Btw, wassup with all these supposed Ni-doms being able to type people so quickly? Don't sound like no Ni dom I know. we're notoriously bad at stuff like that, though Ni-Te is better than Ni-Fe.
I disagree. Let's compare an Se dominant with an Ni dominant. If you compare Se+Fi with Ni+Te/Fe for reading people, the Se dom will be more aware of micro fluctuations in visual cues to figure out how someone is feeling/reacting to a situation because of how Se is "in the moment" and all senses are picking up details and information in the exact moment- they rarely look for or care about
understanding why people are acting a certain way. An INFJ aims to
understand and postulate about the motivations in individuals. An ESFP may take delight in thinking they can read people, which they are probably very good at, but an INFJ is more likely to look to
understand why a person acts a certain way. Because of this predilection for wanting to understand themselves and others, INFJs are fucking exceptional at reading people. That I can attest to.
I am driving in my car at 35 miles and an hour in a neighborhood, a girl runs out in front of me but somehow doesn't get hit. In a split second my mind works out what would have happened if I had hit her, and for like 2 seconds I'm in another world running out of my car staring a splattered corpse as her redneck dad comes out with a shotgun and shoots at me. Then snap I'm right back into the real world, so grateful I didn't hit the kid. Then I speed up to 55, because due to my shit Si, who says what happened is going to happen again?
That has nothing to do with any cognitive function specifically. Just a weird imagination which any type could possess.
Honestly I think ENFPs are the most approachable types. If I'm ever to approach someone, they're an ENFP. I love enfps, except their horrible Ni makes me want to cry.
If they did have horrible Ni, you wouldn't know about it because you would never experience it. A shadow function is not something you just use when you feel like it. An ENFP may never exhibit any form of Ni that you would be able to detect unless they were extremely stressed or going through a very strange transformation in their personality. That's not how shadow functions work.
Btw people, infjs have ne. VUT. yup.
Everyone does, an INFJ just doesn't use it very often (if at all).
All the functional order means is the way you prefer to use them. Anyone can be skilled in using any type.
Nope, gross simplification.
The reason why a function is called inferior, is because it's quality of use is...
inferior. Se to an Ni dominant, is and always will be inferior because to use Se to live their life would require a higher amount of effort but the lack of use and comfortableness with that function for an Ni dominant, makes it an
inefficient function. That's why it's our inferior function, get it?
The order of preference should be seen as a
gradient of efficiency. The further away from actual use, the less conscious and more alien a function is to an individual. Because Se fundamentally objects to Ni's way of life, it would be impossible to ever use Se as efficiently as Ni. Unless the user, rejects Ni which would, theoretically create a lot of inner psychology tension. Adymus' thread about many faces of INFJ kind of elludes to that in his sub types.
If you spent your whole life living a certain way (basically, having a type preference) using a shadow function is like being a liberal socialist, then suddenly becoming a fascist for a weekend. Those functions are totally opposed to our way of life and attack our sense of mental order, cohesion and sense of self. Shadow functions are
rarely used.
In fact, I know for a fact m Ne and Si is more developed than most, but its not preferred. Goddamn household consisting of enfp, entp, istj, isfj, esfj and intj. good lord my intj brother is a breath of fresh air.
No, cognitive functions work together, in pairs, as part of an ongoing information flow. They cannot contradict or oppose each other. Si does not work with Ni because they work in the same way but with different information. They don't swim around in your brain and change when they feel like it. There is a physiological factor to this but I won't go into it.
