243: Understanding Personalities for Better Relationships

Relationship Advice

Colter Bloxom

Relationships, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Our personality is created by a multitude of complex factors to create a way in which we view the world and relate with others. One theory on the dimensions of our personality comes from the 19th-century spiritual philosopher George Gurdjieff. Today's guest, John Cottone, Ph.D., walks us through Gurdjieff's personality theory and shows us how we can apply it to ourselves and our relationships. Gurdjieff believed that personality types can be divided into physical, emotional and intellectual categories and that each person would be well-served by following the spiritual path that resonates with her respective personality orientation. We really enjoyed this conversation and hope you do too! In this episode, we discuss relationship advice topics that include: Learn about the physical, emotional and intellectual personality dimensions How to determine which personality dimension you and your partner align with the most Understanding if some personality dimensions are incompatible? How to work with your partner's personality Why understanding you and your partner's personality type can be valuable during these difficult times And much more! John G. Cottone, Ph.D., is a psychologist in private practice; a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University; and a researcher with peer-reviewed publications in psychology, psychiatry and neuroscience. He is also the author of a personal growth book entitled "Who Are You? Essential Questions for Hitchhikers on the Road of Truth." Full show notes and episode links at: https://idopodcast.com/243 Sign up for our 14 Day Happy Couples Challenge here: 14 Day Happy Couples Challenge Join our 5 Day Couples Appreciation Challenge here: idopodcast.com/appreciation Do you want to hear more on this topic? Continue the conversation on our Facebook Group here: Love Tribe Sponsors BetterHelp:Get help on your own time and at your own pace. Get 10% off your first month by visiting BetterHelp.com/IDO. Feals is premium CBD delivered straight to your door. Become a member today by going to Feals.com/ido and get 50% off your first order. Spark My Relationship Course: For a limited time, get access to our bonus, Mastering Money Talk In Your Marriage! Visit SparkMyRelationship.com/Unlock for our special offer just for our I Do Podcast listeners! If you love this episode (and our podcast!), would you mind giving us a review in iTunes? It would mean the world to us and we promise it only takes a minute. Many thanks in advance! – Chase & Sarah Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And Take me to the place in the middle of the sun. What's up love tribe? What's going on, guys? What's going on guys? Thanks for tuning in a one
0:27.0	guys. Thanks for tuning in. Yes, thanks for joining us and today we actually have back Dr. John Catone.
0:39.5	We interviewed him a few weeks ago, but we have not put out his first episode so you're going to hear
0:44.5	him mention the previous episode which we have not yet released so if you're
0:48.3	looking for that one you can't find it that is what it's coming out in the future coming out in the future.
0:53.0	Coming out in the future.
0:55.0	Dr. John Katone is a psychologist and a private practice in New York.
1:00.0	He also has a column on psychology today and has written the book,
1:04.2	Who Are You essential questions for hitchhikers on the road to truth?
1:09.9	And today we talk about the different personality dimensions and how we can understand
1:15.0	our own and our partners and better relate.
1:19.1	And as we mentioned last week, all of this is important any time, but we do mention it through the lens of the current
1:27.0	coronavirus pandemic which is of course on a lot of people's minds and so we want you to know we're here to give
1:35.5	you information to help better navigate this for your relationship and your
1:39.7	mental health. And if you're like me or a lot of our listeners you might hear this and be like, oh my gosh, I don't want to hear about coronavirus. I'm sick of hearing it in the media. But don't worry. We don't talk about it from that angle. It's more of how you can use these tools to better your
1:55.9	relationship during these stressful times or anytime anytime yeah and as we
2:01.8	mentioned again last week, check out the links in our show notes to the
2:06.8	CDC and to the Johns Hopkins newsletter.
2:10.3	Sarah talked about the overload of coronavirus stuff.
2:13.4	We've both found it better for our mental health
2:17.6	and our relationship to unplug from that.
2:20.8	And while we still want to stay a little bit informed so I
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