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In this episode, Joel and Antonia chat with Personality Hacker’s Advanced Profiling Coach Melissa Harris about the theory vs reality of personality type dynamics.
In this podcast you’ll find:
- Guest host Melissa Harris, our Advanced Profiling coach joins.
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There can be a difference between what type theory teaches us about our relationship with the functions in our stack (based on their position in our car), versus how this plays out in real life.
- Training and reality don’t always match – an illustration
- Check out our article on The Car Model to find out how the function stack works
- A deep dive into the 4 positions in the car – what does the theory say and what is our real relationship with each function?
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The Driver (Dominant) function:
- Why it’s not the loudest or most obvious function a person is using
- Understanding the subtle confident energy of the Driver function
- How fluency and transferable skills relate to the Driver
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The Copilot (Auxiliary) function:
- Why the Copilot isn’t necessarily just behind the Driver in terms of skill development
- Our push-pull relationship with the Copilot and our need for permission to use it
- The Copilot as an access point for growth
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The 10 Year Old (Tertiary) function:
- Why does our 10 Year Old try to “prove its value”?
- Our love-hate relationship with the various areas of our 10 Year Old function
- How do you spot the limitations of the 10 Year Old function, especially when there’s evidence of high skill development present?
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The 3 Year Old (Inferior) function:
- What are some of the stereotypes about how people view and use their 3 Year Old function – and are they accurate?
- How spikes of aspiration and skill development can show up here
- Our relationship to the philosophy of our inferior function
- Using the relationship between our Driver and 3 Year Old function to overcome “one-sidedness”
- How do people view their lower functions within themselves – and how can this alter their perception of its position in their stack?
- How our functions develop through the seasons of our lives.
- Looking at how the functions are woven into people’s stories during profiling sessions.
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Great podcast with a lot of insights to think about. I wanted to comment on and discuss the theory vs reality of the co-pilot function further. While I really identified with parts of what was described there were other aspects that didn’t match up with my own experience with the function. The theory of developing your co-pilot as being the key starting point and biggest leverage point for personal growth has been a tough one for me to figure out what to do with regarding what that means for my own path forward and even figuring out where on that path I actually am, as it hasn’t been a linear process for me.
I don’t mean to say that the advice to develop ones co-pilot isn’t extremely sound just that my interpretation of how that theory translates into the reality of what I need to do doesn’t line up cleanly. When I think of needing to developing a process, it implies to me a lack of proficiency and competence around using it and a need to learn/develop skills in how it works and expand the ways in which I use it. I believe that my co-pilot is already fairly well developed from a skills and general aptitude perspective, is something I can and have used effectively and that I have used extensively in the past prior to having a model/system to identify or name it.
The huge key I picked up from the podcast surrounded the comment about needing to give myself permission to use my co-pilot more often. Given that I have drifted away from using at often now as I once did, it would mean going back to embracing it more fully and this time from the perspective of it being an inherently useful function, necessary to supporting all the other functions rather than just something that I was good at, provided enjoyment to use but that I had come to view as somewhat frivolous in its applications beyond being a good way to gather information. So that for me ‘develop it more’ actually means to not just be good at it from a competency/skill perspective, but to understand its purpose better, use it more often and in more deliberately targeted ways. And using extraverted sensing more has got to be the best homework assignment I have ever gotten.