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- I am so upset right now.
I just need to calm down
because I have been on the worldwide web,
the information superhighway,
reading a bunch of inaccurate stereotypes
about the 16 Myers-Briggs personalities
that need to be stopped.
There are so many myths
about the 16 personalities that just aren't true.
So we need to cut through the misinformation
and destroy these seven common misconceptions,
these falsehoods about the 16 Myers-Briggs personalities.
(computer bleeping) (Chip chuckling)
- I haven't seen you seen you this mad
since they made us update to Windows 95. (chuckling)
- Chip, you don't need to remind me of that, okay?
It's still, still very painful.
And before we get into that,
you need to watch until the end of the video
because I've got a special announcement
and I will be very disappointed
if you do not hear my special announcement.
- Uh, is the announcement
you're getting off of YouTube? (chuckling)
- That was unnecessarily hurtful, Chip.
Misconception number one. (laughing)
I gotta bring the energy down.
I don't know (chuckling) if I can go much higher than that.
That sensing types are dumb.
They're not insightful.
They're basically slow,
and should be getting on the short bus to go to school.
Ah, that's not true.
The sensors are just as smart as intuitives,
if not smarter.
I think this misconception
comes up because the sensing types can be a bit slower,
a bit more methodical,
when it comes to learning new things.
And this is because they wanna make sure they
get all the details.
Intuitive types, they can learn stuff fast
because they don't care about details.
They're just like, "I get the gist.
Let me just guess about what's going on here."
And that doesn't make intuitive types smarter.
That just makes them more likely to make mistakes.
Let's consider that misconception
(fireball roars) (Frank groans)
ugh, (chuckling) destroyed.
Number two, and now that I'm saying it,
maybe I should have started off with this one.
- (chuckling) You said, "Number two."
- A common thing that's said everywhere,
all over the worldwide information superhighway,
people are out there saying,
"Intuitive types are the best."
In the last video I did,
which you could see in the card above my head.
Whoa. (fireball roars)
We talked about how only 25% of the population
prefer intuition.
And I think that this is a circumstance
with this misconception
that intuitives are the best,
where people test intuitive,
and then they're like, "Oh, I'm relatively rare.
I must be better."
But here's the thing,
no preference is better than any other.
As I mentioned before,
there are pros and cons
to preferring both intuition and sensing.
And if we're using personality types
as a way of understanding ourselves and improving ourselves,
it's important not to start off with this misconception
that I am somehow better than other people
because of my type.
Number three misconception is that thinking types
don't have emotions.
They're just robots going around,
uh, bee, boo, bop.
I'm just a thinker. I'm just rational.
Emotions? I don't know what those are.
Now Chip here, he doesn't have emotions
because he is literally a computer.
(Chip chuckling)
- Yeah, emotions are dumb.
- But us human beings who are thinking types
do, in fact, have emotions.
Having emotions is human.
Thinking types may even express
their emotions from time to time.
But the reason that they are thinking types
is because they have found
that their emotions, and their feelings,
and their value judgments of things,
are not as reliable as their logical decisions.
People who prefer thinking
trust their thinking side more,
even though they do have the emotions, they feel 'em all,
but when it's game time and the chips are on the table,
they're not gonna trust their feelings.
They're gonna trust their thinking, their logic.
(Chip chuckling)
- When the chips are on the table?
My name's Chip. (chuckling)
I'm on the table. (chuckling)
- Chip, that is not even funny.
Like, why did you...
(Frank chuckling)
And yet, I'm laughing. (chuckling)
So that misconception
is (grunts) debunked. (fireball roars)
Number four on the list.
Feeling types are just so averse to conflict
that they will just agree to everything.
They're pushovers.
They're doormats.
And while, yes, feelers do care about harmony,
and feelers do not like conflict,
people who prefer feeling can still be very disagreeable.
They can get into and even start conflicts.
It really depends upon what is the conflict about?
If a feeler feels like their values,
or the values of the group,
are being violated,
they will jump in there and start a fight over it
because feelers value harmony
and I think they realize a lot of times,
in order to achieve that harmony,
we might need to have a little conflict,
a little fighting in the short term.
In our next segment
we will go over three more misconceptions.
And these are some of the worst.
So, stay tuned.
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Okay, now we've got our final three misconceptions.
And like I said, these are some of the worst.
These are some misconceptions that make my blood boil.
They keep me up at night.
They even cause me some consternation and vexation.
- Oh, wow.
Someone's been using the thesaurus in Microsoft Word.
Nerd. (laughing)
- I did, Chip,
because I like to be loquacious.
And sesquipedalian.
- Those words are so complicated
I think my processor is overheating. (chuckling)
It burns. (chuckling) Cool.
- Misunderstanding/misconception/terrible stereotyping,
slash, the, the, slash, terrible stereotype
is that perceiving types, or P types,
are lazy slackers.
They're messy, unorderly.
They don't wanna work.
They don't wanna clean up their room.
They live in filth.
They haven't done their laundry in the last three weeks.
And there is a sliver of truth
to some of this because some of the P types,
especially, like, ENFPs, ENTPs,
they really struggle with the sensory world,
and, like, getting things organized.
However, this whole thing about them being lazy
and being, like, totally disorderly,
it's just not true.
Perceiving types like to do their own thing.
So it may seem that they are slackers
when they are in school, for example,
and they're being told to do a bunch of stuff
that they don't really want to do.
But when perceiving types find what they wanna do,
when they pursue what they are passionate about,
they work really hard.
They are not lazy or slackers in any way.
They're really only underachieving
if they're measured by someone else's standards
that don't even really apply to them.
So get that misconception (fireball roars)
outa here.
- Yeah, some people think I'm a slacker.
It's just 'cause they're judging me
with the wrong criteria. (chuckling)
- No, Chip, you (chuckles) actually are a slacker. (laughs)
Why do we even have you here?
What value do you bring to the team?
- Uh...
- That's a rhetorical question.
What do you think you are, Ask Jeeves?
What, do you think you're Yahooligans?
You think you're AltaVista?
Frank, no one's gonna get these '90s references.
I know. (laughing)
Next up is that the J types,
the judging types, are judgmental.
This is something I think,
when people are starting to first learn about MBTI,
they're like, "Oh, that person's gotta be a J type
'cause they're really judgmental."
Or they're like,
"Well, I can't be a J type
because, I, I'm not, I'm not judgy."
But that's not what it means.
I think being judgmental
is just generally kind of a human trait.
The thing about the J types
is they might be more likely to express their judgment,
but they usually do that with a purpose of,
like, trying to bring people together,
or get 'em to work together, or whatever.
Ultimately, J types,
not judgmental. (fireball roars)
At least, that's not what it means.
Lastly, and this is one of the biggest misconceptions
and pieces of misinformation
going out there when it comes to the 16 personalities,
that the introvert types are super shut-ins.
They never go out.
They hate talking to people.
They're so shy.
They basically got social anxiety,
whereas the extrovert types are social butterflies,
going out there, talking to everybody.
They're having wild parties all the time.
And part of the problem is that Myers-Briggs
gives you one option or the other.
You're either introvert or extrovert.
There's no, like, middle option.
There's no sliding scale
like there is with other personality systems
like the Big Five for example,
which can be much more accurate
when it comes to introvert/extrovert,
because it will say,
"Oh, you are in the 40th percentile.
So you are more introverted than average,
but you're not an extreme."
And most people are in the middle.
Most people are ambiverts.
They're not extreme extroverts.
They're not extreme introverts.
And you can have people who are E types
who can be kind of quiet,
and people who are I types who are outgoing.
This is where things get a bit more complicated,
so we'll save that for another video.
But, that I or E at the beginning of your type
is actually giving you a bit more insight
into the nitty-gritty of what your type is all about.
It doesn't just mean, are you quiet or are you outgoing?
There's a bit more to it.
And you can start by looking at this video of mine.
What are the four temperaments of the 16 personalities?
Oh, that card man, (fireball roars)
almost got me.
Lastly, the special announcement.
I'm gonna be making a fun video soon
where I am going to be typing viewers like you.
All you need to do is make a short,
and upload it to YouTube.
It's very easy to do.
You could do it right from your mobile device.
In 60 seconds or less,
tell me as much as you can about yourself.
Upload it to YouTube
with the #TYPEWITHFJ.
And in a future video,
I'll be giving my hot takes
on what different viewers' personality types might be.
Upload your short now for a chance to be featured.
- FJ, can you type me?
- Chip, you have no type.
You are...
You're your own...
Doing your own thing over there.
(Chip chuckling)
- Cool. (chuckling)
- Next, watch this video
about how rare is your personality type,
going into all the statistical data
of how frequently each type occurs.
You can also check out the whole playlist right here,
and find another video you'd like to watch.
Thanks for watching.
Until next time, stay cool and attractive.