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The Impossible Miracle
Anyone preferring sensing to intuition is interested primarily in actualities; anyone preferring intuition to sensing is mainly interested in possibilities.
The common factor in all these manifestations of intuition is a sort of ski jump — a soaring take-off from the known and established, ending in a swooping arrival at an advanced point, with the intervening steps apparently left out. Those steps are not really left out, of course; they are performed in and by the unconscious, often with extraordinary speed…They abhor the routine because it leaves nothing for inspiration to accomplish.
Thus the innovator, the pioneer in thought or action, is likely to be an intuitive. The sensing types are not in such close communication with their unconscious.
*Sensing Types*
Admit to consciousness every sense impression and are intensely aware of the external environment; they are observant at the expense of imagination.
Are by nature pleasure lovers and consumers, loving life as it is and having a great capacity for enjoyment; they are in general contented.
Desiring chiefly to possess and enjoy, and being very observant, they are imitative, wanting to have what other people have and to do what other people do, and are very dependent upon their physical surroundings.
