In the last year there have been medium sized changes, and I hope that suffices. If you are familiar with MBTI, then each of us have a dominant function—a kind of preferred way to see, sense, understand and relate to ourselves, the world and others. As an ENTP, there are some things that are very, very foreign to me—And so to try to grow using functions I have been stuck on, has been very rewarding.
The first, I finished Diablo 2 (A hack and slash action rpg, oldie game on highest difficulty). By finished, I mean I played the character I wanted, and I persevered, didn’t start over with a better build, didn’t read best grind tips (did read something, I’m not that hardcore) But kept playing and grinding to actually finishing the game, even though it wouldn’t be perfect. I cheesed one of the last bosses.. It was very gratifying, and actually finishing something in this way unstuck something in my mind.
I finished Myst: Riven (A puzzle game). Now, this was hard. It opened my eyes to the more practical world of Sensing I believe. I is a very different experience of the world. It was terribly hard, to motivate myself to come back, again and again, and find new things. And I saw a terrible lot of useless connections, and sometimes what I did was down to pure luck.
The Riven world stunning and the puzzles have aged well (The last one is.. a pain). But I managed, with minimal help on the last one. Replaying it again… and suddenly the world made so much sense, like I could suddenly grasp something. Appreciating the mechanical, more sensing way of relating of the world, I imagine. I was a good feeling, that even though it is a different way of processing the world, it was now something I could connect more with.
And lastly, Introverted Intuition. My partner has this as her dominant function, and it has been very eye-opening to peer a bit into her way processing the world. I guess this experience, more than the others, was the biggest eye-opener with regards to how differently we view the world, as even though the games are different—I can see the structures more clearly as they are closer and I am being shown them in real time—by an expert :)
One way of saying how I process, is that I find and validate connections between intangible forms of shadows, and new ones are added on the regular. And with them I create constructs of air, but where the pressure must be perfect to be meaningful. (If you don’t like metaphors and analogies—used as metaphors and analogies—ENTP language must be a pain)
My partner thinks in.. It still hurts to think about it, so this isn’t as easy. If her goal is high, there is no compromise, so the inner form adapts to the goal. So if you see the goal, you make a line between them. But what if the real distance is 1000 Km, then you will have to build stronger.. And what if the points are moving, or there is interference… No compromise, connecting those two points, and letting them stay connecting. That has been a pretty big eye-opener. We have the same worldview, but with different life-experiences—but our inner structures, even though there might be some similarities—are still painfully hard to actually emulate.
Thanks for the question though, was interesting to find an answer to it.
In the last year there have been medium sized changes, and I hope that suffices. If you are familiar with MBTI, then each of us have a dominant function—a kind of preferred way to see, sense, understand and relate to ourselves, the world and others.
As an ENTP, there are some things that are very, very foreign to me—And so to try to grow using functions I have been stuck on, has been very rewarding.
The first, I finished Diablo 2 (A hack and slash action rpg, oldie game on highest difficulty). By finished, I mean I played the character I wanted, and I persevered, didn’t start over with a better build, didn’t read best grind tips (did read something, I’m not that hardcore) But kept playing and grinding to actually finishing the game, even though it wouldn’t be perfect. I cheesed one of the last bosses.. It was very gratifying, and actually finishing something in this way unstuck something in my mind.
I finished Myst: Riven (A puzzle game). Now, this was hard. It opened my eyes to the more practical world of Sensing I believe. I is a very different experience of the world. It was terribly hard, to motivate myself to come back, again and again, and find new things. And I saw a terrible lot of useless connections, and sometimes what I did was down to pure luck.
The Riven world stunning and the puzzles have aged well (The last one is.. a pain). But I managed, with minimal help on the last one.
Replaying it again… and suddenly the world made so much sense, like I could suddenly grasp something. Appreciating the mechanical, more sensing way of relating of the world, I imagine. I was a good feeling, that even though it is a different way of processing the world, it was now something I could connect more with.
And lastly, Introverted Intuition. My partner has this as her dominant function, and it has been very eye-opening to peer a bit into her way processing the world. I guess this experience, more than the others, was the biggest eye-opener with regards to how differently we view the world, as even though the games are different—I can see the structures more clearly as they are closer and I am being shown them in real time—by an expert :)
One way of saying how I process, is that I find and validate connections between intangible forms of shadows, and new ones are added on the regular. And with them I create constructs of air, but where the pressure must be perfect to be meaningful. (If you don’t like metaphors and analogies—used as metaphors and analogies—ENTP language must be a pain)
My partner thinks in.. It still hurts to think about it, so this isn’t as easy. If her goal is high, there is no compromise, so the inner form adapts to the goal. So if you see the goal, you make a line between them. But what if the real distance is 1000 Km, then you will have to build stronger.. And what if the points are moving, or there is interference… No compromise, connecting those two points, and letting them stay connecting.
That has been a pretty big eye-opener. We have the same worldview, but with different life-experiences—but our inner structures, even though there might be some similarities—are still painfully hard to actually emulate.
Thanks for the question though, was interesting to find an answer to it.