Welcome back to the personality hacker podcast. My name is Joel Mark Witt.

And I'm Antonia Dodge. A very funny thing is that in our profiler training course, one of the questions that we recommend

people use when they're first, you know, sort of trying to massage their profiling profiling chops when they're first trying to

figure this skill out. We use questions that are like starter questions that help people

determine the dichotomies introversion extroversion since questions that

people determine the dichotomies, introversion, extroversion, sensing intuition, and so on.

And one of the questions that we give them as a starter question is

we paint what we call a nightmare scenario, and that nightmare scenario is,

would you rather spend seven days completely alone,

like 100% and you don't even have access to the outside world like no

internet no ability to call anybody it's just you and your brain and I mean you can

read you can do other activities but seven days you have no human contacts. Or would you prefer

seven days where you have perpetual human contact? Like let's pretend it was this family

reunion where for seven days you were always around people and they could be people. this family and

and they could be people like some people that you love and know like family and

others that are maybe relative strangers but for seven days with the exception of

the time you're sleeping you have to be around people and it's it's not a we say there's no silver bullet question so it's not anything that's like like that's not going to be definitive if a person says I prefer to be alone

they're an introvert or I'd prefer to be around other people they're an extrovert it's just

kind of a starter question to get a conversation going but at no point did I ever

think that that question, that nightmare or the

choice between two nightmare scenarios would ever become people's reality.

And yet here we are. Yeah, I agree agree I didn't think it was going to happen either. In fact it's one of those things like sometimes

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