Hi welcome to this week's edition of PHQ questions from the personality

hacker community my name is Joel Mark Witt and I'm Antonia Dodge and

Addison let's get right to our question today.

Hi Antonia and Joel.

I've been listening to your podcast for a few months now,

and I must say that I find it both intriguing

and beneficial for my personal growth.

I'm an I NFP, and I found out a few weeks ago that my best friend for the past eight years is an ESTJ my shadow type.

We've had our ups and downs and our friendship almost ending in a few times but we always seem to rekindle it.

Is it probable that our opposite personalities will be the detriment of our

friendship or other strategies we can use to cope with having such different

cognitive functions? Thank you, Sarah.

Thanks, Sarah for the question.

It's interesting that we get a lot of questions around people in relationship

that are very different personalities, asking,

you know, is this going to work out

am I going to be in this romantic relationship for the long haul or are we going to

end up breaking up because we're so different often even friends will write in and

ask these questions so this is So this is a question that comes up a lot.

And one of the things that we would encourage you to look at beyond just the personality

type that you two bring to the table is do you have shared values and

interests? We really firmly believe that that is the determining factor between

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