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    Quote Originally Posted by RICK's SITE
    Type Messages

    I introduced the topic of "type messages" in April and worked on the concept a bit more in this article, hoping to flesh out the messages into type descriptions. Months passed, and I have returned to them again as part of my new type test.

    The idea of a "type message" is to formulate in a few short words the principal contribution of each type to the world around him/her. Here are my current formulations:

    ILE - Searching for the unknown and spreading knowledge.
    SEI - Deriving enjoyment from all your actions and interactions.
    ESE - Turning life into an enjoyable, beautiful experience.
    LII - Structuring reality and creating correct systems of thought.
    EIE - Riveting attention and energy to meaningful causes.
    LSI - Establishing and overseeing correct structures and systems.
    SLE - Challenging the current order and expanding influence.
    IEI - Recognizing meaning in the events of life around you.
    SEE - Making an impression on people and holding their attention.
    ILI - Recognizing what is happening and deriving benefit from it.
    LIE - Achieving beneficial efficiency in all areas of life.
    ESI - Recognizing and balancing people's needs and expectations.
    LSE - Managing worthwhile, productive, and wholesome activities.
    EII - Being exemplary and instilling ideal values.
    IEE - Expanding your horizons and helping people develop.
    SLI - Balanced, harmonious living and temperance.

    Of course, none of these are perfect - as no short, crisp descriptions can be - but they capture something essential about each type.

    1 For the LII, that is very fitting for me. Does it work for you?


    2 Before I saw this, I was thinking about things that would actually cause and motivate growth and more balance for a type. That is to say, what would cause personal growth, or what would be an easy direction to follow?
    • 2a Example --- for myself, the LII 'message' is essentially related to my motivation for growth (I am also reminded of the brief spiritual-function descriptions on Rick's site). Because I desire to structure reality and create correct systems, that allows for me to become more than an introverted thinker: I realize I need more than that
      Also, this may be related to Enneagram growth: 5 to 8, or 1 to 7.

      2b Furthermore, I would say that your ability to grow is related to what side of your polr you are on - whether you avoid it (and remain stationary) or seek to consciously deal with it and expand your comfort zone.




    (There is a lot of space between the dots, and I don't have time to draw them closer together right now. Comment on what you can)
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    The ILE one fits me well, yes.
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    I think the EIE sounds accurate.
    EIE, ENFj, intuitive subtype.
    E3 (probably 3w4)

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    From these ones, ILE would fit me better than ILI, though I identify with the ILI description slightly here. In daily life, I do try to think about what would be strategically advantageous. But just on theoretical grounds, the phrasing "Recognizing what is happening" seems off. It appears to focus too much on the external world, and suggests to me the image of someone who is constantly out there talking to people, scouting around, finding out "what's happenin'."

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    PS...Besides the "Hey, what's happenin'?" image, the other image that pops into my mind regarding the ILI description is the one-track-mind-for-business kind of person...someone like the promoter in Rocky, with the greased backed hair, or in general someone who's all about business and thinks of everything in terms of dollars and cents.

    Again, nobody I've ever met that seems to be ILI fits that.

    Here's an alternative for the ILI type message:

    "Having a unique point of view and discussing, defending, or refining it logically."

    Of course that description may sound a bit too "Alpha" to some....

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    IEE - Expanding your horizons and helping people develop.

    Everything I can't stop myself from doing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jonathan
    PS...Besides the "Hey, what's happenin'?" image, the other image that pops into my mind regarding the ILI description is the one-track-mind-for-business kind of person...someone like the promoter in Rocky, with the greased backed hair, or in general someone who's all about business and thinks of everything in terms of dollars and cents.

    Again, nobody I've ever met that seems to be ILI fits that.
    agreed, but that is clearly not the message being presented in rick's synopsis

    Here's an alternative for the ILI type message:

    "Having a unique point of view and discussing, defending, or refining it logically."

    Of course that description may sound a bit too "Alpha" to some....
    i would tend to agree; i like rick's ILI message some but i think it definitely could focus a little more on philosophical viewpoints, which i think are very characteristic of ILIs.

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    None of them totally fits me. These are the best ones, in no particular order:

    IEI - Recognizing meaning in the events of life around you.
    ILI - Recognizing what is happening and deriving benefit from it.
    LIE - Achieving beneficial efficiency in all areas of life.
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    EIE - Riveting attention and energy to meaningful causes.
    that's the perfect description of my boss
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    i relate most to ile

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    I am somewhere between ILE and LII depending upon my mood.
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    something between LIE and SLI. i like the EII one a lot, too. i agree with jonathan and niffweed, that the ILI one sounds like an opportunist.
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    ILI - Recognizing what is happening and deriving benefit from it.
    I'll have to rephrase the ILI one somehow. What I had in mind here was the sense of recognizing or understanding the significance of processes happening around you and figuring out the best ways to derive utility or benefit from these processes in a way that saves everyone effort.

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    When powerful, EII; when confused, LII; when concerned, ILE.

    I'm a very confused person, concerned with being powerful.
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    I relate to the SLI message. I have been working the last 2 or 3 months to become completely balanced. This involves an almost vegetarian diet, yoga/excercise, patience with others, and maintenance of all my personal belongings. Only one thing has thrown me off course, and that is a woman. I said to myself, "I was foolish and I won't let that happen again."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rick
    ILI - Recognizing what is happening and deriving benefit from it.
    I'll have to rephrase the ILI one somehow. What I had in mind here was the sense of recognizing or understanding the significance of processes happening around you and figuring out the best ways to derive utility or benefit from these processes in a way that saves everyone effort.
    That makes a lot more sense.

    If you're looking to condense it, maybe "Recognizing the underyling processes, and figuring out how to derive benefit from them."

    It's still a bit cryptic...maybe your longer explanation is better. The key thing is that your newer phrasing takes the focus away from extraversion (happening) and sensing/action orientation (deriving benefit) to introversion (recognizing processes) and a more abstract orientation to action (figuring out).

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    Quote Originally Posted by UDP
    Quote Originally Posted by RICK's SITE
    LII - Structuring reality and creating correct systems of thought.
    I like the first part. (Why are there two parts?)

    "Correct" is not the word I would use. Three suffice: "Consistent, useful, and accurate."

    Quote Originally Posted by UDP
    Furthermore, I would say that your ability to grow is related to what side of your polr you are on - whether you avoid it (and remain stationary) or seek to consciously deal with it and expand your comfort zone.
    I agree with this. The PoLR shouldn't become a phobia. Although, actively seeking it might be as psychologically unwise as actively avoiding it. Maybe taking it as it comes and not stressing out too much is the best idea.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joy
    None of them totally fits me. These are the best ones, in no particular order:

    IEI - Recognizing meaning in the events of life around you.
    ILI - Recognizing what is happening and deriving benefit from it.
    LIE - Achieving beneficial efficiency in all areas of life.
    I asked my sister about these (and added the SEE description) as far as which corresponds to me best, and she said "Recognizing meaning in the events of life around you."
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    I relate to LIE, ILI, IEI and LSE, more or less in that order.
    , LIE, ENTj logical subtype, 8w9 sx/sp
    Quote Originally Posted by implied
    gah you're like the shittiest ENTj ever!

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    Quote Originally Posted by MysticSonic
    When powerful, EII; when confused, LII; when concerned, ILE.

    I'm a very confused person, concerned with being powerful.

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    I relate the most to LSI, next to SEE and the second half of IEE. I don't identify with the IEI one at all.

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    I relate to SLE, ESE and LIE.
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    the principal contribution of each type to the world around him/her.

    ILE - Searching for the unknown and spreading knowledge.
    SEI - Deriving enjoyment from all your actions and interactions.
    LSI - Establishing and overseeing correct structures and systems. (maybe just overseeing)
    IEI - Recognizing meaning in the events of life around you.
    IEE - Expanding your horizons and helping people develop.

    What I relate to:

    ESE - Turning life into an enjoyable, beautiful experience.
    LII - Structuring reality and creating correct systems of thought.
    SLE - Challenging the current order and expanding influence.
    ESI - Recognizing and balancing people's needs and expectations.

    I kinda relate to this:
    ILI - Recognizing what is happening and deriving benefit from it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Diana
    I seem to be exceptionally good at spitting into the wind. Which one does that fit?
    that indicates that you are unquestionably and incontrovertibly SLI, as it is a well known fact that only SLIs can spit in to the wind effectively.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Diana
    So, what I'd like to be able to do is:
    SEI - Deriving enjoyment from all your actions and interactions.

    but what I actually do is ??
    Yeah, I think too that that message is definitely the most appealing out of all them.
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    For me ILI > LIE.

    I try to gain benefit from everything, which is sometimes accomplished through efficiency.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rick
    ILI - Recognizing what is happening and deriving benefit from it.
    I'd personally prefer
    "Recognizing what is happening and understanding benefit derivation."

    I'd suspect that ILI's are more inclined to think about processes, even personal actions, as 'things' as opposed to experiences...
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    I really wanna identify with SEI, my superego, but I am stuck with my ILI self.

    I have created ESI and SEE alternate personalities for myself in my failed attempt of 'becoming' an SEI.
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    Quote Originally Posted by vigilante
    I'd personally prefer
    "Recognizing what is happening and understanding benefit derivation."
    But does that make sense?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rick
    Quote Originally Posted by vigilante
    I'd personally prefer
    "Recognizing what is happening and understanding benefit derivation."
    But does that make sense?
    I think "understanding how derive benefit", which doesn't necessarily imply action from the intp's side
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    Quote Originally Posted by Diana
    I seem to be exceptionally good at spitting into the wind. Which one does that fit?
    If you mean that you do things whose consequences turn against you unexpectedly -- it's the in your super-id.

    Quote Originally Posted by Diana
    And why can't I make things happen that need to happen? Everything that I need to get done that depends on anyone other than myself is like pulling an elephant through tar or something.
    Because you expect other people to actually do something the moment you ask them to do it, in the sense of "this needs to be done right now"?

    In this case, the simple answer is that you are expecting other people to behave as ENTjs, as Aushra said:

    In contrast to the logical-sensory extrovert, in daily concrete matters the ENTj yields to the will of their partner. They can interrupt one thing and start another, if this is what the partner wants.
    , LIE, ENTj logical subtype, 8w9 sx/sp
    Quote Originally Posted by implied
    gah you're like the shittiest ENTj ever!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ms. Kensington
    Quote Originally Posted by MysticSonic
    When powerful, EII; when confused, LII; when concerned, ILE.

    I'm a very confused person, concerned with being powerful.
    LOL and such an obvious intj *smiles*

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