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So when it comes to the Myers-Briggs 16 personalities,
we have introverts and we have extroverts.
You're either one or the other.
There's no sliding scale.
But have you ever wondered what if we did rank them?
What are the most extroverted of the 16 personalities,
going all the way down to the most introverted
of the 16 personalities?
That's what we're going to do today.
Where does your personality type fall on that list?
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Now, in Myers-Briggs,
when we call a type an introvert or an extrovert,
it really is talking
about their dominant cognitive function.
And if you don't know what that means,
I don't blame you.
But you can learn all about it in the card,
there's a video contained within the card.
Just click it after you've finished watching this video.
So in order to rank the personalities,
we're gonna have to look at the Big 5 personality system,
and specifically the personality trait of extroversion.
and the Big 5 definition of extroversion
is a lot closer to what we commonly think of
when we say introverts and extroverts.
So people who are high in extroversion in the Big 5 system,
they seek out social contact, they enjoy it.
It doesn't drain them.
They are more talkative.
They like to share what's going on in their brain.
They're more assertive.
They're more enthusiastic.
They are more impulsive.
And they are also more responsive to positive emotions.
So it's easy for them to get excited.
It's easy for them to feel happy and be like,
it's just, just be like this.
Introverts though are the opposite of that.
But on this scale, it's not called introversion.
It's just being low in extroversion.
So people low in extroversion are drained by social contact,
so they need to be by themselves to recharge.
They're not very talkative, not very assertive,
not very enthusiastic, not very impulsive.
They like to think things through,
and they are not easily excited.
They don't have a very sensitive response
to positive emotions.
So are you depressed yet?
All right, let's start ranking the types already.
Let's start with the most extroverted ones.
And I think you'll find,
you'll find people of any type and every type
who range from very extroverted to very introverted.
So what we're really looking at
is when you're looking around a room
and you find the most extroverted people,
what types are they most likely to be?
So we start off with the EJs,
because I think that the four EJ types,
ESTJ, ENTJ, ESFJ, ENFJ,
those four types are where you're gonna find the clustering
of the most extroverted people.
The ESTJ and ENTJ have extroverted thinking-dominant,
And the ESFJ and ENFJ have extroverted feeling-dominant.
And these cognitive functions
are very focused in on other people
and the decisions they're making
and what they think or what they feel.
And that focus oftentimes compels these types
to constantly surround themselves with other people,
to seek out the opinions of others,
to express their own thoughts and feelings,
to ask everyone a bunch of questions.
These types are very invested
in getting feedback from everyone around them.
Which ones would I put as the most extroverted
out of the EJ types?
Well, this is really a judgment call,
but I think we gotta go with the thinkers,
the ESTJ and the ENTJ being the most extroverted.
Because thinking is just always gonna have an edge
and be a little bit more assertive than feeling.
Now, you do get extroverted feelers who are very assertive,
but I think the thinkers have an edge.
They will just go that extra step of really being assertive
and not worrying too much about the feeling state of others.
I think the ESTJ beats out the ENTJ just by a hair
for being the most extroverted of the 16 personality types.
And I'll tell you why.
The ESTJ, preferring sensing,
having that introverted sensing cognitive function second
is focused in on the real world.
I think being a bit more grounded in reality,
focused in on what is actually around them,
gives them the opportunity to be a bit more engaging,
a bit more extroverted.
ESTJ then ENTJ.
Then to keep things consistent,
we'll go with ESFJ and ENFJ.
Next, I don't know that anyone's gonna be surprised by this,
but I would put the EP types.
This is actually kind of tough to call.
This is kind of interesting
because the EP types for the most part
are not really as focused on other people as the EJs are.
EJs, very focused on people.
EPs, they're more focused on things and experiences.
So to the EP types, other people are kind of like, in a way,
just part of those things and experiences.
The EPs, if they wanna be surrounded by people,
it's less so because they are invested
in getting feedback from them about their opinions
and how they feel and think or whatever.
It's just because they want other people around,
'cause maybe other people can present ideas
that can be batted around.
Or other people have amusing jokes and stories to tell.
It's less so about what decision
is this person going to make?
What opinion does this person have?
The EP types either have extroverted sensing
or extroverted intuition
as their dominant cognitive functions.
And those functions just wanna keep having new experiences
and explore new ideas.
They don't wanna stay still.
They don't wanna keep doing the same thing.
That can lead them
to continually search out new environments,
new people around them,
and to do things a bit more impulsively.
I think that is what puts them
in the more extroverted category.
I think you gotta put the ESTP and the ENTP
as the next most extroverted types.
And then I guess we would go with ESFP and ENFP.
In part two of the video,
we're gonna look at the most introverted types.
Stay tuned.
So now we're continuing to go down the scale
from most extroverted to most introverted.
We just talked about the EPs.
Next, we gotta go with the IJs.
Now, you know how I just said about the EPs,
unless you skipped ahead,
that a lot of EPs maybe aren't that talkative.
They aren't as people-focused.
But they are more enthusiastic.
They like new experiences and stuff.
The IJs are kind of the inverse of that.
IJs are not as crazy focused on people
the way that the EJs are.
The EJs, they live and breathe
what other people are thinking and feeling.
The IJs, they are tuned into it.
They think it's important,
but it's not everything to them.
IJs either have introverted sensing
or introverted intuition as their dominant function.
So while they may have some interest
in the people around them,
be interested in the decisions they're making,
how they feel, what they're thinking,
their dominant cognitive function is a perceiving function.
And it's really about limiting the information
and organizing the information.
So the IJs, they do have that social side,
but the primary thing for them
is how do I take all this information I have
and then organize it?
Which is why they are just naturally a bit more introverted
than their EJ counterparts.
IJs really are resistant to change though.
They like to do the same thing over and over.
They prefer to stay in a lane
and never change lanes their whole life.
So the IJ's very impulsive.
So then the rankings at this point
would be ISTJ, INTJ, ISFJ, INFJ.
And it's interesting because a lot of times
INFJs are called the most extroverted of the introverts,
which on this list has not happened.
So then that leaves us with the IP types
as the four most introverted personality types.
The IP types have introverted feeling
or introverted thinking as their dominant function.
These are decision-making functions that are inward-focused.
So it's like, what decision am I going to make?
I am the final arbiter for that.
I don't really care what other people think.
And to the point where it's like,
I'm gonna try to ignore everyone else's input.
I'm not gonna ask and I don't wanna know.
These types I think are the ones
that have the most going on internally
that they do not express to other people.
So as such, you can already see why,
why they're on the most introverted end of the list here.
IP types are often the least talkative personality types.
They prefer to kind of sit back and listen.
Though, if an IP corners you
and starts to talk about something
that you know is interesting to them,
that's on their mind,
they will just keep going and never stop.
But IPs, oftentimes, just keep things to themselves.
IP types have like very strong senses
of who they are and what they wanna do
and what their values are.
But the thing is,
they are often not very outwardly assertive about it.
They will do their thing.
They will go off on their own.
They'll go down their own path,
but they'll do it quietly,
and they'll try to get around conflict
and doing it directly.
So I think we will rank them ISTP, INTP, ISFP, INFP.
Let me know what you think about these rankings
in the comments.
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