[Video] How Introverted Sensing (Si) "Memory" Shows Up As A 3-Year-Old Inferior Cognitive Function

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  • Kreal
  • January 31, 2019 at 4:30 pm

  Hey Joel,

  Thanks for the video. I always feel the same, but logically realize it’s quite weird. So I am trying to avoid it in real life (I mean objects). I let to trash most of the things and so on. But still have a toy, that my grandma gave me on 2nd yo. birthday, haha. Such a cute small pig))

  But I have twisted relations with my real memories (head):
  - Firstly, I remember deadly a lot. Starting from 1.5yo (33 yo. now). All valuable moments.
  - Basically I have the same feelings about my memories, as you do about albums. I feel it’s important somehow, I feel it’s something special and should be cared and replayed from time to time.
  - Another interesting moment about my memories. They almost have no direct bad or good emotions, even fresh memories . They have some kind of a very light emotional abstract wind without any judges and conclusions.

  My wife is very different – she has no memories at all: not good, not bad. She has perfect ability to completely forget and take out only when it’s really important. Jokingly I call her abandoner)
  As I can guess that she is introverted feeling type. But mainly because of inferior function: during anxious days or ill time – it’s obviously primitive extraverted thinking.

  Thanks a lot!

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  • Julia Rahr
  • October 2, 2018 at 5:57 am

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  • Julia Rahr
  • October 2, 2018 at 5:55 am

  My dad is an esfp so he doesn’t use Si yet he holds extremely high value on items from his childhood and never throws anything away. My mom, an INFJ, doesn’t care at all and throws his stuff out all the time. It has been a reoccurring issue for them. If I had to spot the source I would say it’s because my dad has a lot of pride and love toward his family and parents and therefore has become a significant part of his Fi. He always seems really hurt when my mom tosses his stuff like she is hurting a part of his identity. The amount he keeps is ridiculous but my mom could care less about having a clean house and more about his feelings. She is for sure an infj in the LOOP i see minimal fi and way too much ti goddamn. poor willie

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  • Kathleen Erickson
  • August 10, 2018 at 10:27 pm

  A beautiful video, Mark. I have 13 albums of my own to share with my daughter. We are working on getting them down to 1 album for her and 1 for me. So hard, but I have no Memories in my car model. My partner has Memories as Driver, so I deal with this all the time. He owns thousands of movies and enjoys re-seeing them over and over. I like to see a movie once except for maybe my top 10, then I like to move on to a new experience! Nothing to do with your video, but I am ENTJ and he is ISFJ, and so we share no cognitive functions. I like to say that together we make one whole person, ha ha. Definitely challenges and lots to learn from each other — but also stimulating. I like to learn new things every day, which is why I am an editor. I don’t think I will ever understand everything about him, heck not even most things!~ even though I keep trying. ENTJs like to think they know and understand things (ha, ha, we don’t, we jump to quick answers, don’t always do all the research we should, etc.). Back to your video: We need the past, love the past, honor the past, and use it to understand who we are and where we came from, even if it is intuitive only and we don’t know all the facts. We can glean a lot of feeling from old photos — even overwhelm as you said — even when we don’t know the person, place, or story, and that can bring deep knowledge and intuition and wisdom with it. THANK YOU!

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  • Lukaswithak
  • August 7, 2018 at 2:01 pm

  I don’t know why but I love this video so much. Maybe it’s seeing the love and attention you’re giving to your loved one’s belongings that touches me so. I’m an INFJ, so keeping things doesn’t interest me much either. Yet, I find myself keeping most of my childhood belongings at my parents house. I basically have all the toys I’ve ever had. I believe I’ve hung onto them because my mother values them a lot. She’s an ESTJ, so she has kept it all like a shrin to my childhood-stashed away in a closet or the attic. It’s cool to revisit at times, but I’d be okay with letting it all go (as long as nothing is ruined or broken) to make room for my journals I write in and reflect patterns within. I’m now trying to see how my 3 yr old Se shows up as a heavy weight. I think it’s with food. I have grand idealized dreams for how to take care of my body, but Se shows up as just wanting to eat everything or nothing at all. Interesting how this archaic / hidden aspect of our personalities influence us so strongly. Thanks, Joel!