- What are the four main temperaments
of the 16 personalities?
What I'm gonna describe to you in this video is like
the easiest way of dividing the 16 types
into four distinct groups.
I'm excited to be telling you about this
because it starts to really unlock
how to pick out what types people might be.
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Okay, so for temperaments first up a couple of things.
Usually, you see the 16 personalities
when they talk about temperaments they talk about like,
NF, NT, then they'll say, SP, SJ.
That's not what I'm talking about.
And if you wanna see a video where I talk about
like the NF, NT, and how
the different types communicate differently,
you can check out that video right here in this card,
if I remember to put it.
And of course a disclaimer as always that,
when we're talking about especially
like grouping the types into four groups,
we're making generalizations and not everyone
of a certain type is gonna fit
into every single thing I say.
But generally, these are like the archetypes
of what each of these four groupings looks like,
each of the four temperaments within the 16 personalities.
And the way I'm doing it is by looking at the first
and last letter.
So we have the EJs, the EPs, the IJs and the IPs.
Those are the four temperaments
that we're gonna be covering in the video.
Let's just go through it.
Let's just jump right into it.
So first we go for the EJs.
So like this is obvious, but he's pointed out anyway,
we're talking about ENFJ, ESFJ, ENTJ, ESTJ.
So they either have dominant extroverted feeling
or extroverted thinking.
So one of the things that I see EJs being
naturally like what they gravitate towards is leading.
Now this doesn't mean they're gonna be
that they're like wanting to be president or something,
but they just naturally kind of fill voids
when no one is leading a group.
They'll just be like, okay, guys, how do we get this done?
Let's all work together, let's move towards this.
EJs are naturally group oriented.
And sure they can work on their own
but I think they just naturally like to assemble
a team around them or you know,
step into a situation where there's a team there already,
so they can have people to work with,
other people whose strengths they can leverage.
Of course, everyone can be a leader,
I'm just talking about the natural inclination
to like kind of go into this leader role
without even really thinking much about it.
Doesn't mean they're a good leader.
Doesn't mean they're an ambitious leader,
it just means that they kind of assume this role.
And a few things that they would do in this role
is trying to get everyone on the same page,
whether that's in a feeling sense or thinking sense.
Like how can we all work together
to make everyone here happy?
How can we all work together to get the results
that we all want?
Another thing EJs will naturally gravitate towards
is organizing other people.
Like, you know, in we're already saying they're leaders.
They're in charge of people,
they're like you do this, you do this,
you guys work together, let's sort everyone out here.
They also will tend to push other people to contribute more,
because that's what extroverted feeling
and extroverted thinking they need the fuel,
the fuel that FE and TE work off of is
other people contributing ideas and you know,
how they feel about things and how they value things.
So the EJs keep pushing everyone like,
well, you gotta contribute to the group.
So as you can see, the focus of EJs is other people.
Let's jump over to the EP types.
So once again, Mr. Obvious here,
ENFP, ESFP, ESTP, ENTP.
The EPs are out there always looking for new possibilities.
They don't just like to stay where they are
and stick with, you know, what we know already.
You know I talked about this quite a bit
when I talked about in my last video,
how do the 16 personalities see the world,
you can check out that in this card right here
where I talk about the J versus P types.
And then I go into, you know, you combine that
with the intuition or sensing and how that all works out.
Interesting video, people loved it.
Check it out.
So you can think of the EP is like explorers, right?
Always looking for new stuff, they're out there,
they're just randomly grabbing new ideas,
new things, new experiences.
I think another thing about EPs
is that they're there to disrupt.
I mean, not maliciously, of course,
but there's like a status quo there's a,
something that's always been the same
and they're there to try to find a new way.
They're there to disrupt the flow of things and be like,
hey, why don't we break out of this box here,
let's get outside of what we're normally doing.
You can also think of it as,
I mean, a lot of these words are very similar
but uncovering like they're always looking to like pry,
pry up the rocks and like be,
we gotta shine a light on everything,
we gotta see everything that we can.
So like every type can communicate, right,
but I think the EPs especially
when you look at their communication,
they are communicating freely
like just get all the information that they can out there
without much organization.
Is just like, here's the information,
here's what I've seen,
here's all the new stuff that I found.
I was exploring, here's what I found.
Of course, as you can see through this,
the EPs have a gathering focus.
They're oriented towards taking in more and more.
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All right, let's get back
to talking about these four temperaments.
We've covered the first two, we got two more to go.
That's math.
All right, so next let's do the IJ types.
INFJ, ISFJ, ISTJ.
What's the other?
INTJ, oh my gosh, the INTJs they're gonna be mad.
All right, so the IJs.
They're really there to keep things running.
Like the IJs are good at just like
keeping the wheels turning,
taking what other people, you know, what the EPs have found
and what the EJs are trying to do with organizing everyone,
the IJs are good at being a bit more like,
okay, I got it, I know how to keep us all running
as a well-oiled machine.
Because IJs a very much about like organization,
systems and making things efficient.
Now another thing I talked about how the EPs communicate,
where they just like, they blah give you a bunch of
stuff for you to sort out.
The IJs communicate in a different way,
where it's a lot more teaching oriented.
And I mean, the EJs can do this too, anyone can do this
but the IJs are like, really have a tendency towards
always trying to make teachable moments.
And when they are communicating it's very structured
'cause they're trying to just give you the basics,
they're trying to give you everything with a point.
I think the IJs are also pretty good at mediating people.
Now that's, you know, between people,
getting people to work together,
because the IJs, the EPs are good at this too
but the IJs are good at seeing both sides of things,
seeing you know, different perspectives
and kind of keeping them on the same playing field
and being able to sort through them easily.
With the IJs if you ever need like a system to be organized
like come up with a way to do things,
I think the IJs will be the ones who naturally gravitate
towards doing that, towards creating the system.
That's what they that's how their minds work.
It's like how can we systematize all this?
How can we make sure that this flows smoothly?
So as you can see the IJs have an organizational focus.
All right, now we come to the IP types,
which I think are some of the most interesting types.
Okay, INFP, ISFP, INTP, ISTP.
IPs gravitate towards being individualists
like being their own person
and they are accountable to themselves first and foremost.
And I think because of that,
they tend to just naturally go down their own pathways,
they find new paths.
They can be innovative,
they can have like a vision that's very unique
that no one else has.
And I differentiate this a bit from the EPs,
I said they're looking for new possibilities, right?
EPs are out there looking for the new,
trying to uncover things.
But they're doing it kind of like just,
I just wanna see what it is, I like I don't like, (laughs)
to them it's just like, I gotta keep gathering cool.
But the IPs I think are a bit more like,
I've gotta go down this path for me,
I've gotta explore it for me.
Because they are dominant introverted feelers
or introverted thinkers,
it's really all about what direction
do I choose to go in with my life, it's much more personal.
Of course, as IPs go down their own path
doing things the way they want to
cause they're accountable to themselves first and foremost,
you know, they can be an interesting kind of leader
because they have figured something out for themselves.
They've gone down a path that they wanted to go
and they can be like, oh, hey, guys,
you can follow me down here if you want to.
IPs because of that tend to be creative
not necessarily artistically but just like,
doing things in a way that maybe no one else would do it.
So with the IPs it's a self focus.
And we're not it's not so much like I'm all about myself
that's all I care about but it's like,
because they have that thing of their internal compass
is what's most important to them,
they can care about other people.
Sure, they can take care of other people
but they're like I'm the one steering the ship.
I've gotta do what I think is the right thing to do.
I've gotta go down my path.
And so for that reason, I would say the IPs have
the self focus.
Let me know if there's any other things you wanna know about
the 16 personalities in the comments below.
Thank you so much for watching, I appreciate it.
And until next time, stay cool and attractive.
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