Joel and Antonia explore why many people feel disappointed when discovering they have sensing preferences over intuition. They unpack the cultural bias toward intuition, how Jung’s system uniquely validates it, and why most models overlook it. They also discuss cognitive function certainty, the desire for significance, and how intuition shows up for everyone, not just Intuitives.
- by Personality Hacker
Why People Crave The Intuitive Label | Podcast 626
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Hi! Great episode! I have INFJ preferences. I know you’re interested in stories, so I thought I’d share one. I’m writing a short story and I wanted to feature a hero that embodies Ni. I used chatGPT to calibrate my thoughts a bit to make sure I was on target. The things it pointed out not only helped me focus my character properly, but struck chords of truth. Things like, if the system works, no one sees me, but if it fails it’s my fault. He doesn’t complete the Hero’s Journey by changing the world, but by changing his relationship to inevitability. At the beginning, he doesn’t know that knowing itself has a cost. It’s not fear of danger, it’s fear of collapsing choice. His journey is not about deciding what to do, but about deciding what to know (or see about the future) and still live with.
I think you made some great points about how special intuition is – it’s missing in so many other systems. I was introduced to personality through True Colors (a classic Organizer/Thinker/Feeler/Doer system). I tested as a feeler/thinker, which differentiated me from my family – it showed that there was something different about me compared to who I grew up with. But it really didn’t put a finger on exactly what. In hindsight, it was pointing at my copilot/10-year-old relationship, because it didn’t have a name for what was driving the car! Once I understood the Jungian explanation for Myers-Briggs, there was that wave of understanding I hadn’t felt before – or I guess not so deeply or personally. Ni really explains a lot – it’s the water I was swimming in.