would my classmates being Sensors have made it easier for them to become doctors?
I don't know about learning styles, but I think ability and desire would make it easier for someone to become a doctor.
Would my extreme iNtuitiveness be an actual hindrance?
Well, I'm no extreme intuitive (not even an intuitive for that matter), but my struggle with academic science parallels yours. This includes the inattentiveness, the minute detail, and inability to be that cautious. I hated science. I couldn't do surgery, because my hands are easily shaky.
So, in conclusion, I am a 9w1 isfj just your uncle but unlike your uncle, I cannot handle the hard sciences. So that's proof that functions may not have that big of a role in hindering one's ability to become a doctor. If there is a strong correlation between doctors and those with a sensing preference, then it may have to do with the fact that there are a lot more sensors than there are intuitives in general. Doctors are probably more numerous than say a professor or librarian.
FYI: Those scores don’t reflect you, they reflect your confidence of whether that letter fits you. It isn't possible to measure "strength" of a cognitive process. It would be like measuring the "strength" of having hair or toes.
But yes, having a preference for Sensing could support becoming a doctor -- although it's not a rule. Dr. David Bresler, who was director of the UCLA pain control unit and served on a White House committee for alternative medicine has ENTJ preferences.
(I daresay his "intuition" showed up in his championing guided imagery and acupuncture as medical alternatives long before they became popular.)
May I invite you to move away from the four-function model of type and introduce you to the 8-function model? It's much more useful, and will provide you with better information.
Type is not about who you "are"; it is about what you do naturally. Check out my website(s) and www.cognitiveprocesses.com
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I don't know about learning styles, but I think ability and desire would make it easier for someone to become a doctor.
Would my extreme iNtuitiveness be an actual hindrance?
Well, I'm no extreme intuitive (not even an intuitive for that matter), but my struggle with academic science parallels yours. This includes the inattentiveness, the minute detail, and inability to be that cautious. I hated science. I couldn't do surgery, because my hands are easily shaky.
So, in conclusion, I am a 9w1 isfj just your uncle but unlike your uncle, I cannot handle the hard sciences. So that's proof that functions may not have that big of a role in hindering one's ability to become a doctor. If there is a strong correlation between doctors and those with a sensing preference, then it may have to do with the fact that there are a lot more sensors than there are intuitives in general. Doctors are probably more numerous than say a professor or librarian.
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But yes, having a preference for Sensing could support becoming a doctor -- although it's not a rule. Dr. David Bresler, who was director of the UCLA pain control unit and served on a White House committee for alternative medicine has ENTJ preferences.
(I daresay his "intuition" showed up in his championing guided imagery and acupuncture as medical alternatives long before they became popular.)
May I invite you to move away from the four-function model of type and introduce you to the 8-function model? It's much more useful, and will provide you with better information.
Type is not about who you "are"; it is about what you do naturally.
Check out my website(s) and www.cognitiveprocesses.com
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