Category: not a typing post

another question: how do you separate high Fe users (xxFJs) and low Fe users (xxTPs)? I know I use Ti and Fe, not Te and Fi… but I can’t be sure whether I’m NFJ or NTP…

Sorry I’ve taken so long on this one – I got really tripped up over the functions typing thing.

I don’t really separate high and low Fe users actively (other than occasionally noticing someone has a lot of Fe) – it’s just a happy by-product of the rest of the typing process.

As far as NFJ vs NTP… my INFJ and INTP tags are pretty decently accurate right now.  If you’re watching video, I’ve been spending a lot of time lately looking at hands and arms (a lot of interviews from the waist up). 

J type hands have a particular slow, deliberate, rhythmic beating that they tend to keep up while talking, which is especially apparent in the INFJs and INTJs, although lots of other Js do it too.  P type hand movement tends to follow thoughts in a more organic manner, and Ps also tend to carry a lot less tension through the arms and shoulders in general.

How do you identify a male esfj? what traits do you look for?

Again, still in the gathering stages.

This is mostly actor specific, but:

Friendly, outgoing, engaging, personable people.

Very articulate.

Very careful with personal appearance (a lot of People’s sexiest men), but about half of them are extremely uncomfortable with being objectified.

As a result (or just incidentally), a lot of trying to legitimize their careers by finding passion projects – theatre, independent film, directing, etc.

Tendency to be genre-savvy (Ne) and business/production behind the scenes savvy (Si).

Lots of playing hero characters – particularly Han Solos, wise-cracking rogues with a heart of gold.

That’s for finding them though.  Typing-wise, I’m just trying to compare them to the other ESFJs and match behaviour.

why did you type leonardo dicaprio as ISFJ? are you sure?

No, not sure at all.

To be honest, I’m in sort of the gathering stages for SFJ men, particularly the ISFJs.

My usual thinking on “why do I not have a lot of x type?” is that I’m probably typing them as something else.  For the most part I grabbed a bunch of the quieter men I had tagged as ESFJs and re-tagged them as ISFJs.  

Once I’ve found a bunch more ISFJ men, I’ll have a better idea about whether I’m right about Leo or not.

Is it possible to not be one of the sixteen types? Like what if you use Ti Ne Fi Se?

Okay, let’s start with the function stack you’ve suggested. 

This person has Ti and Fi as introverted functions, which means they are able to make a lot of decisions about themselves.  They also have Ne and Se for extraverted functions, which means they have two ways of taking readings on the outside world. Ti-Fi,Se-Ne is very inefficient since you’re letting two functions trip over each other to perform the same task.  Likely what would happen is that this person develops a preference for Ti or Fi, and then Se or Ne.  

Now, say the person likes using Fi and Se better.  But everyone has access to all eight functions, so what will probably happen is that Te and Ni become more important in order to complement the pre-existing preference for Fi-Se.

So because the brain is always looking for ways to be more efficient, how to get anything other than the function stacks as described by MBTI theory?  What if you take away a function or two?

For your consideration:

The warrior gene, which means a shrunken amygdala, and therefore greatly diminished fear response and empathy (ie, psychopathy, whether triggered or not).  That sounds a lot like no Fe/Fi.

If you’re the tragic amnesia victim of a soap opera and lose everything but five minutes of short term memory, your Si is pretty useless since you can no longer compare present events to past ones.  It might be harder to cut you off from your Se – it’s like a Hydra, take one sense and your other senses get stronger.  Maybe sensory deprivation or nerve damage or total paralysis – something that would trap you in your head and limit your movement.

Autism makes it difficult to create connections across different parts of the brain – which is basically textbook Ne/Ni.  It makes it difficult to follow complicated abstract jokes or idioms, although with a lot of explanation it can be possible.

And then how about if logic becomes useless because you’re experiencing a different reality?  Schizophrenia or mood disorders disrupt your T functions, for example, as might a brain tumour.

So the thing is, I’m not sure if any of these would cause your function stack to change (only 6 or 7 functions?), or change permanently, and how it would do so (lower functions becoming more important?  and in what order?), or if your MBTI would remain the same, and you would just appear to be great at shadow functions. 

And if you can take away functions, can you also add them?

Do superhero brains have functions for processing extra-sensory perceptions?  Are there abilities that don’t fall under the functions as described?  Questions for another day…