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.
When our founding fathers drafted the Constitution and Bill of Rights, black people weren't even considered human.
That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though no God there were.
Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?
Depression is so treacherous - it can be so alluring as well as punishing. After all, it's yours and yours alone - no one else can interfere with it.
The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.
There is something almost cruel about the Christian's being placed in a world which in every way wants to pressure him to do the opposite of what God bids him to do.
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