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, Joel and Antonio.

I love your podcast.

Your combination of depth and eloquence make each episode interesting and enjoyable.

I was wondering if you can explore how and why we may develop certain cognitive functions to the same degree as our innate preferences, and also what to do with that information going forward.

For instance, well my preference for introverted intuition as a means of taking an information is clear,

I seem to use TI, FI, and FE virtually equally for evaluating information,

which is probably why decision-making exhaust me.

Many thanks for sharing your gifts, Jill.

Thanks, Jill, for the question.

Yeah, and it's a good one because it goes back to a question we get a lot,

and we may have actually had some, maybe we had a

PHQ in the past that addressed what are called the foreshadow functions.

So in the cognitive function stack for each personality type, there are four cognitive

functions that make up what's called, technically called your stack.

And that's what we always refer to, you know, using the car model as a metaphor.

Your driver, your co-pilot, your 10-year-old and three-year-olds.

And they're technically called your dominant, your auxiliary, your tertiary, and your inferior.

And then there are four other cognitive functions,

because there's eight in total, that aren't in your stack.

There are some models that talk about some trending and predictable quality to how each personality type

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