I will come back to the personality hacker podcast. My name is Joe Mark Whitt and I'm

Antonio Dodge. So this is a part two of an episode we're calling trigger warning because

we're hoping we can trigger you or at least help you think about triggers. I mean, that's

not really the intention of this. If you haven't listened to part one by the way, you

should go back and listen to it because we laid down some core principles that we'll be

using in this episode to apply the idea of getting triggered to personality types.

So let me just quickly do a kind of bullet list review of last episode in case this is your

first episode you're listening to or watching. We talked a little bit about how we define triggers

first of all. We made a distinction between people that are dealing with like Vietnam level post

traumatic stress disorder or maybe trauma from childhood that was like abusive and severe.

We made the comment that those folks should probably seek medical or not medical but professional

attention help therapy to get through things that trigger them around those events. And then we

talked about we're not really speaking to those if that's you, please go get professional help

for that. We're speaking to people more like Will Smith who got triggered by Chris Rock saying

something of the Academy Awards and responded in the moment. That's the level of trigger we're

talking about. Right. Like how this concept has now basically been inducted into the collective

unconscious. Anytime somebody says or does but generally says something that evokes an emotional

response that for the individual is associated with something from their past. Yeah. And then we

talked about the ways people typically deal with triggers. The first is often to avoid it.

Usually it's an attitude of avoidance. The second thing that happens is they try to control it

by controlling the external world and circumstances to not get triggered. So if I can't avoid it

then I'm going to try to ensure no one triggers me. I'm going to try to control my environment

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