What Do You Mean You Don't WANT The Map?!
Do You Need To Build And Memorize The Whole Map To Feel Comfortable That You Know The Right Pathway Forward?
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This post was inspired by the meme above which
posted to Notes earlier today. Thank you, !I responded with the following:
Some people are inherently intuitive and decisive and are perfectly comfortable self-navigating in real time. The unknown doesn’t bother them or they just figure they have to suck it up and deal with it. They are not averse to using trial and error to discover answers in a hands on way. In this case, good enough is good enough, and done is better than perfect.
Other people feel uncomfortable thinking they truly know anything unless they have accessed and memorized the entire accepted map for whatever niche information they are attempting to interact with. Not having the whole map makes them feel like an underprepared idiot. Externalizing that makes them feel more comfortable. Spending way too much time and money on a one percent gain feels like a win to them.
And each gets annoyed with the other for not doing it their way.
I don’t think this is generational. I think it’s just more obvious and jarring when Zoomers who are built this way employ a billion apps and adopt a completely new vocabulary that sounds like Swahili to the rest of us in order to do it.
To see the whole conversation, go here.
This topic has been part of an ongoing conversation among the admins at The Starfire Codes lately regarding the way certain traits emerge when you look at them in terms of Myers Briggs typology.
To be honest, it’s become a bit of a shared obsession among some of us. We’ve gone over Myers Briggs quite a bit in the past, so I won’t get into the trenches on that, but if you want to read a quick backgrounder on what the MBTI is before we get into the rest of this, go here.
Specific to
’s meme, there are patterns that people employ when they accrue, process, and integrate information that seem to be tied to whether they test J or P on the Judging vs. Perceiving (or Prospecting) spectrum that end up profoundly impacting the way they feel comfortable engaging with and interpreting the world.If you're a P trying to understand something in great detail, you might tend toward building a mental map so that you know how to wrap your head around this new information to feel like you fully get it.
Ps can become extremely invested in this whole mental mapping thing. Most Ps feel like they function better as a whole once they know the entire map intimately, can recite the map blindfolded, and have seven dozen accredited expert certifications in This Map Right Here.
Ps need to understand everything about everything when they are working on a project. Any kind of information that they feel has been omitted eats away at them and they get a sense that the missing pieces might negatively affect the plan they are forming and subsequently derail their overall strategy.
Js tend not to do that. Js will scope out the available information, look ahead a bit, and then trust themselves to make a snap judgment call and pivot on the fly. This should not be confused with the P’s desire to forego planning and to be more spontaneous. This is more like a rapid fire creative problem solving infrastructure applied to situations that require a high level of critical thinking. The J wants to speed up the decision making process so that the resulting tasks required to complete the project can be handled as quickly as possible.
When the J doesn’t want a map or feels like a map would be tedious, redundant, or somehow unnecessary or irrelevant to the decision making process, if Ps are around and involved in this process, they may get puzzled by this inclination to dismiss the P’s desire for additional extraneous information. The P will tend not to engage on that in favor of shrugging this off and going back to their map making, which, depending upon level of detail obsession, could turn into dynamic world building.
If the J’s inclination toward maplessness is impacting the P’s feelings of comfort with the way the information is being processed or assimilated, the P’s annoyance and discomfort with this disparate approach will start to creep into the conversation, especially if the P and the J are expected to work together on something or come to some sort of consensus. Conversely, the J might start to get outwardly annoyed that this is starting to take too long and will wonder why something seemingly obvious to suss out hasn’t been done already and will come to a tipping point where they begin to openly, and perhaps loudly, express displeasure about it.
Js feel like the rapid ability to assimilate information, make quick decisions, and pivot on the fly so that everyone can get things done NOW is more efficient, and when the P’s analysis of their own data mining expedition tends to prove the J’s hunches, the J wonders why it was necessary to take the time to prove those hunches at all.
And that depends.
Sometimes we need to make a snap decision on the fly and sharp instincts are necessary so that we do not take too long and miss opportunities. But sometimes we should be doing ample due diligence to make sure that our instincts are on point and having a thorough analysis of the map might be helpful because, otherwise, we miss things.
Both are correct and inherently useful ways of looking at the world. They’re just different and each has its strengths and weaknesses.
When it comes to working together, we have to remember that our differences complement one another. It’s not something designed to deliberately irritate you when someone else doesn’t approach information assimilation and decision making in the same way that you feel compelled to do it.
Ideally, if we’re making sound, well-rounded decisions, we want to take all of these lenses into consideration. And in the same way we wouldn’t want a P pressed to be responsible for making split second decisions when they feel more comfortable in data acquisition, we wouldn’t want to force a J to show their work and feel the deep tedium of that thought paradigm when their strengths are better utilized working quickly and getting things done.
If you are someone who needs the map, just remember that some people feel more comfortable without it. Conversely, if you do not require or desire a map, try to remember that other people feel better when they have one.
Ideally, you should be looking to counterbalance each other by utilizing each other’s strengths for the benefit of the collaboration. Remembering that your differences are valid and helpful will make everyone involved in the project less irritated and more efficient.
If you are interested in finding out what your Myers Briggs type is, go here and take the test.
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INFP here.
Definitely relate to this. I need the map, and i retain the map. When J's feel like something is impossible or they don't know how to do something and I already have the map - they need me.
When I have not compiled the map yet, I appreciate patience to let me gather and compile it. I get frustrated when a J type wants to get something done fast, can't figure it out and expects me to already have the map available.
What a cool read, glad to have inspired you! I think I'm somewhere midway between J and P, with the two constantly battling each other for dominance of my psyche (some days the laundry is folded within minutes of exiting the dryer, other times it sits in the basket for over a day before I get to it...)