#extraverted thinking

Happy New Year!

No, that’s not true. Anyone can learn for “fun.” Te doesn’t just care about usefulness, and Ti doesn’t just learn for its own sake. They both care about understanding, but they think where the truth is “located” is different.

Ti wants internal coherence. It asks, “Does this make sense within the system it’s being used inside?”; “Is this definition precise?”; “Do the parts logically fit together?” It wants elegant explanations, conceptual purity, and clean internal models of understanding. They don’t like using something without knowing how or why it works, logical gaps, fuzzy definitions, or contradictions. They want to feel internally “satisfied” with the logic they’re using.

Te wants external validity. It asks, “Does this work in reality?”; “Does this produce reliable result or the outcome I want?” (make it easy to find something); “Can this be applied consistently to real things in the real world, outside my head?” It wants results, proven methods, cause and effect. It doesn’t like it if something is theoretically elegant but can’t be implemented (“worthless”), knowledge stays abstract and ungrounded, and there’s no way to verify it in the real world. It wants truth that survives when tested against reality.

So, in other words, Ti users want MBTI to make logical, internal sense, and Te users want to know how functions function “in the real world” and how to spot them, so they can use them for a practical purpose. This is why a lot of INTPs just love to learn various theories (Socionics, MBTI, OP, AP, etc) and strive for internal consistency, but struggle to show you how to “spot” something in real life; where Te types give you more practical demonstrations and examples, either from the real world or characters.

In other words, Ti says “this is what Ti is,” and Te goes “… and Te is what so and so is using when they do this.” That’s why I get so excited when a character embodies a particular function really clearly, because I can then point to a tangible thing someone can watch and look at in the context of that function and “see” it in action.

Te users learn the fastest if they see what the information is good to use for, can think through applying it and not just understanding it, and can use examples and real-world things to refine their thinking. (“Once I see how this works in the real world, it clicks for me.”)

Ti users learn fastest when they can isolate the definitions and variables, build a literal or internal model before even thinking about how to apply it, and verify it through their internal logic (does this seem rational and make sense to me?). They need to understand the structure first.

ALSO IDK WHY IT'S ONLY NOW I SAW YOUR ACC BUT IM ALREADY SIMPING HARD ON TE APARENTLY?? like is this bc of how you portray him?? the fact that i also simp hard on te doms?? both?? idek anymore it's just that.. HEAR ME OUT OK??😭😭

-your local ne, fi, te, si user ♡

THIS IS SO COOL I MIGHT DO IT! wait... I think I already drew it years ago I just never posted them I need to find my old stash.

ALSO??? I SHOWED A FRIEND MY OCS AND THEY SIMP FOR TE TOO?? HE'S SO POPULAR?! YALL LOVE THE SQUARE MAN

The auxiliary function in Jungian typology and Socionics is a well-developed but "non-fanatical" function. Unlike the dominant function, the auxiliary does not "buy its own hype." It maintains a degree of neutrality and objectivity, acting as a stabilizing force within the psyche. While the dominant function often takes center stage, asserting itself boldly and sometimes rigidly, the auxiliary function is more balanced and adaptable. This neutrality allows it to interact more fluidly with other aspects of the personality, including its shadow counterpart.

The Auxiliary-Shadow Connection

One of the most intriguing aspects of the auxiliary function is how its balanced nature creates room for its shadow opposite to manifest. For example, individuals with Fe as their auxiliary function often display more Fi traits compared to Fe dominants. This occurs because Fe auxiliaries are less invested in exclusively promoting external harmony and more open to exploring personal, subjective values. They can navigate the interplay between external and internal emotional dynamics without the rigidity of a dominant Fe focus.

Similarly, Ti-dominant individuals exhibit far less Te-like traits compared to those with Ti as an auxiliary function. Ti dominants are often deeply theoretical, perfectionistic, and intensely focused on internal logical consistency. This focus leaves little space for Te's pragmatic and action-oriented approach to emerge. In contrast, Ti auxiliaries are less obsessive and more open to incorporating Te-like efficiency into their reasoning, creating a dynamic interplay between internal logic and external application.

Extroverted Thinking and Perceiving Types (EXTPs)

For EXTPs, the auxiliary Ti is strong but not overly rigid or theoretical. This flexibility allows them to tap into Te—their shadow counterpart—more naturally. Because their Ti is not as dominant, EGOMANIACAL or overly meticulous, it "hears" and integrates Te's practicality. As a result, EXTPs often appear to use both Ti and Te seamlessly, blending internal logical analysis with external, results-oriented thinking.

This phenomenon can make EXTPs (and IXTJs) seem like "Tx" users—capable of combining the strengths of both thinking functions. They possess a unique versatility, switching between the precision of Ti and the efficiency of Te depending on the context.

I will find you.

I will talk with you.

I will listen intently to you rambling about your interests.

And I will be your friend.

And we shall feed off one another’s presences as we fuel our mortal bodies’ battery as I spend time with you, and part to let you recharge.

You have mere days.

You cannot run.

You cannot hide.

We can’t forget about giving these guys their own intro, types and enneagrams, now can we?

More info down below:

fe is "keep positive feelings up" function. so therefore, it's proactive. you feel sad? have a cookie. you feel nostalgic? smoke some weed. you feel bittersweet? watch an anime. fe has an absolute (aka objective) agenda: happiness. good feelings. it always walking towards there, whenever possible. it also wants such an atmosphere. (one might ask but what about lower fe users like extps acting like trolls and creating negativity? well, they usually realize what they did later. an extp can mock you and through that can get an ego boost which is a positive feeling "to them" in that moment. they din't really want to make you cry, they were just joking and you got burned in the process which they became aware later through their weak fe. [unless of course you started the negativity, then they will intentionally make you cry])

now since THAT is fe, we can easily define fi. just like ti, fi is also about accuracy. what was that thing which make me sad? why it make me sad? what was the intention of the person who make me cry? so as you can see, it isn't about "sad is bad so let's create some good here". it wants to dig deeper. it wants to explore that sadness. i feel sad but should i? am i right in my sadness? do i know the person who make me cry actually wanted to hurt me? it wants to understand that sadness. if you dismiss sadness right away then you can never understand why. you would become more guarded. if sad is automatically bad, then you will be like "how can you make me cry! asshole!" which might make everything worse. through respecting feelings, through analyzing ethical equations, one can reach certain truths too. fi doesn't stamp any feeling as unacceptable right away. it gets impacted by those feelings, don't get me wrong. but they still absorb it and try to understand which is what we call empathy.

now since THOSE are fe and fi, we can easily define te and ti. te is "use what's tested and proven" function or simply te is all about facts. facts that are ALREADY out there. notice, i'm not saying te produces facts. it only uses facts. fe also doesn't produce ethics. it only upholds current positive ethics standarts. why? both fi and ti takes time. introverted functions are about precision, refining and improvement and sometimes reimagining the whole system from scratch. so it's not practical in the moment. a ti user may theorize 1000 facts in his whole lifetime. 850 of those goes directly to trash and 150 of them becomes te. the same way, fi users may dig deeper into 1000 seemingly bad people and try to bring good out of them or find good in them. they will usually fail though. but once they succeed it's kinda more precious than te and fe formulas.