- It's May.
No, it's not even May, God, dear God, it's June.
Do I have early onset dementia?
It's June and I wish it was Christmas already.
I miss Christmas, man.
I was thinking about today,
what if a year on earth was actually, like,
half of what it is?
Like, instead of 365 it was,
math, 182, right?
That'd be cool, have Christmas twice as much,
twice as much rampant consumerism.
All right, so in my last video I talked about
introvert versus extrovert in Myers-Briggs world
versus what the common definition instrovert,
instrovert, geez, oh flip,
introvert versus extrovert is.
You can watch that video on one of these sides
if you haven't seen it already.
Today I wanna talk about another tricksy pair of letters
in the Myers-Briggs type, which is the last letter,
either the J or the P.
Because I think that there are some more misconceptions
about what those letters mean,
and I just wanna clear those up.
All right, so basically, the J or the P at the end,
along with the I or the E at the beginning,
is the key to decoding the type,
so figuring out the functions based
on the four letters of the Myers-Briggs type,
if you didn't know.
As we discussed in the last video,
the I or the E at the beginning tells you,
is the first function introverted or extroverted?
Simple enough, easy to remember.
The J or the P at the end tells you,
is the first extroverted function
a judging function or a perceiving function?
And of course, as we all know,
the judging functions are thinking and feeling,
and the perceiving functions are sensing and intuiting.
And so, of course, as you know,
in Myers-Briggs function stack world,
it goes back and forth,
so if your first function is extroverted,
that means your second function is introverted.
Likewise, if your first function is introverted,
your second function is extroverted.
So, for example, we have the INFJ,
I meaning that the first function is introverted.
J meaning that the first extroverted function
is going to be a judging function,
and we know from the NF that that's gonna be,
that intuition and feeling are gonna be
the first two functions, so introverted intuition,
the perceiving function is first,
and then the judging function, feeling, is extroverted.
That's second.
In a surprise, perhaps, to everyone,
everyone involved is surprised,
introverts, their main function is actually the opposite
of what the last letter is.
INFJ's first function is a perceiving function.
INFP's first function is a judging function.
But, the first function that you see in the outside world
is the J or the P, the extroverted function,
'cause the introverted functions are all
in the inner world, the interior world,
whereas the extroverted functions are
what can be seen by other people.
It's you out in the real world.
And knowing this, you can decode
all the different functions based on the letters.
An ENFJ, for example, is gonna be all the same functions
as an INFJ, except the first two are flipped,
meaning the last two or flipped also,
so their main function is extroverted feeling,
and their second function is introverted intuition.
Pretty cool, right?
We learn stuff.
The thing is, though, a lot of people don't realize this,
that the J and the P are meant to decode the functions,
and they kind of take these last two letters on their own
as though they are describing something about the person
in a more specific way, meaning like,
if someone is a judging type,
then that means they are more orderly,
they stick to more plans, they take action more often,
and a perceiving type is going to be more loose,
more spontaneous, less prone to action.
Yeah, those things are generally sort of maybe true,
however, you can't just take the J or the P
and then assume things about a person or a type.
You have to look at the functions
and see how that fits into how they interact with the world.
The reason that there is this idea
of judging types versus perceiving types is
because the judging functions are more active,
so if you are a judging type,
that means that you have extroverted thinking
or extroverted feeling in your first two functions,
which theoretically means that you are more apt
and more likely to take action in the real world.
Meanwhile, if you are a perceiving type,
then that means your first extroverted function
is either extroverted sensing or extroverted intuition,
which, because they are perceiving functions,
are not really about taking action in the world.
They're more about gathering information.
That's kinda the trap when you're trying to type people,
and why, just because someone is neat doesn't mean
that they are a J type.
Just because someone is spontaneous
doesn't mean they're a P type.
You have to look at things as a whole.
Of course, there's much more to it
than what I'm explaining here, but that's just for starters.
I just wanna get it out there that those last two letters
aren't really describing specific things.
Those last two letters are just to tell you
what the order of the functions are,
along with the first letter.
Well actually, along with all the letters,
but that's like the key.
The judging versus perceiving,
that's the key to decoding the Myers-Briggs type.
So that's that, that's judging versus perceiving types.
I wanna do a really quick segment here
at the end of the video for you lovely viewers.
Some of you have been asking me
about all the guitars I have.
I just wanna do a quick show and tell on one guitar,
and tell you a quick, brief story about it.
I promise it'll be brief.
So, from time to time,
you've probably see this violin bass hanging on my wall.
Of course, Paul McCartney in The Beatles
used his Hofner violin bass that's an iconic look.
This is not a Hofner, this is a Rogue bass
from Musician's Friend, I think.
It's very cheap.
It's like a $200 bass.
However, I love this thing.
It's been my favorite bass.
It has great thump to it.
It's a good one.
I bought this with my graduation money in high school,
so this is old.
This is coming onto 13 years I've had this instrument,
and saying those words makes me very depressed.
Recently though, some of the wiring has come loose in here,
and I need to re-solder it,
and I don't really know how to do that,
so I've been putting it off.
The other interesting thing is,
the way to get that really Beatley tone,
these are flat wound strings,
so with guitars, with guitar strings, bass strings,
you can get round wound or flat wound strings.
The flat wound strings have a much smoother, mellower tone.
They're not used as often.
The round wound ones are more bright and cutting.
For my bass, I like the flat wounds.
It sounds retro.
It sounds good to my ear.
And these strings I put on this bass in 2005
and haven't changed them since, and they still sound okay.
A little show and tell for you all, for the interested few.
I can't wait to look at the audience retention analytics
for this video and see the steep drop off
as I talk about my guitar.
But thank you so much for watching,
if you did indeed watch this.
Make sure you like it if you want good luck
for the next 10 years.
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Until next time, stay cool and attractive.
(mellow music)