Post by Deleted on May 3, 2017 16:28:25 GMT -5
Bella, after reading through your description of subjective experience in the "My understanding of Fi" thread, it appears I may have jumped the gun. I somehow recalled you describing neurotic, hysterical tendencies present from childhood; upon further inspection, I can see this is not the case, lol. My apologies.
Perhaps a distinction should be made between sensitivity and emotionality in general? I was thinking about this option too.
Out of curiosity, are you still on the fence about your type? Or do you lean more to one side now?
Yup, females are generally more sensitive. Unfortunately it appears TiNe women are not very common so there aren't enough videos I can watch to compare..
As for my type, I can say the probability of being TiNe has gone up, but it still doesn't fit perfectly.
Perhaps I should say in what ways it does, since due to the nature of the conversations, I tend to mostly focus on what doesn't add up.
So I can say:
*I do see myself noticing logical inconsistencies. This is actually something I noticed when studying mbti and was one of the several reasons I speculated regarding the INFJ, because the absence of Ti didn't seem likely to me. But then again, I knew I wasn't a "J" type etc.
* I would say my core enneagram is 4, but my 5 is VERY strong (in fact on the test it is as strong as the 4 and I've definitely spent time in the past trying to decide which of these is my strongest). Enneagram 5 correlates with Ti very strongly. So for example, reading Erifrail's post on the mythology of the functions, I relate more to the Ti description he gave than to the Fi one. Then again, Erifrail was describing more of a mythology of the function that might be more linked to the enneagram (a person's core motivations, needs, fears etc.) rather than the function Ti as it operates mechanically.
* This is something that came to my awareness recently and does tilt towards Ti more significantly, is that it might be true that to a high degree I am using IDEOLOGY (formulated by Ti) to decide what my values are, rather than following my subjective feeling-values (which I might subjegate to my ideology if i think it is more correct than what I feel). So I might be DEFINING my values according to Ti logic, and in this respect my alleged Ti has priority over my alleged Fe. BUT, I still think I prioritize ethics over logic in the sense that I view the latter as an accuracy tool used to manifest the former (with ethics being the end goal). That said, I definitely have a need to understand the world, solve its mystery etc. for its own sake as well. But again, this might be linked more to enneagram rather than to function use. And also, I will definitely let my "feelings" decide things when there's no ethical question. For example, I am currently moving an apartment. In this process, there is no ethical question, and so I am not using any logic in this case. To decide on which apartment to take, I am just asking myslef what feels right, is in alignment with how I feel about it etc. Bringing logic into this type of decision tends to only get me into trouble.
How do you relate to this? How do you make decisions?