Prejudices Function Block of EP Types (Si-Ni)

These types tend to have strong biases against:

• Imagination, long-term future-building, and fantasizing, including deeply introspective people.
• Planning and people who are late.
• Paying attention to their own bodily sensations.
• How one should properly maintain cleanliness and health.
• How to cook food or what should be considered tasty.
• Knowing when to say they are tired.
• Managing their time—what activities to dedicate time to, and how much.

These mindsets are often based not on practical knowledge, but on abstract ideas. Whether this mindset is positive or negative is influenced by the individual's life experiences and personal content.

Because irrational extraverts are inclined to constantly broaden and refresh their interests, often trusting their own judgment more than instructions, their creative outputs are frequently limited to sketches and broad concepts.

Examples:

• They may believe that to reach a certain state of mind, one must first experience it through a physical sensation.
• They may only attend to cleanliness and health because they were raised to do so.
• They may tend to cook for others rather than for themselves, often thinking: "Why make it complicated? I'll manage just fine."

These prejudices can prevent them from perceiving situations adequately and objectively. Individuals with this disposition may exhibit superficial attention, failing to properly acknowledge details and critical aspects.

In situations where a careful assessment is essential, this bias can lead to dangerous consequences—a person might conclude that "everything is fine" without a thorough evaluation.

Example:

I’ll give a real example that was shared with me by an SEE. He went to a workout even though he wasn’t feeling well. A headache, some kind of numbness in his legs, slight dizziness. Basically, nonsense, he thought—nothing worth paying attention to.

During the workout, while warming up and running around the gym, the ceiling suddenly started to spin, and he collapsed onto the floor. It was a stroke.

Another example, involving the same SEE and me (IEE). We were vacationing in Goa. We were riding scooters from one club to another. At some point, on a slippery road, I lost control, hit the brakes, and flipped over the bike. I’m lying there. My leg is bleeding, my arm is bleeding.

He stops and calmly asks, “Are the bones intact?” I nod. He goes, “So why are you lying there? Get up, let’s go!”

So I get up. My first thought is whether the bike is okay and how much money I’m about to spend on repairs.

Other guys pull up (we were vacationing as a big group) and immediately start treating my wounds. They suggest going straight to the hospital to get an X-ray—like, I’m in shock and not thinking clearly. But I wave it off, like, no panic, the session isn’t canceled!

Sources: S. Ionkin, E. Shepetko