Duty
Permanent Fixture
- MBTI
- INTP
- Enneagram
- 5w4
"Myers clearly took the view that the dynamic is at work from the beginning.effectiveness, success, happiness, and mental health."-http://www.typeinsights.com/FreeArticles/TypeConsilience.pdf
She wrote that .good type development, therefore, demands two conditions:
first, adequate but by no means equal development of a judging process and a
perceptive process, one of which predominates, and second, adequate but by no
means equal facility in using both the extraverted and introverted attitudes, with
one predominating..balance means superior skill in one, supplemented by a
helpful but not competitive skill in the other..13 In her further exploration, she
points out that we need to learn the appropriate and inappropriate use of each
process to enhance development, and the reward for doing so is more
I hope this helps.
This says that people who are in the middle and don't express a function will be less healthy. She is saying that an expressed preference is good, as long as the opposite function has been developed enough to be helpful and useful in the right situation, but by no means equally.
Further, this still says nothing at all about how well you would understand and have tolerance for people preferring different functions. This paragraph is a tangent really.