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This post was really helpful.I only wanted to post the poll... not really mediocrilly attempt to explain what may possibly be indicated. It is worth re-pointing out that the MBTI, as mentioned, merely indicates certain preferences.
When answering such questionnaires, the extreme 'N' type will have such enormous difficulties, as they will see that each answer is always possible given particular conditions; to which the extreme 'S' type will somewhat annoyingly (unless they are an extreme 'F', in which case the care for the other will mitigate the annoyance) respond 'of course it is possible, but which do you prefer?!!!!!'.
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Anyhow, here's my attempt (I'm doing this directly on-screen, and some notes may confuse text-book 'stuff'):The Introvert will generally find crowds and large social gatherings in which they have to interact with numerous strangers somewhat draining, extroverts will tend to find it exciting and charging.
- Introversion vs Extroversion note the order, not, of course, in any way bias to my own particular type...
In Jungian terminology (from which the MBTI stems), 'intuition' is used to indicate that a person is more likely to pay attention to the possibilities in any given situation, than the 'facts' which are present and focussed on by the 'sensing' preferenced person.
- iNtuition vs Sensing
The Sensing-iNtuition option also indicates which Perceptive function one prefers to utilise (see below).These indicate the preferred decision-making function (called 'judgement' in the MBTI).
- Thinking vs Feeling
Those who prefer to use their Thinking will test the decision against known givens, Feelers against the impact upon people.Those who tend to prefer to use their 'perceptive' function will look for new information or opportunities, those who prefer to use their 'judging' functions will opt for closure and completions.
- Perception vs Judgement
Ps may therefore have 1001 projects on the run, J's 10 completed ones and maybe a couple more on the go.
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I realise this is somewhat simplistic, and hope it helps
Especially the part about Judgement ...Perception.
I can see where as a reader I help people a lot with closure...I also bring in new info for them, but tying up lose ends seems to be a big part of why people want readings.
Also on a personal note I don't have 1001 projects started and laying around I like to do one thing at a time until it is complete.
So Judgment seems to be a bad word for this personality type as I think we add a bunch of baggage on to that word in our culture today.
Oh and I'm INFJ..