IEE+SLI

Values of the IEE and SLI Dyad (irrationals, peripheral, descending, aristocrats, stubborn, carefree, result)

Jointly accepted statements:

  1. I live by going with the flow and only solve problems reluctantly and when there’s no other choice.
  2. I don’t like forcing myself into plans or schedules.
  3. The saying “don’t put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after” is dearer to me than “don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today.”
  4. I drift along the current of life, enjoying its pleasant surprises without making plans ahead.
  5. I rarely think about what will happen tomorrow.
  6. I decide what I’ll do in the moment—without predetermining anything.
  7. I like professions that don’t involve long-term responsibility: the day is over, the work is done, and that’s it.
  8. My mood contains far more of a sense of calm, confident comfort than anger or anxiety.
  9. I only start exerting myself when it “gets hot” or when I’m forced to.
  10. I’m always concerned with my own comfort and well-being; I’ll never work through exhaustion or push myself too hard.
  11. I need frequent breaks and distractions in my activities; otherwise, I get bored quickly.
  12. I usually don’t notice dangers or problems, or at least don’t pay attention to them—life is beautiful!
  13. Time, to me, is more of a short interval near the present than a long duration.
  14. It’s true that I almost never experience prolonged sadness or depression.
  15. My favorite roles are that of an observer of fleeting moments, a wanderer on the river of events.
  16. I more often use the word NO) bad than YES) good.
  17. An atmosphere of fear and reprimands quickly kills my desire to learn anything.

Jointly rejected statements:

  1. I plan and “map out” my life for years ahead (or did so in my youth).
  2. The fate of humanity interests me more than most of the people around me.
  3. I have often been plagued by obsessive suspicions and anxieties.
  4. It is very hard and always painful for me to abandon a plan.
  5. I am demanding and uncompromising, work very hard, and despise lazy people.
  6. At least once a week, the world around me seems relentlessly cold and harsh, devoid of warmth, and the future appears hopeless.
  7. Negative emotions break through more often in me than positive ones.
  8. I have many fixed and consistent criteria for comparing and evaluating both people and phenomena around me.
  9. I usually have a heightened level of negative emotions.
  10. I am more tense and rigid than flexible and smooth.
  11. I would enjoy a job where I constantly have to keep deadlines in mind and sort tasks by urgency and importance.
  12. I have panic attacks (at least once a month or more).
  13. I frequently experience anxious feelings and states.
  14. I often think about the flaws in legislation and existing rules and orders.
  15. I am often insistently persistent in conversations—I absolutely must “dot all the i’s.”
  16. I often dwell on possible troubles.

The semantic core of the values of the IEE and SLI dyad is clearly the avoidance of thoughts about one’s personal future and the anxious expectations associated with those thoughts.
Thus, like the ESI+LIE dyad, the IEE+SLI dyad is also focused on dealing with the anxiety of personal future unpredictability - but they approach it from a completely opposite angle. Instead of anticipating the future, planning for it, and keeping oneself in a constant state of readiness to steer events into a controllable direction (which brings calm to gamma rationals), delta irrationals find peace in a complete rejection of anticipation and planning - in a relaxed, trusting “ostrich position” toward the outside world, relying on the whim of good fortune.

Nevertheless, these two dyads share common traits - apoliticism and de-ideologization, or more broadly, a rejection of thoughts about complex, collective, and global matters, and a focus on the personal, local, simple, and understandable. This trait combines three shared features of these dyads: carefreeness (willingness to entrust control of one’s life to the social environment at large), seriousness (a narrow, personal self-identification), and result (cognitive simplicity).

Among the 12 socionic functions, the values of the IEE and SLI dyad are especially tied to an excess of Si and a deficiency of Ti, and overall show the strongest correlation with the pole of irrationality.
As for Delta quadra values themselves, they are weakly represented here - due to the frequent inversion of the IEE into cheerfulness and the tendency of both types in the dyad toward democracy.

Among socionic types, these values are more often than average shared not only by IEE (74%) and SLI (76%) but also by SEI (68%), IEI (61%), SEE (59%), and ILE (57%).
These values tend to be least appealing to representatives of the types EIE (34% agreement), ESI (38%), and LSE (41%).