MBTI - Why You Perceive Time Differently Than Others
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- Опубликовано: 30 ноя 2024
- Do you live in the present (Se) or do you focus more on the past (Si)? Are you chasing the future (Ne) or do you live in a dream world outside time and space (Ni)? Different people perceive and approach time differently. How do you perceive time?
Different types experience time differently and how you experience time influences your health.
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In flow, time is not experienced, in stress, we feel every minute as an ache or a “lost minute”
We do not actually experience time as moving we only ever experience the now, everything else we read in. The future is just by looking at how things could develop, using Ne, and the past is just by comparing the present with our past experiences. The present is experienced with Se, and the rest is just something unknown, and is experienced through Ni.
Introverts believe they can step out of time or save time and Extroverts believe they can collect and grab hold of time and find more time by searching in the world around them. Judgers believe time can be shaped or formed and mastered. Perceivers see time as something that can be bent and avoided.
Me, I never feel like I have enough time and I always feel like people are trying to pull or use my time. Most importantly, I believe time is something we should enjoy but also think about as little as possible. The more we think about it, the less happy we will feel.
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I have the understanding, and it does actually help curb anxiety and overthinking, and that is speeding up to go slow in time and slowing down to go fast.
I think that is possibly why being in the present moment, and watching ones thoughts is an important thing to learn.
When I tell myself that I have all of the time in the world to do things, then it does in fact go the way I wish. I also tend to take note of synchronicity more often when I am calm and mindful.
This was actually a very enlightening video and topic all on its own. Thank you. I understand things a tiny bit better in regards to time for the types now.
As an Se dom, the present is vivid and real, the past is generally melancholic, and the future is unknowable and therefore anxiety producing.
Another great topic, Erik. Time is such a human construct. If I could just change my attitude towards it, I would have so much less anxiety. Watches, calendars, and alarms only make it worse!
This is profound and simply a fun thing to ponder. From my experience, I think Ni is focused outside of time. That is where all the hypotheticals, the conceptuals, and meta formations live. If Ni is as abstract as Jung and so many others have described, it simply cannot follow the rules of the other functions. Some functions take a logical route. Some follow their senses. Some use their emotions to feel thoughts out. But Ni takes a diferent approach. It's as if it answers questions by asking the question what if and checking to see whether a purely conceptual senario is close to the answer. I think it is the persistently inconsistent nature of intuition that makes it so powerful. For Ni, time is an unbounded, limitless construct that has no end and no beginning. It's like Ni is always trying to count to infinity.
I think Ni is like the three eyed raven from GOT. That one which is in all time, and all place yet nowhere specifically. I find myself going through and almost reliving in my head conversations and experiences of the past, visualising multiple possible scenarios of future, and yet silently unconsciously absorbing and truly being in the present. It's seeing the zeitgeist and having the oceanic feeling (that's an actual term in psychology). And maybe tweaking it a little bit for a desired future outcome.
I think my approach of how I view time gives me a sense of anxiety. It's like I'm loosing time by not doing anything, yet never make an effort to correct it. I think that I can't do everything I need to do. I do like thinking, yet I feel like I'm wasting time thinking. But, thinking is where I go to when I'm idle. My thoughts of people, concepts, goals... I don't even know if time is even there until I realize it. It's like I pay attention to time, but I don't think of as anything. If I do, then I am feeled with anxiety because I am reminded of how much things I need to get done when I want to relax. The problem with relaxing is I want to relax, but I am bored doing so. I can't necessarily hang out with others since it's the holiday break and I don't want to meet new people.
I don't think youtube helps. Time suck.
I think youtube can help, but only if you're not just passively taking in the information, you have to actively reflect on your time and how you use it and make sure you're tuning into and making the information your own. Like, you can sit and watch motivational videos for 10 hours in anticipation for a big project and that experience can really help you if you make it count. But if you're not really listening and taking it in and it just passes above your head... it's a time sink.
how would it be if you did nothing at all?
My view of time is based on the observable changes that can't be reversed. A bad car accident or other tragedy brings this home to you in a very real way.
YES! As an INFJ, I also feel people always feel the need to keep telling me what to do! It's irritating......
And yeah, articles keep saying Ni is future-oriented, but I feel it's more timeless. Have you read Story of Your Life? The short story the movie Arrival was based off? It gives me this feeling.
Yeah, it is timeless :) Somewhere in between the future and history... but it's the opposite of the present
This reminded me a bit of a Zen lecture I listened to about time (zencast.org/zencast_73_time). As an ENFP it's definitely a constant struggle to get places on time. I'll be sitting there at 7:30 like, it's fine! I don't have to leave until 8! That's eons away! Meanwhile I'm still eating, haven't showered or picked out an outfit, still need to pack my bag and oh yeah I was gonna take out the trash and crap people are coming over later so I should vacuum...it's easier to be on time when there's consequences like with a job interview or a train that's leaving at a specific time, although I get really stressed out about it. But my friends/romantic partners often get the "make that [15 minutes later than planned" text from me and I just hope my ENFP charm makes up for it. Schedules don't come naturally (my insane Google calendar is an attempt to survive a world where things have to be done at a particular time).
I loved your description of Ni.
My former friend is an INTJ and he used to forget literally everything. I'd answer his same questions all the time, pretending it was the first time he'd asked me
Really liked this one man!
Great thoughts, thanks for sharing.
I disagree. Ne is more about the dreamworld and mental abstraction aka the creation of meaning whereas Ni is futuristic and progressive
I think Ne is often described as potential or chains of events or sequences, so Ne is not the creation of meaning (Ne does not create) but the tracking of patterns and events and when I say Ne is future oriented I mean what they want to do next (places they could visit, or predicting what people will say next, or connecting a chain and seeing where a situation is headed) where Ni is more like an internal image or idea about something, which can be the future, sure, but does not have to be. It's more like scrying inside a crystal ball, seeing the past, future, or what could be.
@@ErikThor Ne's not really chains of events or sequences for me. It can be that, but only if it's implied that the goal of observation is to predict an outcome. It's more about the abstract concepts that exist outside of time and goal oriented thinking. If it's used to understand something, it's going to work with the concepts to build a map of meaning about the thing as it is portrayed and as it has been portrayed. It's going to be concerned with playing along with it in the moment, not offering something truly insightful to progress the process. Ne is the action paired with Si. It's free expression and creation of ideas in the moment.
Ni, however, is paired with Se. It is concerned with the actual implications of its ideas and Ni users often make a more direct impact with their insightful take on things. The world of ideals that an Ni user sees is not what has been, it's not what is. it is, in a sense, outside of time, but when paired with Se (as always) it turns into progressive action towards a better future
just look at the classic INTJ vs INTP comparison; Tesla vs Einstein. Tesla did much to progress society with his inventions, while Einstein was revolutionary conceptualizer of time as integrated with space. Which thinker means more future oriented, and which seems to be thinking outside of our normal considerations of time?
However, I think your perspective is rooted in a very experiential truth....for an Ne user it does seem that we are often considering possibilities and what could be....however this is not what could be in the future, it is what could be existentially...what could be now and more precisely outside of time...it's playful
Garrett Hurt Great explanation! I felt the same way when I read the description.
@@lancebangle Thanks!