In this video, we're going to look at the Big Five
dimension of neuroticism, and ENFPs. We're going to look at
what is neuroticism? What are ENFPs likely to score in this
dimension. And what advice can I share about that that will help
you live the most awesome life possible as an ENFP, who scores
the mystery number on neuroticism.
One cool thing about this video is it's going to also help you
figure out what the difference between an ENFP A and an ENFP T
is, and which one of the two you most likely are. So in the Big
Five neuroticism is looking at the areas of negative emotion
such as irritability, anger, pain, fear or anxiety. It can be
broken down into two categories, withdrawal and volatility.
Withdrawal is related to anticipation anxiety. So
essentially, someone who is really low in withdrawal is
going to be much more likely to step into the unknown, right? So
if someone's like really neurotic and high in withdrawal,
then they're going to be very nervous about anything unknown
about jumping into new situations. The other area is
volatility. How much do your emotions change? Are you
bouncing around all the time? Are you more stable, if you do
get frustrated? Do you maybe quit easily or take that
frustration out on someone else. Volatility is related to
essentially changes in your personality based on changes in
your mood. So people who are low in volatility will tend to be
the same most of the time you see them. People who are higher
in volatility might swing in terms of their emotions, they
might express frustration, or anger, they might be very irritable
one day and not irritable the next. I know Gabby, who's
editing this video is probably laughing right now, we will get
into that in the video where I reveal my big five personality
test results. So with a lot of these personality dimensions,
there's a positive aspect to either side, however you score,
there's an evolutionary reason for that being true. And this is
actually true for neuroticism as well. If you think about it,
neuroticism is tied to avoiding negative emotions and negative
situations, right? So someone who is very low in neuroticism
is likely to jump into new things, and new adventures and
everything else. And that can be really good. But it can also be
really bad. Maybe you jumped into a river, and the river has
Piranhas. Maybe you jump into and around the world trip and
COVID-19 happens, maybe you you know, whatever, right? There can
be bad sides to that. There's also obviously really negative
sides to locking yourself in a room and living that way for a
decade. Right. So it's again, nothing's right or wrong,
necessarily, but you need to understand these dimensions and
how they affect you. So how do ENFPs tend to rate on
neuroticism? Well, the neuroticism is actually the one
scale of the five. And I don't think correlates too much to our
type. And that's actually why if you've taken one of the
personality tests, where you get called an ENFP A or an ENFP T,
this is what it is looking at. It's looking at your neuroticism
essentially. So I believe it's an ENFP Ts are higher in
neuroticism, and ENFP A's are going to be lower in
neuroticism. So my guess on this one, and this is more of a guest
and then my other videos on the big five and in relation to ENFP
is that ENFPs would score moderately low on neuroticism,
with withdrawal being fairly low, and volatility being
probably moderate or higher. Now, I think, again, this is
probably the most variability were the other four dimensions,
I think you can pretty clearly figure out how types would fit
in not perfectly, but it's somewhat predictable with
neuroticism, I think there's a lot of variability. And I don't
quite know why that is, it may be because things like
volatility, like volatility, I don't know if that serves a
great function evolutionarily, I score fairly high on volatility.
And I don't think that's a big upside. I think that's just like
a screwy brain. Like I banged my head when I was nine. And there
was a bit of brain damage, like actually, or something like
that, because I do find the more I exercise and eat well and
basically have my s#$% together, the less volatility I feel. And
so I wonder if neuroticism is a measure that changes, not like
week to week or something like that? Well, it does if you're
high in volatility...but that it changes based on brain
function. So maybe it is tied to something like ADHD or just
other things and when you're more when you're more
scatterbrained, you're going to have higher volatility and
having less control of your thoughts can maybe even lead to
more anxiety and
withdraw side of neuroticism, like thinking about the bad
things that could happen, as well. So neuroticism is
definitely an interesting one, it's something I'm going to be
thinking about and learning about more and maybe do some
more videos on as well, because it obviously makes a really big
difference if it's tied to your volatility, changing emotions
and being really frustrated easily. And tied to withdrawal,
which can if you're high in withdrawal, you're going to
avoid new situations. That obvious see is a big deal for a
lot of the clients I work with. A lot of the clients I'm working
with are ENFPs, and often aspiring entrepreneurs or
wanting to do something big you can see how neuroticism
could have a really negative impact. And if you are interested
in some more training to help you be the best damn ENFP you can be
you can head to my website dreamsaroundtheworld.com/big5enfp
and there you will find some training to go deeper
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of yourself. Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next video. Buy