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How do the 16 Myers-Briggs personalities
see the world differently?
I wrote it on the board
so that you wouldn't forget what the video's about.
So in this video, I'm gonna go through
how the different letters in your type
indicate how you perceive the world
differently than other types.
And if you've missed the other two videos in this series,
"How do the Types Communicate Differently"
And "How do the 16 Personalities
Make Decisions Differently,"
you can check out that playlist in this card right here.
So what we're gonna do is we're gonna go through
two different letters in particular in the type code
and explain how that tells us
how the different types see the world differently.
So first, let's look at J versus P-types
and how they see the world differently.
And just to clarify, when we say "see the world,"
I'm talking about, "How do they perceive the world?
How do they observe the world?
Like, when they are looking out at everything,
how is the information flowing?
So we start with the P-types.
These types, generally, when they are looking at the world,
they are trying to gather in
as much information as possible.
This is especially true with the EP-types.
The IP-types are a little bit more balanced
when it comes to this, but both, generally,
they just feel like they never have enough.
They want to just keep gathering more information.
They want to perceive even more.
The P types really don't like to feel limited.
I mean, no one really likes to feel limited,
but I think the funny thing is that the P-types
feel like they're being limited, like, all the time.
Like, if you just ask them to stick to one thing
and not keep looking for more information,
or to keep doing new things, they'll be like, "Dude,
stop trying to limit me."
So when the P-types look at the information
that they have already gathered,
they'll be like, "This is not enough.
I need some more.
We need to gather even more.
Like, sure, what we've got is great,
but the answers are still out there somewhere
and we can't really ever know if we found the answer,
so we have to keep looking."
It's sort of like a never ending thing.
So this could manifest itself in something very simple,
like just wanting to read a lot,
but it could also be when you find someone who keeps jumping
from thing to thing, like, they take up a new hobby
and then, like, two weeks later,
they're onto another new hobby
and dropped the first one immediately.
That's the sign of someone wanting to keep taking in new
rather than sticking with the known.
You know, I've mentioned before in other videos
that the P-types are more spontaneous,
and this goes along with that.
Because, just think about this,
the P-types don't want to ever limit themselves,
so when you make a plan, you're limiting yourself, right?
So they want to be spontaneous because they want to
be able to follow whatever lead they come across.
They're very curious people,
so they don't want to feel restricted
and like they can't explore.
You can think of the P-types as being like explorers.
They just want to go out there and find what is new.
Then we go over to the J-types and it might not surprise you
that they are the opposite side of that,
where they don't want the new.
They don't want to go out and gather,
they want to stick with what they know,
and they want to get all of their ducks in a row
with what they know.
And I realize I'm rhyming, here,
and I didn't really intend to.
Now, the IJ-types are especially rigid when it comes to this
with restricting the amount of information they take in
and seeing the world through a very narrow lens.
And the EJ-types are a little bit less crazy with this,
but they both still, generally, will be this way.
I mean, what does that mean?
Does it mean that the J-types are closed-minded?
No, but it means that when they're taking in information,
it's not a wide net that's been cast,
it's very limited, it's very narrow.
They don't want to take in more stuff
before they've had a chance to really thoroughly process
what they already know, the information they already have
over and over again.
And I think that's generally the difference here
is that the P-types are very broad,
but not going into things very deeply.
They keep gathering 'cause they're just trying to grab it,
look at it, move on to the next thing.
It's not sitting there with it too much, where the J-types,
they won't cast a wide net.
It'll be like one thing,
and then they'll go really deep into that,
really getting all the information they can
out of one thing and then seeing how does it fit
with other things that they know.
So rather than going from thing to thing
and looking for the new, they're saying,
"How can I take the known,
what I already have, and find new things within that?"
It's kind of a weird way of looking at the world
because it's trying to find new in the old.
I mean, also the P-types are weird
because they're looking for, you know,
they'll have answers right in front of them
and be like, "No, we still gotta find something else."
So while the P-types don't like to be restricted,
the J-types like to put restrictions on things,
they like things to be kind of narrowed down
and not having to deal with a bunch of new stuff
without having to gather,
without having to be spontaneous,
having things lined up a bit more.
And an interesting thing is you could,
with these things in mind, you could say that
the P-types view of the world as a place where
there are constant limitations,
and people are trying to impose restrictions on them,
and they're trying to break free of that.
Whereas the J-types, you know,
if you look at the opposite side of that,
they see the world as this place where
a bunch of stuff is being thrown at them
and they have to stop, you know, put the brakes on,
and filter it out, and get it down into a really narrow
stream of information that they can then
process over and over.
And I want to emphasize, is one better than the other?
No, they balance things out.
And so one of the important things about
type, personality type, is realizing when
you're doing one of these things too often
and you need to balance yourself out a bit.
If you're being too restrictive,
or you're being too much of an explorer,
you maybe need to, you know, find a middle ground.
Next, we'll look at the difference between
how intuitives, the N-types, and sensors, the S-types,
see the world, and when you pair that up
with P or J, you'll be able to figure out, like,
"how does your type theoretically view the world?"
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All right, so let's start with the S-types,
the sensor types.
And you know, there's some confusion, I think,
sometimes, when it comes to the types where it's like,
especially intuitive sensor where it's like,
the sensing types just don't have intuition,
they just don't know how to use their intuition,
which is not true.
Everyone can use sensing and intuition.
Everyone has to, or you would be
not a functioning human being.
It's just, we're talking about preferences,
and I like to think of it as when the stakes are high,
when the chips are down, when things really matter,
what are you going to run to to rely on?
So when you're seeing the world,
what's more important to you,
what kind of observations are more important to you?
So for the sensing types, what's more important to them
are the facts, like, "What's real, what is observable
in the real world, the concrete world?"
So yes, of course, sensing types,
they have intuition, but when it really matters,
they prefer to look at things as,
"What can I actually point to as a fact,"
rather than, "What do I just know, generally,
about how these things work in an abstract sense?
Like, what is the pattern that I have observed
with the facts?"
That's less important to them as,
"What are the actual facts?
What are we actually talking about, here?"
And you could argue that this is perhaps, you know,
the more prudent thing to do,
to look at what's factually happening.
The intuitives, on the other hand,
they prefer to look at what are the patterns,
like, "How are things going to unfold
based on what I've seen already," rather than
"What are the actual facts right in front of me?"
Now, another big difference here, which is related to that,
is that the intuitive types, because they are
more interested in patterns rather than the actual
what's happening, A, B, C, D, they are more willing
to kind of skip over the concrete facts
and just kind of guess ahead to what's gonna happen.
They'll kind of skim over things sometimes.
And the sensing types, they don't like doing that,
they see the world in that more concrete way,
they rely more on those observations,
and so they don't really like having to jump ahead
to make that guess.
So if we zoom out a bit,
you could say that the intuitives view the world
in such a way where it's, like, what is actually happening
in the concrete world is not so important,
that's secondary, and the real thing to pay attention to is
how does it all work together.
They're like, "What are the connections between things?
What is the pattern that is happening
with the actual facts?"
Whereas the sensing types,
they see that there are patterns there and whatever,
but to them, the more important thing going on
in the world is actually what is happening
and the details of that.
Now, look, I know there's kind of a bias
towards intuitives, generally, on the internet,
but the thing is, if you go too far
towards only seeing the intuition part
and guessing too much, or if you go too far
in only seeing the facts and figures
without taking a few guesses every once in a while,
you're gonna be in trouble.
You have to have both, you have to have a middle ground.
So now what you can do is you can take what we've
talked about in the first section of the video,
and just now, put those things together,
and you'll see how each type generally views the world.
So let's look at the sensor types.
You have the SP-types, so they are gathering,
looking for the new information, but it's sensory,
so it's the real world.
So the SP-types like to have actual
new and different experiences,
not so much taking in new concepts
or learning new patterns, but just experiencing
things in the world,
and maybe, you know, gathering new facts, for example.
On the other hand, when you get an SJ-type,
they're trying to limit all the sensory,
they're trying to just get things.
That's why the SJs, ISTJs, ISFJs, for example,
are very organized because they're really trying to limit,
they're not gathering new sensory experiences
or information, they're really taking it,
cutting it all down, narrowing it down,
getting it all in order, trying to limit
new information coming in.
Let's say if we have an ENFP.
So we know they're P-type, they like exploring,
they like to gather more information,
they don't like to stay with just what they know,
and they're also an N-type, an intuitive,
so they're looking less at the concrete world
and more at intuitive patterns, connections,
the abstract meanings of things.
So that would lead them to be just, like,
jumping from intuitive guess to intuitive guess
to see, like, "Wow, what is going on here?
I gotta find how all these different things are related
and, you know, keep going, and keep building on that,
and keep branching out."
Now, switch this around and look at that
compared to, say, an INTJ, who is also intuitive,
so they're seeing the abstract connections between things,
but they're a J-type, so they're trying to
narrow it all down.
They're not looking for new connections,
they're not looking to branch out,
they're really looking to limit things
and go over the same connections over and over again.
So I've talked about, you know, the NJ-types before,
having a mind sort of like a funnel
where they're bringing the whole concrete world
down into one intuitive understanding.
And then the NP-types of kind of the opposite of that,
where it's like every little thing in the concrete world,
they're trying to blow up into as many
intuitive possibilities as possible.
So there you have it.
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