Podcast - Episode 0132 - Your Inferior Cognitive Function

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Not uncommon for a person to start doubting their personality type after learning about cognitive functions because they don’t think of their 3-year-old as a blind spot.

When a cognitive function is in the dominant or auxiliary (Driver/Copilot), we have an impetus to pursue it as far down the rabbit hole as it goes. But if it is tertiary or inferior (10 yr old/3 yr old) we are less interested in reaching the acme of those processes.

Car Model

Inferior (3-year-old) ability often comes up for people in situations where environment or context required them to go to 3-year-old a lot.

Each of us is a complex human being with an infinite amount of influencers. Nobody is identical to anybody else.

• Examples of using Se at its best:
  • Michael Jackson had amazing control over his body. His body was his instrument.
  • Roger Bannister first to break 4-minute mile.
• INTJ- Te process has them honoring Se more because they recognize their body as a finely tuned instrument that will perform most efficiently when it is kept fit. Because of this, some INTJs question being Se inferior.
• INFJ – the Inferior process is Se – “Sensation.” Se strength is being in touch with their body wholly. Some INFJs may say they love dancing, yoga, or exercise because they like being in their body. But if you are using Se as a dominant or auxiliary you would have a sophistication with Se that would be far different than occasional use demonstrates.
• Se at its height can appear super human.
  • The ability to pick up any instrument and play it naturally.
  • Or taste some spices and then know exactly how they should be used and what they pair best with.
  • Improvisation at a level that is unbelievable to those observing.
  • Se mastery doesn’t mean you are good at one of the above. It means you are good at all of the above.
  • Se mastery is transferable. Se inferior could show up as mastery with cooking OR dancing OR music, but rarely is does it span all areas without a large amount of practice and time.
  • Now ask yourself if you would be interested in becoming a master at all things Se.
• Te “Effectiveness” (inferior for INFP/ISFP) – highly prized in most western civilizations.
  • Te Acme – extraordinary, mind-boggling feat of creating a super highway system with all its on-ramps and off-ramps and making sure it is sustainable for the foreseeable future. Delegating to the necessary skilled labor and getting it all done in the proper order and season.
  • Does that sound like something you would or could do? That is Te at its finest.
• Fe “Harmony” (inferior for INTP/ISTP) – May seem like a simple cognitive function to master. Most people can tell when someone is emoting or sense the emotions in a room after a conflict has occurred.
  • Fe Acme – David Tutera is a wedding planner extraordinaire. Manages every detail of the wedding and creates the vision of bride and groom. Also, manages emotions of bride/groom and wedding party. Meeting their needs at an ascendant level.
  • The only time you notice Fe is when it isn’t happening. When mom forgets to make lunch.
  • Fe Connects people to a single vision or set of values. Would an IxTP even care about such things?
• Ne “Exploration” (inferior of ISTJ/ISFJ) a certain level of creativity comes with Ne.
  • Ne Acme – Chris Guillebeau – Art of Nonconformity – officially traveled to every single country on the planet. He had to go to great lengths to design a life that supported this goal.
  • Robin Williams could improvise content for an extended period of time on stage. Skill development as well as natural talent.
  • The acme of Ne. Ability to deal well with novelty. Handle self expertly no matter what the novelty happens to be.
  • Natural talent, skill built, the desire to build that skill, reframe life to build that skill, and transfer that skill to all areas of life.
• Si “Memory” (Inferior for ENTP/ENFP) – desire to build precedence and create procedures and maintain tradition. Some ENxPs may have built up the organizational procedures that make them believe they are not Si inferior. Joel Mark Witt has created numerous step-by-step procedures to help his business to function efficiently
  • Si Acme – Martha Stewart turned the ability to create memories into a huge business. Templates to replicate amazing experiences: holidays, home, meals, etc.
  • Would you want to archive the Library of Congress?
  • Si dominants like to reach out and create archives for others as well as selves.
• Fi “Authenticity” (Inferior of ESTJ/ENTJ) – done well it is about being in touch with how things make you feel. Ethical considerations and artistic self-expression – languageless expressions. ExTJs who question type may be identifying with Fi due to a sense of conviction or art
  • Fi Acme – Anthony Robbins holds long multi-day workshops where he reads and manages emotions of hundreds/thousands of people at one time.
  • Artists who close themselves off from reality and create extraordinary works of art that speak to everyone.
  • Fi Acme can emotion map, hold space, and humanize for large amounts of people at once.
• Ti “Accuracy” (Inferior of ENFJ/ESFJ) – usually described in basic terms around being good at math/science or being able to teach and be rational. Most people have that capacity.
  • Ti Acme – able to maintain and hold insane amounts of data and clean slice it.
  • See things as pure in a data sense.
  • Look at some of the greatest debaters of all time. The ability to remove all emotional attachment from the thing being debated.
  • Ability to separate own emotional attachments from the data. See data as-is.
• Ni “Perspectives” (inferior for ESTP/ESFP) – When done well it is about shifting perspectives and seeing things into the distant future. Knowing how your mind and other’s work. Predicting patterns that will develop over time. ESxPs might have some awareness around things and some skill with prediction. ESxPs do have some ability to get into the minds of those they are close to. But the question is, can they translate that to everyone, including strangers on a bus.
  • Ni Acme – Long timelines, deep meanings, deep insight.
  • Can you predict how people in the future will be thinking? Isaac Asimov novels. The ability to get inside the minds of individuals so well that you can predict the kind of world they will be occupying in the future; or the world that they did occupy in the distant past.

1. Do you feel like you have a natural talent?
2. Do you feel like you have the skill developed?
3. Would you change your entire life to develop the skill?
4. Can you not only read it, but also write it?
5. And are those skills transferable?

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