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sometimes tackling several seemingly unrelated problems at once\n<:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062>2) improves our future prospects and moves society forward\n<:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062>3) provides a genuine appreciation for life by seeing how each moment is full of promise\n<:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062>4) reduces conflict by adapting to different possibilities\n• defines social relationships in terms of potential (what two people can bring into the relationship to create something new/better)\n• brings energy and interesting ideas to social settings\n• interprets social relationships through symbolic details that affirm the quality/strength of the relationship (sharing meaningful rituals/activities)\n• inspires others by being the focal point of people’s hopes, dreams, or aspirations\n\n__To see weaknesses__:\n`?weaknesses ne`\n}\n\n\n{=(ni1):\n• focus: observing context and interpreting meaning\n• explores meaningful patterns from different perspectives\n• cultivated through making visualizations based on vaguely familiar patterns\n• maintains a flexible and interpretive approach to life, carefully filtering words, concepts, signs, symbols, metaphors, abstractions in order to construct a personalized vision of the world\n• values knowledge/objects that have personal symbolic significance or predictive power (tend to have interests that strike others as unpredictable)\n• driven to seek out meaning, truth, insight, knowledge\n• makes decisions based on extrapolating future implications\n• defines true knowledge in terms of understanding how meanings, perspectives, or standpoints can be manipulated or changed (mental constructs are real but arbitrarily defined, therefore a change in definition can produce a change in perspective)\n• knows that **exploring perception 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being the focal point of people’s sense of mystery regarding the unknown or unexplored aspects of human existence\n\n__To see weaknesses__:\n`?weaknesses ni`\n}\n\n\n{=(se1):\n• focus: observing and acting on sensory data as it comes in\n• engages directly with the external world as it exists in the present\n• cultivated through complete physical involvement in tasks\n• maintains a flexible response-ready approach to life (takes an action, observes immediate results, makes physical adjustments, acts again)\n• values the ability and freedom to improvise (does not like to excessively plan/prepare as it decreases responsiveness)\n• driven to seek the mental state of “flow” or being “in the zone\"\n• makes decisions based on immediate events or feedback\n• defines true knowledge as concrete first-hand experience\n• knows that being **sensitive to the moment**:\n<:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062>1) solves problems quickly before they spiral out of control\n<:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062>2) simplifies issues that are needlessly complicated by overthinking\n<:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062>3) provides a genuine appreciation for life by enjoying how it twists and turns\n<:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062>4) reduces conflict by maximizing adaptability to new situations\n• defines social relationships in terms of “doing” (experiencing and sharing activities together)\n• brings energy and liveliness to social settings\n• interprets social relationships through physical cues and expressions (will push and prod for such feedback if necessary)\n• inspires others by being the focal point of people’s admiration\n\n__To see weaknesses__:\n`?weaknesses se`\n}\n\n\n{=(si1):\n• focus: internal/bodily sensation of concrete facts and details\n• categorizes and stores data based on personal relevance\n• cultivated through reconciling new sense impressions with past ones\n• maintains a gradual and accumulative approach to life, carefully filtering and adapting data to construct a personalized repository of knowledge\n• values a careful, methodical, consistent approach to everything (often inadvertently becomes an expert through personal commitment to incremental learning)\n• driven to seek out familiarity, stability, consistency, security, rituals\n• makes decisions based on personal priorities, passions, commitments\n• defines true knowledge in terms of understanding how past events have influenced the meaning of the present\n• knows that **respecting prior knowledge**:\n<:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062>1) provides a valuable sense of continuity and perseverance for individuals and society\n<:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062>2) makes progress and solves problems by learning well from historical mistakes and successes\n<:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062>3) firmly anchors the self by imbuing personal goals, activities, and interests with purpose and meaning\n<:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062>4) reduces conflict through utilizing well-established methods that provide corrective or reliable support to others/society\n• defines social relationships in terms of faithfully acting in accordance with one’s roles or societal station\n• interprets social relationships through tangible displays that affirm a willingness to fulfill duties and honor promises\n• inspires people with depth of expertise and supportive action (unsung heroes), especially by maintaining a grounded and realistic outlook in crisis situations\n\n__To see weaknesses__:\n`?weaknesses si`\n}\n\n\n{=(fe1):\n• focus: interpersonal relationships and their state of harmony\n• organizes relationships based on degree of relatedness\n• cultivated through observing how people react to one another\n• maintains an actively harmonizing approach to life, looking to adopt objective standards (social rules/values) that can avoid negative social consequences\n• values maintaining rules/virtues that can be universally applied\n• driven to construct a dependable social system/framework\n• uses social values to set priorities, make decisions, understand obligations, anticipate people’s behavior\n• makes rational decisions that produce social cohesion (does not decide based on personal sentiment)\n• defines true knowledge as standards/values that uphold relational or community structures in the external world\n• knows that a **strong social framework**:\n<:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062>1) maintains the welfare and health of a group, community, society\n<:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062>2) is expressed through the language of “ritualized” collective behaviors and obligations (e.g. greetings, celebrations, etc.)\n<:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062>3) provides an emotionally supportive foundation for freeing people to pursue individual creative interests\n<:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062>4) reduces conflict by making social roles well-defined (instead of constantly negotiating duties)\n• defines social relationships in terms of fulfilling promises, duties, and obligations to one another\n• interprets social relationships through “ripple effects” (how individual actions affect the well-being of others or the group at large)\n• inspires people by being the focal point of issues about collective well-being, especially in times of social fragmentation or hardship\n\n__To see weaknesses__:\n`?weaknesses fe`\n}\n\n\n{=(fi1):\n• focus: the nature of first-hand human experience\n• explores the many different facets of psychological well-being\n• cultivated through reconciling new sense impressions with an experiential conception of “good” or “bad”\n• maintains a responsive and sensitive approach to life, constantly filtering experiences in a way that honors personal needs and boundaries (of self and/or others)\n• values the unconditional and universal aspects of human experience\n• driven to maintain a solid sense of personal integrity (by aligning the internal and external worlds whenever possible)\n• makes decisions based on preserving harmony among inner psychological processes (thoughts, opinions, beliefs, feelings, etc.) and using personal values to understand and care for others\n• defines true knowledge in terms of understanding how individual experience can be universalized to reveal larger fundamental human truths and values\n• knows that **respecting individual human life and experience**:\n<:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062>1) forms the foundation of our collective identity as a society (we can judge a society based on how it treats its individual members)\n<:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062>2) supports and makes space for the creative expression that society needs to flourish beyond mere survival\n<:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062>3) anchors the self by imbuing thoughts and actions with moral significance\n<:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062>4) reduces conflict by maximizing acceptance of individual differences, promoting freedom from group/societal conditioning so that everyone can renegotiate roles, duties, needs, desires, or goals as necessary (live and let live).\n• defines social relationships in terms of “fluidity” (each individual bringing whatever they can of themselves whenever they can)\n• interprets social relationships in terms of the degree of freedom to navigate and adjust individual needs and desires\n• inspires others by becoming the focal point of people’s most noble and high-minded values, especially through leading by example and providing a moral compass to steer social trends\n\n__To see weaknesses__:\n`?weaknesses fi`\n}\n\n\n{=(te1):\n• focus: understanding external events that happen with regularity\n• mentally organizes objects based on how they impact each other\n• cultivated through analytical observation of cause and effect\n• maintains an actively structural approach to life, looking to adopt objective standards (collectively agreed upon) that are based on logical, sequential, or causal relationships between objects\n• values maintaining standards that can be universally applied\n• driven to construct a dependable framework of order and stability\n• uses standards to manage circumstances, make plans, establish routines, organize groups or communities\n• makes rational decisions that seek to achieve consistent, effective, and efficient results\n• defines true knowledge as standards/rules that achieve reliable and tangible predictability in the external world\n• knows that **a strong framework of order**:\n<:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062>1) provides a solid foundation for the continuation of society\n<:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062>2) is expressed through the language of predictable behavior\n<:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062>3) provides the practical foundation for freeing people to pursue higher creative interests\n<:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062>4) reduces conflict by making social roles clear (instead of constantly negotiating duties)\n• defines social relationships in terms of “shoulds” (each person living up to their clearly defined responsibilities)\n• interprets social relationships through principled behaviors that signal personal integrity and respect for each other\n• inspires people by being the focal point of stability, especially during times of chaos or uncertainty\n\n__To see weaknesses__:\n`?weaknesses te`\n}\n\n\n{=(ti1):\n• focus: how variables move and imply a larger system\n• organizes objects based on conditionals (if-then statements)\n• cultivated through observing how parts are related to a whole\n• maintains a detached and deconstructionist approach to life, constantly trying to work out how variables interact to affect the overall function or purpose of a system (trial and error)\n• values intelligence, knowledge, experience, mastering skills\n• driven to competently solve problems by flexibly and logically coordinating behaviors with immediate circumstances\n• makes decisions based on estimating probabilities (calculated risks)\n• defines true knowledge as learning how to manipulate rules and variables to produce the best outcomes\n• knows that **understanding how a system works**:\n<:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062>1) gives individuals an advantage by knowing how to navigate the world more flexibly and effectively\n<:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062>2) allows people to stabilize groups, communities, societies by carefully identifying problems and fixing them in a coherent manner\n<:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062>3) can anchor the self by feeling useful in solving problems and integrating fluidly into the larger organization or society (finding purpose wherever they are needed the most)\n<:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062><:blank:857004081028268062>4) reduces conflict by adjusting and refining knowledge of cause and effect to get better outcomes\n• defines social relationships in terms of “workability” (experimenting with the impact of behaviors to figure out the best actions)\n• interprets social relationships in terms of actions that show a willingness to invest time, care, and effort\n• inspires people through mental agility in solving problems, especially by being calm, resourceful, and effective in difficult or complicated situations\n\n__To see weaknesses__:\n`?weaknesses ti`\n}\n\n\n{=(ne):Extraverted Intuition~Ne~https://mbti-notes.tumblr.com/post/120104389987/how-functions-work-dominant-ne-entpenfp~{ne1}}\n{=(ni):Introverted Intuition~Ni~https://mbti-notes.tumblr.com/post/120527622637/how-functions-work-dominant-ni-intjinfj~{ni1}}\n{=(se):Extraverted Sensing~Se~https://mbti-notes.tumblr.com/post/120027854992/how-functions-work-dominant-se-estpesfp~{se1}}\n{=(si):Introverted Sensing~Si~https://mbti-notes.tumblr.com/post/120443007842/how-functions-work-dominant-si-istjisfj~{si1}}\n{=(fe):Extraverted Feeling~Fe~https://mbti-notes.tumblr.com/post/120279193432/how-functions-work-dominant-fe-esfjenfj~{fe1}}\n{=(fi):Introverted Feelng~Fi~https://mbti-notes.tumblr.com/post/120192495537/how-functions-work-dominant-te-estjentj~{fi1}}\n{=(te):Extraverted Thinking~Te~https://mbti-notes.tumblr.com/post/120611652457/how-functions-work-dominant-ti-istpintp~{te1}}\n{=(ti):Introverted Thinking~Ti~https://mbti-notes.tumblr.com/post/120699248482/how-functions-work-dominant-fi-isfpinfp~{ti1}}\n\n\n{embed(title):\n\n{all({args}!=ne|{args}!=ni|{args}!=se|{args}!=si|{args}!=fe|{args}!=fi|{args}!=te|{args}!=ti|{args}!=careers|{args}!=career):\n\nHow Functions Work: Dominant Functions\n}\n\n{any({args}==ne|{args}==ni|{args}==se|{args}==si|{args}==fe|{args}==fi|{args}==te|{args}==ti):\n\nWhat {{args}(1):~} Does\n}\n}\n\n\n{embed(URL):\n\n{any({args}==ne|{args}==ni|{args}==se|{args}==si|{args}==fe|{args}==fi|{args}==te|{args}==ti):\n\n{{args}(3):~}\n}\n}\n\n\n{embed(description):\n\n{all({args}!=ne|{args}!=ni|{args}!=se|{args}!=si|{args}!=fe|{args}!=fi|{args}!=te|{args}!=ti|{args}!=careers|{args}!=career):\n\nThe dominant function is the first mental tool that you rely on in the process of trying to make sense of the world.\n\n__Extraverted functions__ (Se Ne Te Fe) are **objective** because they encourage you to interact with the external world. \n__Introverted functions__ (Si Ni Ti Fi) are **subjective** because they encourage you to construct an internal sense of individuality.\n\n__MBTI Types and their matching Dominant (1st) function__\n```ENxP ---> Dominant Ne\nINxJ ---> Dominant Ni\nESxP ---> Dominant Se\nISxJ ---> Dominant Si\n\nExFJ ---> Dominant Fe\nIxFP ---> Dominant Fi\nExTJ ---> Dominant Te\nIxTP ---> Dominant Ti```\n__To see a description a MBTI type's dominant (1st) function__:\n- Follow the command `?{command}` with\n`ne`, `ni`, `se`, `si`\n`te`, `ti`, `fe`, `fi`\n\n--> e.g. `?{command} ne`\n\n**Make sure the cognitive function is in lowercase**\n\n__Bonus Commands__:\n`?{command} careers`\n`?weaknesses`}\n\n{any({args}==careers|{args}==career):\n\n__Ne-doms__ are usually drawn to careers or interests that allow them to: be innovative and free to explore ideas; anticipate or catalyze new trends; find creative solutions to complex problems; help bring out people’s potential\n\n__Ni-doms__ are usually drawn to careers or interests that allow them to: examine and challenge unrecognized or unacknowledged aspects of reality; grapple with theory or questions surrounding language, definitions, terminology; explore creative solutions to philosophical problems; help others realize their potential; persuade people to broaden their intellectual horizons\n\n__Se-doms__ are usually drawn to careers or interests that allow them to: get immediate feedback for their actions; build skills through hands-on practice in real life situations; work to exceed their own past performance and be “on top of their game”\n\n__Si-doms__ are usually drawn to careers or interests that allow them to: be responsible for managing details and implementing well-crafted plans or procedures; be exacting in enforcing rules/regulations they believe in; provide hands-on support to people/groups in achieving larger goals; manage situations or solve problems methodically; enjoy saving others from tedious or difficult tasks\n\n__Fe-doms__ are usually drawn to careers or interests that allow them to: balance collective and individual needs; help others feel included and valued; use compassionate means to decrease conflict in society; improve relationships or analyze how people get along; promote moral values that lead to societal improvements or better interpersonal cohesion; organize and coordinate groups to achieve a sense of unity and cooperation\n\n__Fi-doms__ are usually drawn to careers or interests that allow them to: do something they consider good and meaningful; express their personal values into the community at large; bring structure and meaning to their inner world (e.g. artistic or creative pursuits); find a sense of higher purpose by somehow connecting to universal human experiences; be responsive to the immediate needs or suffering of others; nurture creative self-expression in oneself or others\n\n__Te-doms__ are usually drawn to careers or interests that allow them to: be responsible for promoting, maintaining, or streamlining standards for organizational stability; identify, describe, and solve problems; treat people fairly and impartially; bring people together by defining clear goals and procedures; calmly manage crisis situations\n\n__Ti-doms__ are usually drawn to careers or interests that allow them to: identify issues, break down knowledge, and solve problems; systematically experiment with knowledge to influence outcomes; hone or refine skill sets; design, enhance, or build efficient systems; put together physical or conceptual models to understand and navigate complexity\n}\n\n{any({args}==ne|{args}==ni|{args}==se|{args}==si|{args}==fe|{args}==fi|{args}==te|{args}==ti):\n\n{{args}(4):~}\n\n}\n}",
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