Reddit reviews The 33 Strategies of War (Joost Elffers Books)

If you want to develop your Se, taking up some sport might help. Hell, even regular jogging/running in the woods will probably do a lot of good. Keep in mind that INTJ's Se is a rather subconscious function, since it's so far down the function stack. It just constantly takes in information, something the Ni uses to get gut-feelings about how something is unfolding or will unfold in your environment. It's this synergy that makes some INTJs pretty darn good at reading opponents in games.

Various forms of meditation might help you hone both Se and Ni at the same time, especially spot-meditation (forcing yourself to pay 100% attention to a task like doing the dishes). Mindfulness meditation will help with strengthening parts of your brain that govern emotions/stress/memory/focus, leading to enhanced presence of mind and focus even in crisis situations.



To be honest I wouldn't worry too much about Ni, as it usually sorts itself out. It's your dominant function and it's a perceiving function, so it kind of just does it's thing as you experience life. You can use Te to decide what you want your Ni to mull over, however. To get it to work more on strategic thinking, you could start writing/talking out loud about ideas you have about how things in your life/the world are likely to turn out (based on Ni insights). These ideas can then be verified/disproved and readjusted as events unfold.

If you mean 'strategic thinking' in the way of maneuvering in a social landscape, knowing your own feelings is key. Being brutally honest with yourself is a good start if you want your Fi to mature (this goes for all personality types, as well). We tell ourselves a lot of lies that make us feel good, but once you start demolishing these lies you become way more confident and functional in social maneuvering (which is a blanket term I define here as all the social things). Meditation will help here as well, as you might gain some insight into how your mind works (and how much bullshit is actually going on in there on a regular basis).


If you're specifically looking for some games that might be up your alley, perhaps Paradox interactive has some good grand-strategy games.



I hesitate to mention these two books, since I'm not sure how much impact they've had on my life (I don't practice anything mentioned within consciously, it seems). But they were very interesting:

Robert greene's "The 33 Strategies of War" and "The 48 Laws of Power"

My theory is once you've gained complete control of a group. Enough control to work towards dominating other groups. But at that point you're no longer playing politics, you're at war. Good thing he wrote the 33 strategies of war.

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>"war is the continuation of politics by other means" -Carl von Clausewitz