Reliability:
Si types are dependable, reliable and trustworthy. They like to
belong to solid organizations that have reasonable in their ambitions
and loyal to their employees. They are thorough and conscientious in
fulfilling their responsibilities.
Practicality:
Once an Si type accepts a project, they will see it to the end. They
manage their time well and are realistic about how much time and
resources will be needed. They derive great pleasure from perfecting
existing techniques with the goal of maximizing efficiency and
cost-effectiveness.
Memory:
Si is reviewing past experiences and recalling stored impressions. Si
often involves storing data and information, then comparing and
contrasting the current situation with similar ones. The immediate
experience or words are instantly linked with the prior experiences, and
we register a similarity or a difference. Si is operating when we see
someone who reminds of someone else. Sometimes the feeling associated
with the recalled image comes into our awareness along with the
information itself. The process involves reviewing the past to draw on
the lessons of history, hindsight, and experience. Si types tend to have
a good memory for specific facts that are necessary in their
day-to-day life at work and at home. When one uses Si, we don’t adjust
to our surface impressions; we package them and take them with us—in
the form of facts, numbers, signs and memories. We don’t remember, or
even notice, everything that we see, hear, taste, touch and smell
during the course of our lives. Only some things strike us as
important, useful, familiar, or exciting enough to convert into mental
content—that is, into facts that we retain over time. Si guides in this
selection, and it prompts us to reconcile our new impressions with the
ones we’ve already stored.
Attention to Detail:
Si types are careful and orderly in their attention to facts and
details, Si is accumulating data and seeking details information and
links to what is known. With Si, there is often a great attention to
detail and getting a clear picture of goals and objectives and what is
to happen. Si is recognizing the way things have always been.
Stability:
With Si there can be a oneness with ageless customs that help sustain
civilization and culture, and protect what is known and long-lasting.
The Si type tends to be rather modest, traditional and conventional, to
like sensible clothing, to be thrifty, careful and wise with both
money and possessions. They may keep possessions for a lifetime and
treasure those that were given to them. Si types have a developed sense
of citizenship and accountability. From an Si viewpoint, immediate
conditions have no stable meaning. They’re just an influx of data
impinging on the senses, and the response to these impressions depends
on mood, state of mind, desires and feelings. It’s our commitments and
priorities, the facts we hold inalienable that give our circumstances
enduring significance. Knowing what matters, what’s worth keeping or
building again, gives a sense of continuity and security. It gives
direction in the midst of a crisis, or helps to weather a loss of faith
that immediate feelings would not equip us to handle. All things flow
away like water, but the ground of our self-experience remains. Si types
are typically seen as well grounded in reality, trustworthy, and
dedicated to preserving traditional values and time-honored
institutions.
Suppression:
Si and Ne have a suppressive relationship. The chaos on
unpredictability of Ne renders the reliance of the past data obsolete
in that it cannot be reliably trusted if the environment is constantly
changing.
