Podcast - Episode 0282 - Why The World Needs Extraverted Thinking

In this podcast you’ll find:

• Extraverted Thinking “Effectiveness”
• Driver for ENTJs and ESTJs
• Copilot for INTJs and ISTJs
• The welfare system is an excellent example of a system built by Extraverted Thinking.
• When Effectiveness is done well, you don’t recognize it until it quits working.
• We lean into these systems, and they facilitate our experience.
• Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom is a two-story structure.
• The first level is utilidors – an underground tunnel system where all the staff can access the park with ease.
• The systems Extraverted Thinking creates can help people survive (welfare system), and it can be used to create a magical experience for people (Disney)
• You don’t have to worry about anything in Disney
• Designing Disney’s Theme Parks: The Architecture of Reassurance
• When done well, Effectiveness reassures you that you are safe in the system.
• When you get on a plane, you feel reassured you are going to land safely.
• Engineering is applied thinking in the external world and is usually the foray of TJs.
• If you want to see how efficient and reliable Extraverted Thinking is, go to a country where it isn’t the rule. Everything is incredibly inconvenient, and you have to fight for everything.
• “Any sufficiently developed technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
• It is an easy sell to discuss why the world needs Extraverted Thinking on a systemic level.
• On the individual level, it’s a little harder to sell.
• People’s biggest complaint about Effectiveness is that it plows over the individual and appears manipulative.
• “The only right anyone has in a relationship is the right to leave. Otherwise, everything is negotiable.” –INTJ
• Effectiveness plays in the realm of power more than any other function
• To Extraverted Thinking, info is actionable and useable.
• Info is power to TJs.
• Power has a negative connotation in our world now.
• People usually demonize power when they don’t understand it or can’t get it.
• Power is organizing energy for an outcome.
• We need people who understand the game of power.
• Power is a thankless job, which is why it tends to come with a lot of perks.
• People are always upset with anyone in power.
• Effectiveness is reassuring to people. It builds the things we take for granted.
• Developing an appreciation for Extraverted Thinking requires a simultaneous appreciation of leadership and power.
• Acceptable spillage vs cost
• Harmony asks, What is acceptable discord?
• Effectiveness asks, What is an acceptable loss?
• There are a disproportionately high number of TJs in positions of gov’t and C-level execs.
• This world needs Extraverted Thinking.
• If you’re getting the message that the world doesn’t like power and leadership, don’t listen to it.
• Can we do power and leadership better?
• Who we are is valuable but also what we are: What have we built in our lives? What work have we done?
• Profiler Training card deck
• Effectiveness = amelioration: to be continually improving. Always getting better. Removing inefficiencies.