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Welcome to another educational video
about the 16 personalities.
Hope you all are doing great today.
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So today, we're gonna be digging into a topic
I see quite often in the comments section,
which is, "Frank I took the 16Personalities test
on specifically 16personalities.com,
And I got
INFJ-T
or I got
ENFP-A.
What does that T or A mean
at the end of the personality type?
Because Frank, I don't hear you talking about that ever.
What's going on?"
That's what we're gonna get into in this video.
What does the A mean, what does the T mean?
How does it all relate to your personality?
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Okay, A versus T.
What does it mean, Frank?
Stop dragging your feet, get to the point.
First up, it is important to note
that this A versus T, which stands for
assertive or turbulent
is only found on the 16personalities.com test.
You will not find anyone else using it.
This is worth knowing, because if you go into,
for instance, the YouTube comments
of a Frank James video,
or maybe you go to a forum for NBTI,
and for the 16personalities,
and you start saying, "Hey, I'm an INFJ-A,"
people are gonna be like, "Oh, this is a newbie."
Because the A or T is not really Myers-Briggs.
It is only specific to that site.
So then you might ask,
"Well then why did 16personalities.com
use that extra letter if no one else uses it?"
If it's making me look like a newbie
when I talk about it, what's the deal?
Should I not use it?
Does it not describe anything about me?
Now I'm not gonna get too much into the details
about that test in particular.
I actually made a whole video that goes more
into the nitty-gritty of it.
You can check that out above my head.
But in short, the 16personalities.com test
uses the Big Five personality model
to test you and then gives you
that five letter personality type
that seems to be analogous to Myers-Briggs.
But as you may have figured out from me saying that,
the Big Five has five personality factors,
and Myers Briggs, traditionally, only has four letters.
So what did they have to do?
They had to add that extra letter onto the end
to have that extra personality trait.
So what is that personality trait?
That is neuroticism.
Neuroticism is not part of Myers-Briggs
or Carl Jung's psychological types,
which is what Myers-Briggs is based off of.
But neuroticism is a valid personality metric.
So we're in this kind of weird in-between area
where 16personalities.com is not using
the traditional, mainstream, accepted
version of Myers-Briggs.
But this A versus T at the end
is a valid personality metric.
It is actually describing something about you.
So when you are an A type, when you are assertive,
it means you are low in neuroticism.
So you may be able to guess when you are turbulent,
it means you are high in neuroticism.
One quick caveat here,
why did they choose turbulent and have a T?
Because T is already taken by thinking,
and Myers-Briggs already uses N
for intuition, because, you know,
intuition starts with an I,
so clearly they were trying not to reuse letters,
and then 16personalities was like,
"Whatever, we'll reuse the T, we don't care."
Anyway, back to the topic at hand, Frank,
and I will get back to the topic at hand,
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So let's talk about neuroticism
and what that is.
In brief, neuroticism is,
wait for it, brace yourself,
the sensitivity to negative emotion.
So if you are low in neuroticism or assertive,
you're not gonnao be very reactive to negative emotions.
But if you are turbulent, high in neuroticism,
yes, you are gonna be sensitive to negative emotion.
So of course, by negative emotion,
I feel like that should be obvious,
but we're talking about stress, anxiety,
we're even talking about depression and stuff like that.
So the people who are high in neuroticism,
which, I myself am a bit high in neuroticism,
will look into more or less normal situations
and be like, "Oh no, I sense that
there's something wrong about this.
I feel some anxiety about this."
Maybe there is some danger there,
and perhaps evolutionarily,
that is what neuroticism, when it's higher,
is helping us do, is be like,
"Oh no, there's a threat there."
When you are high in neuroticism,
you tend to see the threat everywhere.
People high in neuroticism have anticipatory anxiety.
If you have an upcoming event or something like that,
even if you are not necessarily introverted,
not necessarily related to that,
you're just looking at this thing that's coming
in the future that you have to do,
and you're like, "Oh no, I'm really worried.
Things are gonna go wrong.
I can see how, you know,
there could be all these problems associated that,
and it's just stressing me out."
And then when the event happens,
you're like, "Phew, I feel relief.
It's done.
Everything turned out better than expected."
People who are high in neuroticism
can also be a bit more pessimistic and cynical
because they are seeing all the possible things
that could go wrong.
People who are high in neuroticism may also
be a bit volatile.
You know, their emotions might be a little bit
all over the place, a little bit moody,
because they are so reactive to different situations.
Like there'll be doing fine,
and then something happens and they'll be like,
"No! Argh! I'm stressed out by that,
I'm anxious by that, I'm depressed by that."
Now I described in detail what
the people who are high in neuroticism are like,
the turbulent types.
The assertive types or people who are low in neuroticism.
They're not like that.
They tend to be less emotionally reactive,
they don't get easily upset by stuff,
they're not volatile in their emotions,
they don't perceive threats everywhere.
They don't get so anxious about stuff
that's happening in the future.
But, it's worth noting
that just because you are low in neuroticism
and you're not sensitive to the negative emotions
does not mean that you are positive.
It just means that you are at least neutral.
You're not feeling the bad,
but you're not necessarily feeling the good.
That actually, that personality trait
in the Big Five, comes from extroversion.
People who are high in extroversion
are sensitive to positive emotion.
They are more likely to be upbeat.
Now, an important thing to notice
about this assertive or turbulent thing
is it's not really like
all the other elements of Myers-Briggs,
which are preferences.
You have a preference for introversion or extroversion.
You have a preference for intuition or sensing,
but you don't really have a preference
for high neuroticism or low neuroticism.
It's just you're on a scale
and you either are higher than normal,
average or lower than normal in neuroticism.
And that's another problem
with the 16Personalities test
is that most people are like sort of in the middle,
average neuroticism, but they're assigning you,
you're either higher or low.
So it can be a little bit messy
when comes to that metric on 16Personalities.
So there you go, assertive versus turbulent.
Yes, it is describing a personality trait.
And you can learn about yourself from it,
but do not go into a Myers Briggs forum online,
or, you know, whatever where people
are really big into Myers-Briggs
and start talking about assertive versus turbulent,
because it will make you look a little silly.
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