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[MBTI] Why does the unnaturalness that comes out of trying to overcome inferior functions occur?

Differentiation of personality types begins in childhood. For example, the two attitudes 'extroverted' and 'introverted' are actually found in children. Unlike the dominant function, the inferior function is relegated to the unconscious and is not used as frequently, so the response is inevitably slower than the dominant function.

2024.06.07 2026.04.17

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[Scrap and Build] Keisuke Haneda: What is the excessive addition of care that turns three in need of care into five?

Describes his thoughts on the novel Scrap and Build by Keisuke Haneda, winner of the 153rd Akutagawa Prize. For his grandfather, who is physically disabled and daily expresses his desire to die with dignity, saying he wants to die early, his grandson Kento takes an active role in 'excessive additions to care'.

2024.04.30 2026.04.16

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[MBTI] Should inferior functions be overcome? Can they be overcome?

Attempting to overcome an inferior function is an attempt to pull up an inferior function belonging to the unconscious into consciousness and place it under control. If one tries to forcibly pull up an inferior function, the whole of the primary to tertiary functions belonging to the conscious mind collapses, and the more one tries to pull up the inferior function, the more it descends from the conscious mind.

2024.06.08 2026.04.15

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[EQ] Habits that increase the intelligence quotient of the mind. From the manager onward, title and EQ are inversely proportional!

EQ is the ability to take optimal action by controlling one's emotions while understanding oneself and others; when EQ was compared with job title, EQ was highest in the manager class and then tended to decrease as one's title increased.

2024.05.28 2026.04.13

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[MBTI] An Introduction to Typology and Misconceptions about Extroversion (E) and Introversion (I)

It is commonly recognised that extroversion (E) is 'diplomatic and active behaviour' and introversion (I) is 'shy and withdrawn behaviour', but this is quite different from the original meaning proposed by Jung. Essentially, it is about the directionality of the mind's energy, with extroversion being "going outside of oneself to seek and gather energy". Inward is "seeking and going to gather energy within oneself."

2023.11.11 2026.04.13

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[Career] Why do low performers increase after middle age?

Middle performers have no problems and therefore are left alone for better or worse by the company until their mid-30s to mid-40s, when they are in the prime of their working lives, and when they finally reach their mid-40s, they are treated as low performers and subject to release, which I felt was a terrible thing, but on the contrary, if they knew such a future was waiting for them in ten years' time, However, if they knew that such a future would be waiting for them in ten years' time, they would have a sense of crisis and could take measures to prepare for it from their early 30s.

2024.07.02 2026.04.12

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[Circuit Switcher] by Takahiro Yasuno. The Merits and Demerits of a Fully Automated Future.

A science fiction novel written by Takahiro Yasuno, who is running for Governor of Tokyo on 7 July, and which won the Excellence Award in the 9th Hayakawa Science Fiction Contest. The work is full of vividness and charm, with a realistic, automated future, thrilling technological theatre-style crimes, and the pitfalls of the current system.

2024.06.23 2026.04.12

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I read a whole series of novels related to middle school entrance examinations.

Parents tend to get stuck in the junior high school entrance examination swamp trap: 1) they have not studied hard themselves, so they try to make up for it by taking their children's examinations; 2) they are more concerned than necessary about the class of cram school and the deviation score they have; 3) they think of junior high school entrance examinations in terms of cosmetics and typa

2024.04.29 2026.04.12

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[Developmental Biology] Why didn’t the gene relay alone specify the spatial arrangement?

Although cells have the same blueprint (i.e. genome sequence), the actual human body that is created is not the same. Current life forms are thought to combine three different mechanisms - protein concentration gradients, gene relays and morphogenetic movements - to effectively form complex body structures and functions.

2024.05.27 2026.04.11

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