Intuition vs Sensing

Book: My True Type, page 33 - 38

Characteristics of Sensors:

  • Caught up in living life, they may forget to reflect on it (especially ESPs)
  • Generally prefer and are at their best with practical, concrete activities Excel in handling details and daily affairs
  • Lovers of new sights, tastes, and sensations (SPs) or routines and traditions (SJs)
  • More concerned with the facts, details, or particulars than the connections between them
  • Most effective on the back end of the creative process, with enacting and implementing

Characteristics of Intuitives:

  • Often lost in thought, their minds are “somewhere else”
  • May struggle to attend to the concrete details of daily life (especially INJs and ENPs)
  • Prefer to deal in theoretical, imaginative, or speculative realms; love working with ideas
  • Enjoy contemplating abstract patterns, connections, and - languages, be they verbal, mathematical, or computer-based
  • More interested in the connections between things (especially abstract things) than in the things themselves
  • Most effective on the front end of the creative process, with generating ideas or insights
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