- Our number 10 reason is perhaps
the most overlooked thing in typology.
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So, 10 reasons why the 16 personalities test
gave you the wrong results.
A lot of people ask,
how do I know that my test results are even correct?
People are like, I take a bunch
of different 16 personalities tests,
and I get a bunch of different answers
and I don't know what to do.
But there are several reasons why these tests
could be giving you an incorrect answer.
Some of these reasons might seem obvious.
Some might be fricking shocking,
and some might hurt a little bit,
which is why we're at the koffee korner.
I wanted to put you in a relaxing environment.
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Now let's get to those 10 things,
those 10 reasons why the tests you're taking online
might be giving you the wrong answers,
the wrong results, the wrong type.
This first thing I bet has happened to a lot of us watching,
it is taking a 16 personalities test
with your friends looking over your shoulder,
or perhaps an even more common scenario,
taking it in a classroom, or even more common, at work,
in a situation where you are then expected to share
your personality type with everyone
once you've gotten your results.
This really ups the chances
that you are gonna get an inaccurate type at the end
because it puts pressure on you.
You're not gonna answer honestly.
You're gonna have maybe pressure to fit in
with everyone else instead of thinking,
what do I actually think?
How would I actually respond to these questions?
It's more like how's everyone else gonna respond,
and how can I fit into that?
Or maybe it gives you the pressure to show off.
Maybe you want all your friends to think
you're really smart.
So you'll just answer all the test questions
as though you're a thinker,
or it could give you the pressure to hide.
You don't wanna answer honestly,
because you don't want people
to really know what's going on.
You gotta take the test by yourself
and answer totally honestly,
not thinking about am I gonna show this
to someone else one day?
Reason number two, you take a bunch of different tests
and you get a bunch of different results.
Now, I know a lot of you are sweating right now.
You're like, oh my gosh, this is totally me.
Or even if you take a but bunch of tests
and you bounce around between two or three different types.
This is actually like a symptomatic thing.
What it says to me is that, well, first of all,
every test is a bit different
so that can account for some of it.
But what I think it really says is that
you're not answering consistently between tests.
You haven't really gotten to a point
where you are being fully honest with yourself
about how you are
most of the time, averaging it out.
Some days you might feel more emotional
and some days you might feel more logical.
So if you take a test on different days
you might get different results.
So you gotta stop thinking about
what am I like in the moment right now?
And think more about generally 51% of the time
when the chips are down and when the stakes are high,
what am I gonna go with?
For example, am I gonna go with my emotions
or am I gonna go with the logic?
And if you're still taking a bunch of tests,
there's a certain point where you know what they're asking,
and you can't take the test too many times
before you can sub consciously get the result you want.
Tests are a great starting point.
I am not here to ace on the tests, but they are
a place where you get in the right direction
and you're like, okay, now let me learn about this.
Let me get deeper into what personality types
are all about so I can learn all the complexities
and really figure out,
did the test give me the right result?
Number three, you relate to multiple types.
This is one of the difficult things about typology, right?
When you're just getting into it, or even when you've been
into it for a while.
You can look at several different types,
or maybe all 16 of the types and be like, well, dang,
I kinda relate to all of them.
And here's the thing, the 16 personalities,
it's not like the Enneagram
where you have nine separate totally distinct types, right?
And if you are curious about the Enneagram,
I made an introductory video about it,
you can click the card above my head.
I think that's what makes the 16 personalities
the most fascinating personality system
because it has a lot of different parts that get rearranged
in different ways to make different types.
There is a lot in common, for example,
between an INFJ and an INFP.
They're a lot of overlap, they're intuitive feelers.
But once you start to learn about the individual parts,
the cognitive functions that make up each of those types,
you should be able to point
to one or the other and be like, okay, well,
I relate to this general thing about them
but this specific thing, this does not apply to me.
To get my introductory video about that,
click the card here.
I explain it all in great detail.
So you will get it
even if you know nothing about cognitive functions.
If you're just reading the type profiles
on various websites and you find
that you relate to a lot of them, what it means is that
you're still staying at this very surface,
almost horoscope level of personality types,
and that you need to go deeper
to start to understand the complexity.
Hold on to your butts because this number four reason
is really going to hurt a lot of you big time.
You're getting the wrong results
on your personality test because you really want
or really need to be a certain personality type.
And look, I don't care.
I'm assuming that you care
and you want to get the correct type.
And I think there's a problem in typology
where some types are looked at as very valuable.
And a lot of times these are the rare types.
And if you wanna see a video I did
about the actual percentages of the types in the population,
check out this video here in the card above my head.
And I gotta warn you,
you're gonna be shocked and dismayed at the rarest type.
But yeah, it's like people are,
they're racist against certain types
where it's like you're valuable types.
These types are the cool types,
and the rare types and the important types.
And then there's all these other types
that are crappy and boring.
So then you'll just start to answer the questions
in a way that will get you to the answer that you want.
People who come into types totally cold, have an advantage
because they don't have any of these biases.
You really don't wanna have your identity
wrapped up in your type.
The personality type describes a lot of you,
a lot of what's going on in your psychology,
but it shouldn't be your main defining characteristic.
You shouldn't use that in place of a real character,
because the type is a tool to help you out
to describe who you already are,
the type isn't some thing outside of you.
It's just a label to help you out.
Number five, you let negative people tell you who you are.
And then you answer that way on the test.
So I don't know who it is,
and maybe they're doing it intentionally
being negative to you, or maybe unintentionally.
They don't mean to hurt you
but they just give you a lot of negative energy.
Maybe it's your parents,
maybe it's friends who are selfish.
Maybe it's just society in general,
is giving you bad messages about yourself.
Maybe for example, your family has been telling you
your entire life that you are lazy
and that you need to work harder.
And so maybe this has translated into you putting answers
on the personality tests that make you seem more
like a P type where it'll be like, oh, I'm messy.
Everyone's told me I'm messy my whole life.
Whereas in reality, maybe you just have people around you
who are overly critical and negative.
Number six is the flip side of that.
Maybe you are around someone a lot
who just has a very strong personality,
and it's a positive relationship,
maybe a little bit too involved,
but you start answering the tests
as though you're answering for this other person.
Let's say that you are dating someone that you really like
and maybe you are naturally a thinker,
but this person you're in a relationship with is a feeler.
And you are just so into them and their world.
And you're just so taken with everything that they do
that you're like, oh, I'm a feeler too.
This other person uses feeling to make all their decisions.
So I think that that's the best way to answer the test.
And by the way, if you do this, if this reason
is why you're getting an incorrect answer on your test,
it's very likely that you are a J type,
that you have FE or TE
as your primary decision making function
because those types are very much
about focusing on other people.
The P type's much less likely
to fall into that particular trap.
'Cause they know who they are.
Number seven, this is a serious one.
Let's get a little serious guys.
It's the worst way to get into a serious segment.
But if you are struggling with your mental health,
you're not gonna answer a personality test very accurately.
Mental health issues cloud our perception of who we are.
It's like your entire mind revolves around those issues.
So for example, if you are depressed
you might identify more with feelings
because you've got this heavy emotional state
on you all the time.
Or if you're anxious, maybe you end up identifying
with more J traits because you are trying to exert control
over everything around you.
Number eight, you have social anxiety
or you're shy, or both.
Because here's the thing,
even extroverts, extrovert types,
and just generally people who we would consider extroverts
can have social anxiety and be shy.
I know it seems like a contradiction,
but it is entirely possible.
People who get their energy from being around people
can also just be afraid of those situations
because they fear the judgment.
They're worried they're gonna embarrass themselves.
So I think there are a lot of people,
or a lot of EJs and EPs who struggle
with some of these issues,
who are socially anxious and or shy.
And they just say, yeah, I'm an introvert.
And stay tuned for reason number 10,
because I'm gonna revisit this a bit.
Number nine, this is an awkward one.
You're not very self-aware.
Okay, now this is not me coming down hard on anyone.
We all struggle with self-awareness,
it's not easy to be self-aware.
But a lot of us go through a lot of our lives
not really being able to look at ourselves
from an objective viewpoint,
because it's extremely painful to do that
because it's like when you look at someone else,
you can tell what's good and bad about them.
But if someone ever tells you, hey,
here are some negative aspects about you.
You might be like, this is shocking.
And so the way this translates
to personality types is that we are often really focused
on our non-preferred functions.
So if we are an NF type, maybe we're actually really focused
on our sensing and thinking functions
because we struggle a bit more to do that.
We have to put more awareness on those things.
And maybe we feel really proud
when we do the opposite of our personality type.
Maybe an INTJ feels really proud the one time of the year
when they're really spontaneous
and just go out and do something fun and have an adventure.
And then they hold on to that one thing.
And they're like, yup, that's me.
The other 364 days where I'm in my room
planning out the next 10 years, that's not really me.
That's too easy.
I just do that all the time.
What was really hard was this thing I did
where I went out on vacation
and I didn't plan every single day.
That was tough, that's me because I did it.
I accomplished it.
Our number 10 reason is perhaps
the most overlooked thing in typology.
And it's probably the number one reason
why people get the wrong result on their personality test.
And no one talks about it.
The reason is you are not typical.
People who fit neatly into one of the 16 stereotypes
of the 16 personalities, those people are the minority.
Most likely, you do not easily fit
into the stereotype of one of these personalities.
And the reality of you is much more messy and complex.
And here's what I was mentioning a little bit earlier
when I was talking about extroverts
who are socially anxious.
Even if you don't have social anxiety
or you're shy or whatever,
there are a lot of times where E types can be quieter
and I types can be more outgoing.
And this is one of the confusing things
about typology that you've really gotta start studying,
into the cognitive functions and understand
why that happens.
And there are some sensor types
who have brilliant imaginations,
and there are some intuitive types who are very practical.
And people who are thinking types do have emotions,
and people who are feeling type do have the ability
to think logically.
And they do it on a daily basis.
J types can be messy, and P types can be organized.
The stereotypes work sometimes,
but a lot of times they don't work, they break down.
Don't be in too much of a rush.
Don't worry too much about
if you have your type wrong or right, right now.
It takes a little bit of time.
Have fun exploring personality types and yourself.
Okay, I keep talking about cognitive functions.
You better check out this video
I made about cognitive functions.
If you're not sure what those really are,
it really opens up
a lot of the personality type stuff for you.
And until next time, stay cool and attractive.
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