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Relationship School Podcast

SC 77 - How To Work With Personality Differences - Joel & Antonia

Relationship School Podcast

Jayson Gaddis

Relationships, Relationshippodcast, Sex, Relationshipadvice, Society & Culture, Jaysongaddispodcast, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6981 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2016

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, personality hackers and smart couple Joel and Antonia share their personal experiences of working through differences by understanding their partner's personality type. These two use Myers-Briggs, the enneagram, and other personality tests to understand themselves and each other better. I think you'll get a couple of new insights from Joel and Antonia's story that can help you right now in your own relationship. Pay special attention to what they do well and how they work through challenges in a collaborative way.

SHOWNOTES

  • What is a "social technology"? [8:30]
  • Why do you need to understand your partner's personality style? [14:00]
  • How did Joel and Antonia start studying personality? [15:15]
  • The unique history of the Myers-Briggs typing system. [17:00]
  • How thinkers and feelers can work well in relationships. [22:00]
  • Can your learn from your partner's personality style? [32:00]
  • The impact of masculine or feminine personality types. [35:00]
  • The two kinds of thinking styles. [38:30]
  • The best place to start to figure out you & your partner's personality type? [42:00]
  • The traps of personality tests. [44:00]
  • One thing to never do with your partner. [47:30]
  • What caused Joel and Antonia to dive into personal growth? [49:00]

Transcript

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0:00.0

I think at tools like this is hammers. You can either use them to build a house or you can use them to bludgeon somebody to death. the Hey, what's going on? Jason Gattis here with the Smart Couple Podcast.

0:25.0

Hey, what's going on?

0:30.0

Jason Gattis here with the Smart Couple Podcast.

0:32.0

Welcome back, and welcome welcome if you're new. Good to have you here.

0:37.7

We get serious here about long-term partnership and how to do it well because it's kind of a shit show out there for most people after many years.

0:47.6

It turns into a deadening complacent cesspool or it just gets aggressive and distancing and people just can't

0:56.0

resolve their shit so and then people get separated break up get divorces so my

1:01.6

job is to help people have a good time at long-term partnership and enjoy themselves.

1:09.0

If you're going to live with someone you may as well enjoy it, right?

1:13.0

If you're going to spend many, many years traveling the metaphorical world together of your lives

1:19.0

and you're going to share that together, why not get some power tools and the best gear to do that well?

1:28.0

Yeah? Seriously?

1:30.0

And if you rely on outdated tools in your conditioning that you just grew up with,

1:35.3

you're gonna suck at it and you're gonna fail.

1:37.8

And it's gonna be very frustrating for you and hurtful.

1:42.0

So here at the Smart couple we teach you how to learn, you know, just like, look, you got to learn this stuff and you, no one taught it to you.

1:50.0

It wasn't in school.

1:52.0

Your parents taught it to you merely through their modeling and

1:54.9

most of us got you know some interesting modeling we'll say that just to be PC here.

2:10.0

And you got what you got. So if you've got what you got and you rely on what you got, you're not going to get very far. All right? So you got to learn guys and I'm in the business of helping you learn how.

2:18.0

We have guests, we have experts, we have my wife, we have me, we have couples once in a while, and we even occasionally

2:26.6

have the listener come on to the podcast to help you have a good time and have a good relationship, right?

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