I've gotten to a place where it's like, I almost can't read profiles anymore of the 16 types.

I read it and I go, yeah, that's one version of that type.

Yes, you nailed it.

You nailed one version of that time.

I have sort of a different way of looking at type than I ever have in the past.

It's coming from this idea of self-regulation.

I suspect that type is a way for us to try to regulate the overwhelm that we're feeling all the time.

Welcome back to the Personality Hacker podcast. My name is Joel Mark Witt. And I'm Antonio Dodge.

So I was up at my parents' house this weekend. Well, I wasn't visiting my parents. My mom's out

town. But my dad was there. And so my dad and I got some time to hang out this weekend, which is really good, and Tony. He's in his 70s. I'm not going to have it forever left with him. So we took some time, went to lunch a couple times this weekend, just me and him. It was really nice to spend some time with my father. And it really became apparent to me in some of our

conversations. Yeah, I was just reflecting on some of my upbringing and some of the, you know,

the way that I had been raised. And we were just talking about family and just general things.

And quietly to myself, as we're talking about all these different aspects of our family life

and growing up, I was tuning into this idea of personality type and the different energies that personality types are tuned

into and how basically that's the map of personality, right? It's kind of what we pay attention

to what we're uncertain of in the world. And I was thinking this really applies to family

systems as well. Like my entire family system almost you could say has like a personality type to it or like a

it's not a type, but it's sort of like the things that we would pay attention to as a family and the

things that we wouldn't pay attention to as a family. And I thought more about that over the

weekend. I was thinking also about not only are the things that we wouldn't pay attention to, but life forces itself on you, right? Sometimes you have to as a family

system pay attention to these things, even if your family's not into them, like they just come to

you, like you have to tune into them or whatever. And I think that my family had a lot of rules

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