I welcome back to the Personality Hacker podcast. My name is Joe Mark Whitt.

And I'm Antonia Dodge.

We are once again joined by our guest host Melissa Harris, who is our advanced profiling

coach here at Personality Hacker. Melissa, welcome back to the show.

Thank you for having me.

Well, thanks for joining us. And the reason why we invited you to come on today is because

of a conversation you and I were having when we were talking about teaching conversational

profiling to students, one of the challenges we see coming up over and over again is the

difference between the theory of the relationship that we have with our cognitive function stack

or what we call the car model, the cognitive functions that are the driver or the copilot,

the 10 year old and the three year old versus the reality of our relationship with those

functions. Because the theory makes it sound like whatever is the strongest function

will be the loudest, but the reality is a little different. So we thought that for

the sake of people who are still trying to figure out their best fit type, doing a little

bit of self-analysing, that we would have a conversation around that and talk about

the difference between the theory and the reality of how this all shows up.

Just to give you a note, if you're maybe a new listener, we're going to jump right into

this today. And so if you're like, what are you guys talking about, the car model? What

is that? Well, we have a lot of information and resource over at PersonalityHacker.com.

Just search the car model. It's a great framework to understand what we're coming from today

and you might want to listen to that first before you listen to this episode and this conversation.

And you know, Antonio, as you're saying this, I'm reminded of our daughter who's in

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