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Back to the Present: The Never-Ending Blockbuster of the Ni-Dominant

Are you the spontaneous, fun-loving, up-for-anything life of the party? Do you make a habit of riding naked through thunderstorms howling profanities at the top of your lungs? If so, this article is not for you. This article is for the guy in the corner. This article is for the guy trying to explain quantum entanglement to his own feet. This article is for the guy who couldn't tell you what's going on right in front of him, but gladly would take you on a tour of his latest theory on astrobiology as a paradoxical contrivance of the human mind. Being an intuitive isn't always easy. In fact it rarely is. Intuitives make up roughly 30% (10% for Ni) of the population and even if we manage to master our abilities, chances are some people just won't get us. The unconscious, impalpable nature of the intuitive process tends to make our insights look like guesswork to everyone but ourselves and, more often than not, even to us.  Intuition comes in two flavours. Extroverted (Ne)

INFJ Jumper Origins

So... The INFJ jumper? What kind of crap is that? Did I make it up? Well, no, but the good folks over at Objective Personality did. OK, says you... so, what's that then? It's science. Or, at least, it aims to be. In short, OP is the only actor on the personality psychology stage brave enough to give the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator  a chance at scientific acceptance. (I’ll assume, since you’re here, that you are familiar with MBTI. If not I recommend you take some time to get to know the model.) In striving for their goal of objective typing OP has applied new concepts to the MBTI system, ultimately arriving at 512 different personality types compared to the original 16 of MBTI. But is it real? Some might argue that all this jumper business is just a fancy way of describing someone caught in a loop , i.e. skipping the auxiliary function , in favour of the tertiary function in order to stay in the orientation (extraverted or introverted depending on type) of the dominant functio