Conventional measures of mental ability, such as intelligence tests and scholarship, show some of the very highest records belong to INFP and INFJ types, who relegate thinking to last place or next to last. The preference for thinking appears to have far less intellectual effect than the preference for intuition, even in some technical fields, such as scientific research, where its influence was expected to be most important.
Interpretation
Intuition can be more impactful than logical thinking in determining intelligence and success.
In this quote, Isabel Briggs Myers highlights the unexpected importance of intuition over conventional thinking in assessing mental ability. Despite traditional measures focusing on logical reasoning, those with a preference for intuition—like the INFP and INFJ personality types—often achieve remarkable intellectual accomplishments, indicating that creativity and insight can play a significant role in fields typically dominated by analytical thinking.
In practice
In a panel discussion about education, one could use this quote to emphasize the importance of creative thinking in learning methodologies.
In teaching, the other main problem related to type is the students’ interest. Intuitives and sensing types differ greatly in what they find interesting in any subject even if they like, that is, are interested in, the same subjects. Intuitives like the principle, the theory, the why. Sensing types like the practical application, the what and the how.
Introverted feeling types have a wealth of warmth and enthusiasm, but they may not show it until they know someone well. They wear their warm side inside, like a fur-lined coat.
Whatever the circumstances of your life, the understanding of type can make your perceptions clearer, your judgements sounder, and your life closer to your heart's desire
You psychologists focus on what is wrong with people; I want to focus on what is right and what could be right.
The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.
We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which were cooked in vats, long complex derivatives of urine which we called plastic. They had no odor of the living, ... their touch was alien to nature. ... [They proliferated] like the matastases of cancer cells.
Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governour of the Universe: And if a member of Civil Society, do it with a saving of his allegiance to the Universal Sovereign. We maintain therefore that in matters of Religion, no man's right is abridged by the institution of Civil Society and that Religion is wholly exempt from its cognizance.
Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.
To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single theory of how to decide what to believe.
For you know only a heap of broken images
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