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In this episode Joel and Antonia talk about how Intuitives can avoid developing a superiority complex.
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The idea of iNtuitive superiority surfaces when Intuitives encounter Myers-Briggs.
Our mission is to get the concept of the iNtuition/Sensor dichotomy into the public consciousness so each can hold more space for the other.
Intuitives can feel disenfranchised when they have only experienced a dominant sensor environment. They’ve had a lot of feelings of inferiority or marginalization because they’ve never felt like they fit in.
When someone who has felt marginalized encounters MBTI, they have a tendency to run with it and turn it into a reason for superiority.
We see typology, the ability to understand ourselves and others, as one of the foundational elements of personal growth.
When we talk about an iNtuitive awakening, we want it to come from a personal development framework.
The Huge introvert movement has been popping up in recent years in an attempt to empower introverts to feel okay about being different.
Introverts are not broken. They have specific needs. They need alone time. Their mind goes through more channels when making decisions than extraverts.
The Introvert/Extravert movement has encouraged us as to the potential of the iNtuitive/Sensor movement.
There are a couple of differences though that will make it more challenging.
Introversion/Extraversion is generally accepted by the psychological world, whereas Sensing/iNtuition are unique to the MBTI system.
PHQ: Is There Scientific Evidence For Myers Briggs
Introvert/Extravert split is about 50/50 in the population. More numbers to create that tipping point so necessary for societal shifts.
Sensor/iNtuition is a 75/25 split. Less represented. Less understood. Less recognized.
There are clear advantages with both introversion and extraversion.
There tends to be a mystical element when we explain the iNtuitive processes. We have a tendency to romanticize Intuition.
There’s less introvert vs. extravert division in that one doesn’t necessarily feel hugely disenfranchised by the other.
We don’t want to romanticize iNtuition. We don’t want people saying they wish they were iNtuitive. We prefer this dichotomy be seen as mundane because it is mundane in the sense that it is a daily experience for 25% of the population.
The tendency for iNtuitives online to act like dicks to Sensors is only going to challenge the iNtuitive awakening.
In our opinion, an Intuitive Awakening is good for everyone.
If we feel iNtuitives are superior to Sensors we need to root that out. It is wildly inaccurate.
It creates a win/lose scenario which never works.
Podcast: Introverted Intuition vs Extraverted Intuition
Intuition does not equal intelligence. It is just perceiving of the world in a different way – Using advanced pattern recognition to see what is behind the curtain.
Intuitives are not more intelligent than Sensors
Podcast: Howard Gardner Multiple Intelligence Theory
Certain kinds of intelligence trend to certain types.
INTJs trend to being the smartest person in the room in the way that society honors analytical intelligence. This doesn’t mean INTJs are the smartest full stop. Just in their type of intelligence.
There are multiple styles of intelligence.
Sensor types will trend toward different styles of intelligence.
Society goes through phases of when they honor the different kinds of intelligence.
Podcast: General Semantics
We use the same word to mean multiple things.
We’d like to see iNtuition awakened on all levels. Even Sensors have an iNtuitive cognitive function in their car model.
Video on being inclusionary when referring to iNtuition.
Where your iNtuitive Cognitive Function shows up in your stack will influence you.
We can’t have “us vs. them” segregation mindset.
Our request is that if you have any inferiority/superiority over your type, (aka type patriotism) recognize that you have some stuff going on inside of you that has nothing to do with being iNtuitive. You are using being iNtuitive as a way to avoid dealing with your stuff.
Let us do everything we can to operate on a high vibration. This isn’t the place to put your wounds on display. This is the place to raise ourselves up and make all of us better. If you see any segregation happening, call it out. Make sure to point out that there isn’t a place for this type of mentality. It doesn’t serve anybody.
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This podcast is outstanding, you both are highly advanced in gathering information and communicating it in consumable ways and what I find particularly interesting is how careful you both are with your wording, often rewinding and changing the words that you use to get closer to the true meaning. Fascinating.
I run an organisation that teaches music to children at several access points and am constantly reminding my teams that the meaning of your communication is in the response you get and language is far more likely to be miscommunicated than communicated due to the complexity and layers that you alluded to in this podcast so being adaptable to the recipient is paramount.
I am an INTJ and when finding this out I am (embarrassed to say) I felt superior or ‘patriotic’ …. Through real world feedback from close friends/family I painfully realised that in application, this is highly erm…ugly!
I am fortunate to have a team and through this have learnt that what we actually need is balance. Fulfilling the needs of our customers is only possible by having a rounded team; that there is no rounded person, only a rounded team.
We constantly look and celebrate strengths in people and then find a huge joy in aligning them with a need in the company and I am amazed at others’ ability to do something with ease that would have taken me far longer and with greater difficulty.
We are setting up an education program for our teaching teams and when it’s up and running, it’d be great to chat with you guys more about this as your programs would give a deep dive into this typing system far more than anything I could do!
Before I head over to the general semantics podcast I have a quick question which may be helpful to parents reading too …we are always acutely aware of telling children they have any fixed attributes as this can misguide them (particularly if you’re not highly qualified in the specific area) with that said what are your thoughts with how the Myers-Briggs system works with children?
I love this comment. I agree – there are characteristics, talents and career choices that we faddishly elevate depending upon our culture. Sometimes we’re just in the wrong place, wrong time for our particular set of traits. For example, as a Ti user I’ve noticed that Ti is celebrated in media but often loathed in reality. The only solution I’ve managed to come up with is to be the most nimble and graceful Ti user possible to counter stereotypes and make the talents that Ti comes with irrefutable.
I don’t think we’re going to see the end of socially constructed fads around talents in our lifetime. But we don’t have to be discouraged by them. Acknowledge their presence, be realistic about the extra challenge they represent, and then keep on keepin’ on.
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‘@ Tom Web, absolutely agree on your comment regarding conversation between intuitives and sensors. As an intuitive I have found that if you mostly don’t go in hard and keep it short you just become an accessory to the conversation.
I have some great sensor friends, however figuring out how to have conversations with them, has taken me years to develop. Unfortunately mostly by trial and error. These Personality Hacker podcasts really are such a valuable tool.
Oh man. Guilty of feeling superior a couple of times. I always knew that attitude wasn’t quite right and you guys eloquently put into words what I felt! Thank you for kick-starting this intuitive awakening movement. Let’s celebrate sensors and intuitives both :)
LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS!!!