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You've got it! You know it's funny because there was a point in
time a few months ago where I was like, I'm not sure I care that much about
Myers-Briggs and personality typing, but I've actually come to get more
interested in it as time is going on. I think it's just because I understand it
better, I keep learning more. And so now I think I'm more into personality typing
than ever before. I'm wearing the same shirt as I was in the last video yet I
did not record this in the same day. I just happen to wear the same clothes all
the time... like a cartoon character. In my real life for some reason there are a
few of my friends who have started talking about the Enneagram. They're
starting to get interested in it and read the book--what's it called? "Path"...
"Pathway to Me"? "Finding the Path to Myself"? I don't remember... I
forget what it is. It's funny because I'm overhearing their conversations and
they're like, "It's much more accurate and seems better than Myers-Briggs," and of
course these people don't know that I have a YouTube channel that's about
Myers-Briggs sometimes. I don't say anything, but I feel like this loyalty.
I'm like, "How can you say that man? Myers-Briggs is better!" Not to... you know I...
but these people... Once I've picked the way to do something in a certain
category, like a way to organize things, I don't like to look at other systems of
doing it because it just becomes like, at what point do we stop?
Myers-Briggs, that's how I do it, that's how I type people, I don't want to learn
about other stuff because it's gonna confuse me. I figure I have a system,
let's not worry about anything else, okay? It's like Myers-Briggs has these
building blocks, the functions, and so you can have all these different
combinations to have different personality types, rather than these just
nine distinct things; and that appeals to my brain better--the Myers-Briggs
does--than Enneagram. If for some reason you're not familiar
with Enneagram, basically the type... you're a number, one through nine, and they each
have a description. It's interesting because these people, my friends that I
was talking to, they all said that the reason they like the Enneagram more than
Myers-Briggs is because the Enneagram told them "the truth." It told them like
the dark side of themselves, and they're like, "Yeah Myers-Briggs just
feels like a horoscope. They just tell you a bunch of nice things." That's what
that stupid Vox video about "Why Myers-Briggs is Meaningless," that's what
they said: it just tells you things you wanna hear, like "you're loyal," "you're cool,"
"you're attractive." The Enneagram tends to point out your flaws. One of my friends
was saying like it was embarrassing to read about her type because the
flaws of it were so true to her and were like speaking so much to her
insecurities that it was like uncomfortable to read. When you take the
Myers-Briggs tests or read about the types on most websites, like the big ones
for Myers-Briggs, it doesn't tell you anything negative. It'll say, "Oh maybe you
like to work too hard. Maybe you have a hard time getting started with a project
but you're still so smart and pretty that you'll get it done and it'll be so
great." That's the way they are.
Yeah, the thing is though, if you look into it, if you start to study
it--I mean you've seen on my channel I talk about bad stuff all the time cuz
that's the point! That should be why you'd look into a personality
typing system is to see, "What's wrong with me and how do I fix it?" "What do I
need to look out for?" "What is going to trip me up?" Like my very last video the
"INFJ Fatal Mistake," that's the kind of crap that we need to know, is "What do I
have to look out for?" I mean it's good to know your strengths, yeah. But I think
we're much more likely to know our strengths already than to know our
weaknesses. I think our weaknesses are often in the dark... maybe intentionally so.
So really, I mean in my opinion, the whole point of personality typing is to know
the bad stuff. And if you know where to look for Myers-Briggs stuff you can find
people who are gonna point out what's wrong with y ou.
I've got a few places besides my own channel that I have looked. First, why
don't I try inserting a mid-roll ad and see how much you all hate me for doing so?
I'll be right back!
How'd you like that mid-roll ad? Was it cool?
Did they advertise a product that you think is... totally pointless, why did
they show me this? The places I have found that are the most helpful with
with Myers-Briggs, seeing the bad part of your type, is StellarMaze.com, which
combines Myers-Briggs and astrology. And like I've said before, I'm not really
into astrology, but they seem to be sort of separated for the most part. It's very
interesting to read those articles on Stellar Maze. Also DaveSuperPowers
channel here on YouTube is the other place that I go to see what is wrong
with all the types, what is their weakness. Those are the top two places
that I would look. I think next, Enneagram is what I'm gonna look at on this
channel. I'm gonna learn learn a bit about it,
maybe take the tests--well "maybe," of course I'm gonna take the test! But then
you know, already I've done the video about the Big Five test. Now the Big Five
personality test is the only scientifically
accepted personality test. You know scientists don't really use Myers-Briggs.
It's not scientific. But the Big Five is for some reason. Because I guess
the traits in the Big Five are things that can be objectively tracked.
And it's funny because when I did that video a lot of people in the comments
didn't like the tests for some reason, even though this is the most legitimate
of them all. I mean a lot of you liked it but there was a
loud minority who thought it was horse poopoo.
Perhaps because it says it's, you know, "scientific," "objective," when you get
results you don't like--like high in neuroticism, low in conscientiousness
(like me)--it makes you feel bad about yourself and hopeless.
Because with that personality test you could get a score that's like, damning.
You know? Where there's like nothing good about it. You know whereas at least with
Myers-Briggs and Enneagram it's like good and bad, whereas Big Five it's
possible that you could get a score that is "bad" or that makes you feel bleak
about the future. My score was almost like that but I had a few saving graces
in there... but not many." The other thing that people didn't like is that "It's
comparing me to other people! I don't like being compared! Comparisons are bad!"
But it's showing you where you stand within a spectrum of people, within a
cross-section of the population. It's not about saying you suck because you're low
in openness compared to this person, it's just telling you, "Hey if you had a
hundred people you'd probably be here in relation to everyone else's score in
this trait." There's no judgment in it. It made me feel like people who
really didn't like the test, felt like it was judging them, but maybe they were
just being hard on themselves. The other thing is, the Big Five is really about
self-improvement. I think it's about seeing your strengths and everything but
it's also about seeing what you need to work on. So someone like me being low in
conscientiousness needs to be really aware of
making an effort to be orderly and to get tasks done. It's not gonna come
naturally to me, and I need to just kick my own butt. I'm not sure but I
don't think that Big Five scores are set in stone, whereas I believe Enneagram is
basically set in stone, your number; and Myers-Briggs, your personality type
it doesn't change. I see that question a lot. People are like, "Can
your Myers-Briggs type change?" No. The answer is no, it can't change. The other
thing people say is like, "Okay, now I think I'm half-and-half. I think I'm half
INFJ, half INFP." No you're not. You're one or the other, sorry. You're not
special. The major flaw of Myers-Briggs is clearly we've all known
more than 16 different types of people. Common sense would tell you that there
have to be subtypes within every type. There are quintessential people who fit
each type, but there are also going to be people who surprise you; and so if you
are confused about your type, first of all it's because it's difficult to see
yourself, if not impossible. I feel like you all are pretty self-aware, but it's
difficult. It's just difficult to see yourself accurately. If you'd like to see
yourself more accurately, start a YouTube channel, because you start to see all
your weird tics. You start to like examine yourself as though you're a
third party, and you're like, "Wow I talk about this subject a lot." More recently
Socionics has been coming up a lot in the comments section. That's another one
that's like similar to Myers-Briggs. It's based in the same Jungian stuff, but I
don't want to get into Socionics at this time because it's too close to
Myers-Briggs and I don't want to take the time to learn the differences. It's
like I said, my brain doesn't really want to work that way. My brain is like, "Okay
cool, I understand Myers-Briggs, and maybe I can look at Enneagram, and
it's separate enough that I can see how they might work together. But Socionics
is so close to Myers-Briggs that it would just be confusing for me, and I
just want to stick with what I know for now, and then when I get bored
with it then I can move on. You know what I'm saying? So
overall, the point as I've said, the point of any of this personality stuff--I'm
gonna make another video going more into detail with this, but in short--
personality tests, personality typing, is not like the Vox video says: "It's
just for entertainment guys, don't take it seriously, it's just entertainment,
just like our videos, but you listen to this video." Personality typing should be
used to identify what you're good at and what you're weak at, and then to improve
the weaknesses with your strengths. What personality typing is not, and what it
should not be used for, is making excuses, and to live inside a bubble. Thanks so
much for watching. Let me know in the comments what you think about all this
personality typing stuff, all the different tests, if there's one test you
think definitely out classes the others, if you think they all have some kind of
merit, if there's another one that I didn't think about--you know, the Hogwarts
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