Is functional use inherent or conditioned?
Here's a questioned I've recently been pondering.
Are functions a product of who we live with i.e. they are instilled within us, or are they something we're born with?
What does Augusta say about this?
What do you think about it?
Personally, I think they're based entirely on our environment. Street kids who get leathered daily don't grow up as IEIs. A mystic who has been taught to fulfill the same practice every day is not an SLE.
Re: Is functional use inherent or conditioned?
As far as I know, Augusta said that types were inborn. (please tell me if this is wrong)
Re: Is functional use inherent or conditioned?
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Originally Posted by Ezra
Here's a questioned I've recently been pondering.
Are functions a product of who we live with i.e. they are instilled within us, or are they something we're born with?
Hah, funny, I've been pondering the exact same thing. What if environmental conditions influence the usage of the elements? How would that reflect on a person's type?
Personally, I've been wondering because I've noticed that the environment I grew up in is beta. Excessively. Everybody acts like the beta description on the wiki page all the time. Regardless of their actual type. I am wondering how this is posible. For integral type to be so influential in people's behavior to the point where it conceals their real type (I've recently realized that the reason everybody I know seems to be beta or alpha is just that, they only seem to be beta or alpha) makes no sense to me.