Hi, welcome to the Personality Hacker Podcast. My name is Joel Mark Witt.

And I'm Antonia Dodge.

Today we're going to talk about... I'm on social networks. I'm looking around

YouTube and Facebook and Twitter and I see this this

term come up when people are talking about personality types all the time it's the term

ambivert and and obviously my my speculation is it's used almost exclusively in the

context of someone who believes that they're not introverted, they're not

extroverted, they're actually a blending of the two. They are both extroverted and introverted,

and there's no way you could pin them down on one or the other in the Myers-Briggs system, for example.

They're just two rounded. They have a plethora of

introversion extraversion and there's no way to identify them as one of the other so

they call themselves ambiverts. Yeah actually recently we had somebody right in that that was a limitation of Meyers Briggs that it

didn't acknowledge that there were Amberverts out there that Ambervert was not something

that was adopted in.

It requires you to determine which side of the dichotomy you're on.

You're either an introvert or an extrovert,

and that's a limitation of it.

And what's fascinating about that is they're right and wrong at the

same time. They're both right and wrong. When you're just looking at the four-letter code of Meyers

Briggs introvert sensing intuition, thinking, feeling, judging, perceiving, and

we actually did an entire podcast on the description of what all of those mean.

We talked about the etymology of what those are, meaning that not just the behaviors that

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