Podcast - Episode 0227 - Developing Intuition As A Co-Pilot (INxP & ENxJ Types)

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• Why We Resist Developing The Co-Pilot In Our Personality
• We gravitate toward our driver and marginalize our copilot
• If we are introverts, our copilot is extraverted
• If we are extraverts, our copilot is introverted
• INPs copilot is Extraverted Intuition (Ne) – “Exploration”
• ENJs copilot is Introverted Intuition (Ni) – “Perspectives”
• Intuition is a perceiving process, which means you use this function to take in info
• What could be happening behind the curtain?
• What is the pattern of the things I am observing?
• Ni vs. Ne podcast
• These types lead with a judging function, so they are going to have a proclivity to be more decisive or understand how they feel or think about things
• Perceiving processes force us to open up our perception and take in more info
• INPs and ENJs should use their intuitive processes to round out the decision-making functions they lead with
• INTP & INFP
  • INPs struggle with their copilot because it forces them to take in more territory.
  • If you are leading with Introverted Feeling (INFP), it can take a long time to determine the right decision.
  • It relates to identity
  • For INTPs, it also takes a long time to determine the good data vs. the bad data, because the bad data may be related to info that we absorbed from childhood.
  • INPs can use Extraverted Intuition (Ne) when they are having to problem solve.
  • The real gifts of Ne come from exploring.
  • Getting outside your comfort zone.
  • Always looking for the new experience.
  • This type of exploration takes a metric ton of energy and can seem intimidating to the INP.
  • INPs know how they think or feel about things, but they have to generate a lot of energy to use Exploration.
  • Exploration burns the most resource.
  • It takes awhile to get into it, but once you are using it you consume energy because you are breaking new ground.
  • Ne is not a rational function.
  • Sometimes it doesn’t make sense.
  • And it has lots of false starts.
  • Exploration does not allow you to manage your image as much as you may want.
  • The things you do may look unstable to others.
  • Your credibility may even take a hit or two.
  • Extraverted Intuition is probably the most optimistic function of all eight cognitive functions.
  • Joie de vivre
  • You will burn out the self-consciousness and discover extraordinary freedom.
  • INTX Unleashed – INTP gained “Bouncy” energy.
  • INTPs who crave connection can find it through their Copilot.
  • Online research can give you a tiny hit of Ne, but it is only a snack – not a meal.
  • Online research allows you censor the info that comes in, but if you are in a real situation with info coming in that you can’t deny it is much harder to ignore the data.
  • Resonance vs calibration
  • Because INPs lead with a judging function, they tend to pre-calibrate the info they absorb.
  • Extraverted Intuition post calibrates though.
  • INPs need to speed up to keep pace with Ne.
  • Turn off the calibration and act rapidly.
  • Real-time adjustment & absorption of data.
  • This will require immense amounts of energy, but it prevents you from pre-calibrating and keeps you open to new data.
  • Post-calibration can happen in tertiary – Introverted Sensing (Si) “Memory”
  • When you are doing online research, you are collecting data in your Si process and doing enough post-processing with the info to involve Intuition more passively.
  • This is the opposite frame you want to come from because it uses Memory as the data gathering mechanism and lets Exploration help out.
  • Lead with Exploration and get real-world experiences, then use Memory as a tool to support Ne.
  • Ne is an extraverted process, so you have to get out in the real world.
  • What is uncomfortable to one INP may be easy for another.
  • Every INP is going to be different.
  • They need to head towards discomfort.
  • Discomfort should be your guiding light.
  • Then the discomfort becomes comfortable.
  • Being out of your comfort zone becomes your new comfort zone.
  • Throw yourself in and post calibrate.
  • Sometimes you may overdo it. Other times you may under do it.
  • Calibrate after – always.
  • Image management is your enemy as you develop your Copilot.
  • Is the life you built providing you the opportunity to grow?
  • You may need to go somewhere else to exercise your Intuitive Copilot.
  • One of the things you need when practicing Exploration is Joy. It is a big piece for providing the stamina you need to exercise Ne.
  • Exercise:
  • Set an alarm for one minute.
  • Lay down in bed like you are going to sleep.
  • When the one minute alarm sounds, jump out of bed with enthusiasm and put a big beaming smile on your face.
  • Throw your shoulders back. Open your arms and take a big prayer of gratitude out to the universe (or your divinity of choice).
  • Repeat this exercise again and again (7-10x), until you create the muscle memory that ritualizes how you get out of bed every morning.
  • This will help you generate energy to make getting into your copilot easier.
  • Work on strategies to ritualize your morning routine: drink a glass of water, journal, meditate, exercise, etc.
  • The ritual will set you on the right trajectory for the day
  • This exercise will calm down your 10 yr old Memory process and open you to opportunities for using your Exploration process.
  • Take a different route to work
  • Eat a different kind of food
  • Pick a new part of your city or country and get lost
• ENJs – ENTJ & ENFJ
  • Copilot is Introverted Intuition (Ni) – “Perspectives”
  • Perspectives has spent so much time watching its mind form patterns that it sees the patterns in its own mind and the patterns in other people’s minds.
  • We call it Perspectives because it is excellent for understanding other people’s perspective.
  • ENJs rely on this for problem-solving, but not as much as they should.
  • Ni encroaches on ENJs by forcing them to slow down.
  • This can be uncomfortable for action-oriented ENJs.
  • ENJs love to impose order on a chaotic world. Ni is very free and chaotic. We cannot impose order on the inner world of Ni.
  • ENJs love to close loops.
  • Ni gets in the way of closing loops because it injects a massive amount of data which complicates things.
  • Introverted Intuition helps the ENJ to close better loops.
  • Otherwise, how do you know you are closing loops in the right way?
  • ENJs driver function looks for weaknesses in systems – organic and inorganic.
  • Stress points
  • Needs going unmet
  • Ni forces the ENJ to go inside their mind and determine stress points and unmet needs within the ENJ.
  • Sit with yourself and look at how your mind is set up.
  • Extraverted Thinking (ENTJ Driver) – once it makes a decision it creates a neurological superhighway. Set it and forget it.
  • Ni adds long game data.
  • Extraverted Feeling (ENFJ Driver) believes their agenda is the best agenda. If they question themselves, they may find that they don’t have everyone’s best interest at heart.
  • If you have ideas that are deemed dangerous, Perspectives does its own censoring.
  • Our minds may want to go to places we have blocked out.
  • The conclusions that your mind may reach when you explore the scary bits may turn your life upside down.
  • ENJs will have more energy than INPs.
  • ENJs are good at getting things done and getting into action.
  • ENJs may struggle with monkey mind in an attempt to get everything accomplished.
  • Harness that energy. Keep it centered instead of dispersed.
  • Exercising Introverted Intuition requires you to sit still, get quiet, and go inside your mind.
  • Perspectives gives the ENJ the ability to see the eventuality, or long term results, for the things they are doing.
  • Longer timelines.
  • Ask questions like “To what end?”
  • Broaden categories you apply to people.
  • Some of the ENJs perspectiving may be serving their own agendas or end games.
  • You may have specific definitions of what an A player is.
  • Or what makes up a healthy man or woman.
  • You may have narrow definitions you have culled from jumping into other people’s perspective for a short time then coming back to your mind with assumptions based on limited data.
  • When you can the thoughts in and see others in 3D, you will improve your compassion and skill level for talent scouting.
  • Exercise:
  • Take an hour a day and choose a quote you can explore profoundly, like Carl Sagan’s, “We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
  • Go to a quiet place. Maybe even dark. Close your eyes, reduce sensory input.
  • Ruminate on that quote for an hour.
  • When your to-do list pops up, bring your mind back to the quote.
  • After an hour, take out a piece of paper and write down some of the insights you had.
  • This exercise will start training your mind to develop that Ni process.
  • Wander the garden of your mind.
  • Let go of self-censorship.
  • Stop yourself from censoring your mind and let it go where it wants to go.
  • It will likely be uncomfortable.
  • You may have outsourced a part of your life to others.
  • You may not be in control like you think you are.
  • Once you can explore the parts of your mind you keep hidden you take real control of your life.
  • Stop making big leaps/assumptions with limited info.
  • ENJs tertiary Extraverted Sensing (Se) needs to be a servant to Introverted Intuition (Ni).
  • If you make Ni a servant to Se, you will shorten the timelines of your speculations.
  • Exercising Ni on a daily basis will make it more available to you throughout the day, so your observations are more profound.
• INTP & INFP:
  • Copilot Ne
  • Generate lots of energy
  • Speed up
  • Seek out Freedom of experience
• ENTJ & ENFJ
  • Copilot Ni
  • Slow down
  • Harness energy
  • Sit with it.
  • Wander the garden of your mind and sit with uncomfortable thoughts
• INPs might like what ENJs have to do and vice versa
• But it won’t be developing their Copilot
• Developing the Copilot in the right way changes your life – and it may be painful to make the changes that are necessary.
• The way out is through
• When you get to the other side, the changes you make are more authentically you.
• The fruit at the end of all of this is well worth it.
• The application of these principles is unique and individualized.
• How are you using some of these principles to move the needle in your life?

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