How has learning Socionics helped you?

For me, it’s helped me tremendously in understanding the people in my life. I know all of my close friends type, my parents type, and my colleagues and boss’s type. From the theories, I can deduce their strengths and weaknesses, their levers and pain points, and what they like and dislike, even when they never reveal these things about themselves to me. This intuition gives me so much advantage in reading people and navigating relationships. 

As an EII, the theories also help me understand the personalities I can’t quite gauge, specifically Fe-Ti valuing types. No matter how much I try to engage with them, I can never truly put myself into their worldview and “get” them because my mindset is just wired to be the opposite of theirs. Socionics helped me come to accept them as who they are.

It’s also striking to witness these theories coming true when I see them speak or behave in real life. An SEE I know in real life behaves like 80% similar to what Gulenko writes; an LSE literally 100%. This LSE is in his 40s, running a small business, but with a somewhat honed 1D Fi, so he’s very balanced, mature, and healthy. The theories basically give me an answer to the nature vs nurture question.

So how has learning the theories helped you?