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In this episode, Joel and Antonia talk about how to build a strong foundation on your inferior (3-year-old) cognitive function if it is a perceiving function.
In this podcast you’ll find:
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The metaphor of building a foundation on your 3 Year Old cognitive function.
- The 3 Year Old as a blind spot
- The concept of stabilizing this function
- How can you leverage your 3 Year Old function?
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Building a foundation on the four perceiving cognitive functions in the inferior position
- Learn or revisit the functions with our Car Model article
- The sensing functions – what do these generally look like when they’re in the 3 Year Old position?
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ENxPs – Building a foundation on Memory (Si):
- How can you overcome resistance to templates?
- Being attentive to the rhythm of your life
- How does consistency facilitate creativity?
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INxJs – Building a foundation on Sensation (Se):
- What happens if you de-tether from Se?
- The relationship between Se and action
- The power of presence
- The role the intuitive functions play in the 3 Year Old position
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ESxPs – Building a foundation on Perspectives (Ni):
- The tendency to avoid thinking about consequences
- How can you use action now to impact the future?
- Creating a life of meaning
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ISxJs – Building a foundation on Exploration (Ne):
- The idea of living a “big enough life” to avoid regret
- Some “what if” questions to ask yourself
- Making peace with change
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Thank you Joel and Antonia for these ideas. After realizing that I might be an Enneagram four rather than five, I started a daily ritual. I wanted to identify my core principles (and the interests that are a product of them) and to take actions every day that made them manifest, rather than being guided by transitory emotional states.
Your ideas in this podcast lend even more support to the value of a ritual. I love that you said projects require a long timeline for completion. Previously I’ve been engaging in my ritual on a principled level, but the idea of articulating a goal and using a ritual as its container is quite empowering.
In Jordan Peterson’s lecture on the psychological significance of the flood, he suggests that the key to contending with the inevitable tragedies of life is the daily pursuit of a meaningful goal. It’s not the fulfillment of a goal that produces dopamine, and instead what are rewarding are the signals that we are moving meaningfully in the direction of what we want.
I have struggled with perceptions of being ungrounded, untethered, contradictory, but the ritual feels like an antidote. It’s a daily structure that ensures I am moving in a direction that feels meaningful, no matter what other obligations might be involved in a day.
Thank you so much for sharing all your insights.
Oooo thank you for this! It helped me have a huge Ah-ha! moment.
I am an INFJ and I have spent so much time researching and thinking about the best way to make certain changes to my life. I have been going down that rabbit hole for a long, long time without getting very far. I thought one day I would stumble upon the best ideology, my perspective would shift, and then I would FINALLY be in business! But as I’ve journeyed along I’ve begun to notice that “Just do it” was the motto that ended up working for me to most consistently move the needle on the things I’d been wanting to change.
And even though that has been proven to me time & time again, I STILL want to fight it. It just doesn’t feel right. Like that just can’t be the answer. It’s too simple!
But now I understand why it feels that way- it’s my Ni/Ti combo resisting my inferior Se.
Now I can have peace that for me “Just do it” really is the answer sometimes.