Each of the functions keeps us safe in a different way. Have you ever seen like a dad reflex compilation?

Children are like inches and seconds from death. Somehow their dad just like nabs them out of the clutches of the Grim Reaper.

The functions aren't just there to help serve us. They're actually there to help protect us.

Which ones are you focused on as you're listening along and which ones you might

just be like, yeah, I don't really pay attention to that. We're going to make a case today why you might

want to put some attention to it because it's serving you whether you know it or not.

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome back to the Personality Hacker podcast. My name is Joel

Mark Witt.

And I'm Antonio Dodge. I'm glad you're here with us this week. We're going to do a two-part

series. I guess you could call it a series if it's only two parts, I suppose. Can you? Or a two-parter,

two-parter. Is that a word? Isn't the dictionary two-parter? I don't know. Two parts. The first part, we're going to talk about, well, we're going to take the eight Jungian

cognitive functions. We're going to talk about four of them today and four of them on the next

episode to give them their due. So it doesn't end up as like a three hour episode. And we'll try to

keep this even tight and focused today. I'm getting a little self-conscious about the length of

our podcast. We have drift happening. So we're going to try to contain this and bring it down

in some structure. That's right. But we'll see what we can do today. So what are we talking about

today, Antonio? Let's frame this out. So we talk about cognitive functions endlessly all the time

and have for 10 years, 10 plus years and have many, many, many episodes on functions. And some of my favorite episodes are the ones that go into basically the nucleus of a

function because it's easy to point out something and say, oh, that's assigned to that function

or that's assigned to that function.

But really a lot of behaviors, a lot of ways that we show up can be

sourced to multiple different functions. We'll do the same behaviors for different reasons. And so

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