I welcome back to the personality hacker podcast my name is Joel Mark Witt and I'm

Antonio Dodge so tell me if you're watching or listening if you've ever had this

happen you're talking with somebody about personality

types and you're explaining it and you're doing a great job. Maybe you're explaining

this to a friend of yours and you're like, you're explaining the ESFJ type and you're like

ESFJ's are amazing they have a driver cognitive function we call it harmony

extroverted feeling is its technical name, Harmony, what a beautiful word, right?

This is what this function, this driver function for ESFJs wants.

It wants people to be in harmony with each other, to be connected, to have higher ideals, and have a cohesiveive group and get along.

And you're explaining this maybe to your friend.

And your friend goes, yeah, but I have an ESFJ, brother, sister, cousin, friend of my own, they don't do harmony at all.

In fact, this person creates drama, spreads rumors, sometimes will lie and manipulate.

In fact, they create discord in their life. So maybe either I

misunderstand the function or maybe this person actually isn't an ESFJ.

Yep. If you, I'm sure if you're watching you're listening you've had this happen at one point. I know you've had this happen Antonio. Yeah, this is a weekly if not daily occurrence for me describing functions and type. So you describe so there's eight mental processes or what we technically call

cognitive functions of personality for our perceiving functions taking

information into learning for our decision making, judging the criteria you take in.

Our personality tells us which two of those we prefer.

That's the basics of what personality tells us.

And as we explain this to people, what you're reporting to me

Antonio is you try to explain the qualitative nature of maybe that decision

making, extroverted feeling or harmony. You say here's how harmony makes decisions, it's

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