Extraverted~Introverted ways of perceiving~decision-making

Deeper aspects of E~I in MBTI

The genius of our right head quadrants is, they can take in sensory percepts (perceiving) spontaneously.

The genius of our left head quadrants is, they can connect our sensory percepts with language, thinking and values, so we can evaluate and make conscious, healthy choices (creating or preferring closure (old term: judging).

Q: Is that it? Is there no more detail we know here?

A: For those interested in more detail, it exists in MBTI.

Not everyone will be interested. However for basic psychology research, the further distinctions made in MBTI are often indispensable.

Q: Well, I only care about making new drugs to affect the brain and/or genetic and/or electro-chemical brain process, to make a profit for my boss.

A Then MBTI won’t have much value for you, sorry. You’re better off with PubMed.com.

MBTI delineates four additional ways of perceiving and four additional ways of preferring and creating closure.

MBTI has called these the “8 cognitive functions.” No, the name is not very descriptive or helpful.

Perhaps clear and more woman-friendly is:

A closer look at cognizing, introverted~extraverted differences in how people prefer to cognize.

Did you know? People have introverted~extraverted preferences in what and how they perceive.

Like I said, this is not for everyone.

For those wishing to go down this rabbit hole, what’s worth knowing is now we are saying a second level of preferences exist under the four-letter-code of the each 16 sets of personality preferences in MBTI.

The top-level four categories of preferences are:

iNtuition
five-Sensory
Thinking
Feeling

Now we’re saying for each of these, people prefer an Introverted or Extraverted version:

iNtuition — prefer Inner or prefer Outer
Five-sensory — (same)
Thinking — (same)
Feeling — (same)

To make this simpler, we use “i” for Introverted and “e” for Extraverted:

iNtuition prefer either Ni or Ne
Five-sensory — Si or Se
Thinking — Ti or Te
Feeling — Fi or Fe

The good news? Now you have more language, more choices to discuss your unique preferences, at this point in time.

MBTI has been working with this for decades and has noticed patterns:

- No one is equally good at using all eight options.

- You will probably be most practiced and capable with two of these eight perceiving preferences. These account for your strengths.

- You will be weakest at two other perceiving preferences. These will tend to define your blind spots.

- You will tend to be more conscious of four of these perceiving preferences and less aware of the other four.

- The four perceiving preferences you are least aware of and awake to, will tend to characterize the “shadow” or unknown side of your waking psyche.

- Generally when stress occurs, life is prompting us to expand beyond the familiar, predictable “campfire” of our most preferred ways of perceiving; and, inviting us to explore what is disturbed or distorted, in areas of our psyche not yet familiar-comfortable for us.

For such journeys, not part of MBTI yet very much a Best Practice in progressive holistic psychology, is the idea of ‘God is my Partner.’

Any time an individual wants to explore less familiar areas of their own psyche, it’s beneficial to ask for the Love, Light and Sound of your own Higher Guidance in Soul and Above, to fill, surround, protect and guide you.

This way, while you may be alone physically — if you ask for this — you are still watched over and guided by your own Higher Guidance — if you ask for this. Let’s remember asking for assistance is one of our superpowers.

Is this where progressive holistic psychology meets ecumenical spirituality? You bet.

To learn more about the ‘God is my Partner’ approach to personal growth, check out https://www.msia.org

A better theory of Introversion~Extraversion

Q: Does a scientific basis for our preference for Introversion or Extraversion exist?

A: Yes. Tho various neuro-chemical differences have been proposed as causative, to me they suggest, “the tail of the dog controls the dog.”

More promising to me are Bruce Lipton’s ideas about the dual nature of our cell wall in each cell.

We have lots of different cells in our body. However, if we take one free-floating cell as typical, what Bruce innovated, is discerning differences between the Inner-facing cell wall and Outer-facing cell wall.

The first difference Bruce innovated was our dual cell wall is the cell’s brain, not the cell nucleus or DNA. This idea has held up well over time.

Second, the concerns of our inner-facing cell wall differ greatly from the concerns of our outer-facing cell wall.

Outer-facing cell wall is like a puppy, sensing as much as it can, as far as it can, in the external environment.

Inner-facing cell wall is like a contented cat, sensing its inner environment, as much as it can, as far as it can.

This is the best theory of Intro~Extraversion I know of at this time.

To Learn More
Not casual reading, this topic may have answers for those wishing a deeper cut on personality preferences and deeper People Patterns.

Be sure to learn about the X naming convention in MBTI. X denotes a 50–50 or close to 50–50 balance between any “toggle.” The more evolved an individual, the more likely they have one or even two Xs in their MBTI four letter code.

https://www.careerplanner.com/8CognitiveFunctions/Cognitive-Functions-Simply-Explained.cfm

I think Lenore Thompson’s MBTI book Personality, An Owner’s Guide is also good on the “Eight Cognitive Functions” (ugh).

For more casual reading on People Patterns, try Stephen Montgomery’s People patterns, A Popular Culture Intro to Personality Types and the Four Temperaments (2011).

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Author, Health Intuitive, Bruce Dickson online:
http://www.Amazon.com/Bruce-Dickson-MSS/e/B007SNVG46
https://holisticbrainbalance.wordpress.com/
http://blog.GoetheanScience.net
http://blog.goetheanscience.net/2015/12/10/abstract-summary-of-the-three-sciences-we-use-everyday/