Welcome back to my 4 part series on Cognitive function attitudes. This is part 3 and is a continuation of part 1 and two about Perceiving preferences. In these last two episodes I move on to talking about Judging Preference and how our cognitive functions show up differently for each of the 16 personality types based on their attitudes.

As you should already know from previous episodes, the cognitive functions we use take on different attitudes or styles depending on whether they are Introverted or Extraverted.

Just as all the extraverted personality types have certain traits in common, so too with the extraverted functions. Their first and most obvious commonality is their outward direction. They are also characteristically broad in their scope compared to the introverted functions (just as extraverts are more outgoing and expansive in their dealings than introverts).The introverted functions, by contrast, are narrower in scope (just as introverts are apt to have narrower or more focused interests or activities than extraverts). Whatever the introverted functions may lack in extensiveness, however, they make up for in depth.

Extraverted Functions

Directed outwardly (observable by others)Broad in scope; extensive

Introverted Functions

Directed inwardly (concealed from others)Narrow in scope; deep and intensive

So through discovering your personality type, we can determine which of your top 4 functions are directed inwardly (Introverted) and which are outwardly focused (Extraverted) within what we call your cognitive function stack.

This difference in attitude preference has quite a large impact on the ways that the types perceive or learn new information (Perceiving Preferences) as well as on how we judge or make decisions (Judging Preferences)

According to Jung, Sensing, Intuition, Thinking, and Feeling can be directed inwardly (i.e., “introverted”) or outwardly (i.e., “extraverted”). This is why we have 8 cognitive functions in total, and each type will use 4 of them consciously and therefore make up their ego, whilst the other 4 functions get assigned to what is referred to as our shadow and consists of all the traits we don't recognize within ourselves and tend to disregard as we consider these traits as unacceptable or wrong in some way.

Seeing as I already discussed the Perceiving Styles of Sensing and Intuition in the 2 previous episodes titled Perceiving Preferences Part 1 and Part 2 of this series on cognitive function attitudes.

I did my best to discuss the differences in how perceiving functions manifest within a type based on their attitude preference of Introversion or Extraversion.

This is a continuation of that 4 part series where I will do my best to cover the Judging Preferences of either Thinking or Feeling and in or help you better understand how you prefer to make decisions. Like all the functions, there will be differences in the ways we judge based on your type's preferred attitude/direction of either Introversion or Extraversion.

In this episode we are going to discuss Thinking as a judging preference. This is part 3 and the first episode on Judging Preferences. Here I will be contrasting the two styles of Thinking which would be Introverted Thinking or Extraverted Thinking. Finally In the next and last episode I will cover Feeling as a judging preference by contrasting Extraverted Feeling and Introverted Feeling and how these attitudes affect the ways in which we make decisions using Feeling.

According to Myers-Briggs personality theory, there are two different types of thinking: introverted and extroverted thinking. Here's a quick summary of their differences:

Introverted thinking is more internally focused, while extroverted thinking is more externally focused.Introverted thinkers seek consistency and logic in their internal framework to assist with solving problems, while extroverted thinkers seek logic and consistency in outside rules to help them solve problems.