Cognitive Function Diagnosis

Just watched the video.

First issue is the Fe/Ti vs Te/Fi. The general idea seems to be that the first type seeks to integrate itself with the world and compromise, while the second attempts to be more individual and differentiated. I simultaneously will refuse to compromise who I am and yet work to make the less clearly defined elements of my person as non disruptive as possible. I know of no people (not few, downright none) I rub the wrong way, or who think I am disruptive. It is not because I attempt to please them by changing who I am, it just so happens that being friendly and conciliatory is part of who I am in many situations.

The second set is Ni/Se vs Si/Ne. Directness and bluntness with the world around us vs a more "open to interpretation" style, as far as I can tell. My issue here is that I am very direct and blunt as a person because I do not see how one can consider all possibilities without an established starting point. When I see something, my mind is seemingly simultaneously concerned with both what I can directly see and how that relates directly to what I can't. When I see a tree for instance, I might make note of the leaves. I recognize their color, and thus my mind can make a statement about the chemical processes currently occurring. When my eyes move to the trunk, I consider the tree's age, and whether or not it would be suited for lumber processing, how economical that would be. When I look to the left and right and see more trees in the area I conclude that the weather must have been favorable for the plants, or they have have been maintained by humans. I do not see every literal aspect of something and then build upon it. Nor do the possibilities shape my view of the immediate.

It really doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to me at the moment. I wish it was, but I really feel like parts of every function pair applied to me in some degree, while each had parts I disagreed with.

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