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That single incident convinced me like nothing else, of the wisdom of learning basic competence in "foreign" functions.

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It was a clear message to me that I needed grounding. Groundedness is often an acquired capability for a lot of abstract types because we spend a lot of time in our imaginations and thoughts. But we become much more effective at sharing our gifts with the rest of the world once we anchor ourselves

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The "odd type out" feeling is what a friend of mine calls the "NF confusion." Like the ugly duckling. NF's are very undervalued and underpaid in society. The first thing I usually hear from a confused NF is "I'm such a strange person" or some variant -- "I feel like such a geek." NF's are abstract but very social. This is torture. Usually NT's can bury themselves in technology and structural thinking like design, architecture, engineering and so on. But an NF needs to work socially but often feels cursed with knowing and seeing too much. A book could be written on it. Many dysfunctions could be eliminated if NF's were given the proper understanding of themselves at an early age before they formed opinions about themselves as odd and inefficacious.

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