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Input Functions
Sensing is the function that brings awareness of our senses. We are aware of what we are seeing, smelling, hearing, touching, and tasting, or at least can be at
any given time.
People who are focused on their senses a good part of the time are in touch with and believe in verifiable facts. They are generally good at details because that requires an awareness of senses.
Considering a glass of water, for example: the
sensing person could describe the glass in great detail, including its size, clarity, weight, etc.
The opposite of sensing, intuition is the function that brings awareness to an input that does not come from our senses — a random hunch at one end of the spectrum and psychic input with great detail on the other.
The intuitively driven person sees the potential of the glass, where it came from, where it might go, and perceive the possibilities apparent in the glass.
The Meyers Briggs personality typing system, (MBTI), generally casts people as having a combination of two primary views of the world: introvert and extrovert.
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