Ne - the main 'children's' function (analysis of Talanov's questionnaires statistics)

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Ne, like Ni, is a “childish” function - in the sense that it carries neotenic personality traits - and, above all, increased neuroplasticity, which gives the ability to learn. The difference between Ne and Ni from a biological point of view is that Ni is more useful to a young individual of any species forced to survive in an unfriendly environment full of predators and dangers, while strong Ne allows you to learn new things faster if the environment is relatively safe, and even more so to be ahead in development of peers who are more distrustful in their thinking or have more conservative, prohibiting parents (whose genes of weak Ne live in him).

Unlike most animals (by human standards - extreme sensorics), humans spend a very long period of life during childhood, and it most often passes under the protection of their family or community.

It is allows them to accumulate a significant amount of knowledge, learning from their elders, and go through an extensive ” social training”, during which strong Ne turns out to be useful. Once any individual reaches sexual maturity, its learning abilities are significantly reduced. However, this applies least to those with strong Ne. For the ability to learn and relearn, to discover new activities and areas of interest that is not lost even in adulthood, evolution takes a price, and here this is the inevitable coupling of all abilities granted by Ne with the general infantilization of behavior, weakening of self-control in all areas of activity (in controlling the body , thinking, ability to follow a plan, complete things, not be late, etc.) and relatively reduced sexual interest in all Ne types. We can say that the owner of a strong Ne is in some sense an “eternal child,” that is, literally, a person who, in adulthood, retains many of the characteristics and patterns of behavior typical of children. And above all, an orientation towards mutually educational play with other members of the group, and not towards a fight, not towards finding out who is more important and has the right to have everything.

Ne is also closely linked with the general weakening of the territorial instinct, hence the non-division of people into friends and foes, typical of those with a strong value Ne - which is the basis of any altruistic idea advocating the global brotherhood of man. Against an irrational-logical background, the weakening of territoriality also gives rise to a love of vagrancy, and more broadly, of searching for new, undiscovered lands (yes, the benefit of Ne for any population is also that it encourages it to settle). Finally, the combination of Ne with the valued Ti and Qi can be defined as a research instinct aimed at understanding the objective laws of the surrounding world - which has always led to the expansion of the ecological niche of the human society and its upward scientific progress.

Inaccurate perception of details, ability to create original things

  1. If I am asked to point to a pencil with a pen, I can easily confuse and point to the pen with a pencil. 0.95
  2. I generalize easily and willingly, I love all sorts of “global” ideas, but excessive specificity often bothers and tires me - I just don’t understand why it is needed, I quickly lose interest in it. 0.91
  3. I know how to find the special and unusual in the most, at first glance, ordinary things. 0.87
  4. Looking at some typical object that is outwardly similar to others (a pencil, a folder, an item of clothing), I can easily tell whether it is mine or whether it was confused with someone else’s, outwardly similar. -0.95
  5. I can well assess the quality of any food product, explaining in detail why it suits me or does not suit me. -0.92
  6. Compared to others, I am a more ordinary person in my manifestations than an original one. -0.91
  7. If there was a forced choice of who to study as, only between an artist and a sculptor, I would choose to study as a sculptor. -0.9

Untidiness in everyday life, handwriting and creative style

  1. The letters in my usual handwriting are “mismatched” and hard to read. 0.92
  2. When writing on a piece of paper, the order of letters in words is often confused or individual letters in syllables are missed. 0.87
  3. I don’t care about the strict and constant order of things in the house - the main thing is that every thing can be found. 0.86
  4. I like systems or objects with a seeming defect or other incomprehensibility in their structure and relationships. 0.79
  5. My imagination often creates things that are funny and caricatured. 0.76
  6. Every day I carefully clean my bed, even if it’s not necessary. -0.9

Interest in new things

  1. I quickly become a supporter of new theories that offer completely different structural descriptions of events. 0.91
  2. In production I would prefer to produce experimental rather than serial products. 0.88
  3. Yesterday’s enemy can easily become my friend and ally tomorrow. 0.85
  4. I am strongly attracted and excited by any mystery and novelty. 0.84
  5. I like to live surrounded by constant, unchanging things. -0.94
  6. I don’t like life’s surprises - they are usually harmful or useless. -0.93
  7. I would like to see the world more constant and less changeable. -0.91
  8. I know better than others how to firmly hold what I have received and achieved in my hands, but I cope much worse with the initial conquest of positions. -0.88

Faith in people, including strangers

there are no questions with “yes” answers, questions with “no” answers are below

  1. There are too many people on the planet. -0.96
  2. Strangers are unpleasant to me. -0.95
  3. I don’t believe in people’s altruism, every person is a complete egoist at heart. -0.91
  4. I will never do for strangers the useful things I do for my own. -0.89
  5. I make sure that people don’t come too close to me when talking. -0.87

Idealism

  1. In my work, interest is always more important to me than payment. 0.97
  2. In my thoughts and concerns about the fate of the world, humanity or the nation, I am more of a selfless idealist than a pragmatist. 0.92
  3. I often think in my dreams about how the world could be improved. 0.89
  4. The promised reward plays a decisive role in my interest in the work. -0.94
  5. If I’m delivering food to children who came to the holiday, I’ll try to give my child the best piece. -0.81
  6. My logic criticizes more often than it creates. -0.81

Unvindictiveness, against tougher penalties

  1. The Supreme One must be the servant of all others. 0.92
  2. I usually forgive people everything. 0.92
  3. Criminal laws should be softened, not toughened. 0.82
  4. I’m a vengeful person. -0.95
  5. I always and certainly take revenge for insults, but a long time later and without rage, with only calm pleasure. -0.9
  6. I am for the use of the death penalty. -0.8

Asceticism - no interest in wealth, appearance, bodily pleasures

  1. I often forget about my body, I forget its members, I forget pain and pleasure, and it’s as if I dissolve in the universe. 0.95
  2. Compared to others, I often neglect my appearance and my lunch. 0.89
  3. I pay attention to many household items only when they are rearranged somewhere. 0.89
  4. My main goals in life, besides family affairs, are material well-being and comfort. -0.95
  5. The inability to secure a decent position and standard of living is worse for me than the inability to realize my ideas. -0.95
  6. I’d rather leave my descendants a beautiful and comfortable house built than a bunch of smart books with discoveries and revelations. -0.94
  7. My main incentive is well-being, that is, the opportunity to live “no worse than others” and create a comfortable and convenient environment at home with the money I earn. -0.93
  8. Satisfying a real need is more important to me than satisfying curiosity. -0.9
  9. Sex, food, good resorts, fashionable clothes, a prestigious house, a healthy body - these are the core values of my life. -0.83
  10. I attach great importance to the beautiful appearance of people and objects, and the cleanliness of the environment. -0.82

Motor clumsiness, lack of body control

  1. I am often awkward when it comes to movement. 0.98
  2. My balance is poor - sometimes when walking I am slightly “swept” to the sides, and even when given the command “at attention” it is difficult to remain still. 0.98
  3. Sometimes I lose control over the coordination and sequence of my movements. 0.97
  4. My gait is somewhat loose and awkward. 0.97
  5. I am awkward when dressing - I often get confused in the top and bottom, in the sleeves and legs, when putting on a shirt or trousers. 0.95
  6. Sometimes I can raise or put my hand down and seem to “forget” about it: then I turn around and look - wow, my posture is so strange!. 0.95
  7. Sometimes I seriously think that the whole world around me and other people may well turn out to be just a figment of my imagination. 0.95
  8. I’m awkward when tying my shoelaces. 0.94

Doesn’t know how to concentrate on one task, gaper type

  1. I often occupy myself with some nonsense, even if it has no practical significance, but it’s funny. 0.97
  2. It’s difficult for me to consciously concentrate attention on any task - no matter how hard I try, I still involuntarily get distracted by all sorts of interfering external stimuli. 0.97
  3. my attention constantly “floats”, never staying long on one thing - therefore, someone’s untimely attempts to focus my attention on some information that requires a lot of attention usually irritate me. 0.95
  4. I often get distracted by things that have nothing to do with today’s real needs. 0.92
  5. I’m often late for some event, or I’m in a hurry all the way to make it in time at the last minute. 0.87
  6. I often find it difficult to mobilize myself and concentrate on completing some task that is important to me. 0.86
  7. Sometimes by the end of a long phrase I forget its beginning, I don’t even remember the meaning of what it was about. 0.77
  8. I rarely make mistakes at work. -0.93
  9. I try to live in such a way that nothing escapes from my personal control. -0.92
  10. The job of a commercial director would suit me better than the job of a freelance artist. -0.91

Developed abstract thinking, research instinct

  1. Sometimes at night I would jump up to write down some thought that came into my head. 0.95
  2. More than the meaning of my own life, I am interested in the meaning of the life of all humanity, the meaning of the emergence of life as such. To understand my own meaning, I must first understand all of this. 0.93
  3. Every day I have some thoughts of a planetary scale. 0.93
  4. I think that my calling is discoveries and inventions that overturn established ideas. 0.93
  5. More than others, I am interested in the questions of the origin of the universe and life, evolution, historical development, and future prospects for civilization. 0.91
  6. Sometimes I think about something so much that I end up in the wrong place. 0.9
  7. I often think about abstract philosophical topics. 0.89
  8. When walking I “bounce”, rolling from heel to toe. 0.86
  9. I have a very strong research instinct. 0.82

Lack of planning, does not like control, does only what is interesting

  1. The daily routine and I are incompatible things. 0.98
  2. Sometimes I take up a new activity without finishing the previous one - because the previous one is already tired and boring. 0.97
  3. I don’t like to force myself, to put myself within the framework of some plans or schedules. 0.96
  4. I usually prepared for exams only in the last day or two the day before. 0.96
  5. I am not very organized and do not tolerate any control. 0.95
  6. The saying “don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow” is more familiar to me than the saying “don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today.”. 0.92
  7. I start to bother myself mainly when it gets too hot or when I’m forced to. 0.91
  8. I leave many things unfinished, because I want to know and comprehend the main thing, and all sorts of fine-tuning “to perfection” are of little interest to me. 0.9
  9. It’s difficult for me to do something for a long time if it doesn’t work out and doesn’t provide positive reinforcement - in this case, I quickly switch to developing a new topic or idea until I get bored again and again feel drawn to the old thing. 0.89
  10. I must admit that I have a habit of being late. 0.86
  11. Frankly, I treat my own and other people’s time very freely. 0.86
  12. It often happens that it is very difficult for me to tear myself away from the game I have started, although more important things await me. 0.81
  13. I plan my time as a linear sequence of necessary actions - and scrupulously adhere to it. -0.96
  14. I always bring everything to the end, even if there is almost no interest left in the matter. -0.96
  15. In the morning I always have clear thoughts about what I will do this evening. -0.95
  16. I usually scrupulously adhere to the planned sequence of necessary actions. -0.94
  17. It is very difficult and always painful for me to give up what I planned. -0.88
  18. I can’t stand jokes about rules and order, I just want to punch them in the face. -0.88
  19. I am offended by other people’s optionality (apparently more than many of my other acquaintances). -0.83

Weak control over thoughts

  1. Sometimes there are such funny “gaps” in consciousness that sometimes I can’t even immediately figure out where I am. 0.95
  2. Sometimes I am haunted by some visual mental image that cannot be driven away by an effort of will. 0.93
  3. It happens that before leaving the house I become immersed in some thoughts, dreams or fantasies and because of this I am late. 0.93
  4. I have the effects of a kind of “insight”, a sudden understanding of the “essence of things”, which for some time seem very important and significant to me - but an hour or two passes, and I remember these “insights” as frankly banal and false, I myself am surprised at what could seem significant there. 0.93
  5. Sometimes it’s difficult for me to control my thoughts - it’s as if they begin to live their own life, beyond my control. 0.92
  6. Sometimes I respond to requests only the second time. 0.91
  7. I often forget what I put where in my house. 0.91
  8. Sometimes I forget the names of some objects - it takes effort to remember. 0.86
  9. I often can’t get rid of some thought that sounds annoyingly and loudly in my head. 0.83
  10. It happens that for a few seconds I completely forget the names of some objects. 0.82

Does not want to hold anyone back, is able to let go

  1. I love films and books about distant travels. 0.86
  2. I always subtly and imperceptibly control the actions of my loved ones. -0.94
  3. For me there are always people I care about, and there are unpleasant and unwanted strangers. -0.91

Fast pace of thoughts and speech

  1. It happens that I speak so quickly that it can be difficult to understand me. 0.97
  2. I usually have a “running” gaze that does not linger for long at one point. 0.92
  3. My speech is smooth, even and smooth. -0.9

Tendency to get carried away beyond measure

  1. Often, in the heat of enthusiasm and energy, I take on too much. 0.96
  2. I often get carried away by something beyond measure, unable to “slow down”. 0.91
  3. It’s typical for me that I always prefer my old circle of tried and trusted people to new acquaintances. -0.94

Craving for vagrancy

  1. The life of a nomadic herder would be closer to me in spirit than the life of a settled farmer. 0.97
  2. I strive to go where no man has gone before. 0.95
  3. Deep down I have a passion for wandering and vagrancy. 0.93

Positive attitude, euphoricity

  1. I often use the word NO) bad YES) good. 0.94
  2. I often have a strong feeling of uplifting, approaching happiness. 0.89
  3. They say that I have a poor sense of danger and often underestimate them. 0.89
  4. In my usual mood there is usually a lot of unpreoccupied and “airy” euphoria. 0.8
  5. I often use the words “no”, “never”, “no way”, “in no case”, “under any circumstances” in my speech. -0.9

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