What it is like to be a Te dominant type

Te Ego

You are a strong personality; opinionated, direct, and somewhat militant. You tend to think in a very logistical manner and can see the consequences certain actions will have based on the economics of the situation. Over time you’ve learned to use this understanding to plan the best course of action; building an effective life for yourself that gets you close to your ideals.

You are capitalistic, believing in meritocracy and free enterprise. You believe people should have the capacity to construct whatever they can manage from their own labor, and claim complete rights over their productions. And your own process-oriented rationality gives you agency in that respect, as you can be rather business minded and can quickly develop an understanding of how systems operate and what’s needed to bring certain ideas into implementation. You can be competitive in your interaction style, and enjoy a healthy level of one-upmanship. You may be described by others as harsh on those that are less fortunate, seeing them as lazy and unable to thrive in life. You don’t see why you or anyone should carry their weight – and prefer people be independent, self-possessed and self-sufficient.

You enjoy keeping things organized, having a sense of structure, and may be rather spartan in your household arrangements; keeping it polished away from anything not advantageous to your aims. You don’t engage in too much frivolity for the sake of it; everything you do has a purpose to you, and ironically you may even be purposeful in your leisure/fun, fitting it appropriately into your routine.

Overall, you’re a very logically minded individual, often taking interest in the sciences or engineering. The mechanics behind nature, the universe or any system can be a great source of fascination, and you enjoy finding the objective truth behind life. You have little tolerance for niceties or mincing words. You like to be frank and you speak your mind with ease. However, others may see you as overly blunt and emotionally insensitive. This has sometimes caused problems in your social affairs, but you’ve learned to seek the company of those who can appreciate your honesty.

Te Conscious

You have a rational mind that likes to understand the “how” of things; the relationship between input and output. You’re naturally driven to understand what these variables in the world are and to have agency in moving processes forward to generate desired outputs. You have a rather scientific mind, and may enjoy subjects such as mechanics, engineering and programming. You may discover an affinity for numeric equations, calculations and subjects like physics. Some may see you as nerdy – a label you may take as a compliment – as you pursue your bookish projects, often in business and entrepreneurship.

You can be very pragmatic, preferring to define reality by what can be confirmed to be true in an applicable way. You think rather empirically about things, and like to tie conclusions down to what matters to you in the world and how that can help you improve the logistics of life. Compared to others, you have a fair deal of tolerance for managing tasks and know how to power through with perseverance if you know your goal is on the other side.

Achievement is one of your favorite rewards; you get a little rush of dopamine from each success and can tend to be a busybody because of it. It may be difficult to exist in an idle state, as you begin to feel a failure to thrive. But despite your managerial tendencies, you enjoy your play as well and you have a very off-beat sense of humor.

1) How were you able to pin down that Te is my dominant? Is it based on the more well-defined/rigid/focused/targeted style that is indicative of Je? After watching my video and prior to your feedback, I had the sense (especially after reading your book) that this was the most definitive aspect of the way that I interacted in the video. (And also, this was REALLY telling me that I was not a Pe-dom, in terms of the type of more flexible maneuvers that I saw NeFi doing).

3) Would you say that the subtype is something that is more 'nurture/development' oriented while the type would be something more hardwired in general?

2) I know that you mentioned that I was a TeNi-Ni rather than a TeNi-Fi. Would you say that I was doing more Ni than Fi? How would you assess the ratio (in a qualitative rather than quantitative way) of Ni:Fi that I applied? I'm kinda curious about the relative ratios that I was applying the core functions in my cognitive stack.

Fi Ego

You are a private, independent minded moralist who is ever aware of how certain actions positively or negatively affect personhood. You take an interest in the individual, and the ability for people to manifest their unique gifts and nature. You strive to discover and be your most authentic self, as much as possible, even if that leads to bizarre looks from others. You are someone who’s ever exploring the essence of being human from the inside out. You feel a calling to investigate and express the nature you uncover, often in raw and artistic forms, and to celebrate diversity.

You are an ethicist who desires to protect the autonomy and equal representation of each individual. Feeling that every iteration of human has its own integral value, you feel a poignant distaste for targeted transgressions towards people, especially when the mechanics of a system undermines certain identities. You may identify as a feminist, an advocate of the LGBT+ community, an animal rights activist, a humanitarian and advocate of planetary conservation. You dislike any attempts at conformity or social laws that aim to homogenize people beyond what is simply proper respect for others. And the sacredness you feel toward human life extends out to other living things; considering it amoral to violate anything with the capacity to suffer.

You place yourself in the position of other living things, through a type of empathic projection, and aim to understand them from a first-person motivational perspective rather than from their outward comportment. In doing so you resonate or differ from the essence of others. You will note the generosity in people who appear outwardly calloused and harsh to others, or who do not behave according to the norms of culture. Inversely you can also feel high levels of malice for people who seem outwardly kind to everyone else, and may find yourself gravitating toward or away from people from this private reading of their underlying motivations. Who you affiliate yourself to, then becomes a very personal matter, and can comprise quite an eclectic assortment of people.

Fi Conscious

You are an analytical person who is very particular about your beliefs, especially as they relate to morality, justice and the integrity of personhood. You will have a private sense of self and tend to notice when others violate those inner-felt believes both of your own intrinsic value and that of others. You may be an advocate for the individual, and dislike any attempts at conformity or social laws that aim to homogenize people beyond what is minimally necessary for civility.

While you seem stoic, inexpressive or guarded on the outside, internally you will feel a great deal of sympathy toward the violation of ethics. You may be a supporter of the feminist movement, of the LGBT+ community, or fight against human trafficking, the cruel treatment of animals, the environment or any helpless minority that is being trampled by the system.

Those who know you best know you to have two modalities you alternate between. You can be giddy, bashful and entirely sensitive/vulnerable with those you feel an open emotional channel with. Or you can switch to being aloof, chilly, passive-aggressive and haughty. The modality you express depends on how well you feel the other person’s energy resonates with you at a given moment. Because of this, you may be seen as moody or finicky by others who don’t always understand the sudden shifts in your temperament.