- So first of all, I wanna point out that I'm an idiot
and for (chuckles) the longest time
I had been spelling Myers-Briggs like this,
but it's actually spelled like this.
In fairness, most people with the name Meyers,
spell it with that first E.
At least (chuckles) I didn't spell Carl Jung, like with a Y.
Carl Young with a Y,
that sounds like a computer programmer
who lives in Ohio or something.
All right, really quickly, if you haven't listened
to the third episode of my podcast yet,
entitled The Cult of the Dream, check it out.
The link is in the description below.
All right, my dear friends,
today, we need to talk about something very seriously,
no fun and games in this video, okay?
Only serious, dry,
dry oatmeal with no water on it kind of discussion.
I wanna clear up,
I think a little bit of a misblunderstanding
that a lot of people who are interested
in MBTI, Myers-Briggs, spelled with no first E,
I think are making, it's a nuanced error though.
And the thing is this error,
I think actually affects typing when you're typing yourself,
typing other people,
a lot of people get confused about this,
and it's probably a lot more common than we think it is.
All mistyping I think, in all confusions, not all of 'em,
but a lot of them come from just looking at the letters
rather than looking at the functions.
You know, we just say,
"Oh, N versus S, cool.
F versus T, cool.
J versus P, I versus E!"
And the irony of it, most of us are here
because we took a test that just did that,
but you need to move beyond it.
So when you're typing,
if you're just looking at the letters,
the four letters of a type,
what do you think the easiest one is to type
of those four?
If I had to guess, a lot of you are out there saying,
"Oh, it's the I or the E, that's easy, Frank."
Wrong, wrong sucker.
Ooh! (punch thudding)
Yeah, yeah. (chuckles)
(punches thudding) Yeah, I'm gonna beat you up
'cause you're wrong.
I think, actually, the I or the E
is where people get tripped up
and that's where a lot of mistyping is happening.
Why?
Because there is the common definition
of introvert versus extrovert, but it's not the same thing
as the Myers-Briggs, Jungian, or Jungian,
if you wanna pronounce it correctly,
version of introvert versus extrovert.
It's similar, but it's a nuanced difference.
So basically, everyone's operating under the assumption of
"Oh, if I'm an introvert,
that means I'm drained by being around people
and basically it's almost like I'm shy."
"Whereas extrovert means I like to be around people,
I'm social."
That's not what the Myers-Briggs
introvert versus extrovert means.
The I or the E at the beginning of a type is saying,
is the person's dominant function,
the function that they're just
in cruise control in all the time,
that they don't even have to think about,
is that an introverted function or an extroverted function?
Now, the introverted functions
are all about the inner world,
about, you know, the inner feelings, inner thoughts,
it's about you, what's going on up here.
Whereas extroverted functions are out,
what's outside of you.
I mean, there's more to it, but that's basically what it is.
A Myers-Briggs introvert is gonna be mostly, dominantly,
about the world in their head,
whereas a Myers-Briggs extrovert
is gonna be more about the world outside of them.
However, this does not necessarily mean
that a Myers-Briggs introvert is going to be shy
or is going to not be charged up by being around people.
In the same way this doesn't mean
that a Myers-Briggs extrovert
is going to necessarily wanna be around a bunch of people.
They might prefer to be alone,
they might get drained by being around people.
This is where the mix-up and the confusion comes from.
So when you're trying to type other people
or even type yourself,
you can't just think of it in terms of the common definition
of introvert, extrovert.
Do I enjoy being around people?
Do I get drained by people?
And I can assure you
that there are Myers-Briggs INFJs
who are commonly understood to be extroverts,
they like being around people,
but their main function is introverted intuition
and so most naturally, they're just in their imagination.
Introverted intuition doesn't mean
that they have to be drained
by being around a crowd of people.
Likewise, you could have like an ENFP who is a shy person,
their dominant function is extroverted intuition,
that doesn't mean they love to be around people
and get charged up by it.
It gets confusing because usually they kind of match up.
Right?
People who are MBTI extroverts
tend to be the common definition of extrovert.
People who are MBTI introverts
tend to be the normally held definition of introverted,
but that could also just be
that a lot of people are mistyped
because they don't even think about that first letter.
That's the mistyping that a lot of people don't think about.
They're worried about,
"Am I freaking INTP or INTJ?"
Whereas they probably have never thought,
"Oh, maybe I'm ENTP."
This just never crosses their mind.
Think about it, open yourself up to the possibility
that perhaps in the Myers-Briggs sense,
you could be an extrovert.
Think about it, you might be opened up to a whole new world.
In fact, if I am mistyped,
I hope to God that I am some extroverted type
that I didn't even think about.
Like someone will say,
"Dude, you're actually ESFP," and I'm like,
"Yeah, I'm cool now!
Sweet!
Life is great now!"
Man, I would love it,
if I was mistyped like that, that would make my day,
this channel would blow up if that happened.
That would be the greatest story ever told.
They would stop showing that movie about Jesus
at Christmas or Easter, or whenever they show it
and just show my vlog on TV.
I'm gonna, (chuckles) I'm just out to offend everyone today.
Let me know in the comments,
have you ever thought about this?
Whether if you are an INFJ, for instance,
have you ever thought, "Maybe I'm actually an ENFJ."
Have you ever considered that first letter
or have you just always assumed
that it was the common definition?
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okay, so that's the show for today. (chuckles)
Check in sometime in the future,
when I do another vlog, actually, I think soon,
I wanna talk about the last letters, the J versus P.
What the frick do they mean?
'Cause I think there's a lot
of misblunderstandings there too.
All right, thank you again for watching.
Y'all take care, have a good one
and I'll see you here real soon.
Stay cool and attractive.
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