You took the words straight from my mind. Over the months I'd been talking about this topic and able to verbalise my realisations of how isolated curling into Ni has made me. I've only become more an alien who has these frameworks built upon starved information. I know how detrimentally not reading has impacted me. I used to have text, fiction and nonfiction, for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Now that fuel for understanding reality, along with being literally physically isolated from experiences in the real world, make holes in the frameworks painfully evident. Ni is incredible, yet without the deep, long-form input, how I am now isn't right for me. I know I'm not who I should be, for I'm not nurturing myself and my functions' needs in the way they naturally work together. Reading has become hard for me and I'm trying my best to reconnect with that soul fuel to become a wholer person. I do have more to say; however, I'm talked and thought out for now. Thank you for articulating this point well and bringing the message to those who may need to hear it. I always feel a sense of peace knowing there are other people (who function) like us. Thank you for creating this place.
I’m an INFJ who doesn’t read much. I’ve always been someone who cares for others when I’m around them but when I’m on my own I frankly couldn’t be less interested, apart from my closest friends and family. Looks like I could be solipsistic 😮
Hit the nail on the head for me of being the INFJ who doesn’t read much. However I am making a change towards building that habit. This was the greatest sales pitch for your book ever :)
I read a ton but not as much as I used to. I still buy physical books as I saw the whole "books going subscription" base long ago and wanted to protect against access to my favorite books. In grad school the professor went around the room and asked what each student plans/hopes to do after graduation (a 3 year program). Most said get a job, help others, etc. I said, "I have a stack of books that I'd like to get around to reading." Strange that it came true. My classmates completed their trainings after graduation... I dove into books looking for answers about life, myself, and sources of inspiration.
I'm an INFJ who reads a lot - all kinds of things, both fiction and non-fiction, the longer the book the better. I am very introverted, I am able to socialize, but don't like it. One or two books a week. But, I'm of the older generation.
Great video! A couple observations: 1.) To the extent that my life has changed for the better, it has come at the heels of reading or engaging with other morally and intellectually rigorous material. That and finding trusted news sources that deals with contemporaneous reality. I wouldn't classify myself as a fully liberated INFJ, but I feel like I'm heading in a positive direction. And a lot of that has to do with how much I'm establishing a more consistent reading habit. 2.) I think that if we don't head for a future where culture of reading has a resurgence, it won't be a happy or hopeful future for any personality type. In my view any viable future for living sustainably on this planet would require a cultural shift that would, as a side effect and mechanical necessity, have a more robust reading culture. 3.) I'm actually optimistic about our future for a couple of reasons. One of them has to do with James Baldwin's observation: I can't be a pessimist because I am alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter. So, I am forced to be an optimist. I am forced to believe that we can survive, whatever we must survive. And the other reason is that, at this particular moment, Bolivia repelled a CIA-backed military coup-de-tat because the people took to the streets. And Julian Assange is home in Australia with his family. The sort of somatic tactile feel of the moment is that some kind of tide is turning. So I am allowing myself to feel especially hopeful right now.
I ordered both your books today. They will arrive tomorrow. INFJ - HSP HERE. I am a lifelong ardent reader. I am enjoying learning more about traits I have always known about myself, and how to now, after decades of societal oppression and shaming, let my traits flourish.
I think understanding the basic structure of an ego, in order to gain awareness of how one's thought process works, is all that matters. Of course, this can help us have infinitely more compassion others as well. Everything else is just individual authenticity, and so there is no need to seek a model for understanding such unique differences. Once you find out who you are, be yourself :) We should focus on healing of past trauma so we can be free.
Just got paid, and have a birthday coming (July10th), so I'm ordering the book up now Ren (gotta' keep you in the black, my man). The older I got, the less I read. But then I used to be a big sci-fi & fantasy fan, an escapist in need of an escape, which now is not-so-much. Maybe I'm an 'integrated' now? I can get my much smaller 'fix' from anime and other on-demand sources. I don't need to immerse for hours to get away from it all. Watch way less TV, more online sources in bursts, read less long written works. I surely don't follow others leads, for sure.
I read a lot about alot of different things. Mainly history, philosophy, and religious/spiritual studies. I can definitely see how i could have fallen into the other two categories if it werent for some well timed friendships and my current partner nudging me at key points in my life.
Considering the fact that Ti+Se functions related to gathering new information for itself are at the bottom of the stack, it's not surprising that many inxjs generally don't like new factual information of any kind. New Se facts may destroy the Ni concept. Gathering information with others will feel more natural.
You took the words straight from my mind. Over the months I'd been talking about this topic and able to verbalise my realisations of how isolated curling into Ni has made me. I've only become more an alien who has these frameworks built upon starved information. I know how detrimentally not reading has impacted me.
I used to have text, fiction and nonfiction, for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Now that fuel for understanding reality, along with being literally physically isolated from experiences in the real world, make holes in the frameworks painfully evident. Ni is incredible, yet without the deep, long-form input, how I am now isn't right for me. I know I'm not who I should be, for I'm not nurturing myself and my functions' needs in the way they naturally work together.
Reading has become hard for me and I'm trying my best to reconnect with that soul fuel to become a wholer person. I do have more to say; however, I'm talked and thought out for now. Thank you for articulating this point well and bringing the message to those who may need to hear it. I always feel a sense of peace knowing there are other people (who function) like us. Thank you for creating this place.
I’m an INFJ who doesn’t read much. I’ve always been someone who cares for others when I’m around them but when I’m on my own I frankly couldn’t be less interested, apart from my closest friends and family. Looks like I could be solipsistic 😮
I Consume a ton. Don’t read much . My biggest revelations and most of my motivation to get out and create came from reading something profound
Hit the nail on the head for me of being the INFJ who doesn’t read much. However I am making a change towards building that habit. This was the greatest sales pitch for your book ever :)
I went quite a few years without reading any books, but now I do a fair bit.
I read a ton but not as much as I used to. I still buy physical books as I saw the whole "books going subscription" base long ago and wanted to protect against access to my favorite books.
In grad school the professor went around the room and asked what each student plans/hopes to do after graduation (a 3 year program). Most said get a job, help others, etc. I said, "I have a stack of books that I'd like to get around to reading."
Strange that it came true. My classmates completed their trainings after graduation... I dove into books looking for answers about life, myself, and sources of inspiration.
I'm an INFJ who reads a lot - all kinds of things, both fiction and non-fiction, the longer the book the better. I am very introverted, I am able to socialize, but don't like it. One or two books a week. But, I'm of the older generation.
Great video! A couple observations:
1.) To the extent that my life has changed for the better, it has come at the heels of reading or engaging with other morally and intellectually rigorous material. That and finding trusted news sources that deals with contemporaneous reality. I wouldn't classify myself as a fully liberated INFJ, but I feel like I'm heading in a positive direction. And a lot of that has to do with how much I'm establishing a more consistent reading habit.
2.) I think that if we don't head for a future where culture of reading has a resurgence, it won't be a happy or hopeful future for any personality type. In my view any viable future for living sustainably on this planet would require a cultural shift that would, as a side effect and mechanical necessity, have a more robust reading culture.
3.) I'm actually optimistic about our future for a couple of reasons. One of them has to do with James Baldwin's observation:
I can't be a pessimist because I am alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter. So, I am forced to be an optimist. I am forced to believe that we can survive, whatever we must survive.
And the other reason is that, at this particular moment, Bolivia repelled a CIA-backed military coup-de-tat because the people took to the streets. And Julian Assange is home in Australia with his family. The sort of somatic tactile feel of the moment is that some kind of tide is turning. So I am allowing myself to feel especially hopeful right now.
I ordered both your books today. They will arrive tomorrow. INFJ - HSP HERE. I am a lifelong ardent reader. I am enjoying learning more about traits I have always known about myself, and how to now, after decades of societal oppression and shaming, let my traits flourish.
Nice backdrop suggests an infinite mindset 😉
I think understanding the basic structure of an ego, in order to gain awareness of how one's thought process works, is all that matters. Of course, this can help us have infinitely more compassion others as well. Everything else is just individual authenticity, and so there is no need to seek a model for understanding such unique differences. Once you find out who you are, be yourself :) We should focus on healing of past trauma so we can be free.
Just got paid, and have a birthday coming (July10th), so I'm ordering the book up now Ren (gotta' keep you in the black, my man). The older I got, the less I read. But then I used to be a big sci-fi & fantasy fan, an escapist in need of an escape, which now is not-so-much. Maybe I'm an 'integrated' now? I can get my much smaller 'fix' from anime and other on-demand sources. I don't need to immerse for hours to get away from it all. Watch way less TV, more online sources in bursts, read less long written works. I surely don't follow others leads, for sure.
I read a lot about alot of different things. Mainly history, philosophy, and religious/spiritual studies. I can definitely see how i could have fallen into the other two categories if it werent for some well timed friendships and my current partner nudging me at key points in my life.
Considering the fact that Ti+Se functions related to gathering new information for itself are at the bottom of the stack, it's not surprising that many inxjs generally don't like new factual information of any kind. New Se facts may destroy the Ni concept. Gathering information with others will feel more natural.
Yes we have a diffuse mode of Se assimilation. I often only fully take in things after the event.
I prefer reading magazines and listening to audiobooks. If your books were available as audiobooks, I would have already listened to them.