![[Video] How Introverted Sensing (Si) "Memory" Shows Up As A 3-Year-Old Inferior Cognitive Function](http://personalityhacker.com/cdn/shop/articles/joel-mark-witt-introverted-sensing-video_3518386d-ac26-4091-8ada-cfb46135a50a.png?v=1706206957&width=1454)
In this video Joel (ENFP) describes how Introverted Sensing (Si) shows up for him as an inferior cognitive function. This is the 3-Year-Old (inferior) process for all ENFPs and ENTPs in the Myer-Briggs system.
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I think when memory isn’t high in the cognitive stack, people will save way to much “stuff” because they need to actual see something to bring it back to thought. My wife is an ENTP and she saves everything that I would most likely throw away. I am an ISFJ. I get rid of things all the time. It is a challenge to work together as a couple so I don’t throw something out that I consider “insignificant “ that she wants to hold on too. When I ask why she want to keep the item ( and in many cases we have many more than one of them ) she is not sure why. She just wants to keep it. After years and years of not using or looking at it, she still has a difficult time getting rid of it.
I really love the way you and Antonia have helped us understand who we are.
Please keep doing the these informative videos and Pod casts.
I love to get rid of things. I move often and purge with glee, but the few family pieces I’ve let go of in an impulsive moment haunt me. Not because I had any attachment to the items, but because each item spurs memories of the person who owned/created it. I also think that I’ve let down the family in some small way by not cherishing a piece of our collective history. I always test as INTP.
The struggle is real :-)
I haven’t even begun to think about physical items. I know my parents have a bunch of antiques and things that someone should preserve. Neither myself or my brother are likely to take in these items for preservation. Thanks for sharing your story Louise.
I am an INFP, and just starting to learn more about my cognitive function stack. With Memory as my 10-yr-old function, I’ve been having a hard time identifying it in my life because I wasn’t sure exactly how it was defined. Now I see that it manifests itself in my journaling. Since I was young, I’ve always enjoyed journaling all important moments in my life, especially those with great emotional value. While this is mostly to satisfy my driver function, Authenticity, I think my obsession with keeping and rereading my journals has more to do with Memory. All of my teenage-drama years live within these entries, which also include a lot of painful memories. I’ve had close friends tell me that it’s unhealthy to keep and reread everything, that I’m living in the past. However, my impulse is to maintain these records to make sure I remember where I’ve come from and ensure that I learn from my own mistakes. I always wondered why that was so important to me. Thanks, Joel!
I am an infp and my sister an infj, and we always enjoy seeing how similar we are and yet how different that one letter makes us. Listening to your video and noticing that memory is my 10 year old, but it is nowhere in her stack reveals, for the first time, why it is that I have a zillion items riddled with nostalgia, whereas she throws away older things (including toys that were precious to me, that I passed on to her out of love) the way you would throw away an orange rind. Really interesting.