The document discusses the sensing (S) and intuition (N) preferences in personality. Sensing individuals prefer to gather information through their five senses and focus on reality, facts, and details. Intuitive individuals look beyond the real and objective, focusing on connections, relationships, meanings, possibilities, and imagination over reality. The document provides examples of how S and N types may describe an image and encourages the reader to try and guess other people's S or N preference during interactions. It concludes by providing a link to access more personality materials.
1. The Secrets of Personality
Why some achieve their goals
while others only daydream
You can access the rest of the materials here:
http://training.onlinepersonalitytests.org
created by Vaida Bogdan
2. Day 2: S / N
Today, during your interactions with other people, try to guess their
preference: S or N (sensing or intuition)
4. • prefer to gather information using their 5
senses: seeing, hearing, touching, smelling,
tasting
Sensing
• go beyond the real and the objective and focus on
connections, relationships and meanings
Intuition
People use both characteristics, but they have a preference,
they are more comfortable acting in a certain way.
5. • collect facts and details
• are pragmatic, rooted in reality
• start from the beginning and go one step at a
time
• are specific and exact
• they live in the present and focus on “now”
• they prefer reality over fantasy
S
• see models, possibilities, connections and meanings
• have a conceptual and abstract way of thinking
• begin from anywhere and skip over basic steps
• love metaphors
• live in the future
• prefer imagination and ingenuity over reality
N
6. Look at the next image for a
minute and write the first thing
that comes to mind when you see
the image. Continue writing.
8. • describe what they see (attributes): color,
shape, size
• try to be objective, to make sense of the image
• agree with interpretations
S
• notice new possibilities and meanings
• have a personalized description of the image
• often tell a story
• notice a meaning or a message
N