Calm Yet Challenging, Logical Talk is the ISTP!

The Secret to Communication

“ISTP” Introverted, with Sensing, Thinking & Perceiving

Thinking (T)	Dominant Function	Favorite Function
Sensing (S)	Auxiliary Function	Second Favorite Function
Intuition (N)	Tertiary Function	Third Favorite Function
Feeling (F)	Inferior Function	Least Favorite Function

The “secret” to talk and communication is in understanding that we need to speak to other people in the manner they want to be spoken to. Very much like going to Italy and speaking Italian, even if one speaks poor Italian out of a guide-book, one will communicate better and go farther, and have more fun communicating if one speaks what the Italian wants and is “conditioned” to hear.

It is an off-shoot of the “mirror image” principle.

The “Mirror Image” Principle states that you looking at me would feel the most comfortable in every way, if you could see (experience) a mirror image of yourself looking back at you.

So, from a Myers-Briggspersonality perspective, introverted people, ISTP in this case, prefer to speak to others in the “language” if you will, of their own “extraverted” function of “Sensing” if they are meeting you for the first time and their dominant function of “thinking” if they already know you well. For ISTPs the dominant function is the ability to reason and decide in the world strongly as a “Thinker”.

So the “ISTP” personality will speak and be most comfortable when spoken to in the language of “thinking”. (LOGIC)

The “ISTP” is most challenged in communication with “intuitive”, “feeling” type personalities. The “ISTP” is most strongly challenged by a dominant “feeler”. The reason is that the “ISTPs” ability to speak sensing is most limited due to the fact that the “feeling” function of “ISTP” is the least used least energized, least preferred function.

So, we must become, “speakers of foreign languages”, in a manner of speaking. In this case, the dominant Thinker must speak in the language of the “feeler”. It may be, depending upon the other person, that the dominant Thinker will have to speak, Feeling, or Intuition, again depending upon the other person’s dominant function.

So, we want to “read” the other person as best we can in relationships, and make efforts to not criticize the difference we perceive, but accept the difference, and literally “speak” in the language of that difference.

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