Umhow did everyone get so damn good at socionics?

[3RainbowSprinkles]

I've been coming back here for...im not sure for how long, but a while now, and there are so many people here who are so good with typing people and discussing other theories. How??

When did you start studying socionics? did you have to practice? did you study descriptions? where did you learn this information from?

[Cone]

I've been coming back here for...im not sure for how long, but a while now, and there are so many people here who are so good with typing people and discussing other theories. How??

It's all Rick DeLong's fault.

[717495]

I agree with aixelsyd, especially about the introspection part. Socionics theory itself seems rather simple however, and people have different methods, coming from different sources. I have my own private source that I've developed from what I consider the keypoints of socionics. What I've realized is that people make the actual theory itself too complex, and I'm trying to stick to what makes relations work and "duality."

You can say that I don't want to post my own observations on here anymore because of people trying to pick them apart with the wrong reference in mind. Everyone has to start somewhere, and usually this somewhere is rather unique. For me socionics is self reflection. Am I good at socionics? Who knows? I'm good at understanding what I need to think. I'm not closed-minded. I like to hear more practical derivations people give off on the forums. Sometimes these derivations relate back to the original keypoints i've adopted.

[Jarno]

When did you start studying socionics? did you have to practice? did you study descriptions? where did you learn this information from?

I started carefully with the 4 dichotomies and type descriptions to type all my colleague's. Also I had some friends of mine do an MBTI test to get some idea of what type they could be.

After about 1 year I knew all types of my 25 colleagues, then I started to see similarities. Those small little things that are typical per type. Then things got easyer and I used to type people by comparison. You start getting definitions of your own in your mind of what a certain type behaves like. You'll start understanding the different functions and what kind of behaviour it results in. For example: the business-like behaviour = Te. Dominating the room/performing for others = Se.

Also when I started dating a lot, I recognised the peculairities of the different relationships. All in all dating was the best thing for the learning curve. You get to know people at short psychological distance.

Probably the last things that you'll start noticing is that people of the same type often have similar facial traits, and that there are (not really important) subtypes among types. If you are at that level, you won't get much better.

[Hitta]

I've been coming back here for...im not sure for how long, but a while now, and there are so many people here who are so good with typing people and discussing other theories. How??

When did you start studying socionics? did you have to practice? did you study descriptions? where did you learn this information from?

Same reason why people follow the bible to a T, support the Iraqi war, measure their penises, hate gays, drink nasty American beer(water?), and get married.