Quote Originally Posted by Myst View Post
I looked at your questionnaire again:

Where you say things like:

"I forecast everything I'm interested in from social interactions to where the sports team I support will finish.
I'm normally the one telling my friends how something will end before they do it."


Can you describe an example of creating such a forecast? I'd analyze it to see if it's Te>Ni or Ni>Te.
In terms of social interactions, I can be quite pessimistic, possibly because of being bullied in the past but also because I mind my own business when I'm out which seems to be an invitation to some people to bother me. I often times avoid entering situations I know can easily become uncomfortable. For example, if I go to a food court and my normal area has quite a few people around it (especially girls), then I probably won't sit there because 9/10 I will mind my own business and one of them will get annoyed that I appear to be ignoring them and will do something awkward, talk about me or just outright badmouth me because I actually mind my own business and don't stare at people (anymore). I'm also not bad at spotting the social dynamic between people, who is attracted to who and how that could develop.

For sports, I can be quite optimistic but with a lot of realism. For example, I support a football team which had to play all the other teams "better" than us away from home in the first half of the season, and it's often times easier to play at home than away. Most other fans said this was a terrible thing while I thought it was quite good for a number of reasons

- If most teams get an average of x points to finish y place, then my team can get lower than that since we'll have an easier time collecting points during the second half of the season.
- The above also helps mask our position in the league table and make other teams underestimate us.
- The start of the season is when the biggest upsets normally occur, so getting an upset against a bigger team away from home is more likely.

Also, I play a fantasy football league online and I forecast by looking at upcoming fixtures, recent results and player form. I also look at the teams of other people in my league to see what I'm up against and whether I can close/increase gaps between myself and them.

When it comes to my brother/friends, they often don't ask for my input but just say what they plan to do and wait for me to approve or disapprove it. For my ESFp brother, he often tells me what he wants and waits for me to tell him what to do in order to get it, or sometimes relies on me to tell him what's coming up next on his current trajectory. For my friends, again, they often tell me what they want e.g. "Let's go out sometime" but expect me to come up with a plan for it.