u/xripkan

People here disagree and each person seems to have very different theories in mind. They disagree about what exactly the cognitive functions mean, how we use them, and how much weight each one carries in the cognitive stack.

As a result, there are many different views on what the 16 types are and what their characteristics are. This makes discussions difficult and often creates pointless disagreements and confusion.

There should be a theory that is commonly defined and accepted by everyone. Those who disagree with it should make that clear so that it is obvious what each person means.

It would also be a good idea to create different communities, each one expressing its own ideas about personality types. That would be much clearer and more useful than seeing all these conflicting ideas as part of what is supposedly the same theory

"I explore ideas because I genuinely want to understand things. I can get deeply interested in an idea just for what it reveals about the world, how things connect, or what deeper structure it uncovers.

At the same time, I’m not someone who is satisfied with exploration purely for its own sake for very long. I usually want that understanding to lead somewhere meaningful. I want it to have weight in the real world — whether that means practical application, contribution, recognition, achievement, or serving some broader social purpose.

So I’m not driven only by utility, but I’m not just wandering intellectually with no direction either. Usually there is some aim in the background, even if it is not always fully clear at the beginning. I may start from curiosity, but ideally I want that curiosity to turn into something substantial"

Ni: convergent way of thinking. I use data to identify the pattern and arrive at the one solution. I can easily convey the meaning concisely and accurately

Ne: divergent way of thinking. My mind moves toward many solutions and many directions. Give me words and I can build stories out of them; give me data and I can solve the problem in different ways

Si: I think moving in one direction (similarly to Ni), but not in macroscopic terms (pattern). Instead, I do so in microscopic terms, that is, through detail, with an innately developed imagination and memory

Se: here my energy is directed outward (similarly to Ne) but in relation to my immediate external environment, whatever that may be—from cooking to martial arts, and from sales to conducting an orchestra