I welcome back to the personality hacker podcast my name is Joe Mark Witt and I'm

Antonia Dodge so we've been spending an inordinate amount of time inside of our house.

And one of the advantages that we've had by spending so much time at home right now

is that we are really getting a rhythm down of our lives.

In fact, if you listen to recent podcasts,

we've been talking about trying to master

our introverted sensing or memory inferior function or three-year-old function.

And we're both ENPs, I'm an ENCP, Joel, you're in ENFP.

And we've discovered that part of the key to our success is making peace with a more routinized life.

And as we were discussing why we think that this has come with so many different advantages.

I don't, it was it me or you that came up with the metaphor of the foundation.

I don't remember, but I just, I think of that word now, I can't get out of my head.

It's this idea of foundation for our lives or our personality types, quite frankly.

Yeah, there's this idea that we're building an entire structure and it's on top of our inferior or three-year-old

function which is kind of an interesting idea because we've always

also discussed the three-year-old or inferior function as a blind spot, which it is. It has a

tendency to be something that we struggle to really master, to really

understand the importance of. We tend to resist it for a long time since it's the

polarity opposite of our dominant or driver function and the car model. And so

we as people, not just you and me, but as all personality types.

We have a tendency to push the inferior or the three-year-old function away.

And in our podcast, and actually basically in almost everything we do. We recommend people focus on

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