INTP = Ti Ne Si Fe

Ti (Introverted Thinking):

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Clarification: Ti involves clarifying definitions to get more precision.
This often involves finding just the right word to clearly express an
idea concisely, crisply, and to the point. Using Ti is like having an
internal sense of the essential qualities of something, noticing the
fine distinctions that make it what it is and then naming it.
Principle Understanding: Ti involves figuring out the principles on
which something works and then evaluating according to these
principles and whether something fits the framework or model. Ti
ponders the apparent chaos of the world in order to extract from it
the universal truths and principles that can be counted on. These
principles, once extracted, will provide the logical structure on
which to build strategies.

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Situational Logic: Ti is not conceptual and linear. Its body based
and holistic, and it operates by way of visual, tactile, or spatial
cues, inclining us to reason experientially rather than analytically.
Ti, with its all-at-once approach to life, doesnt require exact
predictability before it takes action. Its decisions are based on the
probabilities and it leaves room for the random and unexpected. Ti
uses hands-on experience to recognize, in the midst of action,
which variables are best taken into account and which are irrelevant
to our goal. Thus, Ti always involves perceptual skills. Ti is not just
a matter of responding to immediate perceptual stimuli. Its a
decision-making process. When one is thinking in an introverted
way, they are coordinating their behaviors with the variables in a

situation related to our intended effect. Ti helps to understand what

it means to be I harmony with the parts of a situation that are still
in flux. When were involved in something that interests us, we
dont distinguish our thoughts form the tacit level of information
were relying on. Were part of the process, changing its nature by
changing ourselves.

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Dispassion: Ti types are usually level-headed, objective,
impersonal, yet intensely involved in problem solving. They are
rigorous with their thoughts and analysis, choosing the exact words
that convey precisely what is meant. Ti types maintain the utmost
objectivity. They approach people and events as dispassionate
observers, with the goal of arriving at the most comprehensive
truth possible. Ti types typically do not take constructive criticism
and disagreement personally. They often welcome tough,
unrelenting critique as an aid to achieving the highest levels of
accuracy and objectivity.

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Situational Analysis: Ti is analyzing and categorizing; this involves
an internal reasoning process of deriving subcategories of classes
and sub-principles of general principles. These can then be used in
problem solving, analysis, and refining of a product or an idea. This
process is evidenced in behaviors like taking things or ideas apart
to figure out how they work. The analysis also involves looking at
different sides of an issue and seeing where there is inconsistency.
In so doing, we search for a leverage point that will fix problem
with the least amount of effort or damage to the system. We
engage in this process when we notice logical inconsistencies

between statements and frameworks, using a model to analyze

situations, find root causes and foresee consequences. They are
curious and capable of explaining complex political, economical or
technological problems, Taking great pleasure in explaining all the
factors and intricacies.

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Suppression: Ti and Fe have a suppressive relationship. While one
must withdraw and be dispassionate of the feelings of others in
order to use their subjective personal logic, Fe ignores the personal
ones personal logic and focuses on the feelings and needs of
others.

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Ne (Extroverted Intuition):

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Pattern Surfing: Ne involves interpreting situations and
relationships, and picking up meanings and interconnections,
seeing patterns emerging. Ne is useful in getting the gist of a
situation very quickly. It has an uncanny instinct for spotting trends
and possible future developments, often before others are even
mildly aware of them.

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Brainstorming: Ne involves entertaining a wealth of possible
interpretations from just one idea. Using this process, we can
juggle many different ideas, thoughts, beliefs, and meanings in our
mind at once with the possibility that they are all true. By using this
process one can really appreciate brainstorming and trust what

emerges, enjoying imaginative play with scenarios and combining

possibilities, using a kind of cross-contextual thinking.

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Improvisation: Words, ideas and possibilities spew effortlessly
from Ne using types. They are keen improvisers, and they are
rarely caught off guard; there is always something up their sleeve.

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Change Initiation: Ne initiates change and often is prone to
trespassing a few known boundaries to take themselves and others
where no one has been before. Their faith in possibilities and belief
in the benefit of change often inspires others to follow. They are
challenging, ingenious and innovative. They will give their best to
what appears to be an impossible challenge, a place unknown to
man or beast. Ne also can involve catalyzing people and
extemporaneously shaping situations, spreading an atmosphere of
change through the emergent leadership.

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Inspirational Energy: Ne types, when inspired, are fearless and
tireless. Their energy will know no limits. They possess the ability
to go without food or rest, beyond other personality types limits.
Ne types are easily inspired and their enthusiasm is contagious to
others around them causing them to become inspired as well.

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Suppression: Ne and Si have a suppressive relationship. Si wants
plant everything down to what is known, and Ne wants to bounce
to new possibilities. Si shuts down Ne when demanding that there
are no other possibilities besides what is already known.

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Si (Introverted Sensing):

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Reliability: Si types are dependable, reliable and trustworthy. They
like to belong to solid organizations that have reasonable in their
ambitions and loyal to their employees. They are thorough and
conscientious in fulfilling their responsibilities.

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Practicality: Once an Si type accepts a project, they will see it to
the end. They manage their time well and are realistic about how
much time and resources will be needed. They derive great
pleasure from perfecting existing techniques with the goal of
maximizing efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

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Memory: Si is reviewing past experiences and recalling stored
impressions. Si often involves storing data and information, then
comparing and contrasting the current situation with similar ones.
The immediate experience or words are instantly linked with the
prior experiences, and we register a similarity or a difference. Si is
operating when we see someone who reminds of someone else.
Sometimes the feeling associated with the recalled image comes
into our awareness along with the information itself. The process
involves reviewing the past to draw on the lessons of history,
hindsight, and experience. Si types tend to have a good memory
for specific facts that are necessary in their day-to-day life at work
and at home. When one uses Si, we dont adjust to our surface
impressions; we package them and take them with usin the form
of facts, numbers, signs and memories. We dont remember, or

even notice, everything that we see, hear, taste, touch and smell
during the course of our lives. Only some things strike us as
important, useful, familiar, or exciting enough to convert into
mental contentthat is, into facts that we retain over time. Si
guides in this selection, and it prompts us to reconcile our new
impressions with the ones weve already stored.

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Attention to Detail: Si types are careful and orderly in their
attention to facts and details, Si is accumulating data and seeking
details information and links to what is known. With Si, there is
often a great attention to detail and getting a clear picture of goals
and objectives and what is to happen. Si is recognizing the way
things have always been.

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Stability: With Si there can be a oneness with ageless customs
that help sustain civilization and culture, and protect what is known
and long-lasting. The Si type tends to be rather modest, traditional
and conventional, to like sensible clothing, to be thrifty, careful and
wise with both money and possessions. They may keep possessions
for a lifetime and treasure those that were given to them. Si types
have a developed sense of citizenship and accountability. From an
Si viewpoint, immediate conditions have no stable meaning. Theyre
just an influx of data impinging on the senses, and the response to
these impressions depends on mood, state of mind, desires and
feelings. Its our commitments and priorities, the facts we hold
inalienable that give our circumstances enduring significance.
Knowing what matters, whats worth keeping or building again,
gives a sense of continuity and security. It gives direction in the

midst of a crisis, or helps to weather a loss of faith that immediate

feelings would not equip us to handle. All things flow away like
water, but the ground of our self-experience remains. Si types are
typically seen as well grounded in reality, trustworthy, and
dedicated to preserving traditional values and time-honored
institutions.

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Suppression: Si and Ne have a suppressive relationship. The
chaos on unpredictability of Ne renders the reliance of the past data
obsolete in that it cannot be reliably trusted if the environment is
constantly changing.

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Fe (Extroverted Feeling):

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Personal Connection: Fe is connecting with others. The process of
Fe often involves a desire to connect with (or disconnect from)
others and is often evidenced by expressions of warmth (or
displeasure) and self-disclosure. They carry conversations well,
finding common ground with their speaker. They tend to find the
correct and gracious way to respond in any given situation, no
matter how tense or uncomfortable it is. Fe types typically radiate
goodwill and enthusiasm. They are optimistic about life in general
and human potential in particular. They prefer to focus on the
positive, harmonious and uplifting aspects of people and human
relations, paying little attention to negative, pessimistic, limiting,
and divisive messages, situations and conclusions. Their primary

goal is to create and maintain good feeling and harmony among

people.

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Personal Consideration: Fe is considering others and the group
organizing to meet their needs and honour their values and
feelings. Adjusting to and accommodating others, and deciding if
something is appropriate or acceptable to others. The social
graces, such as being polite, being nice, being friendly, being
considerate, and being appropriate, often revolve around the
process of Fe. Laughing at jokes when others laugh, and trying to
get people to act kindly to each other also involves Fe. Using this
function, one responds according to expressed or even unexpressed
wants and needs of others. Fe types are careful not to hurt others
feelings and try to take others well-being into account. If they
cannot avoid telling someone an Unpleasant truth, they will
carefully soften the message by putting it in an affirmative context.
For Fe types, unconditional positive regard is a strongly held value.
They are always focused on the other person, feeling a glow when
those around them are happy, and troubled when something is
amiss.

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Ritualizing: Fe is maintaining societal, organizational, or group
values. Family, friend, and co-worker arent states of emotion.
Theyre categories of human alliance, organized by degree of
relatedness. What we are doing, when we use these categories, is
accommodating our specific experience of people to the conceptual
shapes the terms offer. This is a rational process, not a sentimental
one. These standards constitute one aspect of our societal value

system. They set up conventions that tell us how relationships are

supposed to be conducted and what responsibilities they entail.

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Social Awareness: Fe is conceptual and analytic. It encourages us
to make rational choices, to measure our options for relationship
against external standards of behaviors. [Customs] Fe prompts in
this regard are not a matter of emotion, impulse, or doing what we
learned in kindergarten. These are secular ritualsvisible signs that
mark a participants membership in the community at large. Such
rituals can touch us, but they arent occasions of sentiment. Theyre
a vocabulary, part of our feeling lexicon. They submit to collective
form an experience ordinarily confined to individual history,
allowing us to express the kinds of relationships important to us as
people. Social values mark these wares of decision making that go
beyond one persons immediate experience to affect the community
as a whole. Apart from questions of moral rectitude, our behaviors
toward others have implications, whether we intend them or not. Fe
types seek continuity through harmonious relationships and
collective values. They excel at picking up on the tone of a situation
and acting accordingly, adding warmth to a cool setting or turning
sour into sweet.

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Team building: They will naturally seek to know what people do
well, what they enjoy, where and how they work, and understand
what they need in order to make the appropriate connections with
other people. They weave and strengthen the collective fabric of
social conventions and interactions. Fe types seem to have an
infinite of acquaintances from all walks of life and are always on the

lookout for people in need and those who can help out.
Inclusiveness is important and they are particularly sensitive to
those who are excluded. As team players and project leaders, they
have a gift for rallying their players, focusing on what is being done
right and each members strengths. They are loyal and they expect
loyalty. They are natural cheerleaders, often expressing support,
gratitude, and encouragement, and heaping praise onto those they
appreciate. They take note of what is being done and what needs
doing, offering their help and assistance wherever necessary.

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Suppression: Fe and Ti have a suppressive relationship. Fe
devotes itself to the feelings of the collective, and must ignore ones
personal logic in order to satisfy the customs of the tribe.

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Ni (Introverted intuition):

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Perspective Shifting: Using Ni a person can shift their
perspectives, view and understand things from different angles and
in different ways, each giving insights, synthesizing information and
trying to get to the best outcome for the problem at hand and
accomplish a vision of the future. Perspectives are often evoked by
focusing on physical symbols, archetypes, totems, and other
abstractions like visual models. This ability allows the Ni user to see
the underlying meaning and universal truths of natural law behind
symbols and abstractions, and then apply them in other places that
appear unrelated or contradictory.

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Meaningful Insight: Ni involves synthesizing the seemingly
paradoxical or contradictory, which takes understanding to a new
level. Using this process, one can have moments when completely
new, unimagined realizations come to them. Quite often during
times of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, when the
mind is allowed to wander freely, the Ni seems to take over and can
produce the sudden clarifying insights. Ni is a way of seeing things
that rise above competing views. Engaging this process starts with
entering a state of withdrawal from the world in order to
purposefully gain an insight or realization. These insights may
manifest as "aha!" experiences, the kind of thing that "pops" into
your head while you're taking a shower. Once these insights come

to pass they can align them with their global model transforming it
into an updated perspective of the world and future.

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Prediction: Ni is always looking for implications of how the future
will unfold. Ni types often find themselves laying out how the future
will unfold based on unseen trends and telling signs. Because of
this curious power that Ni users have, they tend to be seen as
having a psychic or prophetic quality to them.

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Visionary Drive: The sense of the future and the realizations that
come from Ni have sureness and an imperative quality that seem to
demand action and help us stay focused on fulfilling our vision or
dream of how things will be in the future. The Ni user can hold the
ideal future society or system within their Ni, and rigorously drive
toward this goal to turn it into reality.

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Independence of Mind: Ni dominants confidently trust their
intuitions, insights, ideas, and inspirations - often no matter what
others say. Their thoughts become part of who they are, and they
are completely independent of the world the live in. Ni dominants
are the most independent minded of all other types, the insights
they pick up on in their lives are completely original and subjective.
For this reason, many Ni dominants feel like aliens, as if they
perceive a completely different reality from everyone else.

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Suppression: Ni and Se have a suppressive relationship. Ni causes
the person to withdraw from the active sensual environment in
order to work effectively. The slightest nudge, impulse noise, or

visual flash can knock a person completely out of Ni and derail their
train of thought. Because of this, Ni dominants cant stand being
interrupted, and prefer to surround themselves with only the most
pleasant of sensations.

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Te (Extroverted Thinking):

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Thirst for Challenge: ETJs love a challenge, especially one that
will allow tangible improvement in productivity, efficiency or
profitability. They are direct, finding the quickest, most direct path
between what is and what should be. ETJs love a problem,
especially one that will make full use of their competencies, their
logic and sense of order, justice and fair play. Many Te types find
competition to be stimulating and fun. Fairness and respecting the
same set of rules, so may the best one win. And since they readily
acknowledge that there will be a winner and a loser, they would
simply much rather be the winner. So they hone their strategies on
the fine knife of experience and sharpen their skills to meet the
next challenge head on. ETJs love having greater challenges
bestowed on them as a result of having successfully met the last,
as this attests to their competence and skills.
Directness: Te types are direct and honest with most things that
displease them and expect others to do the same. Their
communication style is honest direct, and to the point, and the
prefer others to be similarly candid with them.

Planning & Decision Making: Contingency planning, scheduling,

and quantifying utilize the process of Te. Te types enjoy making
decisions, and the like to be in control of things and value efficiency
and effective decision making. They are comfortable in leadership
positions and readily accept responsibility for making things
happen.

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Organizing: Te is segmenting, systematizing, structuring and
organizing for efficiency, Te helps us to organize our environment
and ideas through charts, tables, graphs, flow charts, outlines, and
so on, ETJs excel at implementing ideas and are often on the
lookout for good ideals worthy of their attention. They are quick to
organize, orchestrate, find resources, coordinate, and follow
through to the end of a project. Te types are seen by others and
see themselves as having rigorous standards that typically take
precedence over both their own, and others personal needs.

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Protocols: Te is checking for consequences, monitoring for
standards or specifications being met and deciding if something is
working or not. Te is setting boundaries, guidelines and parameters.
In written or verbal communication, Te helps us notice when
something is missing. Te harmonizes us with the general ideas
about reality, so most the standards of order we employ are
collectively determined. When one uses Te, they are recognizing
that certain principles of order are always true. The truth of Te,
in this respect, is not its scientific accuracy but its rational utility. It
doesnt matter that other cultures have conceptualized times,
space, and seasonal progression differently than we do. The bottom

line is that our Te principles are reliable enough to use as

consensual benchmarks, thereby freeing us from the dictates of
immediate experience. Te is a social languagea vocabulary that
creates common ground, rights, and expectations among people
whose life experiences may be very different.

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Suppression: Te and Fi have a suppressive relationship. The
individual personal values of Fi can get in the way of the standard
protocol that Te has everyone abide by.

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Fi (Introverted Feeling):

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Essence Reading: Fi is considering importance and worth. It
allows one to decide if something is of significance and worth
standing up for. It serves as a filter for information that matches
what is valued, wanted, or worth believing in. There can be a
continual weighing of the situational worth or importance of
everything and patient balancing of the core issues of peace and
conflict in lifes situations. It helps Fi types know when people are
being fake or insincere or if they are basically good. It is like having
an internal sense of the essence of a person or a project and
reading fine distinctions among feeling tones.

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Moral Compass: Fi is clarifying values to achieve accord. Fi types
have high personal moral standards and are particularly sensitive to
inconsistencies in their environment between what is being said and
what is being done. Empty promises of adhering to something they

value set off an inner alarm and they may transform themselves
into a powerful crusading force.

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Empathy: Fi types are usually gentile and kind. They are sensitive
to others pain, restlessness or general discomfort and strive to find
happiness, balance and wholeness for themselves in order to help
others find joy, satisfaction and plenitude. They are deeply
empathetic, and they are usually tolerant and open-minded,
insightful, flexible and understanding. They have good listening
skills, are genuinely concerned and insightful. At their best, they
inspire others to be themselves. These types focus on the good in
others, so they tend to downplay others faults, often forgiving them
for the slights of minor hurtful behavior. Their habitual approach to
people is nonjudgmental, understanding and forgiving. They seek
to affirm all parties in a controversy and thus readily the validity of
contradictory points of view. Underlying their characteristic
tolerance is an overarching natural curiosity. They find the diversity
in the world immensely appealing.

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Devotion: Intense and passionate about their values and deeply
held beliefs. They are quietly persistent in raising awareness of
cherished causes and often fight for the underdog in quiet or notso-quiet ways.

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Idealism: They live life in an intently personal fashion, acting on
the belief that each persona is unique and that social norms are to
be respected only if they do not hinder personal development or
expression. Moral choices prompted by the Fi types are not derived

from legal principles or the social obligations that accrue to our

roles in the world. Theyre derived from the subjective experience
of being human, our will to deal with a situation in terms of human
ideal. Fi bypasses structural considerations and puts human value
first. They place a high value on affirming both their own and
others individuality and uniqueness.

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Suppression: Fi and Te have a suppressive relationship. Te is the
protocol that everyone must abide by, and it ignores the values of
the individual. Te suppresses Fi in that it makes no acceptation for
anyone and holds everyone to the same standard. While Fi ignores
structural protocol and puts their values first.

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Se (Extroverted Sensing):

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Scanning Environment: Se is noticing changes and opportunities
for action, by scanning for sensual reactions and data. It notices
relevant facts and occurrences in a sea of data and experiences,
learning all the facts we can about the immediate context of area of
focus and what goes on in that context. An active seeking of more
and more input to get the whole picture may occur until all sources
of input have been exhausted or something else captures their
attention.

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Sensual Experience: Se is experiencing the immediate context,
and accumulating experiences. Se occurs when we become aware
of what is in the general world in rich detail. Se types have a zest
for living life to the fullest by way of multiplying experiences.

Always on the alert for what needs immediate attention or what

might provide a bit of action, excitement or entertainment, they
engage quickly with their environment. Se types are attuned to the
environment and the myriad of colors, textures, sounds, beauty
and the sensuousness of it all. Their attention will always go
towards whatever provides the keenest impression on their senses.
With Se, data is accepted without discrimination and is only later
subjected to sorting and selection through their introverted
judgment functions. This, in conjunction with the immediacy of
their perceptual process, may underlie their natural affinity for
sensual and aesthetic experience.

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Active Energy: Se is taking action in the physical world; it is
operating when we freely follow exciting physical impulses or
instincts as they come up and enjoy the thrill of action in the
present moment. A oneness with the physical world and a total
absorption may exist as we move, touch, and sense what is around
us. The process involves instantly reading cues to see how far we
can go in a situation and still get the impact we want or respond to
the situation with presence. Se types often have an uncanny ability
to respond appropriately in cases of an emergency, often having
excellent reflexes, and they can act without thinking. Se comes into
play when events are changing so rapidly that linear analysis is
impossible. They respond immediately, on the basis of visual and
tactile information, guided by what they done before. Se types are
pragmatic and realistic with a talent for being whatever they need
to be in order to make a situation work for them.

Fun Loving: Se types seek and enjoy freedom, are good-natured,

direct, tolerant and often the ones who provide levity. They also
tend to have natural mediating skills. Se types have a way of
dealing with people on a very equal platform and are not easily star
struck. Rank, celebrity, and status mean little when they are face to
face with another individual. Se types love variety and are curious
and adventurous, enjoying the unexpected. As long as things are
moving along, they are happy. They like to keep things simple and
immediate, going with the flow. Se types are helpful in a very
concrete ways, providing the correct tools or specific service the
person requires. They love having fun and if things are too quiet
they may provide the entertainment or distraction.

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Stage Presence: The Se types have a feel for atmosphere, style,
and image. They know what people are interesting in and like being
recognized as paradigmatic of the trend. ESPs often speak of that
peculiar thrill of knowing their game, knowing when luck or timing
or the cards or and audience is with them. An ESP assesses
whats going on, plays on it, and takes pleasure in the escalating
sense of mastery. You can always tell by the ESPs in the crowd
exactly what pop culture currently regards as admirable, stylish,
fascinating, outrageous, or exciting. They become the experiential
standard by which others image and attitude are measured. Some
ESPs have a kind of moving-star qualitya self-assurance, a
charisma, an appetite for lifeThat others enjoy and find infectious.
It should be granted that ESPs dont feel unduly vulnerable to
external influence. Indeed, they cherish freedom and individuality.
The worst fate they can imagine is to be trapped by others ideas

about normal or typical behaviour. ESPs can therefore become

paradigms of what can be acquired, said, done, not withstanding
accepted social wisdom. ESPs are magnetic, clever, full of energy
and enthusiasm, they make a room come alive, thrive on attention,
and are attentive in return.

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Suppression: Se and Ni have a suppressive relationship. When Ni
is attempted, it pulls one out of the sensations of the present outer
world and into the theoretical and abstract world of Ni. Se
dominants prefer to be in the here and now, and sometimes find Ni
to be overwhelming, in that it can give them a feeling of losing their
footing, and lifting them off steady ground.

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Decoding the MBTI acronym into the Cognitive

functions hierarchy:

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The MBTI code is meant to be a short hand method of indicating a personality
types top two functions. The best way to understand a personality type is to
understand their use of cognitive functions, and in order to see these, one may
have to decode them from their MBTI.

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INTP
We will take INTP as our example for this exercise. The first thing we can see is
this type is an introverted type, this means that this types dominant function
must be an introverted function. The J and P dichotomy refers to whether the
judgment and perception located in your top two functions are extroverted or
not. Therefore, if you have an extroverted perception function in your top two,
then you are a P, and if you have an extroverted judgment function in your top
two, you are a J. The INTP is a P, that means that their base form of perception
must be extroverted, and from the N and S dichotomy, we can see if the
person gathers their information from the Senses or Intuition. Thus, at this
point we know that the INTP must using Ne in their top two functions. From
the T and F dichotomy we can see if a persons base form of judgment is
thinking or feeling, the INTP is a T, and since the INTP already has an
extroverted function in their top two, their Thinking function must be
Introverted. Going back to knowing that their introverted function is dominant,
we can conclude that there dominant and Auxiliary functions are Ti and Ne,
respectively. The tertiary function will always be the suppression function of
the Auxiliary, and for Ne, it must be Si. The Inferior function will always be the
Suppression function of the Dominant, and for Ti, it must be Fe. Therefore, the
INTPs top four cognitive functions hierarchy is
Ti-Ne:Si-Fe.