This one could use some contextual help. The Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) speaks of dominant and auxiliary functions. The dominant function can be referred to as the general, and the auxiliary function as the lieutenant. As you would expect the general is in charge and the lieutenant carries out instructions. In the INTJ personality (1% of the population), iNtuition is the general and, Thinking the lieutenant. This is one part of the personality puzzle: there is a second.
These two functions (N and T) also have an orientation in the world. In the INTJ the thinking lieutenant is an extroverted function. So when you are facing an INTJ, you are speaking to the lieutenant, not to the one in charge, the general. If the lieutenant doesn't have it on his clip board, its not going to be available "just now." The general, on the other hand is an introverted function, one that does not directly interact with the outside world. Also one that does not process in a logical line.
As I have begun to better understand the INTJ, my peculiar type, I see that the poetry seems to help to express what is happening inside the hidden intuitive general.
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Why is there fear
When facing a man
Or a woman at work
When we’re working a plan
Why second thoughts
Running awry
Afraid they’ll be slighted
Throw sand in your eye
The lieutenant stands up
He knows he’s no match
For the whit and the ego
That leads the attack
Its better to pass
And not to engage
Than look like a fool
Forced to read from the page
Then there’s the group
That flows from the heart
Fearless with them
For each knows his part
Even at times
In the safest of places
There’s still a concern
At signs in their faces
Reading their face
Is frequently wrong
What’s taken for you
Can be their own song
So test the water
Ask what goes on
You usually find
You’ve done them no harm
Suppose you have
Stroked the wrong way
Its better to know
Than sulk the whole day
Set up a system
To quell your own fear
Before it can grab you
Tug at your ear
Keep you from hearing
The general inside
Who works for your best
To guide a smooth ride
©1/17/08, Glenn
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Is it possible to set up a system to overcome, or do you set it up to adapt?
There are a couple things going on here. The introverted general and extroverted lieutenant part have to do with how the INTJ is wired. I have found the knowledge informing and helpful. Helped me understand why its better for me to have some quiet time before taking a position.
The other content deals with some internal things I was processing.
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