- How big of a 16 personalities nerd are you really?
How deep does your knowledge go?
Are you just a noob on the surface or are you obsessed?
Have you taken the deep dive?
The iceberg tier meme is a way of organizing knowledge
about a particular subject.
From the stuff at the tip of the iceberg
that everybody and their mama knows
to the bottom of the iceberg where only the people
who have put on their scuba equipment
and gone really far down the rabbit hole
have gone.
I really just mixed images there.
Put on your scuba equipment
to go in a rabbit hole.
So today we're going over the 16 personalities
iceberg meme.
Where are you on the iceberg?
At the tippy top, like a little baby?
(laughs)
Or at the depths?
I mean, considering that you are watching this video,
you're pretty far down.
Hate to break it to ya.
Let's start at tier one,
like Tier 1 Imports,
that's a dumb joke.
Tier one, top of the iceberg.
Everyone has some knowledge.
If I ask anyone, have you heard of Myers-Briggs?
Most people will say "Yes, I have heard of it."
A lot of these people will be like,
"I took the test at school or at work
and I don't remember what type I am."
At this tier, you might get some people who are like,
"Oh yeah, I am the defender."
They will not refer to their type by the letters
because they probably can't remember them.
They'll be like,
"What are the letters again? NTSB?"
But instead they'll use like the nickname that
whatever website they took the test on gave their type.
At this tier you might find people
who remember the letters of their type.
They'll be like "I'm a INFPT."
But despite some people at this tier knowing their type,
they don't really know what it means.
Except for maybe the vaguest stereotype,
like "Oh, I'm INFP because I am messy"
or something.
At this tier you will also get people
who say "the Enneagram is better".
Which it is not!
Get that opinion out of here.
That is tier one. None of you watching are in tier one.
Well, I hope not.
Now let's move on to tier two.
We're going a little farther down the iceberg.
Tier two is when they're actually a little bit interested
in the 16 personalities,
and they have a little bit of knowledge.
At this point, you might get people who are like
"What's the best test to take?"
Because they're starting to realize
there might be a lot of garbage out there.
And that question makes me want to rap right now.
People always be asking me
"What test of personality should I take?"
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So continuing with tier two, you will get people,
once they have found a test that they like or whatever
they'll be like, "My type really resonates with me."
They'll be like, "Oh wow. The description of my type
explains everything. My personality type is awesome.
What personality type is my perfect partner?
I really do not like people who are that type."
And of course, that type is like half of the types.
And at this tier, people will understand a little bit
of the difference between the letters.
A little bit, not a lot.
They'll be like, "Oh, intuition...
I sort of understand what that is as opposed to sensing."
But if they, they're not gonna be able to explain it to you
in a cogent way.
They probably know the stereotypes of their type and
maybe a few stereotypes of other types.
But there are still some
of the 16 personalities where they're like
"I really don't know what's going on
with this type or what that even looks like."
They might know a few celebrity types
but they probably are not like, correct.
(laughs)
Then again, what is correct?
They probably watch Frank James 16 personality sketches
which are hilarious
and everyone should be watching (laughs)
People at tier two also probably look at personality memes
but maybe don't understand all of them.
So those two tiers are above the surface of the watre,
which is French for water.
So now at this point, we have to don our scuba gear and go
beneath the depths of the chilly, icy waters of the Arctic.
And guess what?
99.7% of you watching right now are at this tier or lower.
How does that feel?
(laughs)
At tier three, people are definitely now interested
in the subject of the 16 personalities
and they are actively trying to acquire more knowledge.
They want to learn it.
And if you're at this tier
you have just enough knowledge to get in trouble.
At this tier, the gloves are coming off.
The first sign that you're at this tier is
that you are watching the Frank James educational
16 personalities videos like this one.
Hate to break it to you.
"Frank you said, 99.7, so what about that other 0.3?"
Those people are here by accident, somehow.
They don't know what I'm saying. They're confused.
Tier three, you understand the letters pretty well.
You could probably explain to someone the difference between
intuition and sensing in a very basic level, at least.
But I think people at this tier still have
black and white thinking.
I can't blame people for this
because it's hard to get out of that way of thinking.
But it's the sort of thing where you're like,
"Oh if you're a thinker, you don't have emotions."
And it'll also be like, "If you're a sensor, you are dumb."
"If you're an INFP, you must be depressed."
Or the logical flip side of those things
"If you are depressed, you must be an INFP."
Also at this tier, people are like,
"Jesus and Hitler were INFJ, that's crazy, man."
People will start discovering cognitive functions
at this point.
It's like, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a second.
There is more to this than just the letters?"
People at this tier, kind of know all the stereotypes
of all the 16 personalities.
You might not know a lot about every type
but you can say at least,
"Oh yeah. ISTP. Doesn't like talking to people and
probably very smart. I don't even...
I can barely describe it.
They'll start using Xs to talk about types more generally
even to the annoying degree of being like XXXJ
rather than just saying J types or judging.
They'll try to type their friends and family,
but they don't know enough about typology to really
do that effectively so everyone turns out being like
an intuitive.
Unless they don't like them in which case they
come out as a sensor.
People at this tier, if they like someone might be like,
well that person must be the same type as me
or very simular.
Not everyone at this stage will do this but this is
when people start to tell other people they are mistyped,
without the other person asking.
They'll be in a conversation and someone will be like,
"Oh I'm an INTJ" and they'll be like,
"I don't think you are. Oh, I think you're probably, INTP."
Those people only get worse from here.
(laughs)
Some people at this stage will even start a YouTube channel
about typology.
Although if I'm being honest, I was like at tier one
when I started this channel. (laughs)
I was at Tier 1 Imports when I started this channel
five years ago
Hold onto your butts. We're going to tier four.
We're getting down into the chilly depths.
It's so cold down here.
The fishes are going by that are bones,
like in the Mario game.
Y'know what I'm talking about?
Made a lot more sense before I said it
at depth level four, you are solidly a nerd.
At this point, you probably have heard
that Carl Jung is the grand-daddy of all of this stuff.
And you might be like, "Oh, I should check that out.
I should get into that, but seems a little complicated"
So you start at other places
maybe you actually read a Myers-Briggs book,
or maybe people at this level might get certified
by the MBTI company.
At this point, you probably realize that the
16personalities.com test
is not like a real Myers-Briggs test.
And you realize that if you say the A or the T
at the end of your type, you look a little bit silly.
You realize that the real connoisseurs of typology
never use that.
At this point, you probably have a basic understanding
of the eight cognitive functions and the cognitive stack.
And if you wanna learn that, you can check out my video
right here explaining all the cognitive functions
and everything you need to know about it.
At this point you don't necessarily have
everything memorized about cognitive functions,
but you know what they are.
You're not like surprised when someone
says introverted sensing.
This tier is also difficult because this is the point
where many people are like,
"Maybe I'm not the type I thought I was"
These doubts about your type basically come from
this new knowledge of cognitive functions and
starting to understand, "Oh this type that I have thought
I am all along, the cognitive functions are working
in a way that I don't necessarily recognize in myself."
Your world is shattered you get filled with
dread and anxiety.
Is your life a lie?
At this point you might silently start thinking
everyone is mistyped.
Some of the big mouths from the previous tier
who like to tell everyone they're mistyped
might have realized by now,
"Oh I should have a little humility because
maybe I'm the wrong type."
People at this tier will be slipping personality types
into everyday conversation.
They will also start looking for alternative schools
of thought when it comes to typology because
there's a lot out there besides, just like,
standard Myers-Briggs.
People at this tier are really looking for a system
or someone who can explain it to them.
That really just makes horse sense. (laughs)
I was gonna say perfect sense.
And then I was like, "No, I'm gonna say horse sense"
for the horse fans watching .
At this point you also start trying to type people
around you like in the previous tiers
but you start to realize everyone does everything.
You lose some of that black and white thinking.
You're like, "I thought this person was a thinker
but now they're like talking about emotions. What the heck?"
Okay. Number five.
Advanced. We're getting advanced.
We are going so far down, the sunlight is having
a hard time penetrating the dark waters.
People at this level know the cognitive functions
for every type backwards and forwards.
If I tell you "Quick, what's the function stack
for an ISTJ?" you'll be able to say
"Introverted sensing, extroverted thinking,
introverted feeling..." (laughs)
Frank, you don't know what you're talking about.
You imposter.
At this point, you start to know stuff.
That's a bit more advanced, like the temperaments
like the function pairs,
like the family is also known as the Quadra.
I have made videos on all of those topics.
If you wanna check it out, I guess I could put it
in the something below
The description, the pinned comment.
At this point, you have to stop yourself from slipping
obscure personality language into everyday conversation.
Like at the previous tier you would like,
be very aware of it.
You're like, "Oh, that guy's probably ESTP"
but now it's like you have to actively prevent yourself
from being like, "Oh that guy's clearly got inferior FE"
Another interesting thing at this point is that when
you see a walking stereotype of one of the 16 personalities
which at this point, you realize is actually somewhat rare.
It makes you laugh.
Because when you start to realize all the complexities
and everything, it amazes you when one of just
like the dumb stereotypes walks into a room
and you laugh so that you may not cry.
At this stage you also move from "Oh no,
I don't know what my type is" to "My type is irrelevant."
You kind of lose that anxiety.
And you're just like "I'll figure out my type eventually.
What does it matter?"
Which might surprise you.
But I do think that there's a point where you're going
through this typology journey and you're like
"I'm more interested in just learning it
and obtaining the knowledge, moreso than I am
(fumbling words)
Moreso than I am using it for my own development."
But I don't know. Maybe that's more of an introverted
thinking kind of approach.
Okay. Folks, we're at the bottom tier, we're at tier six.
This is where it gets freaky.
This is where people get jiggy wid it.
These people are far gone.
There is no hope for these people.
So, if you do not wanna go to this point
do not watch the rest of the video.
Viewer discretion is advised for the sixth tier.
Just by telling you about the bottom tier
I am basically making it so that you are going to reach it.
Because if your curiosity is peaked by stuff
in the sixth tier, you are going to want to learn it,
at which point you will be at the sixth tier
and there will be no saving you.
There's one thing in particular in the sixth tier that
I almost don't wanna put in this video
because I know people are gonna start asking me about it.
But I'm gonna put it here.
At tier six, you're far gone, right?
Forget about it.
At this point, you have come back to being like
"I'm fairly certain about my type but if someone wanted
to prove something else that would be fine, I don't care.
I'm pretty certain of my type."
The thing is you're like, "I hate my type."
It is impossible to get this far into typology
and still have that same attitude that, that people have
at the beginning where it's like, "My type is the best.
I love my type."
No, at this point, you're like "I kinda wish
I could be any other type or" at the very least,
you will have a cognitive function that you are like,
"I hate this cognitive function. I wish I did not have it."
Another thing at this tier is you start catching yourself
doing stuff all the time that is related to your type.
And sometimes you're like "Oh, that's funny."
But other times you're like, "I hate my type."
At this point, people also start to get
into like obscure theories and stuff.
They'll get into like the subtypes of the types and
subtypes of the subtypes, et cetera.
Some people at this tier are very well versed
in Carl Jung and always go back to him.
They'll be like, "Well, Jung said this.
So this is what this has to be."
Sometimes at level six, you get people who are very far
into like the official MBTI stuff.
But they usually have gone like back to, y'know,
the very original writings from Myers and Briggs.
At this stage it is impossible to have any interaction
with any other human being or even just like watch a TV show
without thinking about type.
This is one of the things that's tough about type
is that it's this thing that switched on in your brain
that never goes away.
Which it is not the worst thing in the world.
But on the plus side it makes it so that almost anything
can be interesting.
People at this tier can like watch any dumb TV show
or listen to a podcast that they don't care about
the subject matter because they can use it as a chance to
listen for type.
At this tier, inevitably, people also get into
something very controversial.
Visual typing.
And at first it sounds stupid and dumb.
And to a degree, it is.
The idea though, is that there are certain physical traits
that are attributable to certain cognitive functions.
That people of a certain type might kind of look similar.
As the most basic example, you might have heard of an
FE smile versus an FI smile.
Basically, that if someone has extroverted feeling
they'll have this big dumb smile. (laughs)
Like this.
But if someone has introverted feeling their smile will be
like, a little less Hollywood, it'll be more like...
(laughs) I don't even know, player.
The thing about visual typing is that there are
always exceptions which makes it kind of dumb.
The fact that it's inconsistent makes you want to
figure it out so you just think about it all the time.
I know people are gonna be like
"Make a whole video about that", but I don't know,
it seems dangerous, but that's never stopped me before.
And the last thing, once you get to this level, this depth
of interest and knowledge into the 16 personalities
and you've probably heard me making references
to it throughout this tier, is that you start to realize
maybe this isn't real. Maybe it's just all in my head.
Maybe all of us who are into this are just making stuff up.
But you know what? The funny thing about being at this tier
is you're like "Eh, okay. It might be real.,
it might not be real. I still find it interesting.
And I'm still gonna use it"
Now, what will push each of the 16 personalities to
confront you? Check out the answer to that video
(sighs)
Guys, my brain is fried.
I'm trying to say, click this video
Stay cool and attractive.