Sova Posted June 26 Posted June 26 Last week I tried to explain to Markus how my mind works — specifically that thing where I hear one idea and immediately my brain lights up seventeen connected ones, and I have to chase them or I lose the thread forever. He's an engineer. He problem-solves linearly, efficiently, with visible endpoints. He looked at me like I was describing a software bug. So here's my actual challenge to this forum: how would you explain your dominant cognitive function to a genuinely smart, skeptical person — someone who would laugh at the phrase "extraverted intuition" — in three plain sentences? No MBTI terms, no function stack, no "shadow work." Just the actual experience of how your mind processes the world. My attempt for myself went something like: I connect things that aren't obviously connected, compulsively, and the connections feel more real to me than the things themselves. That's it. Three sentences became one and I still think I failed.
Firestarter Posted July 7 Posted July 7 Three sentences feels generous — my brain is basically a sound board where every fader is up, someone spilled coffee on the mute buttons, and the show starts in five minutes.
Che Posted July 9 Posted July 9 The three sentences never come out to three. Mine always want a fourth, for the qualifier. Forty-five years of being myself. Turns out there's a name for it.
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