Ethos ✧ 22 ✧ he/him ✧ ISTJ

cognitive functions, by dario nardi

haytham-fucking-kenway:

- EXTRAVERTED SENSING (Se) - “Act quickly and smoothly to handle whatever comes up in the moment.”

Excited by motion, action, and nature. Adept at physical multitasking with a video game-like mind primed for action. Often in touch with body sensations. Bored when sitting with a mental/rote task. Strong memory for details in context. Use their whole brain to handle crises. May be impatient to finish.

MAINLY ESFP, ESTP.
ALSO ISFP, ISTP.

- INTROVERTED SENSING (Si) - “Review and practice in order to specialise and meet group needs.”

Constant practice helps their brain specialise. Improve when watching a role-model or example. Often in touch with body sensations. Easily track where they are in a task. Use their whole brain to review the past. Strong memory for kinship and raw details. May over-rely on authority for guidance.

MAINLY ISTJ, ISFJ.
ALSO ESTJ, ESFJ.

- EXTRAVERTED INTUITING (Ne) - “Perceive and play with patterns of relationships across contexts.”

Think analogically: notice and apply patterns of relationships across contexts. Stimuli are springboards to generate analogies and ideas. Easily guess details. Adept at role-play and mirroring others. Brain activity tends to look chaotic, with many highs and lows at once. May find it hard to stay on-task.

MAINLY ENTP, ENFP.
ALSO INTP, INFP.

- INTROVERTED INTUITING (Ni) - “Draw upon the whole brain to realise an answer to a novel problem.”

Enter a very brief trance to answer problems. Focus on what will happen. Use their whole brain to foresee the future. Manage their own mental processes and are aware of where they are in an open-ended task. May use physical action or symbol to focus the mind. May over-rely on the unconscious

MAINLY INTJ, INFJ.
ALSO ENTJ, ENFJ.

- EXTRAVERTED THINKING (Te) - “Manage resources efficiently to quickly decide based on the evidence.”

Highly efficient use of brain resources. Focus on word content, recall facts and figures, see and manipulate images, and then decide. Adept at giving decisive explanations. Tend to utilise other brain regions only when those regions are truly needed. May display confidence even when wrong.

MAINLY ESTJ, ENTJ.
ALSO ISTJ, INTJ.

- INTROVERTED THINKING (Ti) - “Reason multiple ways to objectively and accurately analyse problems.”

Rely on interior regions of neocortex. Adept at deductive reasoning, defining and categorising, weighing odds and risks, and/or navigating spaces. Can shut out senses to think. Tend to back-track to clarify thoughts. Separate body from mind when arguing or analysing. May quickly stop listening.

MAINLY ISTP, INTP.
ALSO ESTP, ENTP.

- EXTRAVERTED FEELING (Fe) - “Evaluate and communicate values to enhance social relationships.”

Attend keenly to how others judge them. Quickly adjust behaviour for social harmony. Like to use adjectives to convey values. The true degree of their emotional response about morals/ethics is often held back and given only in words or ideas. May be easily coerced or embarrassed.

MAINLY ESFJ, ENFJ.
ALSO ISFJ, INFJ.

- INTROVERTED FEELING (Fi) - “Listen with your whole self to locate and support what’s important.”

Evaluate personal importance along a spectrum from love/like to dislike/hate. Use their whole brain to listen to others. Attentive and curious for what is not said. Focus on word choice and voice tone. Hard to embarrass. Can respond strongly to specific, high-value words. May not utilise feedback.

MAINLY ISFP, INFP.
ALSO ESFP, ENFP.