| Introverted | ||||||||
| INFJ | INFP | INTP | INTJ | ISFJ | ISFP | ISTP | ISTJ | |
| Dominant | Ni | Fi | Ti | Ni | Si | Fi | Ti | Si |
| Auxiliary | Fe | Ne | Ne | Te | Fe | Se | Se | Te |
| Tertiary | Ti | Si | Si | Fi | Ti | Ni | Ni | Fi |
| Inferior | Se | Te | Fe | Se | Ne | Te | Fe | Ne |
| Extraverted | ||||||||
| ENFJ | ENFP | ENTP | ENTJ | ESFJ | ESFP | ESTP | ESTJ | |
| Dominant | Fe | Ne | Ne | Te | Fe | Se | Se | Te |
| Auxiliary | Ni | Fi | Ti | Ni | Si | Fi | Ti | Si |
| Tertiary | Se | Te | Fe | Se | Ne | Te | Fe | Ne |
| Inferior | Ti | Si | Si | Fi | Ti | Ni | Ni | Fi |
Of course I'm not telling you to go around and encourage people to take the MBTI tests and ask for their results just to get to know them. That'll be so creepy and we don't want your geek self to come out public yet in a way, right? So I'll not push you to become like that but rather just familiarize yourself with the Functions of the personality types. That is if you are into this kind of thing, coz yours truly is a weird person so.. well.. I don't know.. I find myself so amused with people. And getting to know how they acted that way, where are they coming from is really fascinating for me. Well that's for the people I care about the most of course, or those people I find really interesting that somehow they pierce through my heart without any notice. Yeah I'm that weird.
I have already mentioned the 8 cognitive functions under the categories of Perceiving and Judging. You might want to check that out coz I've explained the shortcut of how to distinguish the cognitive functions of a certain personality type. That would really save you a lot of time, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)- Cognitive Functions
And this time we'll try to understand more of the 16 personality types through their dominant functions.
Let's go through first the Perceiving Functions:
Introverted Intuition (Ni)
Personality types with the (Ni) as the dominant function like INFJ and INTJ are perceiving information coming from their most inner thoughts or subconscious minds.
Their Ni function is the one that's processing the information coming from their inferior functions that's why they have these "aha" moments once they finally figured out something. So when they are trying to solve problems it's like effortless for them to provide solutions. Also they tend to strongly stick with their own beliefs and knowledge that helped them to be decisive most of the time.
They kind of able to predict things to happen in the future by using this function. But it's most likely by relating to what's happening to them now and guessing what would happen next.
Extraverted Intuition (Ne)
ENFP & ENTP types who have (Ne) as their dominant function are perceiving information by interconnecting ideas, theories, possibilities from the outside world. By these information they have gathered they tend to use a creative approach to solve problems.
Introverted Sensing (Si)
ISFJ & ISTJ types who have the (Si) as their dominant function are gathering information from their personal past experiences. It's like recapping what a certain situation made them feel from way back and this becomes their reference if ever they get themselves into the same situation in the future.
Extraverted Sensing (Se)
ESFP & ESTP types who have this (Se)as their dominant function means they are perceiving information on the current situation, on what's happening to the current reality. Using the 5 senses to absorb the trends, the news around. We could say that they are very much aware of the now.
Now the Judging Functions:
Introverted Feeling (Fi)
My dominant function (INFP) and ISFP's is (Fi) and it means that we judge things through our introspective feelings. We see to it that whatever we decide on, it should not be defying our own values, philosophies, feelings about certain things.
Extraverted Feeling (Fe)
This judging function being dominant to ENFJ & ESFJ means that they look out for the feelings of others before making a decision. They seek for their perspectives and outlooks about specific things such as their values, philosophies or opinions.
Introverted Thinking (Ti)
INTP & ISTP having (Ti) as a dominant function means that they are making decisions by basing on their own objective perspective, opinion or own data. They have this strong belief in their own rational thoughts and argument on certain things. They kind of weigh their reasons through pros and cons of things before they do or decide on something.
Extraverted Thinking (Te)
ENTJ & ESTJ's dominant function (Te) deals with decision making through objective reasoning and facts based on reality (the external world). It's like judging through what was effective in solving certain problems, they stick somehow on a traditional way because it is something that's already proven. Basically just pragmatic.
These functions are so amazing and they are giving me thrills in dealing with people whose functions are becoming obvious through daily conversations. At first it is really vague but as you study more on these functions and how you interconnect them to reality is somehow really fascinating. It's like you know why they did things like that, or where they were coming from. For me, understanding people is very interesting and I feel like I'm able to connect more to people in a certain depth. And I like it, so INFP.
