What this kind of thing is useful to do is to read through and see what really resonated with me
So what I want you to do is pick out ten sentences. They make you think oh my gosh, that is so me
Hey Badasses, how's it going?
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Brand yourself and go out and either get or create your dream job. I hope that everyone's doing well this week.
Today we are going to be talking about
Personality and there's a song just came to my mind. Wait one second. I have to find this
Oh
My god ridiculous
Um, yes
so personality and I'm sure if you're anything like me you would have done a thousand personality tests online and being like Oh,
What does this mean about me? What is this? What can I interpret from these results and oh my gosh. How did it know?
It's in my head and all that good stuff. And I just wanted to preface this video by saying that these tests are
dandy, they're great and I serve a purpose but there is a particular way that we need to look at them and interpret them if
We're going to be using them to figure out what we want to do
For our next career move or trying using that as a piece of the puzzle to figure out what our purpose might be because yes
personality is part of the
Equation for that but it's not the be-all and end-all and obviously these tests can only do so much
so while it doesn't really matter if you do that Enneagram or the big five or the MBTI or whatever it is is
It's a matter of interpretation
So I'm going to use the MBTI
For this example for this video and I'll drop the link in the description box down below
For the site on which you should take your MBTI personality test
And I'm going to walk you through just before you do how you might want to interpret the results from a
Careers perspective and by the way, if you are feeling a bit lost and stuck and confused about what's next for you
I highly recommend signing up to my free course find my why it's a step-by-step
Video training course with workbooks and lots of cool stuff that allows you to find your career purpose
So also leave that in the description box down below. I think it could be really useful and
Personality is one part of a much longer
Training series about trying to pull it all together and figure out what you should do next
So if that's for you definitely don't hesitate to grab that bun
so why is knowing your personality types so so important well as the famous philosopher Socrates said
To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom and that's completely true
and that anyone who's a high achiever high performer successful and a leader knows who they are and they've got great deals of
Self-awareness. Well, the good ones do anyway and our personality type is fundamentally structured around things. Like where do we get our energy from?
What kind of information do we tend to pay attention to? How do we make decisions?
And how do we need to structure our time to best perform?
So when you bring all those things together, you can see why it's really important to understand these things about yourself to then think
Okay
What kind of role what kind of?
Environment what kind of manager what kind of XYZ what I need to feel heavier in my career
So it's all about finding those we Clues all about you those self-awareness clues
I call them your purpose clues that all add up that create a map of who you are and where you'd best
Thrive so jumping into the MBTI specifically, where'd this come from?
So this came from psychiatrist Carl Jung?
So Carl Jung was working with Sigmund Freud and was wondering why do we approach our work?
So differently
Why is it that we think differently we see the world differently and that kind of thing and he started to
Research that and aside from Freud as being a giant weirdo. He came up with an archetype and architecture around
Personality types, and this was called a theory of psychological types now
This work was picked up on by Katherine Briggs and Isabel Myers Briggs Myers Briggs Type Indicator
and they made this far more popular in the 1940s since then an array of researchers have worked with to
refine and validated this work to have what we have today, which is the MBTI test and
It's always the same kind of thing
you can hear it called different things like the personality types tests or types indicator tests and stuff because obviously like
Patents but it's essentially the same thing and it revolves around four key domains
Firstly where do you get your energy from and where do you give your energy?
so this is extraversion and introversion and this is one of the most important ones to understand because it's the most
Misinterpreted right people think that extroverts are competent allowed and introverts are shy and awkward and it's not at all the case the second pillar
Is around what you pay attention to and how you process information
so you've got two domains here you've got sensing and
intuitive. So sensing is very
Logical and rational and they bring in information from their five senses
It's all about what they can see what they can hear what they know to be true
intuitive personality types are more in the abstract and the conceptual and
bigger picture and really making those kind of connections
so it's a different way of processing information a good example here is if you give
Someone a lemon and you ask them to describe that lemon someone and the sensing domain might say something like well
It's it's yellow. It has this kind of texture. It smells citrusy
It's kind of a round oblong shape and that's how they might describe it
Where as an intuitive character might be more like well, you could make lemon meringue pie with it. It represents
Something around resilience like when life gives you lemons just keep going
So you see the difference there. The third dimension is about the way you make decisions. So here you can either be a thinking or feeling preference.
Now thinking preferences will base the decisions they make on very concrete
reasoning and on logic whereas feeling preferences makes tend to make decisions around their values and
Harmony, what will other people think and how will this impact other people in my life?
and yeah comes down to feelings a lot of the time as well a very
emotionally driven decision-maker and then you've got your structure so you can either be a judging preference or
perceiving preference and a judging preference would be much more around needing to
Structure and organize time. They thrive on a plan they thrive on itineraries and they travel
They're often the kind of person that that feels more comfortable having a five-year plan for their life. Whereas the perceiving or prospecting?
Sometimes it's called preference is much more around going with the flow
They actually thrive on last-minute and they can often be running late
But they stay a lot more adaptable and they keep their options open until the very last minute, right?
So they're very very good at adapting to change a couple of things to get straight before we dive into each of those dimensions
Is that this is not about being good or bad or?
strong not strong and something so
Neither preference is good or bad extroverts aren't good or bad and introverts aren't good or bad
organizations teams
artists like any field you can think of
needs
successful and
Diverse thinking from both stand points. Also keep in mind that this is a continuum
So just because you have an eye preference doesn't mean you can't play in a range that sees you also having a preference
sometimes to be extroverted and act in an extroverted way, but you do tend to
Fall in the eye camp and that is where that if you could choose based on your natural preferences again
Not what you're good at not what you can do. Can you do a very extroverted job?
Yes, of course, you can it will just take more energy to do so
But in terms of doing a work that's super aligned to your natural preferences
you would have more time as an introvert to have a deep thinking moments a mix of a lots of alone time and
Thinking and under structured work with moments with your colleagues if that makes sense. So the question isn't which one am I.
It's where am I most comfortable? Where's my natural preference?
So let's jump into the main one extraversion versus introversion
Now I say it's the main one because it's the one that people
Talk about most commonly and it's also the one that they misinterpret the most .They'll say you're such an extrovert
You're such a people person. You're so loud. You're so confident and then introvert like oh I'm shy because I'm an introvert
So there's a little bit to unpack here again guys
Remember, this is about your natural energy preferences. Some of the kind of typical traits of each
So extroverts tend to think without speaking and introverts tend to need to think before speaking
so meetings for example are a very extrovert driven environment
and introverts might be thinking about some really deep and incredible ideas, but they've got to be able to
Make sure that they can find their space in that conversation
Extroverts tend to prefer to communicate verbally and talk things out and they think by talking whereas introverts are much more around
Thinking through reflecting internally first and they also tend to prefer
Communicating and writing extroverts tend to get the energy from crowds and interacting with groups of people and introverts tend to enjoy
Recharging alone does not mean that their shy. An example and I like to use is that just say that you've had a really really?
Crappy day at work. It's been really heavy things aren't working
Had a bit of a run-in with your boss like whatever it is
Whatever a really bad day looks like for you at work, you know at the end of the day and you're feeling a bit
How do you want to recharge do you say hey friends? Let's go grab a drink
I feel like going out and just talking to you and just having a discussions and just socializing or
Do you prefer to go home and listen to some music and cook and watch a bit of Netflix and maybe you know?
maybe see someone will call someone but it's more of a one-to-one basis that can be quite telling about your type.
Now in terms of sensing versus intuition
It's what I was telling you guys just before about the lemon and so sensing
Preferences are very logical and they interpret and bring in information from the five senses. They like to do their research
They trust past experiences they focus on what is real and concrete and they're very practical and useful and they're very much oriented
Towards the present and now the real the things we know and intuition of preference in terms of seeking information
They're more about the what if and connecting the dots they like to focus on abstract and theoretical
Possibilities they're very imaginative. They like to trust their gut more so they find patterns and meaning and they're very oriented towards the future
So you can imagine these two people kind of
Caricatures of each type working together right? It's like when that person says, I don't know why we need to do this
But I just know it's the right call and it might be because this is an intuitive preference
They've been connecting the dots and making meaning and finding patterns and that stuff
It doesn't mean that they're wrong ours just coming from their gut
But they can't really explain it necessarily whereas the other person is sitting in the chair. The sensing preference being like this is ridiculous
We don't know we need to look into this further now in terms of preferences around thinking versus feelings
So thinking preferences tend to be quite analytical and they like solving problems with logic
they think based on course and a fit and they like to seek very objective and
Impersonal truths so they're very rational types in general
the feeling is just as I said before that very considered when it comes to the
Harmony of their decisions and how that might impact other people though, very values based judgment
They can be seen as being quite subjective and they do let their emotions guide them
They're also very compassionate and warm and understanding and general and quite sensitive beings
And this is again the kind of stereotypes of both you can be both
At any different situation at any one time you just will have a natural preference
It's kind of like when you are going to buy a very important birthday gift the thinker might say that's a lot of money
It's out of our budget
We said it was this like, you know
You know consider the logic of the situation and being like is it in line with what other people would pay?
And is that the right kind of amount to spend for a birthday present and these kinds of thoughts?
whereas the feeling person would be like, I'll come on we have to get a
21st this is so important. It's a 21st birthday
I don't care how much it costs, you know, so there's like almost like if we're talking about a buying decision
You might say the two parallels. They're now talking about judging versus perceiving
So the judging preference loves a plan love's an itinerary loves to
Forecast things out. They take pleasure in planning. They like to avoid last-minute rushes
They're quite occupied by the concept of time and they're very much into the work first play later
Whereas the perceiving preference tends to live much more in a spontaneous
and
adaptive kind of way, so they might feel quite
controlled and claustrophobic under a lot of planning and restrictions and rules and deadlines and they get a real thrill out of
working until the last minute, but don't
confuse this with procrastination
so procrastination can be a symptom of things like
Perfectionism or fear of failure like procrastination can happen for lots of reasons
So again, go back to is it my natural preference to work this way?
Do I enjoy working this way and they often get into the flow of what they're working on and they can often be running late
And they're very much play first work. Later
So what I recommend now is that you go and take your test and you figure out what type you out
But just before you do I would love these things to be in mind. Remember. This is not gospel. This is not truth
That's not this is not everything about who you are
Don't box yourself in on these results and don't think I can I can't that's differently the number one rule
What this kind of thing is useful to do is to read through and see what really resonated with me
So what I want you to do is pick out ten sentences that make you think oh my gosh, that is so me
So do that because it doesn't really matter what it says
It's what resonates with you and it's giving you language to describe yourself
It's giving you language to land concepts that you kind of always knew about yourself
But you're like yes when you put it that way that is definitely me
That's what I want you to read through and the results what you could also do for a bit of fun is do a bit
of googling and say for example, I'm
INFJ if you haven't guessed already and you might want to have a bit of google and be like
okay careers for
INFJ and just read about them and have an open mind and just have a bit of a play with it as well and start
Thinking to yourself based on my personality type. What does this mean in terms of the kind of environment?
I enjoy thriving in and the kind of relationships. I like to have around me at work
Do I prefer deep one-to-ones do I prefer to work the crowd? What does this mean in terms of the kind of outputs?
I like to deliver and that kind of thing as well. So collect these clues about who you are
Personality wise and just get your mind thinking but please do not never ever ever base your entire career decision on an online
personality test that is not the point, but the usefulness really comes from
interpreting the results
Raising that self-awareness and really getting to know yourself that a bit more
So remember, it's just another piece of the puzzle if you would like a bigger picture of more the full puzzle
Then it differently grab my Find My Why course in the description box down below
It's a step-by-step course over the course of five weeks and it allows you to uncover your why or your career purpose
So I hope that you guys found that interesting and if you have any questions about this and let me know in the comments down
below and please let me know your personality type down below because I'd love to see if my
Viewers and the people who are interested in developing themselves and their careers tend to have a particular personality type
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