Fe PoLR: how does it show in ISTps and INTps?

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Tales of the Fe-PoLR:

I was talking to an ILI who was hired to do some analysis for us last Friday at work and he said, "Adam, I am much smarter than you."

I thought, OK, maybe you are and maybe you aren't, but let's see where this goes.

"The University in Tehran where I was an assistant professor is 45th in the WORLD!"

I thought, Good for them. But what does that have to do with us?

"I have written a book and here is my list of published papers", and he shows me his phone and scrolls down several pages too fast to read. Plus, I don't read Farsi.

"BUT, I will never be as successful as you! Do you know why not?"

"Uh, no. Why not?"

"Because I dive deep into a subject. I focus right down to the finest details." He made a V with his hands. "I always get the right answer. But do you know why I am not successful, like you?"

I waited. He was going to tell me no matter what I said.

"Because I am not good at waving my hands and saying 'Blaaaah blaaaah blaaaah! Blaaaah blaaaah blaaaah!'" Here he waved his hands and stuck out his tongue and was kind of spraying saliva.

"Let me say that I have the highest respect for you. You are a great manager and you are a diplomat! But managers are good at saying 'Blaaaah blaaaah blaaaah! Blaaaah blaaaah blaaaah!', so I will never be a good manager."

"Actually", I said, "I'm kind of a terrible manager. What I am is a leader, and I can also meet with almost any kind of person and get along with them."

"Yes! You are a Leader. And THAT is why you will be successful."


Plus, of course, the fact that I can say 'Blaaaah blaaaah blaaaah! Blaaaah blaaaah blaaaah!'

Now that gave me a chuckle. He apparently perceives how and why you succeed yet feels imitating your method is "below him" or some such. Yeah, see, I wanna win. I will thus do what wins insofar as it does not violate my morality.

I guess that's because I lack the stereotypical ILI's sense of pride bordering on hubris. This one obviously lacks humility. I'm the type that'd let you lead in broad strokes while I refine your generally good idea into a quote unquote "actual" good idea. Y'know, a bold move in warfare that looks or sounds dumb to anyone who doesn't know how that shit works and even to some who have some idea, but context is everything in those situations.

A so called "dumb" move could be the work of divinely inspired genius in the right circumstance and context. A critical weakness of those who rely too much on or is that they truly may believe they know all there is to know. That they think they have it all figured out. Yeah, ya might. But someone might have a critical piece of info you don't even know you don't have.

This concept is why I'm an eternal long term optimists. I know my ultimate enemy is completely severed from objective reality. That means they will, no matter what other variables you care to include into the equation, they will make a critical mistake that will cost them everything. Their hubris, true and ultimate beyond any I can even attempt to imagine, will be their undoing. All I have to do is not follow them into that abyss .