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A Comprehensive Guide to the Cognitive Functions

BySusan Storm January 18, 2024January 18, 2024

What are the cognitive functions? Chance are if you’ve been reading about personality type for long you’ve heard the term here and there. It can feel annoying to see people throw around terms like Fi, Si, Te, or Ne and have no idea what they’re talking about. “Speak English!” I hear some people say when…

10 Signs That You Might Be an Introverted Thinker

BySusan Storm October 26, 2017September 28, 2023

Finding your personality type can be a long and difficult process. Many tests and indicators rely on shallow, poorly-worded questions and therefore mistype individuals as a result. As an MBTI® practitioner I speak to people daily who are unsure of their type. Many individuals feel unsure whether they are a TJ or a TP personality…

How You Use Introverted Thinking Based On Its Location in Your Function Stack

BySusan Storm January 24, 2017September 28, 2023

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” – Albert Einstein, an INTP Introverted Thinking is the dominant function of some of the leading physicists, philosophers, leaders, and technological wizards in the world. It is focused on intensely expanding one’s own knowledge of a subject and finding how…

Ti vs Te: The Difference Between Extraverted and Introverted Thinking

BySusan Storm August 31, 2015September 28, 2023

Being able to use logic and reasoning is essential to living a fulfilled life as a person. Every single Myers-Briggs® type uses thinking, even if they got a feeling result on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®. If we didn’t use thinking we wouldn’t be able to have any logical basis for our decisions, and we’d all…