Living in my shadow right now. Also Myers-Briggs is so much more solid than Big 5 it’s not even close. Big 5 is basically statistically significant noise 😎
5. Te: Maker projects
6. Ni: Trying to be more of a hedgehog
7. Se: Astronomy/astrophotography
8: Fi: Learning to get mad
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The harder part is actually suppressing the dominant functions:
1. Ti: Resist insight porn
2. Ne: Quit making viral memes
3. Si: Stop wallowing in Weirding
4: Fe: Build tolerance for people creating scenes, rudeness etc.
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The most useful thing about Myers-Briggs is that it’s an actually useful way of unbundling the self along relatively natural lines. It also fits well with a computational theory of mind without being too aspie about it.
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the relationship between the functions reminds me of a sibling dynamic that can develop when there's large age gaps — the younger siblings can get overawed by their older siblings which can retard their development as they're embarrassed to be so much weaker so they don't try
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my suspicion is shadow functions aren't inherently weaker, they just get repressed by the stronger functions for whatever reason emerge & start to develop first. The first plants to emerge shade later sprouting plants.
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Probably, though I bet there’s a genetic bias component that can’t be changed by developmental environment.
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yeah probably — just the competition for executive time between functions accelerates whatever the inherent difference is. Like tiny variations after the big bang turn into galaxies.
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