Podcast - Episode 0201 - Introverted Thinking vs Extraverted Thinking

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• Introverted Intuition vs Extraverted Intuition podcast
• Sensing Personality Types podcast
• Two judging processes:
• Introverted Thinking (Ti) “Accuracy”
• Extraverted Thinking (Te) “Effectiveness”
• Car Model
• All TPs use Introverted Thinking
• All TJs use Extraverted Thinking
• Both thinking processes are judging processes that prefer impersonal criteria
• If you are a Thinker, you are going to have a Thinking process that is very influential for you.
• Even Feelers will find this interesting because all Feelers have Thinking processes somewhere in their car.
• Impersonal criteria = things that aren’t just about people metrics.
• Other data is also relevant because people aren’t always a trusted resource.
• If you are a Thinker, you aren’t a robot.
• You may think very strongly of how you impact people, but you also know there are other influencers, too.
• Sustainable, long game implications.
• Thinkers are not sociopaths.
• The Judging functions have attitudes – introverted and extraverted criteria
• Effectiveness is a Thinking function with an extraverted attitude – Te
• Accuracy is a Thinking function with an introverted attitude – Ti
• An Extraverted attitude is going to base its decisions on external criteria.
• Real world resources, timelines.
• All thinking processes want to see impact and effect.
• They want to determine what we should be doing.
• Outcomes and endgames are very important to all the judging processes.
• Effectiveness is the most tapped into how things play out in the real world.
• What is the return on investment?
• Did we accomplish the goal?
• What works?
• Effectiveness gets very good at taking in environment and context.
• How do we have to manage people to make sure they are operating at their highest potential?
• What is the ROI? What is the 80/20?
• Getting Things Done by David Allen
• The difference between a project and a task.
• A project has multiple tasks involved with it, like changing your oil.
• Effectiveness instinctively understands the difference between projects and tasks and can break each project into its itemized tasks.
• Effectiveness is great in a world where tons of resources need to be managed at any given time.
• They get really good at making quick decisions based on ROI and previously garnered metrics.
• What is the best course of action?
• Effectiveness understands other people’s potential.
• The biggest challenge Te has is the tendency to look for shortcuts.
• There is no such thing as a shortcut. Somebody is paying the price.
• Streamlining is important, but it can prevent the TJ from learning what they need to learn.
• Effectiveness is better than efficiency.
• When TJs are efficient, they are hoping for a higher return with as little output as possible.
• Effectiveness should be the gauge and efficiency should be the tool you use to get to effectiveness.
• Acceptable loss principal = spillage
• It can feel icky to other types, but it’s not always a bad thing.
• We need people to think in these terms because the whole world can’t always work out ideally.
• When acceptable spillage goes too high, then it is a sign that Effectiveness has lost its way.
• TJs need to be very deliberate about the impact they want to make.
• What is the endgame?
• What works and what is good?
• Introverted Thinking (Ti) – Accuracy
• Accuracy is more focused on ensuring that the internal thought processes are clean and uncorrupted
• More interested in process than result
• The Outcome at the end isn’t necessarily a priority.
• Internal metrics = greater subjectivity
• Extraverted Thinking is objective = did it work or not?
• Introverted thinking is about passing your own criteria, but its subjectivity isn’t based on feelings as much as data.
• What is true after we have removed desire?
• Info and data must be pure – ideally.
• Introverted thinking likes to go back to all the programming it has received and determining its value.
• Can I know that to be true?
• How much info is corrupt or unnecessary?
• How does it compare with other info I have already vetted?
• “Neurons that fire together, wire together.”
• Ti looks for relational pathways and false conflations.
• Some untrue elements may be wired to true data and accepted as true due to relational involvement.
• Accuracy is good at surgically removing the untrue info from the accurate info.
• What info can be trusted?
• Accuracy users can’t stop learning. They love to gather more info and root out the bad.
• It can be hard for an Accuracy user to share accurate info with someone who chooses to reject it in preference for bad info.
• Accuracy users needs to make sure they take in more info to add to the existing data framework.
• Accuracy at its best is skeptical of its own thoughts.
• If Ti takes shortcuts, the data may become corrupted.
• Extraverted Thinking looks at the result, and Introverted Thinking looks at the process.
• Introverted Thinking is very focused on integrity, whereas Extraverted Thinking doesn’t always see the value of integrity.
• When new info comes into the world of a TJ, it gets categorized by whether or not it is actionable.
• When new info comes into the world of a TP, it gets added to all the other info to be sorted and valued later.
• When info becomes so process focused that it loses sight of impact the TP may appear to be a jerk because no one is valuing their data.
• It may even corrupt its own data to meet the desired end.
• Introverted Thinking may not be practical when it comes to impact.
• Extraverted Thinking is less focused on clean process and more focused on impact.
• Accuracy sees info as ubiquitous and abundant. It has no problem sharing info freely, which can get it into trouble.
• Effectiveness sees info as limited. If all info is actionable, there is limited action that can be taken. Info is power, so it must be withheld.
• Effectiveness people can weaponize info, so they assume others will do the same.
• Accuracy is very free with info.
• TPs hate it when the info they share is corrupted.
• TJs withhold data and keep their cards close to their chest, so their intent is misunderstood by others.
• Relationship to info can hijack both of these types and their interaction with the world.

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