Extraverted Thinking* - (Te)
Contingency planning, scheduling, and quantifying utilize the process of extraverted Thinking.
Extraverted Thinking helps us organize our environment and ideas through charts, tables, graphs, flow charts, outlines, and so on.
At its most sophisticated, this process is about organizing and monitoring people and things to work efficiently and productively.
Empirical thinking is at the core of extraverted Thinking when we challenge someone's ideas based on the logic of the facts in front of us or lay out reasonable explanations for decisions or conclusions made, often trying to establish order in someone else's thought process.
In written or verbal communication, extraverted Thinking helps us easily follow someone else's logic, sequence, or organization.
It also helps us notice when something is missing, like when someone says he or she is going to talk about four topics and talks about only three.
In general, it allows us to compartmentalize many aspects of our lives so we can do what is necessary to accomplish our objectives.
*Adapted from Linda
V. Berens and Dario Nardi, Understanding Yourself and Others:
An Introduction to the Personality Type Code (Used with permission)
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