The basic difference between ENTP and INTP is that ENTP are simplifiers and INTPs are complexifiers. An ENTP is the type of chap (or chapstick) that will see a bunch of stuff and find the signal in the noise. An INTP is the type of bloody-minded…er…um…chap that will take that reduced signal and build up […]
The Transcendent Function
The inferior function. Not really a good name for it. I call it the transcendent function. Now, that has a nice ring to it! And words are important, especially titles. I’ve had a few people asking me about the inferior function lately. Is the inferior function weak? Can the inferior function be used? I think […]
Remember Risky Business?
Tom Cruise is great. I can’t think of a better example of The American Type. As I said in my last article, America is ISTP. In addition to that, it is an enneatype 3 ISTP. For those that understand enneagram, great. For those that don’t, Google is your friend. 🙂 Winning. That is what America […]
America is ISTP
What is most American? Sign up and I’ll tell ya.
Extraverts Aren’t Necessarily Social: Part 2
An antisocial extravert? Huh? OK, calm down. This is not actually all that new an idea. To give you some idea of what I’m getting at, I’d ask you to go back in time to around the Greeks in their more golden age. They had come up with 4 basic temperaments, which they called humors: […]
Extraverts Aren’t Necessarily Social
Many people that I would consider an extraverted Myers-Briggs type aren’t social. I began to notice this with the ENFJ temperament (particularly the one falling at enneatype 8). Yet, in the popular consciousness, the traits of extraversion seem inextricably linked to a certain liking for social interaction. I’m going to challenge this firmly entrenched truism […]
The Inescapable Subjectivity of Astrology and Myers-Briggs
I would like to talk about the inherently subjective element in Astrology and Temperament Theory (of which Myers-Briggs is one example). A good part of the reason this site exists is to redress some of the imbalances caused by looking for one’s personality or temperament in the astrological chart. There has always been an x-factor […]
A Political Definition of Introverted Feeling (As a Reaction to Te)
I think one of the best ways to define the introverted feeling function of Myers-Briggs is as a reaction to extraverted thinking mandates, which are often political in nature. Ironically, introverted feelers are often the very type that keeps the system going, but, when power oversteps its boundaries too much, these very people are often […]
Introverted Feeling Themes
Herein comprises a set of notes I made on the weighty subject of introverted feeling. In other words, run for your fucking lives! Or better yet, sign up for a Starling subscription so you can read them. I know…choices, choices.
Got a Problem? Get a Program.
Computers exist to solve problems. Inasmuch as you are a computer, your Myers-Briggs temperament indicates the particular problem to be solved and the type of solution that you are best engineered to provide to that problem. So, by these lights, the basic problem of any temperament is the cognitive function that falls in the inferior […]
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