Why is Te not assertiveness in Socionics?
First of all, let's look into what assertiveness is as a term: Having or showing a confident and forceful personality. (Google search). Now, let's go back to Socionics. Socionics Te is not "assertiveness", because being assertive is a behavioural trait, first of all, that is based on psychological personal qualities - psychological states of the person. Recalling the theory, Te is anything within the field of practical logic and how to do things - making tech related things or business related things, starting from simple practical actions as making coffee or cleaning stains on clothes, ending with complex technological processes like repairing PCs or dealing with economical processes. Having assertiveness as we already looked into briefly, goes back to self-confidence that's a personal psychological attitude, but it's not that simple and exclusive to psychology! Because we are adding an information element of Socionics to it and as result this personal att...