マイヤーズが書いたNe(外向直観)

ANYONE PREFERRING SENSING to intuition is interested primarily in actualities; anyone preferring intuition to sensing is mainly interested in possibilities. This preference is entirely independent of the EI preference. Intuitives do not have to be introverts. Their possibilities can be external possibilities, pursued in the outer world of people and things.

The possibility has an irresistible pull, an undeniable claim upon them.〔中略〕However, once they get the genie out or even reach the point where everyone recognizes that it can be got out, it does not interest them anymore. The genie is no longer a possibility; it is a mere fact. Somebody else can take over from there.

In later life, that uncanny faculty of appraisal produces the teachers who can divine the unguessed potentials of a student, the psychologists who can accurately estimate an IQ on the basis of a brief interview, and the executives whose genius lies in their selection and use of subordinates.

Intuition brings a deeper〔中略〕insight than is granted to thinking alone. It gives its possessors intellectual curiosity, quickness of understanding, ingenuity and fertility of ideas in dealing with problems, and an extra glimpse of possibilities that logic has not yet had time to reach.

INFPs excel in fields that deal with possibilities for people, such as counseling, teaching, literature, art, science, research, and psychology.

There are, however, two internal dangers that are more serious. First, intuitives must not squander their energies. In a world full of possible projects, they must pick those that have potential value, either intrinsically or for the intuitives’ own development. Then, having started, they must not quit.〔中略〕On both these counts, the choosing and the perseverance, intuitives need the stabilizing influence of well-developed thinking or feeling.