Logical Puzzle - Chery's Birthday

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32297367

What Is Pride

Pride is the inability to accept that you produce a shoddy output. That you would be willing to rectify it at your cost than be known among your "customers" that you produced a shoddy product. 

Pride is process focused.

When you focus on an output, you usually dilute the process.

What Is N?

What Is N (= "iNtuitive" as in MBTI)?

While reading the book "Future Shock" I realized how "N" the author, Alvin Toffler is. 

While many of us have gone personally through each of the examples cited in the book, few or none of us would have been able to recognize a pattern behind what is happening in this world. Just like most of us watched an apple fall, only one person found and explained the underlying theory, Toffler is one person who has explained the underlying theory behind what's going on this world. And this is N.

A quote by Toffler from here:

“In education, we need to begin paying attention to matters routinely ignored. We spend long hours trying to teach a variety of courses on, say, the structure of government or the structure of the amoeba. But how much effort goes into studying the structure of everyday life — the way time is allocated, the personal uses of money, the places to go for help in a society exploding with complexity? We take for granted that young people already know their way around our social structure. In fact, most have only the dimmest image of the way the world of work or business is organized. Most students have no conception of the architecture of their own city's economy, or the way the local bureaucracy operates, or the place to go to lodge a complaint against a merchant. Most do not even understand how their own schools — even universities — are structured, let alone how much structures are changing under the impact of the Third Wave.” ― Alvin Toffler, The Third Wave.

I was watching the movie Drishyam. The following is a dialog from that movie. Tabu says about Vijay (Ajay Devgn):

"Vijay teen taareek ko panjim mein tha. Vijay teen tareek ko bhi panjim mein tha." For those who have watched the movie and who remember this scene - this ability to figure out what must have happened which explained all the events (the equivalent of looking at a crime scene and saying "the butler mus have done the crime")  is Ne. It is not possible to logical deduction. Only through Induction.

Beautiful induction. 

Additional reading:

1. http://vbala99.blogspot.com/2015/02/intuitive-or-sensing.html
2. http://vbala99.blogspot.com/2015/03/intelligence-types.html
3. http://vbala99.blogspot.com/2015/04/sensing-vs-perceiving-and-intuitive-vs.html

Difference Between Extraverted And Introverted Stuff

To see the domininant, inferior functions etc for each MBTI type look here (look at the red colored cells in "Determine Functions for MBTI Ty" tab. To see the percentage of people with each MBTI type see the same link above and look at the red cells in thee "MBTI Stats" tab or click here


Difference between Fi Vs Fe (MBTI)
http://introspective-to-a-fault.blogspot.in/2014/05/revisiting-introverted-feeling-and.html

Difference between Ti and Te

http://personalitycafe.com/cognitive-functions/147142-te-vs-ti-real-life-example-how-they-differ.html

Difference between Si and Se

• http://personalityjunkie.com/extraverted-sensing-se-vs-introverted-sensing-si/ This is an excellent reference. Quote: "Extraverted Sensing (or what Jung called Extraverted Sensation) occurs by way of the five primary senses (sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste). Introverted Sensing (Si), by contrast, relates to inner bodily sensations such as pain, hunger, thirst, internal temperature, numbness, tingling, muscle tension, etc."... "While all personality types rely on vision for everyday functioning, Se types seem especially attuned to visual input. This is why they (SPs) tend to be more concerned about their appearance, as well as appearances in general, than Si types (SJs) are. SPs seek pleasure and Se takes great pleasure in perceiving both physical beauty and sensory novelty. Their penchant for sensory novelty is why SPs are commonly described as thrill-seekers or hedonists. Se is also engaged by physical action. SPs love perceiving and physically responding to environmental cues. This why they often take up work as first responders, athletes, mechanics, chefs, and the like." While I personally had the same belief about SP's I had not understood the theory. (Stuff in Italics is my opinion.) "For Si types (SJs), in particular, the things that are most prominent and cherished in this Si perspective are those which are most routine and familiar. There seems to be a quantitative factor at work in Si. The more times something is done—eating a certain meal, hearing a specific song, etc.—the more preferable it becomes. It was probably an Si type who, in noticing how his tastes changed with repeated exposures, coined the phrase “it will grow on me.” In many cases, if you can get an SJ to keep trying something, there’s a good chance they will come to enjoy it (or at least better tolerate it). SP types, who are less attached to past experiences and generally seem to have a broader palate, are more apt to like something the first time around. SJs, by contrast, prefer that extraverted sensations remain within a familiar bandwidth. Novel or extreme external sensations can even seem intrusive to SJs (especially ISJs)"
• http://www.psychologyjunkie.com/2015/09/22/what-type-of-sensor-are-you-the-difference-between-extraverted-and-introverted-sensing/ Quote: "Those with inferior Se, like the INTJs and INFJs, are extremely sensitive to the sensory world and are easily overstimulated." This seems to relate to HSP's (see book on HSP by Elaine Aron). "Extraverted sensors live life in the moment and love surprises and spontaneity. They often are excellent in a crisis, because they can think so well on their feet. "
• https://www.reddit.com/r/mbti/comments/4aznkm/does_this_sound_more_se_or_si/

Difference between Ni and Ne

• http://personalityjunkie.com/10/extraverted-intuition-ne-vs-introverted-intuition-ni/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/mbti/comments/310asy/whats_the_difference_between_ni_and_ne/
• http://personalitycafe.com/cognitive-functions/34859-difference-between-ne-ni.html
• http://www.psychologyjunkie.com/2015/09/08/what-type-of-intuitor-are-you-understanding-the-difference-between-extraverted-and-introverted-intuitio/ - shows differences in keywords associated with N and S 
• https://funkymbtifiction.tumblr.com/post/121996500900/how-does-ne-and-ni-differentiate-each-other-in
• https://funkymbtifiction.tumblr.com/post/68512751960/there-are-two-kinds-of-intuitives-which-are

Difference between Ni and Ti (Seems a little self deprecating with respect to Ni): https://www.quora.com/Myers-Briggs-Type-Indicator-Whats-the-difference-between-Ni-and-Ti




Difference between Ni-Ti and Si-Ti: https://funkymbtifiction.tumblr.com/post/108027521645/whats-the-difference-between-ti-si-loop-and-ni-ti - Nice article. Quote: "Si-Ti loops get involved in analyzing and re-analyzing (or reliving) a negative past experience (“The last time you did this, you failed!”). Ni-Ti loops get hung up on analyzing and re-analyzing an ideal, a future vision, or a concept until they become so crippled that they never work toward implementing it."

Difference between Thinking (T) and Feeling (F):

• https://debiyazbeck.com/2010/05/15/thinking-vs-feeling/
• http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/conflict-and-jungs-thinker-feeler-struggle-in-relationships-0220144
• http://www.oursmallhours.com/thinking-and-feeling/ : Shows example
• http://www.dunning.ca/blog/mistyping-is-your-natural-preference-thinking-or-feeling/ - shows example

Additional reading:

http://thoughtcatalog.com/heidi-priebe/2015/06/if-youre-confused-about-your-myers-briggs-personality-type-read-this-an-intro-to-cognitive-functions/: All extraverted and introverted functions defined.

Sensing Vs Perceiving And Intuitive Vs Judging

The definitions of sensing and judging seem to overlap as do those of Intuitive and perceiving. See this page. Sensors are defined as "jumping immediately to the task", "overly factual and resistant to change" while intuitives are defined as "unrealistic and impractical", "difficult to pin down". Are the definitions of S, N correct? Probably yes. Do these also define J and P, respectively? Maybe, yes. "Overly factual" does not refer to J but "difficult to change" may be does.

I keep thinking. Each of I, S, T, J draws a boundary and tries to keep the activity or thoughts fenced while each of E, N, F, P does the reverse. 

While there is perhaps no overlap between E and I, between S and N, T and F, J and P.... there seems to be a good amount of overlap across the 4 parameters. If this is true, not only does it make typing difficult, it may even make the model incorrect because of the overlap.

Matter of fact I think there is a quite a bit of overlap among E, N, F and P. I think I have mentioned this earlier.

This is a good article on the difference between judging and perceiving.

Quote from http://www.humanmetrics.com/personality/type: "Sensing means that a person mainly believes information he or she receives directly from the external world. Intuition means that a person believes mainly information he or she receives from the internal or imaginative world."

Additional reading:

1. http://vbala99.blogspot.com/2015/02/intelligence-and-personality-disorder.html
2. http://vbala99.blogspot.com/2014/10/einstfpj-mbti.html