🛣What should you strive for if you are (ir)rational? In socionics and MBTI, it has traditionally been believed that rationals (Judgers) are more systematic, while irrationals (Perceivers) tend to be chaotic. 10-15 years ago, I also thought so when I was teaching old socionics.

However, the problem with that socionics is that its early authors tried to rigidly attribute any household habits and individual character traits to the type, whereas the type describes more global layers of the psyche. ⚙️

📚After typing thousands of people of different types, it became clear that the attraction to order and rules is not a sign of any specific type, because it can have many reasons: for example, anxiety or increased rational functions in the human psyche.

⏱For example, our countryman Immanuel Kant lived his whole life according to a strict schedule, while he had an irrational socionic type (ILI). And we have found hundreds of such examples when we have a person of rational type with irrational behavior traits and vice versa. This discovery has significantly changed our understanding of types.

❓Is it necessary to strive for order if you are rational? According to modern socionics, every person has rational (logic, ethics) and irrational (sensory, intuition) functions. Rational functions strive for consistency and predictability, irrational functions tend to spontaneity and some chaos. Each person has their own balance of these functions, and this is a fairly stable mechanism (for this we define an individual subtype). Therefore, in this matter, we always recommend adapting work and lifestyle to your natural rhythms, rather than going against the nature of the psyche.

❗️So if, for example, you are prone to chaos, try to find a lifestyle that does not strongly contradict your personality. In some professions, flexibility and stress tolerance can be a real advantage. And more systematic and consistent people will always find a use for themselves, since this is considered as social norm.