Cac, close you eyes, imagine her and eagle, a live jet or stunt plane. Feel the wind, feel, hear her motor. Fly the bird!
There is a SciFi story, Equal Rites, where a seventh child of a seventh child thing turns out to be a girl and is turned into an eagle soaring over the country side. Or Atriiu[sp] from the Never Ending Story. Listen to her motor, and hear the shift points and get the timing right...but you have to do it by ear, by feel, no instruments for ya...
Hugs...
Pity me that the heart is slow to learn
What the swift mind beholds at every turn.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Either you don't understand what an INTJ is...or you do, and you're making fun of me!! But those are just the type of metaphors that make me go Remember the robot from "Lost in Space"? "...does not compute!!! "
fwiw, flying airplanes is very much a "by the numbers" activity. Its a romantic notion to think of it as some kind of "by feel" or "seat of the pants" thing, but the reality is quite the opposite. (which is why aviation is the perfect avocation for an intj, but I digress...). See, airplanes lie. (not at all unlike people). they don't always tell the truth, in fact, they transmit sensations that are highly deceptive to the human senses that indicate the opposite of what is real. One of the first things they teach you when learning to fly is to ignore these sensations, at all costs, because they can only lead you astray. Instruments are the only trustworthy source of information. Pilots who forget this or don't apply it absolutely usually wind up at the bottom of the ocean, bored into the side of a mountain, or scattered in smitherines across the landscape. If only people came with instruments, life would be a whole lot easier for folks like me...
Quote: If only people came with instruments, life would be a whole lot easier for folks like me...
And then you wouldn't have to grow at all, would you?
Anyway, Jung says that in the latter years of your life, you should try to develop your opposite qualities... so that if you're an introvert, you should try to become more extraverted, if you're a thinking type to develop your feeling side more.
So the INTJ should be moving in the direction of the ESFP... it's not logical to stay the same all your life with out growing. The classifications are not meant to be used as an excuse for why you can't get along in the world.
So the INTJ should be moving in the direction of the ESFP...
so much for "do what you are", and "..."to thine own self be true".
Quote: it's not logical to stay the same all your life with out growing.
why not? there's "growth"...and then there's "teaching a pig to sing".
Quote: The classifications are not meant to be used as an excuse for why you can't get along in the world.
Its neither an excuse nor an inability to "get along in the world". But a plausable explanation for why I can't process or apply information like "feel her motor".
Of course I am. Thats exactly what I've been saying. "I don't get it".
and another apparent contradiction: Holding onto hope that someone in another thread could change and become "steady and happy" is delusional. (like teaching a pig to sing?) yet I'm supposed to "grow" toward the exact opposite of my nature...
yeah, I can drive a stick. In fact, I much prefer it to an automatic, because the automatic doesn't know as much about what is going on as I do. It makes its decisions for me, often incorrectly, based on faulty or incomplete information. (like "feelings"...) and that annoys me....
W commented recently about how reading about personality types has shown her how she can sometimes act like an automatic transmission...drawing the wrong conclusions from few facts and misleading "feelings". like my benign comment on the weather is actually NOT a critique of her parenting skills or value as a person.
Remember the robot from "Lost in Space"? "...does not compute!!! 
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