work in progress 🙂
You’re iNtuitive if you prefer: (you can also do a test)
- Big picture thinking vs concrete examples
- Deep thinker, enjoy conceptualizing vs pragmatic and focused on “bottom line”
- imagining possibilities vs trust own experience
- new things vs routine
- trust gut vs 5 senses
- future oriented vs present
Preferences and Strengths:
Happy with conceptual and theoretical information; Likes ideas and concepts; Prefers the theoretical to the practical; idealistic, abstract.
Like to see the big picture first, then find out the facts.
Welcome change and future visioning; sees possibilities; inventive, imaginative; abstract; Plan to change the world rather than simply live in it. Follow their inspirations, intuition, draw meaning from seemingly disconnected facts, reading between the lines.
Enjoy new challenges and problems to solve. Like innovative tasks where they can use their imagination.
Trust impressions, symbols, and metaphors more than what I actually experienced.
Weaknesses and risks:
Thinks too much about abstract theories and new possibilities without making them a reality.
Does not like routine or practicalities. Will get bored more quickly talking about day-to-day, practical topics. Minds often drift off during a conversation.
Can gloss over a lot of the sensory details. Bad attention to detail.
Can be seem as too theoretical, up in the clouds, overly complicated without enough facts
Might not like job because it doesn’t satisfy intellectually, but is overwhelmed with the thought of change.
Improving and covering gaps:
Self knowledge.
Create systems that work.
When working with many numbers, ask someone to go over the details
Make sure plans are realistic.
Adapting and dealing with opposites:
Give clear, factual information and specific examples.
Bring some structure to meetings/conversations.
Back up ideas and suggestions with information on how they will work in practice
Don’t jump around and use concrete actual terms rather than analogies or allusions
Stress practical applications over theoretical considerations, stick with the known.
Finish your sentences.
Draw on past concrete experiences rather than focusing on anything new, futuristic, or theoretical
Sensing
Preferences and Strengths:
Doers of society.
Practical and pragmatic, looks to the “bottom line.”
I am detail-oriented.
Factual, Concrete, Realistic, Aware of surroundings, Goes by senses
Lives in the present
Start with facts and then form a big picture.
Trust experience (see, hear, touch, taste, and smell) first and trust words and symbols less.
Concerned with what is actual, present, current, and real.
I like to see the practical use of things and learn best when I see how to use what I’m learning.
Speak literally.
Concrete tasks with a defined outcome and linear sequence, over open-ended ones.
Draw on past experience and skills to solve immediate problems.
Sensors tend to be practical and down-to-earth.
Sensors like to “do” things. They aren’t likely to sit and just think or daydream.
Weaknesses and risks:
Lacking imagination and creativity. Miss new possibilities.
Dissatisfaction with open-ended or overly abstract tasks, and will get bored talking about theoretical or abstract concepts.
Constrained by the present, Overly factual, resistant to change
Lacking vision and big-picture focus
Too many facts and not enough pictures or meanings
Jumping immediately to the task
Stressed, and probably won’t see yourself as an executive at a company.
Might stay at job for years because it’s easy and do same thing every day. Work gets thrown to you, but you do it and all of a sudden, 50 years pass, and you don’t know what happened.
Improving and covering gaps:
Periodically check with an iNtuitive if you’re in the right track, or the plan should change.
Practical realism can be enhanced through ideas, insight and connections.
Adapting and dealing with opposites:
Give an overview first before delving into the detail.
Welcome ideas and suggestions and allow time for discussion to explore broader concepts
Don’t shut down initial ideas and enthusiasm with practical concerns, allow thoughts to be vocalised and explored.
Use analogies and metaphors rather than facts, figures and details as the Intuitive will want to see the whole before slotting detail in afterwards.
Brainstorm options and possibilities to keep the conversation moving forward and interesting for the Intuitive.
Make the conversation big picture and future-oriented rather than bombard them with facts.
If you like this, you’ll probably like: I/E N/S T/F J/P, INTJ, personality tests, books
Leo :) 