- Hello, my frisky ponies.
When you look out at YouTube
and the YouTubers out there on YouTube,
they all, at some point, will do a video where they're like,
"What's my personality type?
Who am I really?"
The thing is, me being the personality type guy on YouTube
is not really a video I've ever thought to do,
because it would be, like, pointless and redundant.
So that's what we're doing.
(laughs)
That's what we're doing today.
In fairness, a few years ago,
I did a video where I took a personality test,
that for some reason, gave everyone who took it
the result ISTJ.
Maybe I need to call myself TJ now.
So today,
today I'm actually taking the 16Personalities.com test.
This video is really gonna
be breaking down all the questions here, and who knows?
Maybe I will be able to manipulate the test
to get some far-out answer.
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Now that I've eaten my lunch, let's take this test.
Let's get back into the video.
I am pumped up, I am ready to go.
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I actually haven't seen this.
Is this new?
This is cool, the campfire.
You regularly make new friends.
Well, I mean, there's really no way I can spin this one.
I think the answer is Disagree.
You spend a lot of time...
All right.
Next, you spend a lot of time free-
Why can't I speak?
Seeing other people cry can-
(stutters)
Maybe I'll have to retitle this video "I Had a Stroke."
And to be honest with you,
I don't necessarily feel like crying
when I see someone else cry.
Keyword, easily.
No, not easy.
So we're gonna say Disagree.
You are not too interested in discussing va-
(stutters)
Discussing various interpretations
and analyses of creative works.
I think this is an N versus S question again,
which is a little bit, it's like,
S types don't-
I feel like most people are going to put Agree with this,
because you feel dumb if you put Disagree.
Or I mean agree, if you agree that you are not interested
in discussing various interpretations of creative works.
Here's another way to pick apart this question
is the word "various."
Like maybe I only want to discuss my interpretation of it.
I'm very interested in that.
I'm not sure I wanna hear anyone else's.
Which also would be what this site is calling
intuition or sensing.
Intuitives are open-minded,
they want to see all the possibilities,
whereas sensors are close-minded.
That's basically what 16Presonalities is trying to say.
To clarify, it is this test in particular
that is trying to say that about sensors versus intuitives,
not necessarily Myers-Briggs in general,
or me myself, Frank James.
So you know what?
I'm gonna say agree, because
I am actually not that interested
in hearing a wide breadth of interpretations
about something, 'cause a lot of times,
other people's interpretations are stupid.
And dumb.
And wrong.
You rarely worry about whether you make
a good impression on people you meet.
Heck, no.
You like books and movies that make you
come up with your own interpretation of the ending.
This is an interesting question,
and this is once again one that I would initially think
is J versus P, because the P types
will prefer to have things open-ended,
whereas J types will like to have things
tied up in more of a conclusion.
But I think they might actually be making this
an intuition versus sensing question.
That once again the intuitives will be the ones
who just wanna interpret my own thing,
come up with my own conclusion,
and sensors are like, "No, what does it actually-"
(stutters)
"What actually happened?"
I don't like dissatisfying endings.
You know, I kinda like things that are tied up
with a bit of a bow,
but I also do enjoy things that have ambiguity at the end,
so how am I supposed to answer this question?
Since I think it's an N versus S
and I want to try to skew the results a little,
I will say I disagree.
I like it when I'm given a firm conclusion
and interpretation at the end of a movie or film.
Movies and films are the same thing.
Before we continue, let's stop momentarily
and see if YouTube would like to stop and show a commercial.
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You think the world would be a better place
if people relied more on rationality
and less on their feelings?
I agree with that.
I mean, I think if people were more rational,
then we'd be finding more solutions to problems
rather than reacting emotionally to things.
That doesn't necessarily mean that's how
I make decisions.
I could be a totally irrational person.
But everyone else needs to be rational.
They need to make up for my irrationality.
You become bored or lose interest
when the discussion gets highly theoretical.
This is an intuition versus sensing question,
and the truth is, I tend to become bored
when people start talking about theoretical stuff.
So I'm gonna put myself as a sensor here.
You find it easy to empathize with a person
whose experiences are very different from yours.
This is intuition versus sensing also
with the way that this test works,
because they're like,
intuitives are so imaginative
they can get in someone else's shoes,
and sensors, for some reason, aren't able to do that.
And you know what?
I think of myself as being empathetic,
and I generally am, but I have also found
that there are times where I am not
really not that empathetic to other people
until I have had a bit more life experience
and can actually be closer to what they have gone through.
So I'm actually gonna say Disagree here,
because if I am being totally open and honest,
I don't always find it easy
to empathize with people who have
very different experiences from me.
And this is something that most people don't do.
Most people would just be like,
"Oh yeah, agree, I'm empathetic."
They will, you know, want to put
the socially acceptable answer,
they won't want to think of themselves in a bad light.
Or they won't even realize it.
Like, it takes some time to realize
these things about yourself, and most people will not.
So most people put Agree.
You enjoy going to art museums.
Like I'm not really-
(laughs)
What?
Ugh.
You avoid making phone calls.
Classic introvert or extrovert question.
And I'm gonna disagree, because I don't really avoid
making phone calls.
I used to, if you talked to me five years ago,
yes, I avoided phone calls all the time.
I hated calling people.
But then I had a job where I was on the phone all the time
and I'm desensitized to it.
If I have to make a call, I just make the call.
I'm not really that nervous about it anymore.
You often spend a lot of time trying to understand
views that are very different from your own.
This is probably an intuition versus sensing question.
But the thing is, you often spend a lot of time
trying to understand views
that are very different from your own.
So this is a very extreme question,
and I don't know if the wording being so extreme
is a good thing or a bad thing.
But I'm gonna say I disagree,
because I don't really spend a lot of time
often trying to understand views
that are very different from my own.
So by disagreeing, I'm gonna put myself
probably as a sensing type.
And that's another question where I think
most people are gonna put Agree,
and that's why so many people type
as intuitive on this test,
because no one wants to think of themselves
as close-minded.
Like even the most close-minded people
are going to put that they are open-minded.
There are some people who are aware
that they are close-minded or whatever.
But I think that the majority of people
just don't realize how little
they actually try to understand very different viewpoints.
And I think a lot of it is you just don't realize it,
like you don't realize when you are dealing with
a viewpoint that is very different.
You don't realize where you are relative to it.
You don't realize that your opinion is an opinion
or a viewpoint, you just think of it as being reality
and other people are just in non-reality.
And so that's why I think that's a tough question
to test accurately as a self-test.
You are still bothered by mistakes you made a long time ago.
Oh, yes.
When someone thinks highly of you,
you wonder how long it will take them
to feel disappointed in you.
Yes.
Yes, this-
This describes me more than anything.
And this is an assertive versus turbulent question,
so the turbulent people are gonna say yes.
Before we keep trucking,
let's stop momentarily once again
and see if YouTube would like to show a commercial.
Thanks for sitting through that.
You know at first glance how someone is feeling.
Ooh, I know how you feeling.
Well, here's the thing,
I don't necessarily know how they're feeling.
I'm taking a guess at how they're feeling.
I'm assuming how they feel.
This is another thinking versus feeling.
What did I say?
Now I'm gonna be a butthead here,
and I'm gonna say-
They say you know at first glance
how someone is feeling,
and even though I'll make an assumption
about how someone is feeling,
technically, and I have learned this with trial and error,
I do not know how someone is feeling
just by looking at them.
You might look at someone
and think they are so sad right now,
and then you talk to them and they're fine.
So first glance, no, I don't know how someone is feeling.
I gotta get more info before I can make that judgment call.
You would pass along a good opportunity
if you thought someone else needed it more.
You selfless chap.
Who is the someone else?
Is the someone else my brother?
Then, yeah.
Is it some rando who I've never met before?
Maybe no.
I think this is asking F versus T,
but I don't think that this is necessarily
something that all feelers would pass along
a good opportunity if you thought
someone else needed it more.
Unless it is someone close to me,
I am probably not gonna do it.
Like, sorry.
(laughs)
Sorry, but if one of you in the audience was like,
"Hey, I need this opportunity,"
I'd be like, "I'm so-
(laughs)
I'm taking it."
This is where everyone unsubscribes.
Frank wouldn't pass along that theoretical,
hypothetical opportunity to me.
I don't even know what it is.
Frank has been keeping all these opportunities to himself.
He could have been emailing them to me the whole time.
All right, we're gonna see the results.
Let's take a guess about what I'm gonna come out as.
My guess
(laughs)
is actually that I'm just gonna get INFJ.
See results.
(drumroll)
I got-
(laughs)
This is hilarious, man.
So when I took the bad test on the other site
a few years ago, I got ISTJ.
(dramatic music)
Which, for those of you in the audience,
let me just point out, I am not an ISTJ.
No one in their right mind would say
Frank James is an ISTJ.
And not that there's anything wrong with ISTJs,
it's just like,
I am not representative of what an ISTJ is like.
I don't think.
Oh, crap.
Watch everyone now go around,
"Frank James is ISTJ, Frank James-"
I kind of had a feeling I might skew it to thinking,
but I'm really surprised I skewed that much towards sensing.
Before we move, no I don't want a copy of this
emailed to me.
All right, well, I'm ISTJ with Al and Ben here.
ISTJ Frank here.
Well, isn't that something?
Two tests, two Myers-Briggs whatever tests
on this channel, both ISTJ.
It's really looking like, maybe-
(laughs)
So I hope the takeaway you get from this video
is that tests aren't the end-all be-all.
They have flaws, especially this one.
It's up for misinterpretation.
It's up for manipulation.
And a lot of times we don't really know
who we actually are.
Isn't that comforting?
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