Intuition is the extroverted trait (and correspondingly Feeling the introverted trait). And then Extroverted denotes that the extroverted trait is dominant which would make Intuition the dominant. Then extrapolating a little further, the pattern goes that whatever your dominant trait is the polar opposite is your weakest trait. While your secondary and third traits are polar opposite.
Here's the orientation for all the types:
http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/tt/t-ar ... -dynam.htm
and here's the INTP (my type)
http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/myers-briggs/intp.htm
Another interesting thing is our "dark side" consists of the exact mirror image of the orientations pictured above. And whenver we have sex our dark sides actually become of us temporarily.
Our dark sides are our driving force towards balance. The ideal being all 4 traits strong and balanced.