Introverted Intuition Function

What is N – Intuition

When using the intuition function, you first and foremost focus on the overall perspectives and the broad outlines of a task when you collect information about it.

The following, brief description does not distinguish between introverted and extraverted intuition; it is the common features of the two kinds of intuition that are highlighted.

In the MBTI classification system with the 16 type profiles, you get an “N” as the second letter in your type code if you have a preference for using the intuition function rather than the sensation function when you receive information. You can be called an “intuition type” when you use intuition as the dominant function.

The letter “N” represents “iNtuition” because “I” already

In your own efforts and in the interaction with your partners, you are, therefore, not particularly interested in the current state of affairs, but how to proceed with new and different solutions.

Others may get the impression that you are not really present in the current workflow because you constantly scan the situation for possibilities, backgrounds, and perspectives. It is probably the future prospects for the company, for the specific project, for yourself, or for your profession that are your primary concern.

You usually don’t concentrate on specific reports or balance sheets that go into all sorts of “boring” details. It will be the complexity of interrelated issues in the “big picture” that interests you––not the tangible facts in themselves.

This generalized impression of the intuition type has led to a misunderstanding that is often formulated in this way: “Intuition types are not aware of facts and details.” Such a claim can derail your self-understanding when assessing your type

You may even be irritated when you are pressed for a definite opinion about something factual.

The typical journalist-like question, “What exactly do you mean, when you say ...” may drive intuition types crazy. With a marked preference for intuition, you never mean anything exactly! The explanation is: The more you specify, the more you shut down possibilities. Thus, having to answer “yes” or “no” is absolutely terrible, because then there are definitely no alternatives.

The spontaneous whims that characterize your perception and way of expressing yourself are another distinctive feature of you as an intuition type. This is due to the fact that the intuition function perceives in unconscious ways. It is not by means of a targeted, intentionally controlled analysis that you figure out the state of affairs, but you get your insight via a whim; an insight bursts, so to speak, into your field of awareness.

Because of the seemingly sudden inspirations, others––and especially sensation types––may experience your effort in task performance as random, leaping, and incoherent, while the continuity and the big picture are completely obvious to