hey Dan here and we have three ask ten questions sent in from Darina actually
sent in like six but I'm the little bunch of using my free question policy
if you ask me I'm gonna do one video for each though and the first question is
dear Dan can the MBTI which is the myers-briggs Type Indicator myers-briggs
being all this personality type II and FB infe infj can that change over the
years and this is something that's asked a lot and it's debated a lot and my
opinion in general is well my opinion is that it cannot change but there's a lot
of things that can influence this and influence why people think it's changing
and that's what I want to cover here so I've had coaching clients one-on-one
clients tell me that they were an INTJ and then through personal development
work they evolved to be an ENFP and well maybe that is possible what my hunch is
more is that when we're taking a test we get influenced by what we believe is
sort of the right answer or the right way to look at life
some personality types are more susceptible to this and others so let's
say that you are an ENFP which tends to be a type of personality that isn't the
most organized that is a little more spontaneous but you grow up in a
household where you know being organized is really important and you were told
that you should be organized and you've been reading all these books about how
successful people are organized and plan ahead then maybe when you're taking that
test you're going to unconsciously kind of mark it in different ways that aren't
in indicative of how you would actually act or you do actually act in a very
organized fashion because that's what you feel you have to do but you're
constantly burning yourself out and like using all your energy to do it so at
your core you always say been an ENFP but you might score as like a tea and a
jay somewhere at the end there because that's just what you think you should be
behaving like and it could have influenced you similarly I think this
happens with different like personal development aspect
if you go through all this Tony Robbins and these different things that you can
get told hey you know this is a good way to think and it can temporarily change
how you might score on a test more than that though I think there is a level of
a evolution we go through that on the surface seems to change or type but it's
actually part of a natural evolution that's built into type psychology so
I'll use the example of an ENFP since dureena is an ENFP is that over kind of
different decades of our lives basically we grow different aspects of our our
ways of interacting with the world I'm forgetting our functions this is it so
generally through our I believe it is teenage years I might be messing this up
on the decade but initially we would grow our n our intuitive function right
which is how we interact with the world how we kind of taken information so
that's the first thing that tends to really mature and strengthen with an
ENFP which explains a lot in terms of kind of having all this like these
different thoughts of the world and understanding things and all that but at
this point we haven't grown our f function which is for feeling which is
part of empathy which is why probably is teenagers enfps can be little assholes
at least I was so generally later on we will then grow
our F function right which is to do with empathy and feeling and all that and
that's why in theory in our 20s we then develop a consciousness a consciousness
conscience fuck yes that's what we develop and then we so this is part of
the evolving and the next step after that is developing our T function which
is thinking and it's our third function so it's the one one that we're weaker in
and then our fourth function is s which is sensing which were the weakest in and
that would be around very much the physical world and that side of things
now the the t function i think is really interesting because I I feel accelerated
my growth there so traditionally we would develop our tea function through
natural kind of maturity in our 30s some people may never develop it and that's
where you meet some enfps who are in their 50s and bouncing off the walls and
totally have never held down a job other people may develop it earlier I develop
mine in kind of my 20s and I think a lot of that was because of personal
development work and starting a business and failing at that business and going
through a lot of stuff quickly so I kind of condense 20 years of experience into
you know seven or eight and I think that accelerated that I also made some
proactive choices to try to develop my thinking so that I was making decisions
more logically then then I previously was so in this case say I developed this
thinking function then if someone were to look at me they would probably see
the ENFP function but if they may also look at it and see a different function
like maybe it's like an intp or maybe an ENTJ in there at certain points if you
look at my life it seems very organized so you could and I can be very driven so
it might come off as like an ENTJ it types and things like that so if you're
looking at one type of people like you're looking say at an ENFP type and
they seem to be quite different different people that's usually part of
it there's a whole bunch to it as well that we're all different people and
we're not we're unique and whatever else but also that we go through these
developmental phases and and so that is another area where I think could
possibly influence your type changing that would be my main point I don't
think in general types change there can be things of course like traumatic
events brain injury or taking like some nice drugs or different things that can
probably change a type and have some serious changes in terms of how you're
wired and there's things like that but I would say for the vast majority of
normalised situation I don't think tight changes I think we
can evolve within our type and I think that our circumstances can change which
can also influence our behavior a lot in terms of environment and and things like
that so someone who's maybe a very disorganized always changing direction
ENFP suddenly has a kid and is super committed to being a great dad and
providing for his family may then really develop like his structure and drive and
focus and all that in order to you know succeed in that situation which on the
outside might appear more like they could change in tight but really it's
just an evolution within the type so that is my very off-the-cuff answer that
hopefully is useful or interesting to you I will say in case it wasn't obvious
this is a topic that I haven't read the research on I don't know if there is a
lot of research on my answers really based on my own experience with clients
with people and just kind of theorizing based on what I know about people and my
respect as well thanks for watching keep watching and we'll get to the next two
questions from dureena on the ass down here Cheers