I've been questioning my type again (ENTP or ENFP), so I went digging for info on the functions once more, which brought me back to the Lenore Thomson wiki. I was reading through the section on Fi here, and I never really understood the spaghetti sauce example. Well, I was practice casting in my back yard earlier, and a new possibility of meaning for it struck me, when I was messing around and my Ne connected something I was doing to what it possibly could mean. Alright then, is the spaghetti sauce example saying, that when you're making the sauce, you're approaching it with an exact idea of what the sauce should taste like, and even if the sauce tastes good, you'll keep tinkering until you get that exact taste? Also, is it saying that you don't know how you know what it should taste like, but it's Fi that does indeed know what it should taste like? That would seem to match the next example of "just knowing" a good or bad outcome.
If I have this right, would these be examples of personal Fi usage?
Example one: I was testing my rod in the back yard to see if I could feel for when a fish bites, which means you step on the casting plug and make the line taught, and pluck it. If you have a good rod, you're supposed to feel it in the grip. Well, I did feel it, but it just wasn't what it was supposed to feel like, at least, not to me. I couldn't tell you how I know what it's supposed to feel like I just "do". I adjusted my rod, reel, line, grip, etc. until it matched that feeling in my head.
Example two: I was with a friend, and we were talking and listening to music. I popped on a song with NIN and Peter Murphy and made the comment that I loved Peter Murphy's voice, because he sounds like a vampire. My friend laughed at me, and said something like, "Oh, so you know what a vampire sounds like, huh?" I was shocked, because, yeah, I do, and he sounds like it. I'm not saying vampires are real, but if they were, they'd sound like Peter Murphy. I couldn't believe she would even question that.
Example three: When I'm watching a show, movie, whatever, I'll adjust the screen a lot. It's not that I can't see, it's just that the picture doesn't look the way I know it should. Again, I don't know how I know that, but I do, so I'll tinker around with the image, until it matches what it should look like, according to this mysterious ingrained knowledge in my head.
If I'm wrong, are those examples usage of any other particular function? I do things like that all the time. I match things to good or bad, right or wrong, and it's not according to common knowledge or from something you could get out of a book or something, it's just what I know.
If I have this right, would these be examples of personal Fi usage?
Example one: I was testing my rod in the back yard to see if I could feel for when a fish bites, which means you step on the casting plug and make the line taught, and pluck it. If you have a good rod, you're supposed to feel it in the grip. Well, I did feel it, but it just wasn't what it was supposed to feel like, at least, not to me. I couldn't tell you how I know what it's supposed to feel like I just "do". I adjusted my rod, reel, line, grip, etc. until it matched that feeling in my head.
Example two: I was with a friend, and we were talking and listening to music. I popped on a song with NIN and Peter Murphy and made the comment that I loved Peter Murphy's voice, because he sounds like a vampire. My friend laughed at me, and said something like, "Oh, so you know what a vampire sounds like, huh?" I was shocked, because, yeah, I do, and he sounds like it. I'm not saying vampires are real, but if they were, they'd sound like Peter Murphy. I couldn't believe she would even question that.
Example three: When I'm watching a show, movie, whatever, I'll adjust the screen a lot. It's not that I can't see, it's just that the picture doesn't look the way I know it should. Again, I don't know how I know that, but I do, so I'll tinker around with the image, until it matches what it should look like, according to this mysterious ingrained knowledge in my head.
If I'm wrong, are those examples usage of any other particular function? I do things like that all the time. I match things to good or bad, right or wrong, and it's not according to common knowledge or from something you could get out of a book or something, it's just what I know.