Time Strategy
The four distinct small groups within a category and their psychological implications for personality typing.
Small Group Analysis
Small groups represent the intersection of four personality types that share common characteristics. Each group reveals fundamental patterns in how types process information, make decisions, and interact with the world.
Category's Small Groups
Disciplined
Group Description
Everyday life, objects, human-made products. Through purposeful processing and cultivation of the environment, the material world here gains greater diversity.
They prefer stability and regularity. Lack the ability to assess opportunities and prospects.
Feature
Weak inert Intuition
Life Strategy
Careful completion of what started
Alternative name
Stability
Hedonistic
Group Description
Flesh, material bodies of living nature, sex and food, food chains.
They realize opportunities to achieve consumer prosperity here and now.
Feature
Strong inert Sensory
Life Strategy
Realization of goals
Alternative name
Present
Group of Integrated Sensing
Ascetic
Group Description
Spirit, symbols, ideas. Imagination's products, initially disordered and multifaceted, are simplified by creative intuition to meet the demands of the leading rational function, making them comprehensible and accessible to social counterparts.
They selflessly build or preserve the future, disregarding the inconveniences of the present moment.
Feature
Weak inert Sensory
Life Strategy
The pursuit of the ideal
Alternative name
Future
Chaotic
Group Description
Fantasy, images of wild, unbounded imagination. In the case of Ne, imagination is static - a collection of unrelated fragments representing idea jumps, with the external world perceived as safe and encouraging exploratory activity (Peripheral). In the case of Ni, there are frozen metamorphoses, often with a threatening undertone (Central).
They are spontaneous and dislike regular work, don't appreciate what they already have, seek inspiration in novelty.
Feature
Strong inert Intuition
Life Strategy
Flexible adjustment to the world
Alternative name
Novelty
Group of Integrated Intuition