I used to think intelligence has got to do with iNtuition. True, but this is abstract intelligence - meaning an ability to infer, figure things out through induction or deduction about abstract things.
Solving problems effectively can also be through Sensing. Today I was watching a movie "Shanghai Knights" where two guys try to get into a closed house by picking the lock - supposedly a difficult lock. The third guy in the group throws a stone on the glass door and helps all of them get in. It started me thinking.
I am also reminded of an incident in one of Asterix comic books. Asterix is probably N while his dear friend Obelix is, well, not so. Once while in Rome, incognito, searching for a person, Asterix keeps thinking trying to figure out a way to determine where the person could be. Obelix meanwhile gets hold of a guard and shakes and slaps him up and asks him where that person is and the guard blurts out the location. Asterix watches this incident dumbfounded.
When you want to get a done, you can use your senses and figure out an effective solution instead of trying to do the abstract theoretical way.
A friend of mine has a son and a daughter. The son is an S and the daughter (I think is) an N. When my gave a problem to her two children, the daughter thought for some time (using her N perhaps) and decided she couldn't solve it. And stopped making any further effort. The son was confidence personified. He knew he would get it. (Granted, I don't know whether the son or the daughter solved it finally.)
Being intimately aware of the environment through his senses, an S has immense information to solve the problem. Many an N perhaps is incapable of solving small problems which is a piece of cake for an S.
While S and N are called perceiving functions, perhaps they are problem solving functions also. Each one provides a different kind of method to address problems. Perhaps the S way is unsophisticated. And perhaps the N spends a lot of time trying to solve simple problems.
There is a story in Hindu mythology. Shiva and Parvati hold a competition for their two sons Ganesh and Kartjik. The one to go around the world first will be the winner. Karthik had a peacock as his vehicle. And he climbed on it and got going fast. Ganesh had only a mouse as his vehicle. He remembered that a person's world is his parents. So he circled his parents and declared himself the winner. His parents couldn't fault his way.
There are 2 ways to get get hold of an invention.
Problems can be solved using either of S or N. People use whichever comes easily to them.
I can't help but wonder whether the points above could be attributed to P and J instead of to S and N.
There are 2 ways to get get hold of an invention.
- Invent it yourself, the hard way, the way Hank Rearden did in Atlas Shrugged.
- Or blackmail the inventor to give it to you - as the antagonists did in the same novel. Rearden was an N. The latter were S.
I can't help but wonder whether the points above could be attributed to P and J instead of to S and N.
Additional reading:
- http://www.celebritytypes.com/blog/2013/06/8-common-typing-mistakes/
- http://vbala99.blogspot.com/2015/02/intuitive-or-sensing.html
- http://personalitycafe.com/myers-briggs-forum/44315-reversing-stereotypes-smart-sensors-dumb-intuitives-2.html
- http://vbala99.blogspot.com/2014/10/einstfpj-mbti.html
- http://www.slayerment.com/which-smartest-mbti-type
- http://www.slayerment.com/blog/becoming-attorney-game-life
- http://vbala99.blogspot.com/2015/03/feeling-or-thinking.html
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