Hey, welcome back to the Personality Hacker Podcast. My name is Joe Mark Witt.

And I'm Antonia Dodge. And this week we want to talk about a phenomenon that we've seen come up in self-typing or self-profiling, especially after people

learn about the concept of cognitive functions.

It is not uncommon for a person to have rested into a type in the Meyersburg system and then discover cognitive functions and then start questioning their type because they don't

identify with the inferior process or what we call in the car model the three-year-old

process they don't identify with it as a huge weakness for them or

something that would be only at a three year old level or something that would be

they would be unconsciously incompetent at. So one of the things we wanted to do on this podcast, and especially

for people who are going through the process of trying to figure out their type

and really getting confused by how all these cognitive functions are supposed to be

showing up for them and in

particular getting confused by how the inferior process is supposed to be

showing up for them we wanted to go through each of the eight functions and

talk about what it looks like when it's not an inferior process.

When a person is capable of taking each of these functions to their highest levels to basically

the acme of ability, and then if you're trying to determine whether or not

your certain type, whether or not that specific cognitive function for that type is your

inferior process, gauge to see if this is like that Acme,

if that's something that you believe is honestly within your reach,

that you have the natural talent for it,

and all it is is a matter of skill development

and whether or not you feel like you would even care enough to get to that highest

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