Introverted Sensing

GIFTS – Effective use:

• Recalling the past in vibrant detail
• Memorizing in sequential order
• Learning from past mistakes and building on past successes
• Comparing the current situation with previous situations
• Determining the extent of change
• Having an internal drive for accuracy and precision
• Providing historical context
• Retracing steps
• Letting experience be the guide
• Triggering memory by familiar smells, sights and sounds
• Using vivid metaphors

BLIND SPOTS – Ineffective use:

• Holding too fast to the tried and tested
• Avoiding new experiences
• Being unable to repeat something that has previously failed
• Mistrusting those who say they don’t remember
• Over-estimating the value of experience
• Rejecting new evidence if it may cause major change of direction
• Being oblivious to others’ lack of interest when recounting detailed information
• Becoming highly defensive when personal recollection of the facts is questioned

CONTRIBUTION

Here’s what we already know about… [the situation, the people, the issues, the history, the opportunities, the problems…..]

BECOMING RIGID

The careful storing of accurate realistic information can become a dogmatic insistence on one’s own experience as the only source of facts worth knowing.

COMMUNICATION CLUES

What’s familiar, compare now to precedents and known data, how to stabilize a situation.

LEARNING NEEDS

Sure guidance from mentors who will shepherd and promote you into roles and responsibilities that best suit you.

Introverted  Sensing is about guidance from the past and gathering data about the moment from reviewing personal experience