Yes that makes sense if you are competing with someone else rather than just working on improving yourself for its own sake or to help you function a bit better minus competition. In other words, if theOriginally Posted by XoX
One problem I have with this jack-of-all-functions thinking is that it fails in a competitive environment. In this kind of environment you have to rely on your strengths. You can't compete with a weak function against someone who has it as a strong function. For example if ESTj tries to compete against ENFj using Fe -> the ESTj loses for sure. Against an ENFj the ESTj has to rely on Te. Only way to win.I guess you would then have to put some type of metal or reasonably hard/pierce resistant material to the bottom of your shoes if the soles aren't already hard enough.
It is more beneficial to direct your energy in perfecting your strongest functions than to try to force your weak functions to become stronger. Too much effort, not much results. And you still cant compete against those have it as their strength. It is beneficial to become dependent on your bike as you put it. If you have potential to be the best biker then just keep on perfecting your biking skills. Don't switch to walking. Don't try to walk against people who can run faster. That's my opinion. You can see this happening in any competitive environment from real life to all kind of games. Only way to compete successfully is to find your strengths and specialize further and further and aim for positions where those strengths are most useful. As a jack-of-all-trades you can only go so far. On higher levels of competition there are no roles for these people because you can always find an expert who does the job better. That's why I am aiming to find my strengths and perfect them to the max. Be the best biker. And if no one needs a biker in my current environment -> I search for a new environment.function of an ISFp is weak perhaps it can be improved upon to help them with certain tasks... not that they will have have
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For some reason I don't think I'm using my ego block functions to produce this text. It might be that I'm just having fun with my 8th function in a safe setting or something. The above is how I see it in theory. In practice I'm not sure if I care enough about optimizing this or that. That is the funny thing. I can participate in these kind of theoretical arguments, it can be fun and all, but in the end they are just theoretical arguments and I don't use the results to guide my life as much as you might think. Eventually I just go by gut feeling.
. I guess that philosohy is working for you but it probably would not work that well for me because I suspect that I would feel very drained and tired if I had it. I don't know, I try not to compete much externally myself (except when I play tennis 
), the competition for me is usually with and within myself. Like I try to get a bit farther in my personal goals this year than last year, I guess it is just not as important to me what the other people who are in a similar life stage are doing. Not that I am totally unaware, to be honest I am aware of what others are doing ( I sometimes use it as a kind of benchmark) but I am just more concerned with my own development and my own goals most times. Other people might compare me to others but in the end I feel like my greastest adversary and competition is within myself. What I consider my failures are judged against my own original goals most often. Professionally, I really hate when others at my level know more about doing the job than me but even then I figure if I was developing within myself and reading and practicing as much as or as effectively as possible then I would most likely be on the same level, further ahead or not too far behind anyway as looking back at it in retrospect they did not usually have access to knowledge or skills that I couldn't have accessed and reasonably mastered if I wasn't so darn lazy . Usually I give up on the laziness for a little while and go and do what I need to do to function well though. In general, I think others are always going to be better than me in some things and some others not as good as me in the same things but if I am being the best that I can be and functioning at my maximum capacity and potential then that is really all I can ask of myself. I cannot ask more of myself than what I have the capacity to produce even in competition with others. Increasingly, I think that fuctioning at my maximum potential means that I develop in certain of my weak areas to help me reach my maximum but not necesarily to compete with others who are just naturally better in those areas, just to make me a bit more "rounded". Did you find Rick's article that I previously referred to?