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Cognitive Ability's and MBTI

Black Rose

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Are we born with different ability's based on personality type.

does this make reasoning and learning in different areas more or less easy for some and difficult for others.

Can it be beneficial / destructive depending on career and academic path.

I am guessing that sensors are better at certain sports.

I am not good at rote learning.

NTs seem to be very book smart.
 

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Are we born with different ability's based on personality type.

Genetics, environment, along with early development serves as the basis. Personality types are associated with different traits, but they are not causes.

does this make reasoning and learning in different areas more or less easy for some and difficult for others.

Once again, Jungian archetypes are not causes, but you are thinking along the correct path.

Can it be beneficial / destructive depending on career and academic path.

Debatable. Across the table, "EQ" , memorization + detail-orientation, and communication seem to be more desirable in the Western world.

I am guessing that sensors are better at certain sports.

No. Physical ability is actually separate. Conduct research; it is actually quite interesting. I have always been complimented on my physique and athletic aptitude, and I bear a severe S deficit. Jon Nash, an INTP like yourself, had a stark physique. Had he trained, he could have been the school linebacker easily.

I am not good at rote learning.

That's a good thing. (I am obviously partial.)

NTs seem to be very book smart.

I disagree. xSTJ's seem to triumph in this area, but Ti is generally regarded as a desirable attribute within academia. This is probably the most interesting and expandable topic mentioned in your post.
 

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No. Physical ability is actually separate. Conduct research; it is actually quite interesting. I have always been complimented on my physique and athletic aptitude, and I bear a severe S deficit. Jon Nash, an INTP like yourself, had a stark physique. Had he trained, he could have been the school linebacker easily.

I am not familiar with the MBTI system as I should be so even if I have read descriptions on functions I seem unable to understand how they interact to create different personality.

S is the least I know about and perhaps I should start there.

I am actually ENFJ from being typed on this forum.

I disagree. xSTJ's seem to triumph in this area, but Ti is generally regarded as a desirable attribute within academia. This is probably the most interesting and expandable topic mentioned in your post.

so is this because Si allows memorization.

From my experience at school I wasn't very good at it.

I was really shy and had difficulty asking for help. If I had I might have done better.

If it can be expanded then please do.
 

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An ESFP friend of mine has basically the same intellectual horsepower (IQ) as me, yet our personalities are extremely distinct. I know this from administering three actual intelligence tests to said person (she was, by turns, willing, tolerant, and exasperated by the process), personally taking those same tests, and spending many years with her. On the personality front, the ESFP type is well established.

To go big picture with this, I wouldn't say that one is either born with a specific intelligence or a specific personality. That said, we probably have predispositions for these things, talent and temperament, such that deviation from genetics, brought about by will or environment, can only drift so far from baseline.

Someone with a predisposition for shyness or introversion will retain those traits in some manifestation in spite of active efforts to become more extraverted or an environment that rewards, or only tolerates, extraversion - thwarted still, I think that introverted person would experience an avalanche of chronic stress, become isolatist, and so forth.

With intelligence, maybe an example would be ideal. I went to high school with this complete flake - he never did his homework or studied for tests, and basically dedicated his time to smoking various drugs and screaming depraved crap in class. However, both his parents were neurosurgeons, he read and wrote recreationally, and essentially attained a perfect score on the SAT with no intention of going to University. He failed half of his classes Junior year and was thrown out. By all accounts the kid was not widely thought of as an intellectual, and yet, despite his choices, lifestyle, and general environment, some morsel of his parent's gifts rubbed off on him.

Clearly though, if one was waterboarded for months or sedulously wacked in the head with a mallet, the personality and intelligence would be blunted. Meh, no argument is perfect...and not every one is short.
 

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Are we born with different ability's based on personality type.

Yes. Being an ENFJ or more appropriately Xyy'nai gives you special gifts that only you can take advantage of. These gifts are easier for you to take full control of comparatively speaking with some other Mojo that tries to do what you do naturally. Every Mojo is capable of doing what any other Mojo is capable of doing, but it isn't as natural for them.

does this make reasoning and learning in different areas more or less easy for some and difficult for others.

Also a yes. Certain powers are valued more so than others and as a result they express themselves as basic requirements. The Vai and Zyy of school and the Vyy and Zai of sports and such can have a very draining effect for a Xyy'nai. Literal and Logic based powers are more valued in the world. This highlights one of the problems that Pod'lair has set in its sites to correct.

Can it be beneficial / destructive depending on career and academic path.

It can be destructive if you're over-modulating but if you follow your peak pathways than it should actually be very beneficial. It depends on how your approaching the entire matter at hand.

I am guessing that sensors are better at certain sports.

There is a correlation but it isn't quite so simple. The position of a power in your hierarchy doesn't tell you its quality, just its priority. Vai and Vyy would be more interested in sports but that doesn't necessarily translate to them being better at them.

I am not good at rote learning.

Don't be surprised, seeing as Vai is one of your unconscious powers it makes sense that you have difficulty in memorization and repetition.

NTs seem to be very book smart.

Sure they can be, but then again any type can be book smart.
 

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I swear, it's just Perseus with a different vocabulary...

Yes. Being an ENFJ or more appropriately Xyy'nai gives you special gifts that only you can take advantage of.

Just for curiosity's sake, how do you pronounce this?



And Kitty, of course different types give different powers--INTPs turn invisible, INFPs summon tsunamis, INFJs use mind control, ENTJs create armies from the living dead...

 

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So I have latent superpowers. Awesome.

How do they operate

Xyy'nai - (?)(?)
 

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And Kitty, of course different types give different powers--INTPs turn invisible, INFPs summon tsunamis, INFJs use mind control, ENTJs create armies from the living dead...


It was getting interesting, continue.
 

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So I have latent superpowers. Awesome.

How do they operate

Xyy'nai - (?)(?)

I can't reveal the answers to every single question otherwise there wouldn't really be any point to having the Pod'lair site. You're going to have to get back in touch with Pod'lair and ask questions on the forum. There are also certain levels that need to be passed in order to unlock more new information.
 
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