Originally Posted by
wacey
In some ways I think SLIs fall into this craftsmen mould just because they are the best tool for the job. I mean, you don't use a philips screw driver to do a job that requires a flat head screw driver.
Confused? Don't be. Craftsmen SLI are the ultimate connoisseurs of sensations and because they are ego blocked with extroverted thinking, they can't help but think in terms of whats working for them, how things work, what works the best, what can be afforded, how it can be afforded, what is simplest, why its the simplest, what's the latest, what is convenient, what would make them comfortable, how would working make them comfortable, what is timeless ect.
Because they are irrational, their projects start out small and grow in scale and scope, BUT only when they feel like it.........
The Project
Lets say male SLI decides, "hmm, I think I need an office because I want to put my office stuff somewhere". So they kind of putts around the outside of the house looking at the walls and decide on building an expansion off the back patio. Then they go inside and fall in front of the television and they forget about all about the office.
Later, while shopping at the strip mall, they take a stroll over to the Home Depot. Not really planned visit, but not really not planned either. Irrationals after all move with their inner tides. In the store, they make a mental note of the cost of lumber, thinking about it for a minute while they continue to walk around, and knowing how much cash is in the bank account, they decide on purchasing the necessary lumber. So they do. Just like that.
When they get home, the begin tearing down the walls of their house. They had done this a few times before at a friends house, they basically remember how to do it, how hard could it be? Of course, they wouldn't openly doubt themselves like other sociotypes might to the point of terminating the project, being an extroverted thinking ego they are perfectly confident they know what they are doing (do they actually? Not necessarily, here comes the irrational strategist once again, they will deal with the problems as they arrive, why worry needlessly?) With half the outside house walls demolished and 8:00 pm in the evening, they decide to call it quits. They are hungry and tired and the wall can wait. And so it does, for two and a half weeks......
Their work becomes more stressful and the office expansion project, which is their own thing, can wait. One warm Saturday morning they get the desire to begin working on it again, maybe it was the coffee they had, maybe it was the newspaper full of office supply adds they read, or the nice sleep the night before, who knows? SLI rhythms are a complete and utter mystery to those that live around them, although a preceptive IEE dual will come up for a million reasons for the both of them. When asked why they are working on the office today a SLI, with a slight brusk yet simplistic superiority will shrug and curtly say "I don't know, because I feel like it". Indeed.
And so the new house office is built "brick by brick". SLI with that contact extroverted thinking function will assemble the new office from the floor to the carpet to the walls and dry wall to the windows to the electricity to the office desk. With that vortical cognition, SLI visualizes the ends results be piecing together the materials, textures, colours inside his mind and moves to make the image reality. For instance, an office desk was tailored made to fit the custom ordered leather office chair they purchased from ebay a month before, the one that you could sit in forever.
So the office project is completed, six months later. It was the perfect use of week end time. Did you really think SLI would work on it from dusk till dawn every day until it was completed? Of course the office completion was the goal, and goals are quietly accomplished by SLI, yet the path getting there is not straight and well defined. And not only was their extroverted thinking stretching its wings, working on a home project allowed them to move at their own pace: close friends could visit, snacks could be had whenever, maybe beer?
The Results
In this way, the irrational SLI tinkers about his or her little goals. Some build offices on their homes. I wrote this as a semi-piece of fiction by the way. The parameters of the story, however, are the same for all SLI I have known in my life. Others do what SLIs do that makes them happy and satisfied. These introverts dance to the beat of their own drums, an absolute requirement for fulfulment. Yet they all become "craftsmen" in their perspective fields of interest simply because they amalgamate information and actually apply this information. Much like the technical sciences are applied science, meaning practised, SLI who end up practising their crafts might become highly skilled.
This makes them indispensable to their intra-personal circle. Maybe as irrationals and introverts, other people don't notice how skilled a little SLI has grown? Until something breaks. Thank -god in those moments for the helpful little caregiver SLI, all that hard work building his own home office paid off because now he knows how to dry wall your own, or at least give you some advice on it....heavily prompted for the details of course!
Just as a real life craftsmen, the SLI might become crotchety and a know-it-all in their golden years with their advice that borders on the blunt and pedantic. How common sense can a person grow to become you might think? In the case of the SLI, very common sense. Essentially they mean well, a guy can trust years of fruitful labour the craftmen has collected. Who can blame a person whose sense of personal identity and self worth partly stems from their ability to be useful to others by knowing what works and how it works while simultaneously living according to their own rhymes?
Craftsmen SLI don't start out as craftsmen, but just like a real life master crafts person (you're welcome feminazis), SLI build on experiences overtime. Apprentices soon become the master.
SLI is the perfect blueprint to build a master crafts person: you've got one part introverted sensor with impeccable sensing abilities, extroverted logic that remembers usefulness/not usefulness, a carefree attitude that solves problems as they arrive, a strategist that notices details, an irrational that moves according to rhythms individually defined, a positivist that creates from neutral spaces rather then detracts from them, an asker that makes them seemingly fluid conversationalists as well as garners of useful facts. Useful personal skills as a trades person, shame they are so goddamn introverted. As an obstinate individual who freely manipulates his resources without psychological baggage, a person who will builds on resources he/she doesn't posses in order to accomplish his/her goals, and as objectivist types who do not emotionally separate work from non-work, they might actually be enjoying themselves whilst working on personal projects, perhaps not even seeing what they are doing as work at all? Finally, as logician of the extroverted variety they think about what is right and wrong and freely and gladly absorb information of the useful variety to themselves.
Their environment is an extension of themselves, anything that is of value to their outer world is of value to themselves. Knowledge about their environments is freely absorbed into their psyches. Not only is this information freely absorbed, it is also freely, quietly and without fuss, manipulated to suit their needs.
In my opinion these are a few reasons SLI are known as the craftsmen. Because their minds make them the best tools to earn that title.