Category: not a typing post

Hi! I read your post on crises (great read). Made me think about how your first and last function together are powerful, how I use the first-last loop, and how refusing to utilize your last can leave you ineffective and feeling lost. Thought I’d write you in depth about ENTPs to help you fill out your theory (I’m an ENTP :>): Ne-Si loop helps an ENTP be relevant. Ne likes to look at things and branch into related ideas (as you know!), but Ne is a random, wispy function. (1/4)

(2/4) Ne will literally take any idea, feeling, thought, and find
connections. If, as an ENTP, I only use Ti and Fe to supplement my Ne,
it means that although my ideas will be solid logically and socially
(that they make sense in and of themselves), they won’t necessarily be
applicable to reality. They won’t help me be effective. Si takes
information in snapshots: bits and pieces that I have memorized within
myself.

(¾) If I’m trying to think of solutions, I will recall some facts:
This memory exists. This gives Ne a place to jump off from, and Ti to
logic against. Because Si is experiential, it helps to predict what
something will BE like. It grounds Ne in something solid to allow it to
generate real world connections. Without Si, ideas float in space, and
without something experiential to reference inside your head, you feel
lost and without grounding (existential crisis).

(4/4) The Ne-Si loop also leads to a richness and novelty of ideas. In
order to continue to experience the rush of new ideas, you need
something to feed your Ne. Constantly having new experiences for Si to
take in and file, leads to a larger Si bank, and ideas more fleshed out
with REALITY. This is why it’s so important for ENTPs to learn by doing
despite being Ns. Bit of a long post, this. Loved your theory; hope you
like this! -Vi of entptyping 🙂

Ah thank you for sharing – this is much simpler and makes a lot more sense that what I was thinking.  I also kind of enjoy grounding yourself in context with actually lying on the floor (a place ENTPs in a crisis often seem to find themselves), since it is pretty much as close as you can be physically to where you want to be mentally.

LMAO WHY DONT U ANSWER ME WAS TUPAC SHAKUR AN ENFP? FORTHE LOVEOFGOD PLS

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Here is how the ask process works:

You ask me a question. 

If it’s a not-a-typing post, I answer it when I get the chance, because there aren’t that
many of them and otherwise I just sit there thinking about them forever.

If
it’s a typing post, such as a request for Tupac Shakur’s type, it gets
copied and pasted into a spreadsheet, where I am now keeping all my
asks, because there are too many in my inbox and it makes it difficult to
scroll.

At the moment, I have exactly 698 people to
type.  For those of you keeping track that is, at two posts a day, nearly enough for a year of posts.  At the rate I’m being sent asks, I am less and less likely to be able to answer them all.

When a person gets typed, they go in my queue.  It can be a
couple days, or a couple of weeks before the person shows up in posts.  
The most I’ve had at once is about 3 months.  (Don’t get too excited,
though, Tupac isn’t in the queue either.)

Right now, the queue is
filled with people I sort of already knew and just haven’t posted yet,
because I have very few people in my queue, it keeps running out, and I
am super busy right now so I don’t have a lot of time to spend typing
people.  Like, I know I keep odd hours, so maybe I give the impression that I am sitting around on tumblr all the time, but I do actually work.

All that said, I remember looking Tupac up before.  I don’t
remember if I just ran an image search or actually watched video,
so this is preliminary and may change, but I had the impression he was an
ESFP.

yes, style* sorry about thatok, so, i thank you for your well thought-out and patient reply, and i do feel sorry for the whole ‘ask box’ spamming thing. but i’m about to do it again :P this’ll take a while. i don’t use Fi when typing people because it clouds my Ne (I’m ENFP, Ne-Fi-Te-Si with strong Ti, and i’m also a scientist). i use Fi only to see if they’re being truthful or not, but otherwise it’s Ne-Te-Si. feynman’s area of research varied; first he started off with mathematics (plain old

algebra, arithmetic, then trig and calculus) because he was so
fascinated by the way it enables you to look at the world (my Te would
call this pure abstraction, but he looked at it thru Ti, and sure
enough, mathematics is a very Ti thing)his entire account of all these
experiences was very Fe-Si, especially his various emotional-looking
outbursts (emotional-looking because he was using Ne to convey ideas,
and when Ne is more primary than a feeling function, the feeling behind a
statement isn’t

necessarily as extensive as the power to convey the statement itself). i
agree that he did feel pride, but he does get very nostalgic about the
past – that’s why he took the same approach with his kids that his
father took with him, because it was known to him. he was also very much
into appreciating old cultures and traditions that he didn’t have a
disdain for (hence his ridiculous account of trying to learn Japanese in
Kyoto :D). his Si also gave him a deep disdain for fake honors.

when he was 15 he got into calculus just for the fun of it (even though
he was told he wasn’t allowed to, that he was too young), and developed a
myriad of new methods to make differentiation and integration easier
(especially “under the sign” differentiation – that’s why they chose him
for the manhattan project). he was always interested in physics, and
slowly but surely he got into reading dirac’s books (at least he claimed
they were dirac’s) on QED and found it an amazing challenge when he

read “some great ideas are here needed” (feynman had a tendency to quote
people verbatim, which is indicative of Si, but not necessarily
sufficient evidence — non-Si users CAN quote they just don’t have very
much of a tendency to do so)within QED, he developed a myriad of methods
including path integral formulation, representations of subatomic
particles by means of feynman diagrams, and also making way for the
field of quantum computing, and even nanotech (especially replacing
turing machines)

during his life, he was a very gregarious person, acquainted with and
skillful at maintaining relationships with people from all walks of life
and all possible professions (yes an ESTP can be gregarious but
feynman’s choice of friends ranged from the mundane to the bizarre, Se
is more consistent). his research and his demeanor toward people is very
consistent with ENTP. if he were an Ni user (such as say, isaac
newton), he would be far more inclined toward developing a practical
theory.

newton’s laws of motion got upgraded to einstein’s relativity but he was
still Ne-aux and failed to take a lot of misconceptions into account.
feynman is Ne-primary, so he never actually was looking for any kind of
theory of everything (his own words) because he didn’t know that it was
there. he was there to imagine “the crazy ways things can be” to find
the fun in “finding things out”. i don’t want to sound harsh but i think
your Fi-Si are getting in the way of your Ne. I’m Ne-dom and trust it.

Whoa, that is a lot of words.  But look, this is not going to convince me, unfortunately.  Again, for me, if I think he’s an ESTP, I can explain anything he does as being an ESTP thing.  If you want to change my mind, you need to show me why the other 100+ ESTPs I’ve typed are actually N types.  Because they’re what I’m basing Feynman’s typing on.  If you can prove my pattern is wrong, I’d move them all in a heartbeat.

And hey, there is a chance, because I know there are people I’ve got typed wrong (my Fi screeches when I scroll past them in the type tag), but Feynman fits extremely well into ESTP patterns I’ve identified for all his profession is unusual for his type.