Developing the Weaker Parts

[gregarian]

Hello,

How do I learn to strengthen my extraverted sensation function?

I love theory. I love dreaming. I love skating along at the speed of light and synthesizing everything I see. But my job requires meticulous. attention. to. detail., the kind of detail that make my eyes bleed, that stops me in my tracks and requires focused attention on chewed wedges of dry steak; requires me to ignore my beautiful internal world where the implications and foundations of these drab concrete facts are played out in music, dance and film, and to take for granted a world--its history, development, language, communication and thought. How do I do this? To see "what is" merely as "what it is said to be" in this cruel, cold world driven by impulse, expediency, and worst of all--most insidious of all--assumption and preconception.

Forgive my indulgence.

Thanks

 

[Adamastor]

I have been changing lately and I am not sure if this will help you or not...

Anyway, what happened to me was that I got interested in people (I had no interest in them before).

This might look a simple thing to do, but it is not this is happening slowly, really slowly, because even though it is easy to think "people are interesting", to act is something completely different.

Although the struggle to "act" is slow and gradual, there were some effects in myself such as: a strong empathy with people, a better development of feeling, things that are helping me to adapt socially really well; changes like these also changed my way of seeing things, which is what you are looking for, right?

Believe me or not, I thought before trying something really similar to what you described:

I lived in my dream land, my land, my own land, built by me with things I saw in the other world. Even though it is obvious this (seeing/gathering material)process is selective, it took longer one would expect for me to realise that. It the beginning there were no two worlds, there my world only and just that.

Needless to say, living like this had some serious negative impact in the development of certain functions, thus I decided to (try to) change my ways and how I did (am doing) this I already described earlier in this post.