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 there my name is Richard and I'm

emailing you from the UK.

I came across your website a few months ago

and I very much enjoyed your podcast series

and the thoughts that they have provoked.

I've become more knowledgeable and I've learned a huge amount

and yet I'm more confused than ever about my own type.

I've self-typed as an I. NTP, I NFP, I NFP, NFP, E NFP, E NFP, I N TJ, and even an ISFP for one mad afternoon.

The online tests are no help either as it gets to a point where one can see through them quite easily and unconsciously self-select into particular categories

In a recent podcast I believe that Antonia said when you come across a type description that makes you feel relieved then that's your type

Once again self-doubt precludes this as so many descriptions have felt right until I read the next one

Which leads me to the main point of this email. Again, in a recent podcast, you mentioned that one goes into flow when one is utilizing one's driver function,

and that one could develop different functions by

partaking in different activities. It has occurred to me that one could reverse

engineer this idea. By partaking in different activities and observing one's enjoyment or skill or flow,

one could discover personal preferences regarding the utilization of different cognitive

functions and from that and for a type.

To that end, I was wondering if you could recommend activities

that correspond to the eight cognitive functions.

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