Hello and

Welcome to Personality Hacker Podcast. I'm Jonathan and you are listening to personality in practice.

With the porch light off, I stared up at the stars.

There were hundreds of them, more than any I had ever seen in the

city. And as I stood there, I wondered, do the stars stare back at me?

The cognitive functions of decision-making are harmony, accuracy, effectiveness, and authenticity.

My best fit type is ENFJ, leading with harmony. And so it makes sense to me that while I'm looking

up at the stars, I'm wondering about their interactions, personalities, preferences, and whether or not they're staring back at me.

In the most recent podcast, Jolt Antonio mentioned an interesting word about the functions,

something talking about computer programming, and it made

me think of one time when I had to call IT for customer support with our company software.

It turns out everything was okay with the software, but the problem was a user error.

I was the user of the function and I had made the mistake.

Antonia says, you don't have a problem with the cognitive function, you have a problem with a person.

Once again, I hear this as user error. The functions themselves are not even personified, but simply

that. A function in a system with a user, you and me.

I believe this is important because this thinking invokes us to take ownership of our life

rather than the functions owning us?

And do I need to stress, right now how many systems and forces wish to own our thinking

are feeling and judgments and values.

What about owning our outlook on life, our perspectives and focus,

even how we view the past through memories,

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