dealing with your inferior function
Rodney Reid
Just a general question for the group --- How do you deal with a surfacing
of your inferior function?
As an ENTP with what seems to be a deluge of overcommitment at the moment,
I'm wondering how I get out of such a curse when I feel it starting....for
me, my inferior surfaces (introverted sensing) and I shut down: I want to
ignore the world and my commitments, take long baths, sleep, avoid and
avoid!
Anything at the moment seems like an interruption: the cat meowing, the
clock ticking, a couple unpaid bills sitting on the kitchen table.
Eventually I come around and pick up where I left off, but what I'm
interested are any strategies you have employed to short-circuit this before
it gets too bad.
Thanks,
...Rodney
ps: I own Naomi Quenk's "Beside Ourselves", which does a good job at
explaining this. Are there better books on the topic out there?
L. Ron Hubbard
>
>Just a general question for the group --- How do you deal with a surfacing
>of your inferior function?
>
>As an ENTP with what seems to be a deluge of overcommitment at the moment,
>I'm wondering how I get out of such a curse when I feel it starting....for
>me, my inferior surfaces (introverted sensing) and I shut down: I want to
>ignore the world and my commitments, take long baths, sleep, avoid and
>avoid!
>
>Anything at the moment seems like an interruption: the cat meowing, the
>clock ticking, a couple unpaid bills sitting on the kitchen table.
>
>Eventually I come around and pick up where I left off, but what I'm
>interested are any strategies you have employed to short-circuit this before
>it gets too bad.
Generally speaking, you can't easily deal with problems with your inferior
function _directly_. That's why it's your inferior function, after all. One
thing which does help enourmously is to try to make effective use of your
auxilliary function...In your case, one might wonder if rampant and unchecked
exploration of possibilities ("idea love") might have gotten you into overload
mode...In which case, perhaps you could use your Introverted Thinking to set
priorities, what really matters, what can wait, what is trivial and should be
discarded...
In my case, as an INFP, when stymied, I often find it helpful to see the advice
of others (esp extraverts) with real "outside world experience and insights" to
help create new possibilities for me in the service of my (dominant) values...
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L. Ron Hubbard
>From: "Rodney Reid" <rr...@tsoft.com>
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>ps: I own Naomi Quenk's "Beside Ourselves", which does a good job at
>explaining this. Are there better books on the topic out there?
>
>
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I don't know, haven't read that.
Did find Thomson's Personality Type An Owners Manual somewhat interesting, but
1) her typing of known people is shoddy, and 2) IMHO she suffers from the sort
of INTJitis seen in Alan Greenspan among others----she is not very good at
communicating an idea consisely to humans other than herself...
Alain Figer
"L. Ron Hubbard" <with...@aol.comi-sd9w0y> write:
> 1) her typing of known people is shoddy,
As a rule independent estimations by MBTI fans (even by so-called 'experts')
largely disagree with each other about guessed type of known people. Typing
at guess is not reliable, I mean it is of lower accuracy than expected.
Alain Figer