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In this episode, Joel and Antonia begin a two-part series about integrating your cognitive functions. In this episode they discuss the perceiving functions and how to integrate the weak side of each in your personality.
In this podcast you’ll find:
- Why do we prefer to talk about cognitive functions in terms of how they work in polarities?
- Check out our article on Car Model to learn about your functions and their polarity opposites.
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We can’t fully understand one function without understanding its opposite -why is this the case and how does this show up?
- An example of how this works.
- What is the key purpose of integrating functions?
- How can we integrate the polarity opposite of our Driver and Copilot?
- What happens if we don’t consciously work on integration?
- How to see the limitations of your backseat functions – even if you’ve developed skill there.
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What does it look like when we purposefully use our backseat functions to support our stronger functions?
- What happens if we don’t use them to support our strengths?
- How to integrate your weaker perceiving functions – and the difference in how they show up when they are integrated and unintegrated:
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xNxPs – integrating Memory (Si) to support Exploration (Ne)
- How Si helps you to learn your lessons with the gift of wisdom
- Why you need templates – the concept of “blank page syndrome”
- What happens if you don’t build on your past?
- How you can prevent bad habits
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xSxJs – integrating Exploration (Ne) to support Memory (Si):
- What’s the main purpose of Ne if you have Si in the front seat?
- How to move forward when there isn’t an existing template
- How can unintegrated Ne make you more closed off to new experiences?
- How integrated Ne benefits your past reflection
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xNxJs – integrating Sensation (Se) to support Perspectives (Ni):
- What happens to your Perspectives process if you don’t check in with reality?
- How integrated Se enhances your inner world
- What happens to your mind if you don’t look after your body?
- Thinking of your body as a part of you
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xSxPs – integrating Perspectives (Ni) to support Sensation (Se):
- Ni helps Se perform better in the moment- an example
- How unintegrated Ni can trick you into living in a fantasy world
- How lazy and avoidant behaviours can creep in
- What can you gain from using Ni to understand future implications?
- “Courage isn’t the opposite of fear” – how this idea fits into integrating the opposite polarity function.
- Remember – the same function may be integrated in some areas of your life, but not others.
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Hello,
While listening to this podcast, I put extra attention to the discussion on the Si-Ne polarity, and once again, I felt like most of it just didn’t click, or like I just couldn’t find the part of me that resonated with it. This seems to happen very often when I listen to or read content on my driver and 3-yr-old functions. There are a few thoughts I’ve had about this.
1. You at Personality Hacker have mentioned many times that the driver and 3-yr-old tend to be the more subconscious functions, and it is possible that I just haven’t dug deep enough to see Si and Ne in their entireties in myself. (Very likely)
2. I can actually see almost every description of Si matching up with something in my life, but it’s either just that everything feels so superficial to me that I don’t consider it to be actually resonating with me or that I don’t see myself as having “insert talent/predisposition/thought pattern” as a strength in comparison to other people’s,…
…which leads me to number 3. In episode 384, Joel and Antonia mentioned that since the driver process is usually our “lens” through life, we tend to assume that everyone goes through life this way. I certainly have biases this way too, and they are increasingly often being disproved. Is it possible that this feeling of “well duh!” about the driver process is why I feel that these points I hear don’t really seem to click? Is it possible that I use so much of “insert talent/predisposition/though pattern” subconsciously that I don’t actually think I have it? Am I so subconsciously focused on the past, structure, lessons, etc. that I don’t even think about my thinking about them?
4. If number 3 is the case, then, I have one last question. I mentioned in 2 that everything seems to click on a surface level. If 3 is true, the surface-level quality of this Si knowledge must be my own biases playing tricks on me, and it actually hits home deeper than it appears to me. If that is the case, then I should probably pursue, reflect on, and apply this knowledge, even if it doesn’t seem to be deep enough.
I tried to write this in as clear a way as I could, but it may or may not be a bit of a mental workout to get through for someone who didn’t write it. I’d really love to hear anyone’s thoughts on these, and I’d especially appreciate an expert’s opinion.
As always, I hope you all, PH content makers and PH content viewers alike, have a great week. Looking forward to the webinar in a couple hours!
William
I’ll think on this – maybe we could record a podcast on a similar topic.
A
Great podcast! As an ENFJ I am struggling with bad habits. I often use food as a way to dull the sensory during times of stress and get a brief sense of release followed by a swarm of negative emotions tied to regret as my Ti speaks up. I’m in my thirties now trying to fight the urge and break this habit.
So, the bottom line seems to be “Gather information (Ne or Se) and give yourself space and time to process it (Si or Ni) in order to get a more accurate idea of how the world really works, improve the quality of your ideas and actions, and increase your overall confidence.”
One thing I noticed while writing characters for my book is that I cannot use my dominant Ni to see perspectives that I lack information about. Using Se to see, experience, and hear different perspectives is required for my mental models of different ways to see the world to be accurate. So, it looks like travel could be good for Ni/Se or Se/Ni users.
That last comment about the Si bookends to your Ne was helpful. I feel like that is often the roles that Si and Ne take in our lives.
Si is the structure supporting the playground of Ne.