I don't go out and type people, but as I'm interacting with someone I might notice some aspect of their personality, whether it's that they're probably a type with a certain information element in the ego block, or maybe temperament, or whatever. Sometimes just that they seem like some particular type. But I feel no need to come to a conclusion on what type someone is. I'm fine with "Delta ST" or even something more vague than taht.
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.-Mark Twain
You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
By Dichotomies.
Merry/Serious
Decisive/Judicious
Those are usually pretty easy to tell.
I generally go by overall impressions of how I understand each type. Overall affect is what I take in first, but if the opportunity arises I try to sink my teeth into the person's brain to draw out valued IEs. Knowing their enneatype and stacking helps a lot too, just to give what I'm observing a greater context outside of socionics.
Observation, observation, observation.When you want to figure out what someone's type is how do you go about doing it?
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