Hugh Herr: The New Bionics That Let Us Run, Climb And Dance

After The Storm ~ Yegor Malinovskii

“The power is in you. The answer is in you. And you are the answer to all your searches: you are the goal. You are the answer. It’s never outside.”

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Eckhart Tolle

description of the functions as agents of will

Se: mastery - I overcome myself the vessel, I fuse with my intent, I am the hollow of the storm.

Si: equilibrium - I stretch like a ray in epipelagia, adjusting, perfecting, a state of flow no current can disturb.

Te: avalanche - at these altitudes, any snowball is the pebble that takes me down the mountain.

Ti: scythe - to put together I first must take apart.

Fe: amber - I embalm you, gently, in coats of arms like gold.

Fi: paragon - pierce the flesh and find me; the core that doesn’t move.

Ne: hunter - I follow the holloways through faith through myth through fable through fact to the spring.

Ni: traveller - I descend into the deepest cavern, I scale the highest peak, I do not step off the road.

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The Penguin and the Egg

Street Carpets Painted by Arthur-Louis Ignoré

Also whoever made these should probably be my therapist from now on??

“As soon as it comes to the point where the crowd judges what is truth, it will not be long before decisions are made with fists.” – Soren Kierkegaard

The Difference between ENTPs and INTPs

Let’s be honest, a lot of people confuse ENTPs and INTPs. Is it possible to figure out why that is? Well, probably only an xNTP can figure it out.

It’s easy to confuse an ENTP for an INTP because they share the same cognitive functions. INTPs are Ti-Ne-Si-Fe, while ENTPs are Ne-Ti-Fe-Si. An individual who’s good at juggling those functions can easily come off as something they’re not. This applies to all introvert versus extrovert dichotomies.

But here’s the thing. When you switch I for E, the top function changes from a judging function to a perceiving function or vice verse. I can’t speak for the other switches, but in INTPs vs ENTPs, this can be pretty obvious - at least to me, considering I am one.

In a nutshell, INTPs take something complicated and make it simple. ENTPs take something simple and make it complicated.

Now, neither of these is good nor bad, it’s just how we function. But let’s explore it.

INTPs have Ti first and Ne second. That means an INTP is predominantly a judger; he or she likes to have things decided. The thing is, this judging function is internal, so that decisiveness is internal. That means an INTP’s concern is primarily with ideas and internal life, where an INTP can narrow down an idea down to its most basic core. This is how an INTP “takes something complicated and makes it simple”. An INTP is far more concerned with absorbing an idea through Ne and stripping it down with Ti, in order to connect it back to other ideas with Ne.

In contrast, ENTPs lead with Ne and have Ti second. When Ne leads, it wants to project outwards and see what’s out there. In this case, Ti serves as a leash, to make sense of and organize all the ideas and data coming in from Ne. In the case of an ENTP, the logic is there to gain an understanding of an idea, and then intuition wants to expand on that and explore the possibilities. In this way, the Ne overrides the Ti - it’s not about cutting down to the core of an idea, so much as understanding an idea enough to see what its possibilities are.

Now, neither of these are better than the other. I know a lot of ENTPs and they’re fantastic people to interact with. But the reality of the situation is that if you understand the difference, they have very different motivations. The INTP wants to understand what is, and the ENTP wants to understand what could be.

So there you have it. Ignore social conventions, and try to pay attention to where a conversation goes. The INTP will try to close down options and come down to a single idea, whereas the ENTP will try to open up options and see what a single idea can mean.

Does that help at all?