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

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  • brooke
  • July 26, 2018 at 8:48 pm

  Oh. My. Goodness!! ? Joel you are not just “capturing your family’s history”! Please, you have in your possession a goldmine for historians and anthropologists. My god authentic documents from the 1800s.

  Stop throwing things away! Okay you say you hold onto keepsakes and toys, those are examples of when you might be on the border of hoarding. Typically, mementos with faint sentimental value or things held with the distracted thought I might need or find some use for one day (especially cheap and easily replaced items) get tossed with ruthless regularity and great pleasure as well.

  But historical photos of buildings? Your wonderfully organised grandmother is some civil servant’s dream come true. I am talking about historical societies or libraries. The federal employee who evaluates and designates property or land as historical landmarks to be under federal protection relies on clues such as those carefully preserved by your wonderful Grandmother. I saw hardly ANY useless items for tossing Joel (depression era stores of tin foil or bundled string, etc) please! DO NOT throw away anything else until you have it all appraised by an antiques expert and/or offer to donate/sell to local academics, etc.

  Fantastic. Congrats, though sorry you lost your grandma. What a parting gift though. Wow.

  best,
  brooke

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  • Joel Mark Witt
  • July 26, 2018 at 7:02 pm

  Thanks Sara for the story. I get it. There are “rules” that we ENFPs know our “Memory” (Introverted Sensing) has that seem like they should make sense to everyone else too. Your mom must have had a good reason for this. You may not agree with her reasons – but I’m sure she’s got something that makes sense to her. Of course – your feelings are real so I get it. Bummer.

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  • Alex
  • July 26, 2018 at 8:10 pm

  Hey Joel,
  Thanks for sharing how you are processing that huge archive of photographs, clippings and memories. I can only try to imagine what that is like to for someone with inferior Si to tackle. It’s apparent that your grandmother put so much work and love into those albums. Even as a stranger and with Si as my tertiary function, I find myself feeling a little pinched to think that they could have been tossed. I’d say you are handling it like a champ and I doubt very much you will ever regret confronting your Si on this one.

  Beautiful home place by the way!

  Cheers,
  Alex B

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  • Joel Mark Witt
  • July 26, 2018 at 6:58 pm

  Thank you Dani for sharing.

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  • Elizabeth
  • July 26, 2018 at 7:37 pm

  As I was watching this it got me to thinking about my father-in-law, he is mostly likely an ENTP.
  He has an office that he has been needing to get cleaned for as long as I have know him. He is a bit of a hoarder(not to the extreme of unsanitary living) , its not an emotional attachment more of a I might need this some day I can’t throw it out. I think that is where the difference of a T(e/i) dominate vs a F(e/i) dominate really comes up.
  I think it would be a very interesting thing to contrast how the different cognitive functions influence each other in their behaviors with in types.
  You mentioned about your personal responsibility to keep things in tact, while an ENTP would be more practical of keeping things they might need someday even if it is a bit far fetched.
  In the case of your grandma a mostly likely ESTJ, her memory was her growth stage it is very obvious to me it was heavily influence by her Te(effectiveness) of keeping this organized.
  This is an observation I have because we are all individuals and have these functions, and they influence us in our personality. The function for each of us are molded by each other given our own personal experiences.
  As am INTJ I don’t keep lots of things around, the last time i moved, literally all my stuff would fit in my car and just a few large things in a truck. I regularly go through thing and get rid of unnecessary things. But what I do have serves a purpose.
  But one of the thing i admired about your Grandmother photo albums was her attention to detail to preserve the things so other would know who, what, when, and where the significance of those events.