The 4 Hidden Functions of The INTJ (Are You Using Them?)

[@onlydavid]

I have missed your wonderful explanations on the INTJ inner world, Harry. Thank you so much for this!

[@Be_Positive-_-bloodType]

I identified as an INTJ for so long to only come to the conclusion that I'm actually Autistic 😆

[@ChickVicious237]

I feel this so much. There seems to be a lot of overlap here lol

[@wills681]

At age 64 years my path may have been similar but perhaps with an opposite (for now) outcome. Despite it being suggested I have never been formally diagnosed as being 'autistic' (please excuse my unfamiliarity with current terminology) but job-related PF tests (military and civilian) dating back to my early twenties and a recent MBTI test indicate INTJ. This is where I'm most comfortable, I guess. Very best wishes.

[@Be_Positive-_-bloodType]

Indeed so much overlap.. I find it funny and interesting that Vilians in comics and TV shows typed as INTJs also show Autistic traits..

[@Be_Positive-_-bloodType]

I'm happy for you sir 😊 comfortable is a good place to be within yourself indeed🍀

[@Jay-Quit-PMO]

i thought i was lightly autistic and didnt believe in mbti, now i am certain i am an INTJ and maybe only have a sprinkle of the tism.

[@MikilaReader]

Awesome! New video dropped. Thanks, Harry. I love the nuance of CPTand its depth compared to other systems.

[@HoraceWah-pole-ry4qk]

Dark side Harry: "This is challenging material." Good side Harry: "But you can do it! :)" Dark side Harry: "But this is new material beyond your smooth brain." Good side Harry: "I love working on this stuff :)"

[@SoulGoof7]

Ayyyyyy first of the year!

[@jamihuuskonen8505]

Thank you for your work on this. Clarity of this framework really helped my overly mechanistic brains to grasp how differently people can operate. I do enjoy classic/arcane/mystical Jungian models too but I feel they often are more useful for self-reflection in spiritual sense, bit like religion for trauma work. This model is much less clunky in evyryday use, great work!

[@user-lu4fn9pe4y]

Yet another banger, Harry, thanks for seeing us.

[@Serenaisverytired]

Your the first channel that I’ve found that actually goes into depth into personality types 😭

[@felypedaniel5467]

great vid 🔥hope this will become a new series 🤞

[@phoenixxsoul]

I just knew that hidden functions are referring to networks! Looking forward to these series🤞

[@michaelccrosby]

Gosh, just when I thought I was an ISTP, but then, maybe my TiNi is developed from an INTJ network 🤣 oh boy… back to the drawing board

[@hell_ichrys]

I see cpt new vid, I click

[@incireçine]

Hello Harry! Thank you for the video! I watched the video out of curiosity, being an entp. I'd like to ask you that in the same pattern would these function pairings be the hidden function for the entp? TE-NE/TI-NI/FE-SE/FI-SI And lastly, would it be possible for you to do these types of videos for other types? thank you, see you next month!

[@onimusha13]

Oh well, another video about INTJs. I can't say I'm disappointed because it still strokes my ego to watch another video by you about my type, although I'd also watch a video about some underrated type such as ISFJ which I find to be more and more fascinating as there are some ISFJs that fit the vanilla, normal-type stereotypes. But with my recent research some then there are such ISFJs as Brian May, William Gibson who are incredibly deep thinkers and philosophers to the point they are constantly typed as INTJ, INFJ etc.. Just a food for thought. Maybe you'll touch that in future. Nevertheless, a good and interesting video. I've always identified deeply with my Ti-Ni and I've always found connections between concepts, insights with ease to further my goals. Same with Te-Ne. I find that me and most INTJs I've seen switch between Te-Ne and Te-Se seamlessly, all the time when discussing for example. Fi-Si is truly liberating when mastered as emotional regulation is king. But I was surprised to say that you've never met disregulated INTJs. I've met some with, including one with clinical diagnosis of cluster-B PDs and those were the cases akin more to stereotypes - chimeric, choleric and just unpredictable. But true enough they were few. And finally you say that Fe-Se is that hidden pathway. There is also truth with that. But I only use it with my closest ones. Maybe some day I'll come to a conclusion that using Fe in such an intense manner with people I do not know intimately is not betraying myself. But not today. Thanks for another video

[@billyboyp4u]

Do CPT types align more with MBTI stereotypes or socionics? Or neither I find socionics are far more accurate at describing certain types and these types allign more with CPT than mbti

[@CognitivePersonality]

@@billyboyp4u Neither tbh, it's generally an anti-stereotype system but stereotypes can be explained by multi-type combinations

[@haniyehsheibani]

Beautiful. Thanks for this fantastic lecture. Do you think it is best for all these functions in the auxiliary networks to be used in near-balance? Or can you be focused on tene + fisi & the dominant network more so than tini & fese, whilst having just enough focus on them to keep our cognition harmonious. Thus you’d have more cognitive energy / reservoir for working on the tertiary/inferior networks as supports for the dom & aux network?

[@CognitivePersonality]

@@haniyehsheibani I think it's definitely safe to lean more on one auxiliary process for an extended period of time so long as you keep checking in with the others. E.g. I have a current eTS auxiliary but still check in with iTS iFN and eFN

[@haniyehsheibani]

@ thanks again Harry! Would be less enlightened without you!

[@AxelPresniyakov]

According to my observations, i do not really agree with you about over simplifying the impact of stress (4:52). Where I agree with you that the "grip" thing is rather a simplistic idea, I do not really agree about your overgeneralised statement saying " INTJs are generally conservative of their enegy, therefore this " in case of stress. There are life situations imposing on the individual to act out of their usual comfort zone. While it can be true about some INTJs to remain conservative of their energy in cases of stress, that's only relative to the situation they are facing, I hardly imagine someone falling under the category of an INTJ who would go like : " meh i keep my energy " in front of a pressuring situation that requires a strong response, where you either give it all or simply get crushed. You are not specifying the degree of stress either. All in all, you seem to dismiss an important factor about the human brain, its primary role is to sustain your survival in a given environnement by setting the required behaviour, which of course contradicts your attempt on setting a model that takes into account one of your commercial logos : " fluidity ". You seem rather rigid in your perspective which makes me also wonder if you are not making an Islamic case out of a judeo-christian paradigm i.e. trying to use the same biblical stories in order to erect a supposedly new religion. While indeed we have a new religion, you don't seem to drop the spirit of old MBTI stereotypes either. Which lead us to another important aspect, this whole battery like energy doesn't seem to apply to all the population of INTJs. Where all INTJs agree on the fact that they are conservative of their energy due to the role of Se according to CPT, this doesn't tell much about how much volts each INTJ possesses . According to how much voltage an INTJ has, an INTJ can afford what another INTJ cannot afford and that is what can surely be a source of mistyping if we settle for such loose statements as yours. Maybe the INTJs that you have met up until now helped you form a generalistic overview of how an INTJ should show up, this can be quite contradicting to your declaration where CPT is a model that is interested in the individual as a unique case rather than making him fall under a statistical observation. From your videos, you seem to say the topic you are dealing with is "complex" (which is becoming redundant after many years) when it allows you to run away from giving the full explanation of your ideas, but you seem to dismiss the complexity of human cognition when it fits your agenda. This makes me question whether you backed up your statements with scientific evidence or not. It also makes me wonder if the topic you are dealing with is only complex to you. I would rather surmise this as a failure to communicate your ideas to a public that isn't well versed into typology as a whole. Where I kind of sense in you some eagerness to criticise ideas that do not fit your taste, such as the grip thing (which is, again, obviously a shallow idea and that can be an excuse for you so to not consider the individual as a unique case of a given type), it doesn't seem that you are having the same proclivity towards pondering whether your statements are not kind of simplistic and insufficient to describe reality as it is.

[@Honey-Bunches-of-Oots]

I agree that each INTJ's energy level may vary when it comes to stress, so I understand the statement "INTJs are generally conservative of their energy" may or may not apply to most INTJs. Similarly, someone with a low sense of competence will most likely avoid any potential failure that may lower their confidence. That type of psychological need is vital for our survival, and a low level of competence (or other needs) will lead to avoidance to conserve that level. I wouldn't say, according to CPT, the role of Se is a small package battery. I don't think that's the case at all. Most INTJs are sensitive to their environment, being highly attuned to the details while categorizing those details. And overall, most people who are sensitive to their environment will be very attentive to their energy level to avoid feeling drained. Especially It might stem from their preference for efficiency and focus for the INTJs, so being careless about their energy level is less likely when dealing with stress. So, I see the logic behind that generalized statement, but how can we be certain INTJs will rotate their axis when they feel highly stressed? I imagine their object recognition (PSI Theory) is innately more active, and since they value Te, they'll probably be in a goal-oriented mode to deal with that stress. Everyone is different, though. Why +SeTe? How can we be certain this will likely happen? I am curious. Your concerns are reasonable. It would be helpful if he supported his claims with empirical evidence and more examples. However, I do want to point out that your critique seems to prioritize rhetorical flourishes over clarity, and maybe it would be a lot harder for Harry to read your comment. Especially the assumptions and ad hominem overtones (e.g. religion part). Overall, reasonable concerns

[@xripkan6623]

I am a convergent INTP with a strong ISFP side and strong ISTJ/INFJ auxiliaries. So strong that for a while I was confused about my primary and auxiliary network. I have a question about the correlation of CPT and Enneagram. Would you say that a CPT type could be any enneagrm type or not? Or maybe the two personality theories are not compatible at all?

[@CognitivePersonality]

@@xripkan6623 My suspicion is that a CPT type can be mapped onto a sort of *enneagram spectrum*, but having a kind of nature-level enneagram doesn't mean they won't have an additional nurture-level enneagram from their upbringing

[@xripkan6623]

@@CognitivePersonality So some kind of "cognitive" or "innate" enneagram type and a "cultural" enneagram type

[@bittercoffee113]

If somebody has a Thinking-Feeling in the middle range 55%-45% how would you typify them? INTJ/INFJ? But they are so different all in all!

[@dxfifa]

Irrelevant tests have letters on a continuum. J/P swaps all 4 functions, and T/F as well as S/N swaps 2, so one cannot take any of those tests and get a reliable answer. I type as INTP on every one of those tests but i'm a likely ENTP. I'm a lucky one. INTJs are more similar to ISFP than INFJ or INTP in any useful system. That shows why it doesn't work

[@heeropeero8919]

A couple questions: first: Don't INTJ's have FE Blindspot, which implicates, that they generally like to switch FE with TE and thus more gladly use Ne-Te as a lens dominant/lens oppositional dip? second: When looking at the "true" auxiliary processes, which functions then, take over the role of the two main functions, which make up the bedrock of identity for a given type. For example when looking at the INTJ: which function takes over the NI-FI convergent function and the SE-TE divergent one? I mean out of these true auxiliaries there must be two functions, which are comparably used with a higher preference than the other two remaining functions, right or no? third: What about the "true" tertiaries and the true oppositionals? Are you then using the same method when determining them like you would with the determination of the true auxiliaries? That is for the true tertiary switching again to lens dominant/lens oppositional mode with the following function-stacks: SI-FI, NE-TE, SE-FE, NI-TI; And for the true oppositionals: codec dominant/codec oppositional mode, with: FI-NI, TE-SE, FE-NE, TI-SI; If I'm right about this, is the order of the function-states correct, or do I swap the true tertiaries including its condition described above with the true oppositionals? --- I hope the questions are somewhat intelligible... Can you help me out with these? Best regards from a crazy CPT nerd :^)

[@user-lu4fn9pe4y]

The Fe blind-spot does not mean an INTJ does not have vision (metaphor for Fe), it's more like the blind spot when driving, it's something you can concours with a shoulder check if you put conscious effort into learning it and internalizing it bit by bit..

[@CognitivePersonality]

@@heeropeero8919 So the Fe blind thing is more true *within the dominant network* than outside of it. This is because an Fe dominant auxiliary network is still passing through NiFi dominance first, and therefore won't have all of the socionervous stuff of an actual eFS Yeah exactly accurate for the authority and oppositional networks!

[@heeropeero8919]

@ thanks for your reply! ^^

[@GamingGee-nw6xn]

I know this is a lot off-topic but he is my making of all the types most overrated to most underrated let me know if you agree Very overrated INFJ INTJ ENTP Overrated ENTJ ENFP INTP INFP ENFJ Underrated ISTP ISFP ESTP Very underrated ESTJ ESFP ISTJ ISFJ ESFJ

[@er-s428]

Second!