Hypothesis on Ne vs Se

Ne is about what you want to do, whereas Se is all about what you can do.

Just a hypothesis. I'm going to put it here for now.

categorizing emotions

This post isn't about socionics, and it's going to be just a random jumble of words. Just wanted to categorize some things with some emotions.

• Iron Man (2008) movie -- the desire to take action. Stop libertining (is that a word?). Live. Do things. Achieve greatness.
• Step Out (Jose Gonzalez) and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty -- to stop dreaming. Live.
• Why Don't You Kiss Her (Jesse McCartney) -- missed opportunity. Something like..."I wish it were different. I should've done this. I should've done that."
• Mark II (from Ironman OST) -- working. "In the zone."
• Now I see the light (from Tangled OST) -- The thought: "I wish my life were like this"
• Love theme from the Godfather OST -- brooding. Deep contemplation about something...like the meaning of life.
• Extra Dry, Extra Olives (from Iron man OST) -- something like "oh shit." Did I do something wrong? Let's talk. What went wrong? Hi. What are we going to do now?
• All I need http://www.infinitelooper.com/?v=IIJ7W2JGiTM -- I am Iron man

I'm probably going to expand upon that list as I find more things to categorize.

Interesting property about the Dominant Function

I think I just found an interesting property of the Dominant function. (To recap quickly, the Dominant function is a person's leading function).

I've noticed that for information related to a person's Dominant function, the person wants to control that information. He wants to control the rate at which the information is flowing, what sort of information, and manipulate that information.

Couple examples:

• INFp: she wants to control the way she spends her time. She wants to control the flow of events in time.
• ENTp: he wants to control the way he explores new information. He wants to control exactly what information he wants to explore, and he'll learn something only if he's interested in it.

If you're interested in how this observation would play out for other types, let me know in the comments below and I can add it!

Interesting Application of Te

I recently discovered a pretty interesting application of Te. For a quick background discussion, Te is the mental function associated with "the external activity of objects, i.e. the how, what, and where of events, activity or work, behaviour, algorithms, movement, and actions" (http://wikisocion.org/en/index.php?title=Te)

To be productive, one has to simply apply Te to himself. Here are some tricks to apply Te:

• Do you really understand the problem that you have to solve? Write it down! Then evaluate whether what you wrote is really clear.
• What are the variables that we need in our computer program? Write it down! Evaluate what you wrote.
• Do you really understand what the professor is teaching in class! Write it down! (in your own words). If you can really understand it, then you should be able to put the understanding into your own words.
• Does this computer program really do what you're expecting? Print variables and output to the screen!

Mistook a INFp for ISFp

Hi all,

One update before I go into this post's topic: if you have a question or topic you want me to write about, go ahead and put it into the comments. I'll write up a post about it as soon as I get the time.

One of the more interesting things I've realized in the past couple months is that I mistyped a person as INFp, when she was actually ISFp. INFps and ISFps look basically identical. Just look at their descriptions:

• (INFp) know well how to successfully combine clothes and accessories, resulting in their characteristic, elegant appearance (http://www.socionics.com/prof/infp.htm)
  
  vs.
  
  (ISFp) Their clothes are usually neat, colourful and radiate a warm, comfortable feeling. (http://www.socionics.com/prof/isfp.htm)
• (INFp) INFps enjoy interesting or humorous anecdotes and stories. They often recall and share notable episodes from their own life experiences. (http://www.socionics.com/prof/infp.htm)
  
  vs.
  
  (ISFp) ISFps enjoy gathering and sharing interacting facts and news. However, they always add a certain degree of colour to their narrative hoping to make it more interesting. (http://www.socionics.com/prof/isfp.htm)
• (INFp) In situations where they are required to give a answer they often delay the inevitable until the last moment even if they have reached a decision by evading and camouflaging their intent. (http://www.socionics.com/prof/infp.htm)
  
  vs.
  
  (ISFp) Unsurpassed master of giving evasive answers to direct questions. If he is asked a question that did not find any other answer than "yes" or "no" - will still find a loophole. Sometimes it seems that the EIS organically unable to make the final choice, even in trifles. (http://socionics8.blogspot.com/2013/10/machine-translation-of-isfp-sei.html)

......just to list a few.

As a side note, this perfectly justifies the "Look-alike-relations" between ISFp and INFp -- the "Look-alike" comes from the fact that they look alike!

Here are a few differences between INFps and ISFps, if you need to figure out how to tell these two types apart:

• Ask them to take a typology test. I usually don't trust these tests since people often don't know themselves well enough. However, people usually have a good idea of their strongest point, which is their dominant function. So these typology tests will help with determining the first function of an ISFp vs INFp (ISFp will have Si as dominant, while INFp will have Ni as dominant).
• ISFps usually complain about how they need to be better at predicting developments of situations over time (Ni as super-ego), while INFps often complain about their physical condition (I'm SO tired, I'm so HUNGRYYY -- actual statements from the INFp)
• How they show love. ISFps will make sure you're well-fed, comfortable, in good physical condition. INFps will tend to create drama, delaying the "official" declaration until the "perfect moment" (Si, body senses vs Ni, time)

Note to self

It appears that socionic's theory for how a person becomes 'activated' is correct (activated means, in my mind, to be motivated, active, living life). Briefly, socionic's theory for activation is to engage the person's Mobilizing function with somebody's Creative function or Leading function.

At the very least, I can verify it anecdotally. Just now, I felt activated from feeling remorse at the ending of Young Justice's 2nd season's last episode, which had Wally (Kid Flash) die.

Links to all Hitseeker descriptions on the socionics8 blog!

Here you guys go!

http://socionics8.blogspot.com/2013/11/hitseeker-description-provided-by_720.html
http://socionics8.blogspot.com/2013/11/hitseeker-description-provided-by_3365.html
http://socionics8.blogspot.com/2013/11/hitseeker-description-provided-by_3.html
http://socionics8.blogspot.com/2013/11/hitseeker-uncovered-by-socionicscom.html
http://socionics8.blogspot.com/2013/11/two-more-hitseeker-description-provided.html