A 10-year-old that acts like a 10-year-old is fine.

A 15-year-old that acts like a 10-year-old is not fine.

A 20-year-old that acts like a 10-year-old is now officially an obnoxious human being.

And the older you get, the more people are like,

I do not want to spend any time around somebody who's like a grown-ass adult

willing to throw a temper tantrum, trying to get approval. So how does one do self-parenting?

I will come back to the Personality Hacker podcast.

My name is Joe Mark Witt.

And I'm Antonio Dodge.

So on the last episode, we talked about complexes.

A little bit of a complex conversation, I would say, about complexes on the last episode.

And, you know, how to make personal types therapeutic, talking about complexes.

I want to continue the conversation and bleed over into some other material that's related,

but not the exact same thing.

We want to talk about today a little bit

about okay we've always said this sound bite antonia for all of personality hacker we've said

grow your co-pilot now if you don't know what that means because you're maybe this is the

first episode you're listening to we use a car model to understand how our minds are wired how we learn

information to make decisions and we just use a four passenger car. There's a driver and a co-pilot,

and these are the strengths that you have. And then there's a metaphorical 10-year-old and a three-year-old

sitting in the backseat of the car of your cognition, less sophisticated, less certain about

themselves. And so we use this to kind of illustrate how your personality is wired. There's strong parts of you. And then there's parts that are more challenging.

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