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Investigator
I understand what you mean when you say don’t feel you’re Te is weak enough. I found this particular phenomenon in EII-Fi’s. If you have ever met an EII-Fi, they seem much more organized than an EII-Ne in average despite having weaker Te. This may seem unintuitive at first, but I believe that this is because we underestimate how much the shifting of functional values effects how the relevant functions manifest. EII-Fi may not be the better at organizing their environment than the EII, but they “care” about the organization of the environment more than the EII-Ne. Of course there is other things going on the background like sensory functions being boosted leading to them interacting their environment more. However, when it comes down to it, you have more EII-Ne’s in science as they benefit from boosted +Te/-Ti. Another thing you have to think about is rationality vs irrationality is one of most important dichotomies in Socionics. You find no matter how much SEE-Se strengthen their -Te/+Ti, they still seem somewhat disorganized. This is because an irrational function is steering the ship. So instead they use their +Se/-Si to “will” themselves into productivity.
To answer your follow-up question: Of course. The whole concept of duality is that you have strengths that you can flexible use so that their dual can rely on them if they need/want to. The potency of a particular strength or weakness is merely de/emphasized depending on the subtype. At the end of the day, an both ILE-Ne’s and ILE-Ti’s both have relatively weak +Si/-Se. Just because the ILE-Ti has better +Si/-Se doesn’t mean this function is completely covered (for example they need constant monitoring so they don’t pick very unhealthy habits like skipping meals for work).
Edit: I forgot to comment on the emotional pressuring stuff: I find requests from SEE-Fi’s very hard to reject (maybe that’s why I replied to this thread, haha) My SEE-Fi friend doesn’t realize how good he is at persuading people (at least not yet...) to do something he wants the, to do. While the SEE-Se knows he is good at it (though still less capable than the SEE-Fi) and does it more often with a lot more force (+Se/-Si blended together with higher value for -Fe/+Fi). While the SEE-Fi’s tactics are much more indirect (-Fi/+Fe), and more persitent (shifting value from +Se/-Si to +Si/-Se).