I will come back to the personality hacker podcast. My name is Joe Mark Whitt and I'm

Antonio Dodge. This week we're wrapping up a short four part series where we're doing

a deep dive into all four of the dichotomies. Now if you're a new listener or if you're

unfamiliar with the dichotomies are that's that four-letter code in the Myers-Briggs system

for your personality. So for example I'm an ENFP in the Myers-Briggs system. It tells me

I'm an extrovert. I'm an intuitive. I'm a feeler and I'm a perceiver. We've already talked

about the first letter, introvert extrovert split on the dichotomies. The second letter,

intuitive or sensor. The third letter, thinker or feeler. And now we're to the last part of this.

J versus P. J stands for Judger. P stands for Persever. Now first comment again if you're brand new.

The word Judger sounds so well judgmental quite frankly about a person. This person is a

judgmental person. They're a judging person. That's not exactly what that means. It's an old

style and old reference. It just means to evaluate or make a judgment about something.

And so where our minds work, right? We evaluate criteria and information and then we make

judgments about that information. So don't worry because you're a judge. It doesn't mean that you

are judgmental or more judgmental than other people. This is just how your mind works.

Yeah. Well, and there are reasons why these phrases or terms were chosen. And one of the

challenges I think in really understanding the distinction between Judger and Persever

is that this last component was actually in some ways added to the original theory. So

the original theory, of course, is based on Carl Jung's book Psychological Types, particularly

chapter 10 when he describes what are called cognitive functions, eight cognitive functions.

And when the Myers-Briggs system was being developed based on that information,

this last letter of Judger and Persever was added in order to give people a roadmap for determining

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