Hi welcome to this week's edition of PHQ

questions from the personality hacker community my name is Joe Mark Witt

and I'm Antonia Dodge and Addison let's get right to our question today

hi John Antonia I have a question about the N.I.

function and how its placement affects behavior or thought process.

I'm specifically referring to the types that use this either as a dominant or auxiliary function like I N.T.J. and I. F. J. J. or ENFJ and E.N.J.

Basically, can you compare a contrast N.T.J. types using N.I. as a standard and how it shows

up in the dominant flow position versus the supplementary auxiliary position.

Thanks, Rebecca Rebecca Personality Nerd.

Thanks, Rebecca Personality Nerd.

Yeah, thank you for the question.

I think in order to understand how any cognitive function works depending upon whether or not it's a

dominant or an auxiliary is to really understand our relationship with our

dominant process versusilary process. So the dominant process is what we like to call the flow state and and that is When we use the word flow we're using it in the way that Meihychsek set Mehi used it in his book called

Flow. There are activities that give you energy by using them, they're highly rewarding, you lose time in these activities, you know,

they're challenging but not too challenging.

And when we use an exercise or dominant process, we go into a flow state. It makes us feel really good, it

regenerates our batteries, we have a very strong relationship with our

dominant process, and in some ways it feels like a compulsion, because it feels like such a part of our identity.

So no matter what cognitive function is in our driver or a dominant process or dominant position,

we're going to feel compelled to use it and we're going to want to use it as much as humanly possible.

Anytime we pour time and effort into developing a skill, it means that we get higher and higher levels of proficiency in that.

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