Welcome back to the Personality Hacker Podcast. My name is Joel Mark Witt.

And I'm Antonia Dodge. As we approach personal growth using the lens of personality types. We talk about

growing your cognitive functions and we often have a recommended way to go about that

that we talk about here a personality hacker. In recent

podcast we've talked a little bit about growing your sixth function just a few

episodes ago and we typically have that one soundbite. Grow your

auxiliary or co-pilot function whatever that is

for you in your personality that's the biggest bang for your buck and one thing

that we I'm sure we've talked about from time to time in different episodes, but one thing may not be

clear to you listening is that as we think about the functions that you're using in your personality,

you have a driver or dominant cognitive function based on how you're wired that really

informs pretty much everything else.

In fact, in a lot of ways, all of the functions support this dominant function showing up for you.

And we tend to not talk a lot about the dominant function as far as development goes.

And maybe you could ask the question in your own mind, well, I guess wouldn't it just be handled when I develop all the other functions in my personality?

Or maybe it's something I've been doing all my life, so it's probably pretty well developed already, right? like I don't need to do any

active work on it because just showing up as who I am in my daily life it's

probably exercising that and building skill using that because we use it all the time.

So today we want to talk a little bit about the dominant function.

Your driver, if you're using the car model here at Personality Hacker,

how does this inform your growth path as a person and what do we mean by growing

your dominant or how would you even focus on that or what should you be thinking about as we

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