Podcast - Episode 0321 - Responsibilities And Burdens Of Personality Types

In this podcast you’ll find:

• When everyday responsibilities become a burden – an example from Joel
• What’s the difference between something being a responsibility and a burden?
  • A biblical take on this theme
  • How responsibilities can become burdens
• How does personality type play into the context of responsibility versus burdens?
• The idea of responsibility and burden as two opposite ends of a continuum
  • How do you strike the right balance between the two?
• Looking at burdens and responsibilities through the lens of each Myers-Briggs® dichotomy.
• Revisiting the four dichotomies:
• Introvert or Extravert
  • Introverts – the inner world is the real world
  • Extraverts – the outer world is the real world

• Sensor or iNtuitive
  • Sensors – value past precedent or the here and now
  • iNtuitives – value imagination and abstraction

• Thinker or Feeler
  • Thinkers – use more impersonal criteria to make decisions
  • Feelers – use more personal, feeling criteria to make decisions

• Judger or Perceiver
  • Judgers – prefer outerworld organization and inner world freedom
  • Perceivers – prefer to organize their inner world and have freedom in the outerworld

• The responsibilities and burdens of each dichotomy:
• Introverts and Extraverts:
  • The responsibility we all have to manage an open channel to the outerworld and introspect through our innerworld
  • Calibrating feedback as an introvert – and a note on the “Introvert movement”
  • Getting in touch with your inner truths as an extravert
  • How both types can access help with the burden of trauma

• Sensors and iNtuitives:
  • When anxiety (fear of the future) becomes a burden for a sensor
  • How to get help managing the burden of uncertainty
  • How can over relying on systems to handle real world issues become a burden for iNtuitives?
  • The struggle of learning to ask for help as an iNtuitive

• The three main reasons we experience burdens and their root causes.
  • How can we overcome each of these?
• Thinkers and Feelers:
  • Thinkers and their need to deal with emotions
  • Feelers and their need for intellectual honesty
  • The burdens of trauma for both Thinkers and Feelers
• Judgers and Perceivers:
  • The outerworld is the Judger’s realm – how can this create burdens for both types?
  • Why Perceivers need to accommodate the world and Judgers need to be flexible with systems
  • How you can leverage “accountability” as a perceiver
• How can you apply this model to your life?