why is it so important to know about the
16 myers-briggs personality types being
viewers of this channel i don't know
that i really need to convince a lot of
you but i do think a lot of people don't
realize how
powerful it can be
to understand typology because it helps
you understand yourself better helps you
understand other people better
it can even help you kind of predict
what you and other people might do
without even realizing it and if by the
end of this video you are not convinced
that it is important to know about
personality types
you were wrong okay let's talk about
the common objections to personality
typing specifically myers-briggs because
i think you have to get past those first
before you can really get into
the meat and potatoes of what it is and
the the most common
objections that i hear which have some
truth to them like let's be real it's
not like they're just totally out of
left field the biggest one is that it's
just a horoscope like it doesn't it
could apply to anybody and yeah honestly
if you read some of the descriptions of
the types on certain sites every type
could apply to everyone in some way part
of it is just the nature of myers-briggs
is that it's not really trying to
describe every single thing about every
single person and of course we know that
there's more than 16
kinds of people like we've met
more than 16 different personalities out
there in the world because talking about
the 16 personalities and type is not
describing every single facet about a
human being there's the people are
complex there's a lot more to it you
have to realize what
myers-briggs is trying to say and what
it's not trying to say so yeah it can at
first maybe can seem a little vague but
once you start to really get into
the nuts and bolts of what it's really
looking at and get beyond like the
stereotypes you know the stereotypes i
like to play with uh in my comedy
sketches but you know oh you're an isfp
so you like to do art and stuff or oh
you're an entp and you like to debate
sure
those are the stereotypes but most
people do not fit the stereotypes of the
16 personalities occasionally you will
see some people where you're like yes
that right there that is a stereotypical
intj
but not every intj you meet is going to
fit that stereotype and that's one of
the first things you have to realize
this isn't like some kind of like magic
obvious thing right it takes a little
bit more thought and attention and
paying attention to what people say
and a bit of what they're giving away
with their behaviors about what they
prefer because that's what personality
typing is talking about how do you
prefer to see the world how do you
prefer to make decisions and i've made
videos on that the playlist is above my
head you can click on that get caught up
now the second thing which i think is
very interesting and has less to do with
the system itself and more about human
nature is that it's very limiting that
typology
limits people because if i tell you
you're
an esfp
and you get really attached to that
description
and certain elements of that type and
you really like own it and it becomes
part of your identity that's going to
like hurt you in the long run
even just something as simple as
identifying as an introvert you can tell
yourself a story to the point where you
like end up
warping yourself a bit to fit your
preconceived notion of who you are
because you read some kind of
description you know like for instance
if i say i'm an introvert over and over
and then i start to learn about what
introverts are and i'm like introverts
hate going to parties introverts hate
talking to people introverts hate using
the phone and then i slowly just descend
further and further
into introversion because i'm telling
myself the story that oh i have to be
like this and i never want
anything i teach or any of my comedy
sketches or whatever to make people
think that this is supposed to be
limiting and put you in a box
because it's not it's supposed to really
just kind of pick out patterns and say
oh you seem to prefer
sensing over intuition you seem to
prefer feeling over thinking doesn't
mean you can't do the other things
doesn't mean you can't
learn
to
use those other functions or other
preferences just means that this is this
is what i see as what you prefer this
isn't about limiting you now we're going
to get into the really useful stuff
about why it's so important to learn
about personality types but before we do
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great all right let's get back to the
topic at hand first of all
one of the most obvious things i think
the reason people get into typology
perhaps in the first place
the reason it's so important to
understand the 16 personalities is
learning about yourself
and i think that isn't that why you got
into it that's why i got into it because
you discover there are these types oh my
gosh i am a type so now i can figure out
how what have i been doing that is
typical you know that is
something that
someone else has identified there's a
pattern and
how does that help me become a better
person so of course like i've talked
about what it what myers-briggs is
really focusing on is how do you make
observations how do you make decisions
so
learning about your type in particular i
mean i think it's good to learn about
all the types so you can kind of just be
aware
of what it all means in context but to
learn about
your type and how you make observations
because you might discover that oh my
type is
an isfj
and so that means that i kind of have a
narrow way of taking in information and
i'm kind of avoiding
looking for
new concepts i kind of stick to what i
know and going over that over and over
again and maybe it would be good for you
to step out of your comfort zone and
do something new that's outside of your
box it also helps you realize how do you
prefer to make decisions so if you know
that
you're
an infj or an isfj you know that you use
extroverted feeling
to make decisions which means that
you're kind of looking out at everyone
else to see how to how does everyone
else
judge this to be good or bad what does
everyone else place as the value
on whatever i'm doing and so then you
can realize oh maybe sometimes i need to
focus more on myself and what i think is
right and follow my own inner guidance a
bit more and then you may find that you
have recurring issues in life i mean we
all will have this from time to time
where it's like why does this keep
happening to me why every once in a
while every few months or once a year or
whatever
i have this same issue i have the same
conflict with people i have this same
thing where i get overwhelmed with work
that i've left to the last second or
whatever
and you can start to find out that oh
this is being caused by something in my
personality some some of the imbalances
that i have and specifically that's why
it's important to look at what the
inferior function
of your personality type is and that's
really
a great thing to know so that you can be
like okay
i usually
i'm avoiding this one thing over here
and that causes all the problems so now
i need to step into that
and
embrace my inferior function it will
help you a lot once you kind of get that
down then understanding others
to me is even more
helpful because that's where it comes
into play knowing all of the types
understanding how it all works
and it's basically the same thing how
are other people making observations how
are other people making decisions so
what i have found is that understanding
typology has made me much more patient
and compassionate for other people
because i realize now they're not just
weird although i still am like well that
person's a weirdo but now i can be like
oh
i i see that they are acting this way
probably because they are this type or
this temperament you know this is an ej
so they're going to be you know freaking
out about this thing or this is a ep so
they're going to be freaking out about
this you can check out the video i did
last week about the four temperaments in
the card above my head so it's a good
way of just quickly
understanding four basic types of people
within the 16 personalities and just
that alone can be very useful for for
understanding others and feeling
compassionate then you can be like oh
okay i have a little bit more patience
for them because
their type
is you know screwing them over right now
the defaults
and the preferences of their type are
making them act like a weirdo right now
and it's it helps a lot to just know
that going into it also it can help you
communicate with other people because
if you know if you can kind of identify
oh especially when it comes to feeling
versus thinking if you can identify
i'm talking to
a thinker right now
you know you'll know then that it might
be a little bit
easier for you to communicate if you can
then
stop talking about feelings and start
talking about
reasons start talking about how we can
make something work of course the way
i'm talking about this it's like just
accommodate everyone around you i'm just
saying it's
it's good to know it helps you
communicate with them you can take it or
leave it but
sometimes when you can't get through to
someone or you can't understand them at
least now you can think about it and
understand what's what the dynamic at
play is or the dynamic could just be one
or both of you are stupid
that's always a possibility and if you
really know someone's type if you get
really good at it and i'm i'm not even
really good at it at this point
but once you get to that elite level you
can sort of predict what people will do
especially if if they seem to always
have a lot of issues the same issues
over and over again because like i said
before type is being type is what causes
these imbalances which cause the
problems so you can be like well uh
sally always ends up getting to a big
huge argument with everyone and burning
down everything all around them
you know once once or twice a year so i
can expect that to probably happen soon
oh i see it coming here it comes boom
and it's because she's xyz type and then
i think one more
thing that's general that could apply to
self or others is that you start to
realize that so many things aren't real
like what the things that
we pre it's why we get freaked out about
things that other people don't and other
people are acting weird about stuff and
you're like why are you doing that it's
because
like
all these problems in life have a
certain amount of reality but then our
type will
kind of like hype up
how
dangerous something feels because of
those imbalances or it will you know
make something seem like the worst thing
that could ever happen to you
just because of your type
whereas to someone else of a different
type might be like whatever this isn't a
big problem it's you know we can work
through it it's not great but
it's fine so in the moment when you find
yourself getting really freaked out
about something that maybe other people
wouldn't it could be many things but it
might be worth thinking to yourself
oh this might be type related
i need to realize that other people of
different types
wouldn't be
freaked out in the same way and that can
help me face it and get through it
because a lot of times when we get too
afraid and something just seems too real
to us we can't work through it and being
able to kind of take a step back and
realize
what are the forces at work in our mind
that's making making certain things seem
insurmountable
while other people might be like oh
that's not a big deal
those are the things where if you take a
step back you need to to learn how to
get over them to you know get
get to where you want to be in life all
right thanks for watching check out
another video right here and until next
time stay cool and attractive
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