2010 #1

Happy New Year. Some links to keep you entertained:

1) Introverted Intuition (Ni) and the Meaning of Music

2) Songs in the key of life: What makes music emotional

3) I finally came across a description of Extraverted Feeling (Fe) that makes sense to me. Coincidentally, it happens to use music as a metaphor.
Music is a flow, a series of notes that invoke certain things. Music is essentially strategy with more feel than logic. You have a goal in mind, to make a friend, or emotionally bruise an enemy, and use what strategies you know (from your perceiving function) to reach it. Music is the same, you want someone to feel a certain thing and you use what strategies you know to reach that end.

Basically Te, but with an F instead of T. Fe users are just much more in tune with feelings of people and their reactions rather than the Te's use of hard data.
(Source: Fe as Vibration in the Ether)


4) Flavors of Enneagram Fives. Who knew that there were so many varieties? I tested as 5.1.3. I was definitely very strongly 5.3.1 about 10 years ago. I shudder to think of the word "glacial" as an accurate description (ugh).

The idea of the tritype is new to me. To determine your tritype, find your preferred type in each of the three triads: heart triad (ennea type 2,3,4), head triad (5,6,7) and gut Triad (8,9,1). I took this test here.