Posted by Hal on June 24, 1998 at 11:21:12:
In Reply to: Re: Telling 3 from 7 - continued posted by Andy on June 24, 1998 at 10:25:24:
: :
: : Is this "hunger for new experiences" equivalent to "boredom with existing
: : reality"? I have often been accused of losing interest in things. Would daydreaming
: : about a better place to live, a better job, better friends be a Sevenish trait?
: Absolutly a 7 trait and when you say you loose intrest in old things I guess
: it's because you move over to new more exiting things to to !
: That way it's a hunger for new experiences.
I don't mean to take this too far off the subject, but I'm not convinced
that daydreaming and changing interests is necessarily a 7 trait. I'm a
4w5 and am constantly daydreaming. I don't lose interest in things as quickly
as a 7 would, but I find that over time, my interest tends to shift from
one of my hobbies to the next, as one becomes much more important to me and
the others become less so. And there are times that none of my old interests
seem all that important to me as something new takes the primary focus and
seems to be much more important to spend time on.
I think this changing of interests (and daydreaming definitely fits into this)
is not so much an inability to concentrate, or follow-through, or remain
focused on a task when it becomes boring (as a 7 would typically do), but
more a realization (possibly an unconscious one) that the thing you were
interested in will not ultimately satisfy you--it is not "the answer." In a
way, this could be seen as a typical 4 trait, of always worrying that we're
missing out on something better, and always searching within for the thing
that will finally bring some peace and satisfaction. It seems to me that
daydreaming is no different than switching interests--it's just an internal,
imaginary interest instead of an external, real one.
Any thoughts on this, from 7's, 4's, or anyone else?