Te - What is it, how does it work? Need Help understanding static vs. dynamic.

[Smilex]

Te is a function of fixation on things that are important. How are they important? They are focal points in the community and they also have capacity. Te is the border between Ni-fields transforming into Si fields - conceptual abstraction turning into concrete works.

For Ej Te is something that requires that you have to take action, the fear of lost opportunity, the fear of missing out, the feeling of misery and miserliness.
When Bill Gates writes " We focus on only a few issues because we think that’s the best way to have great impact, and we focus on these issues in particular because we think they are the biggest barriers that prevent people from making the most of their lives." He is describing Te.


For Ip Te is greed, being enchanted by something so great you want to throw yourself at it. The opportunity found, the moment when you're strong while others are weak.
When Buffett says "only when the tide goes out do you discover who has been swimming naked"

He is describing his understanding of Te.

[Adam Strange]

Te is a function of fixation on things that are important. How are they important? They are focal points in the community and they also have capacity. Te is the border between Ni-fields transforming into Si fields - conceptual abstraction turning into concrete works.

For Ej Te is something that requires that you have to take action, the fear of lost opportunity, the fear of missing out, the feeling of misery and miserliness.
When Bill Gates writes " We focus on only a few issues because we think that’s the best way to have great impact, and we focus on these issues in particular because we think they are the biggest barriers that prevent people from making the most of their lives." He is describing Te.


For Ip Te is greed, being enchanted by something so great you want to throw yourself at it. The opportunity found, the moment when you're strong while others are weak.
When Buffett says "only when the tide goes out do you discover who has been swimming naked"

He is describing his understanding of Te.

That quotation by Bill Gates perfectly sums up a well-directed life.

A lot of supposedly avaricious rich business owners are said to have "converted" or "switched" to philanthropy in their old age. I assert that they never changed. They were always interested in making the best of a system, whether that system was a steel mill, personal computing, or the education and health of the general population.

[Smilex]

That quotation by Bill Gates perfectly sums up a well-directed life.

A lot of supposedly avaricious rich business owners are said to have "converted" or "switched" to philanthropy in their old age. I assert that they never changed. They were always interested in making the best of a system, whether that system was a steel mill, personal computing, or the education and health of the general population.

I feel that adding to the previous would not be a bad thing.
For the initiator of the thread I suspect that the confusing thing about Te is how can an object be both abstract and concrete at the same time. Many concepts have immediate practical dimensions. Words like doctor, husband, contract, criminal, entrance, sick leave, christmas tradition and so on are abstract in their origin but define and lead to practical actions and events. They are best understood as Te objects. But any abstract Ne concept can be taken and turned into a Te object though sometimes this leads to absurdity. Let's consider something that is a well known concept though it doesn't exist, like telepathy. Now Te thinking would be.... how to turn that into practical consequences... maybe by trademarking it, or creating a stage magic illusion around it, or by redefining it as reading brain waves with machinery and using those brain waves to guide a program that writes sms messages. Then you can talk about this concept on both the levels of ideas and how it applies and now you're in Te territory.

ALso, successful Te concepts tend to turn into Se concepts. The first successful light bulb was a symbol as much as a practical tool, now it's just a light bulb.

Fe works the opposite... by turning a condom or a rifle or stepping into a bus with different coloured people into a symbol.

Any person who simultaneously understands both the abstract and the concrete dimensions of an object is likely high Te or high Fe. But the point of view is of course the opposite.

The previous posts focus on the 'absolute' Te, which unites the aspects of -and + or abstract and concrete Te. For many individuals classified as Te types the Te things they handle are only concrete or abstract because they're not actually very focused on Te.

For a high Ni gamma, Te is mostly theoretical, understood to exist by necessity but not really important. This is how Adam describes the rich investor's connection with money. Te is just the eventual outcome of conduct, just something that accumulates. On the other hand a full on balanced gamma considers the Te as important though still just an output factor. For a balanced delta, Te is usually the most important objects that define their practical life, like a uniform, tool, itinerary, debt, loyalty or whatever. For a high Si- delta Te is whatever is the available materials for their practical abilities, not really important because the focus is on their high personal skill to do anything with anything.

And so for some Te is a good thing, for some it's bad. For some it's an abstraction, for some a concrete item. But without a mental structure that is built around Te you can't really appreciate it in its fullness because ultimately it's defined by Ni and Si.