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

And I'm Antonio Dodge. This week we are joined with a special guest host Dr Dario Nardi is here with us on the show.

Welcome to Personality Hacker Dr. Nardi.

Absolutely, thank you for having me.

So we've been recording a series of podcasts on type development, which is the sequence of development or focus of growth that a person ideally would be walking through when it comes to their

cognitive function stack. And this includes the four shadow functions as well, functions one through eight.

What's the ideal way a person would flow through these functions

to make sure that they're not becoming too one-sided,

to make sure that they are taking advantage of all developmental opportunities.

And in large part these podcasts have been, you know, sort of developed or leaning on the work of Dr Dario Nardi, who is with us as co-host this week in your book

Magic Diamond and as we've been talking about this in a recent pro-fire training

question-to-answer session one of our students asked well

how do you know that you've developed your auxiliary function enough or in the car model of the

co-pilot like like that's the thing that we always hear at Personality Hacker talk about is like

what's the biggest bang for the buck? We'll go to your co-pilot or auxiliary function, but how do you know that

is developed enough to keep working through to the other functions.

So that's the conversation we want to talk a little about today,

is how does one know if one's function is developed sufficiently

in order to move to the next function?

Well, the question I would have, and Dr Nardi,

you might want to jump in here on this,

is what do we even mean when we talk about function development?

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