You make it sound like I’m the last hold-out desperately clutching on to the old ways. (“You can pry behaviour typing from my cold, dead hands, sonny!”)
I can tell you that it honestly never occurred to me to type with functions before someone asked me why I wasn’t doing it. I guess my question for you is: why don’t more people type like me? (And if anyone knows how functions got to be the typing method of choice, hook me up! I’m curious about why this is such a thing.)
I think accuracy is a good endgame and I strive in that general direction, but my main priority here is entertaining myself.
…I find your lack of imagination disturbing.
How about this: here are some possibilities to consider. Reblog and tag yourself with all that apply. Feel free to add more as they occur to you.
1. Take an online test!
2. Read some type profiles and identify with one.
3. Watch some videos of typed people and identify with them.
4. Identify with a function stack.
5. Pull scrabble tiles
(or DIY some letters onto pieces of paper) out of a bag. Let the universe decide!
6. Likewise, flipping a coin is an old standby. Once for each letter.
7. Hold a seance. Contact the spirits of Isabel Myers and Katherine Briggs.
8. Have someone who is always right type you instead.
9. Ask the people around you how they think about you until you arrive at a group consensus as to your MBTI-specific character traits.
10. Have your brain mapped as part of an MBTI psych experiment.
11. Acting exercise: treat each profile as a character. Try embodying each until you find the one that doesn’t feel like acting.
Body language and speech patterns mostly. Anything I’ve written about this can be found in my “not a typing post” tag.
Oh no, have I violated the sanctity of the typing process again? So soon?
I’m not sure what you want from me, other than to tell me I’m wrong (which – fine, go ahead), but for the record, if you have to couch what you’re going to say with, “I don’t mean to be offensive, but…”, I can guarantee you that the next thing you say will still be offensive.
There’s probably an interesting conversation to be had about the relative merits of both typing methods (and any others, should anyone think of some). I feel like they should complement, not threaten each other – we’re only trying to reach the same conclusion from different starting points.
I would like to know this, too! I don’t really use functions to type because I don’t understand how they manifest physically in a person.
That said, as a cross-check I sometimes think of Fe-Ti people as being affected by the people around them, whereas Fi-Te people have a firmer grip on their identity. Fe-Ti have to work harder at establishing their own boundaries. I don’t know how well that works out as an indicator, since it’s something I primarily distinguish through my Fi, and even then isn’t always noticeable to me.
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