The idea that we're all coming at things a little differently is one of the first values of

personality type. For most people, it's like, oh, really? Other people are looking at different

things than I am. Huh, that's fascinating. The second element of type being super valuable is realizing

that we might have some work to do. We might need to clean some stuff up to go, I am not just looking at things

differently, but I also may be looking at things in a distorted way.

Hi, welcome back to the Personality Hacker podcast. My name is Joel Mark Witt. And I'm Antonia Dodge. So, Antonio, we did not prep for this episode. I have an intuitive exploration with you. Yeah. So we have one of three potential topics. That's right. And I said, just throw one at me and see what happens. See what happens. Yeah. So it could be any one of the three. It's almost like I'm picking a topic out of a hat right now. We're basically trying to do a lot of conversation where we do less scripting or planning.

Mm-hmm.

This is actually... any one of the three. It's almost like I'm picking a topic out of a hat right now. Yeah. We're basically trying to do a lot of conversation where we do less scripting or planning. There's this idea of like relating to your audience, educating your audience, we're talking about like translating value for your audience. We've talked about this on the show before. And I think we've done a lot of education. And so we're trying to like do more translation or even relation these days.

Well, and we're also making it so that I want to keep doing it. Yeah. Trying to make it spicy for

Antonio in this time. Spice for Antonia. This season she needs some spice. I do. I just need a

little bit of spice. And so this whole like, all right, so teach an entire course on functions.

I'm like, oh, I don't think I can do doing that on the podcast. So instead, just throw something at me and see where we go. I'm going to ask you about cognitive functions. Here we go. Okay. Well, let's talk about cognitive functions. Not a course. But I was thinking about this today. So if you're new to type, you don't know this yet, but if you know anything about type, you know that the type label that you have, that four-letter code,

like I have ENFP preferences.

That's just a label. So if you're new to type, you don't know this yet, but if you know anything about type, you know that the type label that you have, that four-letter code, like I have an NFP preferences.

That's just a label.

It's somewhat useful. Like if you went to New York City, a label of New York's good. You can look at street signs, get around. But a map of New York is so much better to get around a city, major city. So I really like when we move into the Jungian cognitive functions in the car model, we're no longer just talking about these labels we slap onto each other, but we're talking about the map of our personality,

and that's where these cognitive functions come from. And there's four that we prefer, and there's

four that in our shadow. But, you know, well, you can talk about all the qualities of those, but there

are four functions that are related, and each personality type is going to have one of these they prefer,

but four that are related to judging and making decisions about the things in the world.

So like the criteria, whenever I have to make a decision about something, there's a cognitive

function in my personality that I prefer to make that decision with.

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