- Welcome to personality type class.
I'm professor FJ and today we are talking about,
How do the 16 personalities learn differently?
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So why is it that some subjects, you pick it up like that,
other subjects, you're like, "I don't know what's going on"?
You're trying to learn one thing and it's easy,
you're trying to learn another thing and it's confounding.
Well, it very well might have to do
with your personality type
and the way you are going about trying to learn
different things, because your personality type
affects how you take in information,
how you grasp new concepts, new details.
So the purpose of this video is to give you insight
into how your personality type plays into that,
so that you can then use that information
to more easily learn things at school, at work,
even just in your general life.
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Okay, let's jump into introverts versus extroverts
to begin with.
The biggest difference I see here
is that introverts want to take in the information
and kind of understand what's going on with something
before they jump in
and have any kind of actual experience with it.
So for example, if an introvert is baking a cake,
they might wanna understand generally,
what am I gonna have to do here?
What's the process?
What are the principles at work here, in cake baking?
'Cause introverts are inward focused,
so they wanna work things out in their mind
before they do anything with it in the outside world.
Extroverts, on the other hand, are outward focused,
so they are much more likely
to wanna just start applying things in the real world,
to get their hands dirty a bit, and then they'll be like,
"Okay, now I can get the information
"and really understand what's going on here."
And this next thing might be totally obvious,
but extroverts generally might prefer
to learn in group settings,
where they can be with other people,
hear what the other people are thinking
about whatever is being learned.
So classes, group settings, great for extroverts.
Introverts, on the other hand,
generally prefer to learn on their own.
For introverts, it's more of a distraction.
It pulls them out of their own mind
to have other people around asking questions,
throwing in their two cents.
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So now let's move on to S or N, sensing versus intuition,
and this is where the most differences are
when it comes to learning and personality type,
because sensing and intuition are the ways
that we take in information.
I mean, that's basically what learning is, right?
Taking in new information
and then figuring out how we can use it.
Now, there is a stereotype.
Let's just get it out in the open, guys.
The stereotype is that sensing types are dumb,
but intuitives are smart.
As we get into this,
you'll see maybe where that stereotype comes from,
and I wanna point out, before we get into it,
the stereotype is not true.
Sensors are not dumb.
In fact, many sensors are very much smarter than me.
As you can tell, I can barely put together a sentence.
(Frank laughs)
That's such a dumb metric.
There are a lot of them, they're smarter than me.
They must be smart.
Ah!
Well, let's just get into it.
This first thing will kinda give you an idea
of where the stereotype comes from,
is that sensing types often need more time
to learn something because they are focused on the details.
So sensing is focused on the facts and the details
and how do we prove that this really is real?
Whereas intuitives are like,
"We just guess at whatever's coming up next.
"We're just looking at the concepts, the abstract,
"the overview, the big picture.
"The details don't matter."
So sensing types feel much more comfortable
taking their time, looking at the details,
absorbing the facts and then looking at all of that,
before they can then feel comfortable
going to the greater principle or concept at work.
They don't wanna guess at whatever it is they're learning.
If they're trying to bake a cake,
they don't wanna guess at how it all comes together.
They wanna look at,
"What are the things that I'm being told to do?
"What are the facts here?"
Intuitives, though, will pick things up much more quickly
'cause they're willing to say,
"Okay, I see one fact here.
"I can guess at where this is going, so I get it.
"I get what we're talking about, teacher."
Does that make intuitives smarter?
No, it just means they pick things up quicker,
and in the long run, they are more prone
to make factual errors because they jump to the conclusion,
they figured out the principle
and they were right about that,
but then they're blowing past all the facts,
all the details, and they're getting those wrong over time.
Even though sensors may be slower
to pick up on the general concepts,
once they get them, they're very solid on them.
Of course, the issue there
is that sensors don't like to use intuition,
intuitives don't like to use sensing,
so I say, once the sensors really grasp the concept
then they're solid on it,
but a lot of them just get frustrated and bored
with having to go to the general concept.
A lot of them don't wanna do it,
the same way that intuitives
don't wanna have to look at the facts.
They get bored and frustrated with it.
So when you have people who just stick
with what their type prefers,
they just prefer sensing, they just prefer intuition,
they're gonna make a lot of errors at some point,
whether it is with the facts
or whether it is with the concepts.
That's why balance is the key.
That's why you gotta tap into the thing
that you don't naturally prefer.
If you're intuitive, you gotta use the sensing,
you gotta go with some detail.
If you're a sensor, you gotta look at the theory,
you gotta be focused on the patterns.
And so, in a nutshell, the sensors wanna know what,
the intuitives wanna know why,
and if they could have their way,
they would not worry about the other.
The sensors would just know what,
not worry too much about the why.
The intuitives will know why,
not care so much about the what.
Next, let's look at feeling and thinking types
and see how that affects how they learn.
Thinking types will be more interested in subjects
where it's like, "Oh, here's a puzzle to solve.
"Whatever I'm learning here is going to help me
"solve a problem."
Or even just for thinking, it's exciting to be like,
"Here are problems to be solved.
"Here is a math problem,
"that is exciting because now I'm picking it apart
"and trying to find the answer."
Whereas feeling types will be much more drawn
to learning things that have some kind of social value,
or things that will be valuable to them,
things that they like to do.
So a feeling type will look at a subject
that they think is cool or they'll be like,
"People will really like this",
and that will be the thing that compels them to learn it.
The arts, for example.
It doesn't really solve any problems,
but it's something that either the feeler themselves likes
or something they realize everyone likes,
it has social value generally.
Thinkers will be more driven to learn something
if it's like, "This is gonna help me get something done.
"This is gonna help me do my work and accomplish something."
Feelers, on the other hand, might be more interested
in learning things that'll be like,
"Oh, this'll help me lift people's spirits.
"This will help make me and/or other people happier."
Or even if it's not happier,
"This will give me the ability to kind of change
"the emotional state of myself and other people."
So a thinker may struggle with learning
something like what is fashionable to wear right now.
Clearly it's a brown jacket with a tie with crabs on it,
but a thinker might struggle to learn that,
because to a thinker, it's like,
"How is this gonna help me accomplish anything?
"Fashion don't matter."
Or if a thinker is trying to learn stuff about,
I don't know, reading people's body language
and tapping into what their emotional state might be,
a thinker might struggle with that because it's like,
"Why do I even need to care about the emotions?
"I can just blow past that and get what I want anyway."
Whereas, on the other hand, feelers will struggle more
with stuff like logic, math, science,
things that are actually more
about how do we solve a puzzle, how do we come to a result,
'cause it's not dealing with feelings.
All that is to say that every type is dumb at something
and smart at something, and they will more naturally
pick up on certain things and not on other things.
But you can still pick up on those things
that are not so natural to you
if you just ignore that feeling you get where it's like,
"I need to get that rush,
"that fun feeling from what I'm doing".
See, that's what it is, is when you are learning something
that lines up with your personality type,
it feels like, "Yes, this is awesome, great."
But if you have to learn something
that doesn't really line up with that,
it's like, "This is boring, this is stupid."
So if you're trying to learn something and are struggling,
you have to realize,
it's not always gonna be a walk in the park.
There might be some struggle.
But in the long run, it will benefit you.
Or you can do a little bit of trickery
and try to reframe what you're doing
to appeal more to your personality type.
If you are a thinking type trying to learn
some more of the feeling side of things,
just try to reframe it as, "This is another tool I can use."
Or if you're a feeler trying to learn something logical,
just find something that you or other people like about it.
"What is the social value
"of this thing I'm trying to learn?"
Now we move on to the judging versus perceiving types.
A couple very interesting differences
in how they learn here.
Perceiving types are much more like a sponge.
They just wanna take in a lot of information.
They are not too picky about the information
that they take in.
Doesn't necessarily mean they're gonna be great students,
or they're gonna be ravenously reading the textbook
that they're assigned, but they are more oriented
towards taking in new info.
Judging types, on the other hand,
they're not the biggest fans of taking in new information,
and I think this has to do with perceiving types
like to have options open,
they like to see all different possibilities,
they like to take in new facts, et cetera.
Whereas judging types wanna have things finalized,
they wanna have a conclusion,
they want to be able to take action.
So if a judging type is going to learn something,
they will be very narrow in what they focus in on
to take in the information,
and they're gonna want to be able to, at some point, say,
"I have learned this completely", or they're gonna be like,
"I have learned this enough to now take action with it."
Perceiving types, they're just like,
"I'll learn for the sake of learning,
"it doesn't matter to me.
"I'm just filing it all away."
And also, something theoretical here
is that perceiving types, a lot less likely to enjoy
the traditional, structured, academic, uh...
Being in school.
Traditional structured schooling,
perceiving types are like,
"I wish I could break free of that, man.
"You're holding me down, turning me around,
"filling me up with your rules."
Whereas judging types are much more comfortable and open
to just the structured schooling environment
where it's like, "We have a course, we have a syllabus,
"we go through it in steps, fine by me.
"Just spoon feed me this stuff."
I feel like the perceiving types are much more likely
to want to do kind of self-directed learning.
Thanks for watching.
I recommend watching this video next
about the 16 personalities express creativity.
I think it's related to this one, it's pretty interesting.
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find another video to watch right here, it's right here.
Until next time, stay cool and attractive.