I’ve been thinking lately, and I haven’t been writing all that much. That’s strange, because often, like right now, I think as I write.

Those of you closer to me know that I am quite an MBTI geek. (Google it if you still don’t know what it is.) I am an ENTP, through and through. Lately I’ve gotten to pry deeper into the mechanics of the system and I learned even more about myself. My dominant function is extroverted intuition and my secondary function is introverted thinking. I know that sounds like gibberish because that’s what it was to me too initially, but it makes a startling amount of sense. (This statement in itself reeks of extroverted intuition!)

Extroverted intuition is the function that you use to observe patterns in the world around you. It’s my dominant function- my favourite and most comfortable “skill” in navigating myself and the world. This explains why I love to understand and figure things out, to rationalize, theorize, you name it. If you’ve ever witnessed me getting carried away with a lengthy, improvised explanation- it’s my highly developed Ne talking.

Introverted thinking is my secondary function, which explains why even though I am generally an extrovert I spend quite a lot of time on my own, and more so than others.

My weakest or inferior function is introverted sensing, which explains why I often don’t learn from past experience and make the same mistakes over and over again. Understanding the MBTI, and now, the specific functions, has seriously enriched my understanding of myself, my psyche and the world around me. It doesn’t necessarily explain everything but it provides a startlingly good framework to begin from.

I’d say more but I got to run!