Post by Aqua on Jan 5, 2018 0:09:51 GMT -5
Hrafn , do you mind explaining the deal about myths to me? I don't get it at all. Never have. Are you guys talking about how universal archetypes manifest in different types?
I am VERY good at that too. I am very good at finding/devising short-cuts that dont seem obvious to others but seem so to me. I need to get A and the tool assigned for it isnt available or is unpleasant etc? Why cant I use this other thing? It has the same qualities relevant to this task. Etc etc. In school, once Id learned a mathematical formula id find over time that I had come up with different (to me, shorter or simpler) routes to do some simple things.
I think, though, there is a difference between that kind of "in-the-moment" organizing and the Te more complex, forward-looking organizing. I think the kind of thing I do may be represented by a short dash or arrow between two near points, signifying the short distance between goal and action taken to reach it. But Te involves many such dashes cordinated to achieve more distant, less obvious, or harder-to-reach goals than that. In other words, Te seems aware of ALL (or many more) tools AND goals and acts methodically with all of them in mind. Whereas my in-the-moment thing sort of targets my NE towards the resolution of just one quick goal.
Re: hunter-gatherers and Te, I feel like Te is probably a pretty useful function for helping to coordinate complex group activities like cooperative hunts of large animals. There's also a certain kind of environmental improvisation that involves being able to improvise makeshift tools out of scarce environmental resources. I'm sure that people in any hunter-gatherer society rely heavily on that sort of ability. I'm actually quite good at this type of environmental improvisation, and I've always associated it primarily with Ne (maybe Pe more generally?). Yet I wonder if this is something that Te also excels at.
I am VERY good at that too. I am very good at finding/devising short-cuts that dont seem obvious to others but seem so to me. I need to get A and the tool assigned for it isnt available or is unpleasant etc? Why cant I use this other thing? It has the same qualities relevant to this task. Etc etc. In school, once Id learned a mathematical formula id find over time that I had come up with different (to me, shorter or simpler) routes to do some simple things.
I think, though, there is a difference between that kind of "in-the-moment" organizing and the Te more complex, forward-looking organizing. I think the kind of thing I do may be represented by a short dash or arrow between two near points, signifying the short distance between goal and action taken to reach it. But Te involves many such dashes cordinated to achieve more distant, less obvious, or harder-to-reach goals than that. In other words, Te seems aware of ALL (or many more) tools AND goals and acts methodically with all of them in mind. Whereas my in-the-moment thing sort of targets my NE towards the resolution of just one quick goal.