What’s the biggest unmet need that most Intuitives face?
While discussing the unique needs of Intuitives – or people who use intuition has their primary way of learning information – the same need pops up over and over gain. It’s what we at Personality Hacker call the Greatest Unmet Need of Intuitives. It’s actually pretty simple and very easy, and maybe because of that it’s importance is diminished and gets neglected.
What is that need? Highly abstract, conceptual conversation. It’s conversation that goes beyond the every day norm of chit-chat and ‘catching up’. Subjects like philosophy, ethics, science, idea-generation and possibilities thinking about the future and the meaning of reality. While it may feel great to an Intuitive that engage in this kind of conversation, they may not realize it’s a basic need.
This kind of conversation does two things for Intuitives:
1. It gives them energy, amps us up, and helps them see possibilities they hadn’t considered before. It’s like food for the mind, or mental calories, and for those who lead with intuition it may be necessary for basic psychological health.
2. It gives them freedom. It’s not always easy to find another person who will go down these rabbit holes with you conversationally, and sometimes the perpetual searching for it makes one feel like a freak. When an Intuitive finds someone who will do a ‘deep dive’, there’s an entire world of permission that opens up. Permission to think outside the box, to consider new ways of solving challenges and of thinking. This permission is extremely freeing, and it’s important to have that sense of permission.
One of the great run-off benefits of these conversations is the cross pollination ideas. If ideas are a technology, then intuitive conversation becomes a laboratory. The more they cross pollinate each other’s ideas, the more sophisticated they become so when they’re brought to the world they’re more fleshed out, useful, and a true gift.
If you’re an Intuitive, keep in mind that this kind of conversation isn’t just a nice to have, it’s a need to have.
To know definitively if you’re an Intuitive learning style, take the Genius Style Assessment. If you turn out as a Perspectives or Exploration genius, you’re an Intuitive.
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Hi and thank you so much! What a blessing to have found personality hacker. I’m an INFJ, and crave deep and meaningful conversation, but have nobody in my environment that can handle it nor participate, let alone understand. I feel misunderstood, emotionally neglected and deprived, and not only do I feel it very deeply, I also am so often (both with and without intent) misunderstood And simply knowing things, people just don’t get it. They think I’m nuts, and when it does play out, t’s too late for the damage is done. It has resulted in a lot of hardship in my life. I am past and beyond over chit-chat, and am rather alone than have my energy zapped. Thank god for internet and personality hacker!
I wonder if you could provide tips for satisfying this need. I am with an ISTJ partner and as an introvert myself (INTJ), I find it hard sometimes to get intuitive conversation that I need. Sometimes I rely on highly extroverted people like ENxP friends to get me going, but there are times when I go a long time without an ‘interesting’ conversation. :-(
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Oh, did not identify myself. I am an INFJ as MBTI describes. Also my BigFive points to same direction at “Global 5: sloan RLOAI; sloan+ RlOA|I|; primary Inquisitive; R(85%)L(68%)O(67%)A(61%)I(84%)” and even an early version of HEXACO gave me similar results. So I guess I am an INFJ.
Oh, absolutely! Had I missed my Intuitive friends and all those hours after hours of meaningful discussions full of creative thinking, mistakes, free association and everything that makes a discussion worthwhile I probably would live today either in an asylum or alone in total recluse.. if I would still be alive, that is.
Having constructive talk and conversation is to feed one’s mind. I’ve seen that with NJ’s but just as well with others. It only boils down to who can create such conversation that engages many, even the majority of personality types.