Extroverted Thinking (Te) Deep Dive | Based off Location on Cognitive Function Stack 

Oh hell YES!! "You forfeited your rights to complain, if you did not follow the system we created for you"; this is absolutely 💯

As a low Te user I think Te is pretty pissed it ended up at the bottom of my psychological hierarchy. It thinks the three bosses above it are stupid and incompetent, but it can't escape :D

So true that Te doms give advice first, ask what are they giving advice for second.

The thing about being able to ignore emotions during stress or work, this is so true, the problem to me accurs when im finally done with a big project or have nothing to study, i end up telling myself i wanna work out or study other stuff but i end up staying up late and getting back to some old habits untill im forced to work again. I just feel awful when im not being productive, and yet i cant help but become lazy cause mama te isnt аs strong, yet i feel awful because all of my feelings hit me in the face, i need a month before i can finally actually relax and "live life" and appreciate my fi values, sometimes i feel like a total robot and so do my loved ones, its so hard realising that im pushing everyone away and i cant control myself.

As usual, Jon, you nailed it with this one. Thanks for making us feel seen!

12:00 i totally understand that 😢 it only becomes obvious when we observe how Te dom generally treat everyone and how they treat you. They might scold you but then you see its their worry for you (yeah even the hurtful remarks and taunts) or offer to fix your problems... they might not console you but they never back off from giving a shoulder to cry on.... (saying that in context of an XSTJ)...

very interesting take I agree with most points. Regarding the differences between Te doms and Te secondary here is what I have learned after years of observing, and interacting with Te doms in my life and being a Te secondary myself (INTJ). IxTJs in general are actually more prone producing high quality work. ExTJs produce a lot of work but are at risk of producing lower quality work since they dont take the time to check their work and be thorough. IxTJs tend to be more workaholics than ExTJs because Introversion in general tends to be more workaholic. Extroverts due to their need for social interaction are more prone to being distracted. Extroverts also can not concentrate on tasks as well as introverts. Proof of this is that many Te doms come off as introverts because in an attempt to be more productive they willfully adopt more introverted traits. The fact that ExTJs move towards introversion and away from extroversion to get more work done demonstrates the validity of this point. Both Te doms and secondary types are willing to scale to the top of Te mountains and then look for another one to scale the only difference is that ExTJs will rely more on the tribe to tell them which mountains to scale, while the IxTJs want to make that decision for themselves. Your last point is spot on about how Te doms are more stubborn and less willing to adopt other people's systems, whereas Te secondary is more open and actively seeks the advice of others on what systems they should adopt. Also, I am INTJ, and I also work even on vacation I see work as being fun :)

I’m happy as an INTJ that I have Te in my 2nd function because I’ve noticed the ENTJ and ESTJ make too many mistakes because always so focused they destroy themselves

24:00 low ne users do this as well, but when using maps. I used to be incredible with maps, and probably an underrated skill of mine, walking across the street. Situational awareness is oftentimes about Ne. However, this idea of ‘outsourcing’ or ‘using proxies’ is why people refer to a map, while i sometimes, very rarely disregard the map when i know there is a better way. The map for your reference is life, and also literal maps.

"... we have the ability to ignore high emotions, especially during time of stress". Well said. A day where nothing needs to be done or when it's "for relaxing", it feels terrible to not be productive or busy on something. It makes one restless, feel useless and with the urge to look for anything else. It's sad that I feel better at work where shit can be done, than when I am at home for cooldown.

This was actually te brilliant and accurate.

Incredibly helpful video, man. Thank you for all the effort you put into it!

Excellent work Jon 👏

Yay new video! Also, I subbed. This is what I see from my old infp mom. Her Te is still weak but she is still exercising it everyday cuz of her job. She still gets into unhealthy Te sometimes but it’s improving.

Nice video , good script , easy to understand ❤❤❤

It's intriguing to find insight about Ti in a Te video. I like you were able to distinguish that while Ti do see systems, they prioritize accuracy and optimization, and will only fix problems if it is truly necessary. I like this clear distinction. As a Te user, this is, of course, absurd to me. I don't wanna waste time optimizating something to the fullest when I had already set up a deadline that's necessary to accomplish first. 😅 I'm actually studying about Ti to get to know my Ti-dom friends. They have so much intricate knowledge filling in their heads and they use a lot of clauses like "it depends" during conversations in order to articulate those intellectual nuances. I'm also writing a character who's assigned as an INTP with cognitive functions completely different than my own, so a lot of mental gymnastics is required for this one. On a sidenote, I also like that you explained that just because someone is not a Te-user doesn't mean that they're doomed to be unable to complete tasks or whatever. I know a really healthy male ISFJ who's more diligent than me and gets a lot of stuff done. His Si-routine and Ti-optimization motivated by Fe-encouragement causes him to trailblaze through work and life. Could've fooled me thinking he's an ENTJ or something, but he's way too friendly and charismatic to be one.

Fantastic video Jon. I'm an ISFP and it definitely made sense to me.

Bro, you are trully amazing. I watched many MBTI youtubers, but have never before stumbled upon such concise, rich and insightful explanations regarding cognitive functions. They resonate with me so much! Really good work ;) (coming from an INFJ's TI, which ususally is convinced I would do the job much better)

Thank you.

Ohhh... another authentic INTJ, content creator, with unique & authentic content, made entirely with the brain ^^ 💙 I relate, it's not always easy to make a balanced script. Not wanting to make it too Ni Te, inserting the right amount of Fi Se, without fall into too much Se. I think INTJ are the best to understand & explain "MBTI" content.

30:23 literally had an ENTJ recently start his text with "All noses same way" which is the Dutch equivalent for "everyone on the same page". Great episode again 🥳

It's funny that this video came out because I was thinking about Te hours ago. There was an article talking about it. What it said, caused me to want to correct it as it drove me nuts and I ended up working on an article for how Te is really like, hahaha. Great video like always

Great explanation of the difference between Te and Ti!

Thanks for the empowering INTJ insights and nuance. Couldn't agree more with Te's superpower to connect, fix and improve systems efficiently yet coming off forceful, bossy and arrogant at times. Despite the externalised logic of Te, a key blind spot due to emotional disconnect I find is Fi paralysis and inaction, trapped by anxiety, excuses and self doubt.

This was so helpful! I now have a better understanding of the conflict that led to the end of my relationship with my ISTP ex. Because he is Ti dom and I am a Te user (INTJ), I am trying to prevent issues from happening before the shit hits the fan, while he will wait for the train wreck to happen before he is willing to take action. So I jumped ship, out of the relationship, before the Titanic sank. From his point of view, I was being anxious over nothing and broke up with him out of the blue for "no reason". He is rooted in the present and I'm constantly projecting into the future. Ideally, we could have learned from each other and balanced each other out. I will keep this in mind in case I ever miraculously end up in another relationship.

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Thanks, this was very interesting since I have been pondering how Te and Ti differ and how they manifest. (INTJ with overly bossy mama Te)

I have noticed some Te users can get manipulated because they lack Ti. That’s so true about low Fi people have told I’m one of the most loyal types

"... we have the ability to ignore high emotions, especially during time of stress". It's *The* *Box* - where you put your emotions until the emergency/crisis is past: they're still there, they're just rather separated for the moment.

:o new vid just dropped

28:55 I spent 25 mins trying to come up with a witty way to say this, so I'll just settle for an interaction by stating, "Te Doms do indeed do too much."

This is great source for reevaluating myself because I actually think I'm Isfp sometimes. 😅

0:07 So relatable!

Really love Jon's videos! He's the best at explaining everything

I would like to say that as an INTJ who Fi-values running... a half marathon is ENOUGH! 😅

24:49 I wouldn't say "must be true, only because I have Ne on top, so I'm always saying "could be/possibly." And i would say the other stuff, questioning stuff. However all of the other stuff you said about low Te stuff aligns with me lol

Very interesting video bro! Thanks… I hope the TE dom’s will not come to correct you 😂… I am still glad to have NI dom in my first slot… can you one day maybe explain why INTJs are called triple mouvement types, triple pragmatic by Mbti groups like cs Joseph?

I'm pretty sure critical thinking in high Te users is directly connected to the preferred introverted function in their type. Te is an extroverted function so it will only collect the information and has to outsource processing it to a percieving function. 1st or 2nd position Ni means Si is in 7th or 8th position in the stack for the type and vice versa. High Ni typically is described as critical, flexible and independent, and high Si prefers to trust traditions and authority.

I'm Te secondary and I work even on vacations 🤣

Funnily enough 7:05, an entp also does this. An entp wants nothing more than to shut up. We debate however (or outright dispute/disregard) when we pick up on substantiation problems. We measure a theory by how much we can dispute it. If we talk alot, you know very little. If we listen alot, you know alot. If everything we throw against it fails, it must be true. However, this makes the entp also hard to deal with, because when you’re not completely an expert on your field, he will just start reading you a lesson on your own field. He can be very good at playing an away game. At home in fact, he might be relatively worse, but away games is where he excels at. Now, there is one exception. We study human behavior. Ne Ti Fe does that. However, we do not study systems. We study concepts. Our bias is looking at the root cause, over fixing what is already in place. Generally, it is good to look at what causes the problem over fixing the symptoms, but sometimes, fixing the symptoms is just faster. Also, systems in general we dislike. Just anti-explorative rational.

The is a productive Me, an ISFP, currently not doing homework I have do

10:05 ..... Being a high Fi user i really can't understand the "since it's needs to be done i will do it" (although i am trying to incorporate that into me but.. still..) like Te dom don't really need the burning passion to get it done.. while Fi dom (at least I) need to recharge my passion battery every now and then...

One te dom says te doms recharges correcting errors, so it could be acurrate, but non a bad thing, atleast while not taking someone in a grip

Can you please explain Te polar vs Te inferior in isfj and infp?

"Forgive them" is the most annoying word my mom and dad say. Especially if you have to forgive without educating the person about their wrongdoings or not speak up at all, for the sake of "harmony". I door-slam them if they are immature, and won't admit that kind of person is unreliable.

31:00 Lol I'll complain if I want.

I agree with low feeling function being loyal my enneagram 4 crash my cognitve function fe and fi. I understand fi well as a four for fi but still hardly manage to express feelings.It would be a different story for me. So, for istp case se parent also hard working same as te but we are much more energetic and having alcoholic affect toward us. Not bady comparison.

9:14 relate to this

16:43 now the interesting part is, -sometimes ti users are lazy -sometimes te users are bossy Ti users complain te users are claiming they are lazy, when they’re helping Te users complain ti users are claiming they are bossy, when they’re helping You see the interesting thing… so they’re both not necessarily wrong. They could be bossy and they could be lazy. The question however becomes ‘why’. If you start dialogue, and you allow for discourse, you probably will get understanding. However, some systems are anti-discourse. Idealistically, i would as high ti user tell my boss i really don’t care about the company, and would rather quit because i think it doesn’t engage me enough, but i also need food. If you probably allow me to do inefficient research you probably get way more out of me, but why don’t you? Well… Te Ti trust is very different than Fe Fi trust. Intellectual property theft is like cheating. Why wouldn’t you steal my idea, and why wouldn’t i quit as soon as i figured shit out. The only answer to these questions is feeling. Trust needs to engage with both logic and feeling before it is true.

Lol economy guru lol It's not about their are actually rich or not. Shit happens ya know. Or some are too idealist. But an expert will know and spread insights that only few know. N those fake gurus only know the general tips anyone can google too. Tbh yeah 90% are meh. Also I love how we see Te the same way bruh. Love this video.

You are one in the minority of Mbti content producers on RU-vid, who are actually accurate and thorough enough in detail what they say and are trying to convey in their content. You place extra care on your words about what you say and how you say it, to get your facts right. I don't have much, if anything, to critique in your content in general. I've known about Mbti and Jung's work over a decade and studied quite a lot of it. Like you said in another video, it highly bothers me as well when people take Mbti stereotypes and then present it as the only truth about the type, or worse, exaggerate the stereotype and then present it as the only truth. Sometimes it even resembles the straw man or reductio ad absurdum arguments in a sense how some types are presented; distorting the picture of a type out of proportions and then attacking the exaggeration, in an effort to make the type look ridiculous. I find that very repulsive, since there is something unique in every person and every type, and there is no need for such opposition in Mbti community. Presenting the stereotype as the only truth is incomplete and untrue; it is telling a one story and making it the only story. I think it is something Myers or Jung never intended themselves. It is always to remember, that type descriptions are more or less vague and do contain gradation and variability in a scale of how the type manifests in a personality. Also there are areas in human psyche which Mbti do not cover, so we are talking about only the areas of cognitive preferences which Mbti do cover - interestingly researched by Dr. Dario Nardi with his Pilot study, described in Neuroscience of Personality. That really should have a follow up, hopefully one day to replicate the results. The only thing I wanted to say about this video, is that systems thinking, or critical thinking skills, is not only for high Te-users. To be clear, you didn't say it was (!) - This is only for other viewers of the video for clarification. I think it is crucial for anyone and everyone to learn critical thinking skills, to a degree it is possible. Also, I'd say Ni-dom is always more or less a systems thinker; the exact reasons you gave on another video about Ni-doms. Everything you described on Ni-doms was very accurate on the other video, and the downside of inferior Se. I couldn't have said it better myself. I appreciated it as INFJ myself. INFJ's system may be more holistic than INTJs, but in general it is good to be aware of the gradation or the subset of type differences. A subset of INFJs will always think if something make logical sense before acting or doing anything, and follow and spot inconsistencies in someone else's speech or presentation. INFJ can be as obsessed with efficiency as INTJ, the only difference being that INFJ won't be as much fixed solving problems in real time as INTJ is. What I have observed so far is that at least a subset of Feelers will do their extensive research on a topic and learn critical thinking skills. They won't claim anything unless they know it to their bones what they are saying or won't resort to argumentation errors, any more or less than thinkers do. Also; when it comes to problem solving, a subset, or some individuals of Feelers, will not wait until the moment they "feel about it" to fix it. But I can agree that it is the sense of urgency which is the difference in that characterizes Te-doms and -aux users to others in this area. * * * You are very in touch with your Fi values and you are clearly very honest, and only care about what is true. It is clearly seen in your videos and just saying it's highly appreciated. Developing tertiary really sharp actually opens up another level to a person and adds lot more depth, and sometimes a whole new chapter to anything they do. Unfortunately I can't say the same on all who producing Mbti content - some have it, some don't, but one can clearly tell the difference.

Te doms make think of Germans😅😅😅😅dunno why

I read somewhere that Te and Fi are very narcissistic functions. ESTJ, ENTJ, and INTJ have higher rates of narcissism compared to other MBTI types

I always refer to Te as "the game of life"