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Category: Cognitive Functions

  • Steadiness | Negative

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    “The Dark Side of Steadiness: Negative Aspects of Personality Traits”

  • Cognitive Function Subtypes

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    Erik Thor
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    What is your strongest cognitive function? The cognitive functions are combinations of different personality traits that together form new or unique traits. You can learn about the cognitive functions here. This article dives into the cognitive functions as extreme subtypes. These subtypes emerge as fixations with something. What is your strongest cognitive function? The cognitive…

  • The Cognitive Functions as Teachers (funny)

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    Which personality type would make your favourite teacher and what would school look like if we taught people based on the cognitive functions? In this video I’m exploring some examples like what the ideal school would like like and how we could teach the different types. Enjoy!

  • Against a Cognitive Function Based Personality Psychology

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    Erik Thor
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    I practice a motivation-based form of personality psychology, studying personality psychology from the basis of trying to understand human needs and motivations. This means I do not consider personality type to be behaviour, as in, how you act or what you do on a day, and I do not consider personality type to be pure…

  • All The Cognitive Functions And How They Manifest In The INTJ

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    The Flow Functions Functions that work like the gas in the car. Functions that push you forward and serve as intrinsic motivation sources. Functions you naturally manifest without thinking about it. Functions that give you energy and control. This function is best represented by the picture of a hero or a fighter. Introverted iNtuition, always…

  • The Reviewers: How Do I Know What I Want?

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    Erik Thor
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    Do you know what you want? Are you able to speak out for it to others? Are you competitive or are you more collaborative? How do you know what you want and what can Enneagram 8, Enneagram 1, and Enneagram 9 and The Hero Archetype teach you about expressing your values, standing up for your…

  • The Most Advanced Cognitive Function

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    My supporter Mo from Patreon asks: Did intuition develop later in humans than sensing? This is a really fascinating question. Does using introverted intuition make your thinking more advanced? Does introverted intuition require higher intelligence or a higher mental capacity? Did introverted iNtuition develop after other cognitive functions? Is introverted iNtuition less refined or is…

  • The Cognitive Functions

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    Want to understand your strongest cognitive functions? Take the cognitive function test. Intuition Positive | Big-picture | Open-minded | Task-oriented Verbal-Linguistic Extroverted iNtuition Initiative-taking | Collaborative Creative-Associative Intuitive Perceiving Adaptable | Modest Speculative-Futuristic Intuitive Judging Assertive | Consistent Visual-Spatial Introverted iNtuition Sensitive | Independent Thinking Big-picture | Skeptical | Task-positive | Prioritizing Systems Extroverted Thinking…

  • What makes us who we are? Our thoughts?

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    What makes us who we are? Our thoughts? People tend to believe that it is how they think that produces who they are. But what if it is the other way around. What if it is who we are, at our core, that produces and guides how we think? In a modern Jungian context, it…

  • The Next Step For Neojungian Typology

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    Erik Thor
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    This is an excerpt from my most recent ebook, Next Steps For Neojungian Typology. Does Type Change? Personality is iffy and ever changing. This makes it hard to measure consistently. We are constantly being shaped by our environment and our experiences. We are constantly changing and reinventing ourselves. Perhaps the biggest issue for models like the…