Originally Posted by
Ms. Kensington
Te being associated with factual information and fe being associated often with personal motivation (what i glean from the forum), how do you (Fi-egos) feel you experience motivation? Recently i told an ISFj, "the tone of the letter seems like he might be asking us (instead of some others involved with the same problem we were notified about) to complete the task". ISFj seemed to completely sidestep the comment, saying instead that others besides us were copied on the email. ISFj might have just been focusing on different questions.. as does happen in reality.. but i was wondering if Fi will simply deny motivation in terms of evaluating a situation?
Like, today my ESFp friend said, "the snow is cleaning the building." When i didn't say anything she said, "why are you ignoring me?" and I said, "yeah, the snow is cleaning the building". and she said, "i didnt say you didn't hear me, i said you were ignoring me". Then I said, "no, i was paying attention." and then she said, "people usually respond back if they aren't ignoring others, RIGHT?" so, in this case it seemed to me as if there were some assumptions about my motivations for action as well, while in the first example there seemed to be a denial of motivation.. i mean I don't think it's a great example of what im asking above with ISFj, but basically i'm asking how persons with Fi in the ego notice and evaluate motivation or tone in everyday conversations. I'm particularly interested in IxFj, since i understand what to me is confusing behavior for ExFps in terms of Ti polr and Te HA.