Originally Posted by
poli
Well I still get a lot of use from it, I guess I just didn't understand the original post. Sorry.
There is a kind of intuitive understanding that goes along with knowing if someone is trying to be mean or not, but Socionics has probably helped me understand that this person isn't trying to get on my or others nerves, that's just the way they think about things. Meanness to me is rather just a concept I see straight through a lot of the time, as in people make too much of what constitutes as mean, and someone being mean usually doesn't stand for much in the whole picture. What kind of meanness are you talking about though? An example might help.
Ie. if my ENTp brother were to take some stinging prickle and swipe it at me so I itch the rest of the day, I would see that as kind of mean, but that's just how he is sometimes. He can be a prankster with lighthearted karma coming his way too. There are otherwise ENTps who don't do that kind of stuff at all, its a personal quality.