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In this episode, Joel and Antonia talk about the difference between the thinking cognitive functions Introverted Thinking vs Extraverted Thinking.
In this podcast you’ll find:
- Introverted Intuition vs Extraverted Intuition podcast
- Sensing Personality Types podcast
- Two judging processes:
- Introverted Thinking (Ti) “Accuracy”
- Extraverted Thinking (Te) “Effectiveness”
- Car Model
- All TPs use Introverted Thinking
- All TJs use Extraverted Thinking
- Both thinking processes are judging processes that prefer impersonal criteria
- If you are a Thinker, you are going to have a Thinking process that is very influential for you.
- Even Feelers will find this interesting because all Feelers have Thinking processes somewhere in their car.
- Impersonal criteria = things that aren’t just about people metrics.
- Other data is also relevant because people aren’t always a trusted resource.
- If you are a Thinker, you aren’t a robot.
- You may think very strongly of how you impact people, but you also know there are other influencers, too.
- Sustainable, long game implications.
- Thinkers are not sociopaths.
- The Judging functions have attitudes – introverted and extraverted criteria
- Effectiveness is a Thinking function with an extraverted attitude – Te
- Accuracy is a Thinking function with an introverted attitude – Ti
- An Extraverted attitude is going to base its decisions on external criteria.
- Real world resources, timelines.
- All thinking processes want to see impact and effect.
- They want to determine what we should be doing.
- Outcomes and endgames are very important to all the judging processes.
- Effectiveness is the most tapped into how things play out in the real world.
- What is the return on investment?
- Did we accomplish the goal?
- What works?
- Effectiveness gets very good at taking in environment and context.
- How do we have to manage people to make sure they are operating at their highest potential?
- What is the ROI? What is the 80/20?
- Getting Things Done by David Allen
- The difference between a project and a task.
- A project has multiple tasks involved with it, like changing your oil.
- Effectiveness instinctively understands the difference between projects and tasks and can break each project into its itemized tasks.
- Effectiveness is great in a world where tons of resources need to be managed at any given time.
- They get really good at making quick decisions based on ROI and previously garnered metrics.
- What is the best course of action?
- Effectiveness understands other people’s potential.
- The biggest challenge Te has is the tendency to look for shortcuts.
- There is no such thing as a shortcut. Somebody is paying the price.
- Streamlining is important, but it can prevent the TJ from learning what they need to learn.
- Effectiveness is better than efficiency.
- When TJs are efficient, they are hoping for a higher return with as little output as possible.
- Effectiveness should be the gauge and efficiency should be the tool you use to get to effectiveness.
- Acceptable loss principal = spillage
- It can feel icky to other types, but it’s not always a bad thing.
- We need people to think in these terms because the whole world can’t always work out ideally.
- When acceptable spillage goes too high, then it is a sign that Effectiveness has lost its way.
- TJs need to be very deliberate about the impact they want to make.
- What is the endgame?
- What works and what is good?
- Introverted Thinking (Ti) – Accuracy
- Accuracy is more focused on ensuring that the internal thought processes are clean and uncorrupted
- More interested in process than result
- The Outcome at the end isn’t necessarily a priority.
- Internal metrics = greater subjectivity
- Extraverted Thinking is objective = did it work or not?
- Introverted thinking is about passing your own criteria, but its subjectivity isn’t based on feelings as much as data.
- What is true after we have removed desire?
- Info and data must be pure – ideally.
- Introverted thinking likes to go back to all the programming it has received and determining its value.
- Can I know that to be true?
- How much info is corrupt or unnecessary?
- How does it compare with other info I have already vetted?
- “Neurons that fire together, wire together.”
- Ti looks for relational pathways and false conflations.
- Some untrue elements may be wired to true data and accepted as true due to relational involvement.
- Accuracy is good at surgically removing the untrue info from the accurate info.
- What info can be trusted?
- Accuracy users can’t stop learning. They love to gather more info and root out the bad.
- It can be hard for an Accuracy user to share accurate info with someone who chooses to reject it in preference for bad info.
- Accuracy users needs to make sure they take in more info to add to the existing data framework.
- Accuracy at its best is skeptical of its own thoughts.
- If Ti takes shortcuts, the data may become corrupted.
- Extraverted Thinking looks at the result, and Introverted Thinking looks at the process.
- Introverted Thinking is very focused on integrity, whereas Extraverted Thinking doesn’t always see the value of integrity.
- When new info comes into the world of a TJ, it gets categorized by whether or not it is actionable.
- When new info comes into the world of a TP, it gets added to all the other info to be sorted and valued later.
- When info becomes so process focused that it loses sight of impact the TP may appear to be a jerk because no one is valuing their data.
- It may even corrupt its own data to meet the desired end.
- Introverted Thinking may not be practical when it comes to impact.
- Extraverted Thinking is less focused on clean process and more focused on impact.
- Accuracy sees info as ubiquitous and abundant. It has no problem sharing info freely, which can get it into trouble.
- Effectiveness sees info as limited. If all info is actionable, there is limited action that can be taken. Info is power, so it must be withheld.
- Effectiveness people can weaponize info, so they assume others will do the same.
- Accuracy is very free with info.
- TPs hate it when the info they share is corrupted.
- TJs withhold data and keep their cards close to their chest, so their intent is misunderstood by others.
- Relationship to info can hijack both of these types and their interaction with the world.
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I just finished listening to this, it’s been so enlightening in regards to my relationship dynamics. Thank you! I am infj and my husband is entj. His Te is constantly assuming action for whatever I share with him… Particularly feelings. Lol. And his Fi tends to take offence when I bring him into the feeling world because I don’t always understand his intent. We both get rather frustrated with each other in a lot of communication (unless we are jiving in our Ni, which is soooo much fun, but we often overindulge time wise and ignore my Fe and his Te and end up frustrated then too, lol). However this podcast in general has been exceedingly helpful for us in how to more effectively and harmoniously communicate with one another. I’ll be sharing this episode with him as I think he’ll find it interesting, considering Te is his dominant function. Funnily enough we used to think he was intj and I was enfj – the cognitive functions car model description has been exceedingly helpful.
Thank you Joel and Anotonia for providing the in depth analyses you do, and for being so welcoming; I’m finally choosing to be brave enough to share my thoughts with everyone here.
This was very helpful. I am an INFJ who has just started digging deeper into personality types to figure out a way to better relate to an INTJ in my life. Not only did this podcast give me insight into the other person, it helped me understand my own thought process as well. Introverted thinking is a very strong part of my personality. (I think it is little more like an unruly 18 year old who wants to move out of the house, than a 10 year old.) This helped me to understand why so many people resent my insistence on clean thinking. It seems obvious to me that everyone should want to clean up their thinking process! I enjoy a good argument, not just to win, but to find the holes in my own thinking. I don’t find many people who enjoy that process. When I try it with the wrong people, they get upset, which of course stresses me out because I’m an INFJ. This was very helpful in letting me see how I might use the gift of accuracy in a more productive way.
Haha I had the same reaction to Joel on this, and I think you’re right. Haha. I have learned a lot about introverted feeling from listening to Antonia explain a thing and then listening to Joel explain a thing from ostensibly the same angle. Usually it is askew. I am not wanting to point this out to knock Joel (in case you see this!). It reminds me of a good way to manage computer programmers where you have them estimate time on projects and over time you learn whether people are overestimators, underestimators, or bad estimators. If possible you prevent them from looking back or tracking their estimates because you don’t want them attempting to correct for their being, say, an underestimator. It’s cleaner if you instead use the consistency of their bad estimates to plan your sprints!
Listening to Joel explain things Antonia had explained is like this for me. I think it’s truly legitimately valuable to have an enfp and an Entp explain things, even if very often I feel like I am learning how Fi works by watching it fail to clean slice data.
And anyway I think Joel is brave for continually soldiering out alongside Antonia to discuss this stuff because I have seen many an enfp chased away from mbti and totally refusing to believe that like, Ti is a thing.
Which, I can relate, as i was shocked to discover that Fi was a thing. And I definitely didn’t believe it was at first. I just thought it was an excuse. Which is what I presume many Fi users ascribe Ti to being. Just some “tricky argument to avoid the central issue about the value of individuals or fill in blank___.” Like joel pointed out in this podcast: Ti can be probably mind blowingly Unfocused on outcome. Fi at least has Te on the other end being like “what works?”
Yes! Found what I was looking for: the best podcast at PH for entps. Been really wanting Antonia to let loose and explain Ti. This is the one.
I liked Antonia’s description of pulling out faulty lines that have wired together. I tend to think of this as like having bubbles of internally coherent ideas but as they start to merge they are misshapen; I have to run in circles to re-evaluate the larger context for internal consistency again; usually that means sanding off a few corners and killing some sacred cows. And so when the new larger bubble is perfect I look up like “hey look! I made it fit! All it took was eliminating this belief ive long held.” Then people either say “wow you are amazingly unbiased” or “how can I trust you when you change your mind so fast about deeply held beliefs.”
I think these ideas that are wired together, they don’t have the deep etymology of Fi ideology so when you rip them out it doesn’t hurt. It takes time but doesn’t actually hurt. It’s not like you tug on it and it just won’t move. I see this “tugging it but it’s locked in place” thing happen with ixfj who tend to love Ti and clap for my doing of it and have Ti envy but at the end of the day can’t quite do such an extraction on themselves.
Podcast also Helped me realize why studying formal logic makes sense. Loved the strong emphasis on the subjective nature of Ti. The subjectivity of Ti means you’re really only going to be as good as your subjectively acquired tool set. What are you operating with?
Okay thanks. I really really really hope you’ll do more Entp flavored self improvenebt stuff because it is a fucking wasteland out there. Most of mbti is run by infjs who can’t get over their love for Entp and just want to put us in their house and watch us do tricks but im like, please, somebody, teach me to tell a proper resume lie about all of your favorite films which I edited.
I think your example is the perfect cautionary tale. There are a lot of ways this could have been avoided, and teaming up with an F would be a very effective one.