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  In socionics, Thinking isn’t about being logical in the everyday sense — it’s about how a person organizes and evaluates information through structure, consistency, and cause‑and‑effect reasoning. It’s one of the eight information elements that describe how we process reality, and it operates differently depending on whether it’s introverted (Ti) or extraverted (Te) . ⚙️ Thinking as an Information Process Thinking is the function that asks: “Does this make sense? Is it coherent? Does it work?” It’s the part of the psyche that seeks order, clarity, and efficiency. Where Feeling evaluates relationships and values, Thinking evaluates systems and logic . It’s not cold — it’s structural. It builds frameworks that help us understand how things fit together. 🔹 Introverted Thinking (Ti) Ti focuses on internal consistency — the architecture of ideas. It values precision, definitions, and conceptual harmony. It asks why something works and how principles connect. It’s the mind of the ...

  excerpt from  Learning to Feel  (Kris Girrell) --  1 I Think I Feel “I still don’t think you’ve done the deep work on yourself,” Sarah told me. “What do you mean? I have gone to therapy and done tons of work to discover the source of it,” I defended. “But you haven’t uncovered the real issue, in my opinion,” she replied. “What were you feeling that caused you to do that?” Sarah has been my marriage partner and partner in life over the last thirty plus years and,  at the same time, the thorn in my side who won’t permit me to ignore or step over issues.  We were talking about a time in our marriage quite some time ago when I allowed myself  to fall into a sexually flirtatious email exchange with an old flame. It was a painful time  that was almost the undoing of our marriage. While I have journaled on it and gone to  therapy on it, all in the effort to discover what in me would allow or cause such an action,  her claim that there is stil...

  Arthur Yavelberg, author of  A Theology for the Rest of Us , was recently interviewed by Sloan Fremon on the topic, of " Using Independent Thinking Without Surrendering Your Sense of Reason – Sloane Freemont ." You can listen to the interview HERE . For more posts about Arthur and his book, click  HERE .                                    Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter                           Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .