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16. Jungian Archetype Test
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In this week's episode, We took a Jungian Archetype quiz, and if you’re familiar with the show you may have heard us bring up the legendary psychoanalyst Carl Jung. Jungian archetypes are defined as universal, primal symbols and images that derive from the collective unconscious, as proposed by Carl Jung. They are the psychic counterpart of instinct. It is described as a kind of innate unspecific knowledge, derived from the sum total of human history, which prefigures and directs conscious behavior.
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Return from Break and Intro
00:00:00
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Hello and welcome to pursuit of infinity. I'd like to start off by apologizing for the sudden hiatus. My fiance and I had a mini war with COVID and it threw the podcast way off schedule, but we're back and we've returned with an episode that is sure to satiate your hunger for wonder.
Introduction to Jungian Archetypes
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Joe and I took a Jungian archetype quiz, and if you're familiar with the show, you may have heard us bring up the legendary psychoanalyst Carl Jung. Jungian archetypes are defined as universal, primal symbols and images that derive from the collective unconscious as proposed by Carl Jung.
00:00:37
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They are the psychic counterpart of instinct. It is described as a kind of innate, unspecific knowledge derived from the sum total of human history, which prefigures and directs conscious behavior. This was an interesting quiz with some deep philosophical exploration required to answer its questions.
00:00:56
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And there will be a link in the show notes below. So if you want to take the quiz and follow along with us, you can, if you do, let us know your results, leave us a comment or a message on Instagram, because we're very interested in how you guys may have done.
00:01:11
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Support and Engagement
00:01:26
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Understanding Jungian Archetypes
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Joe, so do you know the concept of Carl Jung's archetypes? I'm familiar with it. So Carl Jung's archetypes are essentially like the unconscious drivers of our mind that are deep, deep, deep within us just to give a tiny little very brief definition. So the archetypes are as follows.
00:02:33
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Artist, innocent, sage, explorer, outlaw, magician, hero, lover, jester, everyman, caregiver, and ruler. And my assumption is that each person has a certain percentage of each of these that make up our psyche.
Taking the Archetype Quiz
00:02:56
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Um, but we're about to find out because today we are going to take the Carl Jung archetype quiz, which is going to give us a little layout here of the archetypes that make up our unconscious. Well, we'll put a link in the description, uh, so everyone can follow along and have some great fun yourselves. So I guess the, it just asks a question and then you get to choose strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree, or strongly disagree.
00:03:26
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Yeah. And it's interesting that this one has a neutral. You see some of these that don't have a neutral, so they kind of force you to go in one direction or the other, which I can definitely appreciate. Yeah. I, I'd like that too, because I always find myself wanting to pick neutral. I'm going to try not to though.
Exploring Empathy and Judgment
00:03:41
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Yeah. So, uh, question number one or statement number one, I try to see myself in other people's shoes.
00:03:51
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For me, that is a strongly agree. I'm going to, that's an easy one for me. I, I always, always try to do that. And like every situation I'm ever put in is I really, really try. I try to make an effort to like stop myself from judging and to stop myself from analyzing and put myself in that person's shoes and think like, you know, what would I do if I was them?
00:04:14
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See, I'm kind of the opposite where I try not to like almost just not even care. So that's why I feel kind of neutral on it. But I think I, I don't know. I'm going to go with agree because I, I do it even if I don't like consciously do, I do that sometimes. Yeah. It's just something that I do. So I guess I have to pick agree.
00:04:35
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The more and more I look at situations that I would normally pass judgment on, and I really try to understand where someone is coming from. Because it's the age old concept that you and I go back and forth on all the time, which is hate, anger, fear, all of the drivers of our judgment systems aren't really based in anything that's tangible, legitimate,
00:05:04
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or sustainable. So when I look at that aspect of my own sense of judgment, then I take a step back and I can say to myself, hold on, like, why don't you put yourself in the framework that they're working under and try to understand where they're coming from.
Perceptions of Hardship
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Um, so you can better understand yourself.
00:05:23
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Yeah, I see what you mean. And I definitely agree with the point that I put myself in other people's shoes a lot. I just do that. But when it comes to then looking at me, I feel like sometimes I get a little too critical of myself. So that's why sometimes I have to make an effort not to do that and just kind of just let myself just be.
00:05:49
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But I will, I'm going to put agree because I do it. Um, but I don't strongly agree with that. I'm almost neutral, but I'm going to go with agree because I'm going to try not to pick any neutrals. Okay. Number two, I feel sorry for people in a worse situation than myself. My initial thought is to agree with this just because I, I find myself to be the type of person that.
00:06:15
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again, puts myself in other people's shoes. And just inherently in doing that, when people are in situations that are negative or, you know, impacting them in a negative way, I can't help but feel compassion for them in that situation.
Giving Advice and Being a Listener
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So for me, I think I'm, they want to just do an agree on this though.
00:06:39
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Because I don't always feel that way. Yeah. That's why I like, this is another one where I'm, I feel neutral. I feel nothing. Um, no, but it's like, cause it's such a broad statement because I mean, a lot of people that are in a worse situation, like what put them there, you know, that's the thing. Like.
00:06:59
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And the situation that you're considering worse depends on your ideas so if i see somebody who seems like they're in a worse situation than me. Like say they're super unhappy for some reason and i can pass judgment on that situation and say well.
00:07:17
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It's not that bad. Like what are they bitching about? Yes. But again, that goes back to having compassion and putting yourself in that person's shoes. So I think that the first statement and this statement really work hand in hand, but because I do have a little part of me that likes to think like, you know, pick yourself up by your bootstraps. I'm going to go with the green instead of a strongly.
00:07:38
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Yeah. I mean, that's what I'm saying. Like if you're talking about somebody who just like is stricken with illness and like stuff like that, yeah, I feel sorry for them. So like it's really circumstantial. So broadly I'm going to just agree. But again,
Self-Reflection and Gratitude
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like my gut almost wants to say neutral, but I do feel sorry for people. You know, I feel empathy, you know, it's like, it's there. So I'm going to go with agree.
00:08:03
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Yeah, I think that that's the way I look at the neutral as well. If I am really truly in neutral, then that means I just can't decide on agree or disagree. But if I do find myself kind of swaying toward one or the other, like with this question, I will use agree. So yeah, it depends on my mood sometimes too, but I'm just going to go with agree. True. Okay. Number three. Friends often turn to me for advice.
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Uh, I'm going to go with strongly agree. Does this happen to you often? Yeah, I would say so. I'm, I've been told I'm a good listener and then I, I just like giving feedback also. So they're going to get my advice, whether they like it or not. And, uh, usually, I mean, I'm most of the time, I think I'm pretty good at it and people seem to like what I have to say.
00:09:01
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I think for this one, I'm going to do agree because I think I do.
00:09:10
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in the same way that you said, um, you know, people say that I'm generally a decent listener and that I have sort of an unbiased way of giving advice, but people don't often come to me for advice because like my circle is kind of tight.
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So it's not like, you know, I'm the kind of person that like, everyone is coming to out the woodwork to see my great wisdom or anything like that. You know what I mean? So when my people do come to me for advice, I feel that they really do trust what I have to say and they take it into consideration, but I.
Love for Imaginative Stories
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I don't think it doesn't happen as often as I think a strongly agree could warrant. Well, yeah, that's what I would say too. But this question took me right back to my days in rehab. And I was like a councilman. I met a lot of people and then people would come to me and be like, I need to talk to you about this and that.
00:10:18
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So that's what this made me think of actually to strongly agree because I agree with everything you just said. Since I have a tight circle, it's not like I have people flocking to me all the time, but when like I'm placed in a situation where there's, you know, a lot of like opportunity for that kind of thing, I find myself getting in those situations a lot. Yeah. Yeah. Number four, I sometimes find that I am feeling sorry for myself.
00:10:48
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I would say in the past, this would be like a agree, but I strongly disagree. I haven't felt this way in a long time. I'm going to be 100% honest. And I'm going to say agree because.
00:11:06
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The question or the statement is I sometimes find that I'm feeling sorry for myself. And there are plenty of times where I can say that I'm quote unquote feeling sorry for myself. Like even like yesterday.
00:11:23
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I was, I was at the gym and I was like three or four exercises in and I started feeling sorry for myself, you know, like, man, I'm getting tired. Like this hurts. You know what I mean? Yeah. I often feel that as a reaction to situations that I'm in, but what I like to do or what I try to do is I try to use that feeling as like a launching off point.
00:11:47
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to correct whatever emotional content I'm feeling in that moment. Yeah. In the past, I would say I definitely used to feel sorry for myself too much. But all I can speak on when I'm speaking on how I feel now and as of the last year or so, it's just not been a feeling that comes over me too much. I'm just usually so full of gratitude. That's one of the things I've
00:12:17
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been like working on and really, you know, becoming aware of. So I, I don't think that as of lately, I've been feeling sorry for myself very much
The Impact of Substances on Dreams
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at all. So I'm gonna strongly disagree because I feel strongly about it. I probably do it now and then in small ways. But for the most part, I don't think I, I really do that lately. Yeah, I think it's just important, like, to me personally, just to identify
00:12:44
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places in which I do feel that for myself because I don't want to feel that I don't want to feel sorry for myself when I do it's it feels disgusting you know I don't like to feel that but at least you can acknowledge it and then use it like you just mentioned so exactly yeah I mean it's not I'm not saying I never have that feeling but saying like the
00:13:06
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Comparatively to how I know how that is, like how I used to be, it's not even close. So that's why I'm giving it a strongly disagree. Yeah. And for me, there's like a very big difference between agree and strongly disagree and strongly agree in this statement as well, because
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the word sometimes, if I sometimes feel that way, then I can say yes, like I do sometimes. But to strongly agree, that would mean that like, I oftentimes feel sorry for myself. And in that, that way, no, I definitely don't because I do have, you know, that inclination toward gratitude, like you said, as well. And toward
00:13:50
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not just gratitude, but toward working on myself and bettering myself as opposed to blaming anything or anyone for my current predicament. Yeah, I changed it to disagree, actually, because like you keep saying sometimes, so I have to like give some some leeway there. So I just change it to disagree. Yeah, that's why I emphasize that word, because whenever they put that in there,
00:14:16
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Or if they put always or never, it's just really important. I was more reading it as often, but sometimes isn't often. Uh, number five, I enjoy imaginative stories. I mean.
00:14:32
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That's a strongly agree. Yeah, I strongly agree also. Like Journey Books, the Robert Monroe books I was just reading. So fantastic. And it's awesome because they're quote unquote true. Like they're real experiences you have, but the stories are beyond imaginative. It's awesome. It's like reading fantasy, but I really enjoy it.
00:14:52
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Not to mention listening to and reading trip reports and things like that. Oh yeah. The way people put together their stories is amazing. It's fantastic. And also, I mean, we like fiction.
Dreams as Alternate Realities
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We like TV shows. We like cartoons. We like video games. These are all imaginative stories, especially in video games and cartoons, you know?
00:15:13
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It's strange though because I would have probably disagree with this not that long ago because like for a long time I was like just stuck on like non-fiction hard fact type stuff like that's just what I was into that's where I like that's where I would vibe but now I don't lately it's just it's
00:15:33
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been pretty much the opposite. I wasn't watching Netflix for years because I was like, I can't watch this shit. It's too fake. But now I'm enjoying it. I just started watching some stuff and enjoying these fictitious stories.
00:15:47
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It's funny you bring that up because I was in that exact predicament at a certain time where, you know, I would look at something like a show that we grew up watching just by happenstance and that I really have like a strong, um, like nostalgic relationship with his friends. But if you go back and you watch friends now, like.
00:16:11
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Some of it is a little bit unwatchable. It's just so not realistic, you know, that when these situations arise and you see them, it's like, how could I have, you know, but at the same time, I still really enjoy it because of those, uh, those like nostalgic moments and the one liners because that show is written pretty well.
00:16:34
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Yeah, it's like sitcom 101 and that dude now I'm watching Seinfeld. I'm on that right now. Seinfeld is wonderful. We actually just watched through all of Seinfeld recently. Have you ever watched the last episode of Seinfeld? Yeah.
00:16:50
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I had no idea that Seinfeld ended up where it did. And I'm not going to give any spoilers away, even though the show came out in like 1920. Well, like the last two seasons should have seen it by now. Yeah. The last two seasons, Larry David wasn't on as a writer. So the last two seasons of Seinfeld, a lot of people don't like it or it's just a little different. I still like it, but they're not as good. Number six.
00:17:18
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I often experience unbelievable dreams.
00:17:22
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Yeah. Okay. That's a strongly agree for me. Yeah. My dreams are absolutely insane and intense. And as I've talked about on here, often, more often now I'm having lucid dreams and it's something I'm diving deep into. And it's, it's interesting. Like the more you I'm putting my intention on it and like working on it, it's like showing effects. Like my dreams are extremely vivid.
00:17:50
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I get all sorts of weird like mythological creatures and aliens and UFOs and it's just absolutely wild and like other times it's like very real like do I've had dreams like where I'll like fall in love it's just crazy stuff like it's absolutely insane really vivid and a lot of times now they're they're pretty long like you'll feel like like a whole day or like I've had dreams that felt like weeks like crazy stuff so that's a strongly agree for me
Standing Out and Social Dynamics
00:18:19
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Yeah, I definitely could have predicted that for you. I'm going to go neutral for this, um, for a few reasons. One. So there's this rumor, or I would like to say it's like an anecdotal fact that when you use marijuana before bed, you don't really dream as much. And I've noticed that in my case, that is true.
00:18:46
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Um, I don't really have crazy dreams all that often, but sometimes I do. Like the one, the last dream that I had that was really insane that I can remember was, um, it was me and I think you were there, like just my crew, you know, just like my family and like the people that I hold dear. And we were all looking up at the sky and it was one of those.
00:19:07
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evenings where like you see the sun and it's like a dark orange, but this was highly exaggerated color wise. And the color was fading from like a, you know, around the sun, that bright, beautiful orangey color down to a dark, deep purpleish black into the night sky. Cause it was like sort of becoming night at this time. It was beautiful. Yeah.
00:19:33
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Um, so we were all looking up at the sun because it was really big and it was very orange, but the weird part of it is that we could all see it. We could look at the sun without our eyes, you know, burning out. And then we saw the sun drop like it just straight line dropped straight down below the horizon. And then there was this instant panic that came over me and.
00:20:03
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Then I heard this, uh, like this base sound. It was just like, uh, the most extreme base you could ever hear like boom. And it was just low and huge. And the sound was so massive that it just took over like all of our reality and it just wiped everything out. It was like an end of times, like dunes day type of dream. Yeah.
00:20:29
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I actually do have another dream story that was probably the most insane dream I've ever had. I'm sorry to keep going on about dreams, but we talk about that quite a bit here. So this dream was awesome. I wasn't in my body. If that makes any sense, it was an, it was like a purely mental dream. It was almost like I was identifying with like, just my like consciousness or something. And what was happening was my consciousness was diving deep.
00:20:59
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Let's say into, because up and down aren't really like real things, but it felt like it was diving down, like deep into the concept of form and formlessness. So what would happen was I would, I would inhabit a form and I'd understand what the form was. And then I would slowly drip into the formless.
00:21:23
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Because what was happening in the dream was it was like sort of showing me that in order to have form, you must have formlessness and you can't have one without
Introversion and Asking for Help
00:21:36
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the other. So as you keep going deeper and deeper into one, it turns into the other. So the form would.
00:21:43
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Turn into the formlessness and the formlessness would turn into the form and this was an never-ending Luke of Form turning into formlessness formless is turning into form and it was just all night long. That was my dream It was just I just kept going deeper and deeper and deeper into the depths of form and formlessness And it was just it's really cool. Yeah, man people really just downplay or don't even really understand or maybe just have an experience like the
00:22:13
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The things that dreams can give you, it's absolutely insane. It's crazy. Like it's very valuable. Like I found that it's like you're living a whole another reality in life. And a lot of times it's just people don't remember them or like, especially if like you're a drinker or you smoke a lot, that'll like you mentioned kind of.
00:22:32
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Like I haven't smoked since the cannabis fest. So like, that's why I've noticed probably one of the reasons why it's been happening a lot more for me is like, because I haven't been smoking lately. Like it just took a while off and now I have vivid dreams a lot.
00:22:48
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Yeah, it's funny. I've been doing the opposite where I've been smoking my heaviest right before bed. Like I'm in bed and I am just blasting away just for the sole purpose of going inside my mind, you know, at a time where I can settle down for the night. It's all dark, you know, and I feel like it's a, it's a good time to meditate. So I like to use that as part of my meditation. I'm going to stick with the neutral for that one.
00:23:14
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just because I don't really have dreams all that often. I bet if you weren't smoking all the time though you'd probably have a strongly agree because I firmly believe that like
00:23:23
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I don't like to really say it this way, but I don't know how else to say it. The level of your consciousness or the amount of awareness you have, I think affects your dream activity a lot. I think you're right. So I think the only reason is just because probably it's true. If you smoked a lot during the day, it doesn't really affect your dreams. But when you smoke right before bed, that definitely has an effect on your REM sleep.
00:23:51
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And this says, I often experience unbelievable dreams. So when I do dream, it's not always unbelievable. Sometimes it is, but it's definitely not often. Yeah. I get a lot like that one you just described. That's unbelievable. That's a great, that's great. And I've had similar like stuff like, like as akin to, you know, a psychedelic experience or like I've done like drugs in my dreams that don't like exist, like alien drugs, like weird. And like I had like.
00:24:19
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Kind of like DMT trip experiences in a couple of my dreams. I've had like some weird psychedelic experience and dreams too. It's far out. Yeah. Number seven. I like to stand out in a crowd. What do you think? I'm going to go neutral. This one I will go neutral on because.
00:24:45
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I don't, it really doesn't matter to me. I'm trying to think of how it makes me feel. I don't care. It doesn't matter. I don't prefer it or I don't not prefer it either. It's a strictly neutral for me.
00:25:01
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I don't need the attention. Um, but I don't like, if I have it, that's fine too. I don't know. So circumstantial, I guess. I don't know. I'm right there with you. Like I feel the same way. I don't really care. Like I, and it also, yeah, like you said, circumstantial depends on the situation. Like there have been times where I've been like the center of a crowd and like telling a story or, you know, whatever, but there's also plenty of times where like I.
00:25:24
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make it a point to avoid being the center of attention. Yeah. A hundred percent. I'm with you on
Importance of Relationships and Charity
00:25:29
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that one. Yeah. You're going neutral. I'm going neutral. Yeah. Number eight. I make impulsive purchases. Um, I'm going to strongly agree because I can blow through money like no other. I'm not, I'm not bad with that now really, but through my life, I mean, I just, yeah, for sure.
00:25:51
Speaker
Yeah, I'll say, I'm gonna say agree because I do make impulsive purchases. I'm pretty impulsive generally, so I'm gonna have to go with strongly agree. Yeah, I mean, I'm getting better with that. I'm really trying to make it a point to like save money and like use it more intelligently, but I mean, yeah, I've spent money on some really dumb shit. Yeah. Things I just do not need but want. So yeah, I'm just gonna go with agree on that.
00:26:20
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Number nine is I often worry for others. For me, that is a strongly agree. I'm such a worry ward. Oh my God. And especially like what this really brings to mind is.
00:26:35
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every time I take psychedelics with people. My first I snap into like healer mode and like making sure that I'm holding space for everyone and that everyone's okay and I'm always keeping an eye on people and like
00:26:52
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And also feeling responsible as well. Like if someone has a bad experience or if something's happening to someone that's like negative, I, I feel like responsible for it. I have this problem that I'm trying to get past and get through, but this is me to a T. Yeah, I see. I get that like a little, I know you get it way more, but I know what you mean. I get that a bit too. And I'm going to go with agree because.
00:27:17
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Honestly, it's I do worry about others, but it's very few it's not like I worry about like like even I there's only maybe like a handful of people that I have any worry for and Generally, I'd say I don't worry too much for others, but I definitely do worry about the people I care about so I'll agree I Don't like to burden people with my problems I
00:27:45
Speaker
uh, strongly agree. I just hate feeling like a burden. I don't, I often feel like nobody wants to hear about my problems. Why people have the problems of their own. They don't need mine on top of theirs, that type of thing. I just, that's one of my biggest like fears even is like being a burden. Like I hate that. So I definitely strongly, uh, agree. I don't like to burden people with my problems.
00:28:14
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I'm going to strongly agree as well. Although I do like to have other perspectives and maybe advice if I need it.
00:28:23
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I mean, that's, I'll still avoid even asking for advice. I try to avoid asking for help just because like you said, like I just. People have their own problems. I don't want people to like, I just, that's probably even to a fault. Like I'll keep, I'll keep that stuff to myself. Maybe even if I shouldn't, that's why like I could never, I've been to a therapist before when I was like younger, I was like, this is the worst. Like even like this person, I'm paying them and yeah, just not, not good for me.
00:28:52
Speaker
Well, when you and I were kids, we went to one together. I don't know if you remember that. Yeah, I remember that. It was the stupidest shit in the world. It was just not. And then in school, I had one as well. They would take me out of math class and put me in. Yeah, they did that to me. I think it was only like twice and they gave up because I was like, no, I'm not having it.
Patience and Solitude
00:29:11
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Yeah, they would ask me questions and stuff. And like, I wouldn't, I didn't know how to express what was going on at home. And like, what was, what, like the reason behind us having to see a therapist, like, I didn't know how to express that. So they thought that nothing was wrong. They were like, Oh, this kid's just like trying to get out of class or something. And, you know, and they, they gave up after like two or three sessions. I think it's so funny how we both have like that same experience with it.
00:29:35
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And then they for I was forced to go back to one after after I was in the psych ward. I don't I don't know how forced but kind of forced, you know, it was like something I was set up to do. And it just fizzled out because it was so it was just it's just not my style. Yeah, same. I'm with you there. And isn't it funny how
00:29:56
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The question right before this or the statement right before this was I often worry for others. And then the one right after is I don't, you know, I don't like to burden people with myself. Right. I feel like people who answer agree for, they often worried for others are also going to answer agree for that. They don't like to burden people with themselves. Yeah. It's a character trait. Definitely connection there. Yeah. Okay. Let's move on to number 11.
00:30:24
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I make time to spend with family and friends. I strongly agree. That's the only thing that I really value in my life above all else is spending time with my people.
00:30:35
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I'm gonna put agree and I do just because I Don't I just I'd like I spend so much time with myself and I like it, but I also I do Make time to spend with you know, like you guys and all that but I can't strongly agree because I don't make a ton of time for You know a bunch of different people. I don't know. Yeah, you know, maybe I will I
00:31:00
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lower mind to an agree, because there have definitely been times where like, I feel that I don't have the energy to give it away to other people. And sometimes I'll like reserve it and, you know, kind of, yeah, I love fall into my hole. Yeah. I love, uh, a long time as do I. It's great.
00:31:21
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Um, to fault probably, but also I love spending time with the people I love. So I do make time for that and I always will, but, um, I value my long time. So I'm just going to go agree. You good on this one? Yeah. Okay. Number 12. I often make charitable donations. Disagree.
00:31:44
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Why not strongly? Do you sometimes make charities? I mean, I can think of times where I've like do not like to charities. I mean, like once in a while, I'll put like some money in the, you know, whatever box is there for some type of cause or whatever. But more so like there have been times where I would like give like a homeless person food or something in Allentown, like just like a burger, like stuff like that I would do. But
00:32:11
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It's not something I do often, so that's why I have to disagree. But I won't strongly disagree because it's not like I've never done it. I've done things like that and it turns out it actually makes you feel really good. And I recommend now it's sad because now people do it and they have to shove a camera in the person's face. It's kind of counterintuitive.
00:32:33
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Yeah, I hate that. If I ever do anything like this and I ever donate to, you know, people or anything that I consider to be charitable, I don't, I do not say that I did it, you know, but one thing that I used to do, so I'm going to go disagree on this one as
Decisiveness and Empathy
00:32:47
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well. But what I used to do is, you know, I'd like the grocery store when they say like, Oh, do you want to round up for like this organization? I used to always do it. But then I thought to myself and I was like, so there's like.
00:33:01
Speaker
You know, I'm rounding up on the dollar every time I grocery shop, every time I do this and do that. Like charitable organizations, like who's this money going to? That's my big thing too. Like it's not going to, most of it, the higher percentage goes to like the board of directors, you know, the chair, all these people who work for them, marketing design, you know, there's so much that goes into charitable and nonprofits that the money.
00:33:31
Speaker
Most of the money does not go to the cause that you're donating it to. And a lot of it is for, uh, sometimes it's just a cloak for some like nefarious plot. You know, there's that type of thing, but, um, that's why I found the way to do it. And that's what I would do for a little bit is like give.
00:33:50
Speaker
Uh, people food, like that was, that's the main thing. I think it's personable. Like I would give like a homeless dude to McDonald's or something. Now I'm realizing I was just giving him poison. Yeah. But you know what though, McDonald's is not poison to somebody who has no food. You know what I mean? It's definitely a good thing. Being a little dramatic, but, um, uh, yeah, Duncan Trussell said it. I forget. Uh, he was on a podcast saying this. He's like, you know,
00:34:17
Speaker
boiling spirituality down. Like I forget all the teachings, like forget about all this meditating for hours and all this stuff. Just go feed somebody. Yeah. Just go outside and feed somebody and then tell me how you feel. And that's like, it's very true. It's a brilliant teaching. I'm going to raise like a go fund me or something. Like, uh, I want him to officiate my wedding.
00:34:40
Speaker
That'd be amazing. That would be the greatest day of my life. Duncan Trussell. You could probably at the very least, I don't know, he might do Cameo, you know, that app or whatever. I don't know. Maybe it's like a call. Well, it's like an app where you pay like a celebrity and they'll call call you or like make a video for you or something. It's called Cameo. Gilbert Godfrey did a lot of that, didn't he? A lot of people do it. Yeah. OK. A lot of people are IP. OK. OK, this is you.
00:35:07
Speaker
Number 13, I see myself as quite a patient person. For me, I'm strongly agreeing. I'm super patient. I will agree.
00:35:18
Speaker
Because I can be impatient, but I wouldn't consider myself impatient. That's a tough one. Sometimes I find myself being impatient, for sure. But like, I'm trying to think, because I keep thinking into my deep past in times where I was very impatient. And I'm thinking, I'm not really like that now. So there have been times where I used to be very impatient. I think now I am pretty patient. So I'm going to agree.
00:35:48
Speaker
I'm very patient with people. I'm, I, when I start to get a little impatient is with things that I can't control. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, like that's the only time that I consider myself like I get impatient sometimes. Like when there's just circumstances that I'm in where like, say I'm trying to get somewhere on time and like something happened that was out of my control. That's preventing me from getting there. I'll start to get a little bit impatient.
00:36:13
Speaker
But I still, you know, even in those situations, I'm not like slamming on my steering wheel and like yelling at people and like going crazy. Yeah, I'm not that guy. Definitely not that guy. So I still consider myself very patient because even in situations where I'm feeling impatient, I can still control myself and just be a normal patient person even under those pressures.
Competitiveness and Problem-Solving
00:36:36
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Yeah, yeah, me too. I could probably strongly agree, but I'm, I'm just gonna go with agree.
00:36:44
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Number 14, I like to be alone with my thoughts at times. Strongly agree. That's what I was just kind of talking about. I love, I love it. They're like, I've always been that way too. It's like, it kind of blows my mind. I mean, this is where like, I guess you would say I'm an introvert, like watching people that
00:37:04
Speaker
like extroverts that need to be around like people all the time. To me, that's kind of mind blowing because I can't handle that. Like I love just being able to basically meditate, even if it's not like just being by myself and being able to only be there with my own thoughts. It's just, there's nothing else like it. So I think, uh, I, well, yeah, I have to strongly agree.
00:37:29
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Yeah, I picked strongly agree as well. Definitely loved to spend time with myself. I've always been a person who likes to have a long time to be with my own mind. And, you know, whether it's quiet or whether, you know, my mind tells me that it wants to like indulge in like, you know, something that, you know, I like to do, you know, like, well, even just like it says, like, uh, what did it say?
00:37:54
Speaker
Being alone with my thoughts like sometimes I find it fun like a hobby just to think about things, you know like Contemplation and stuff. It's like you just you can't get that anywhere else like besides like solitude It's a different kind of experience and having to always have the mask on you know I I love to take the mask off and I just love to exist without it. So yeah strongly agree for me All right number 15
00:38:24
Speaker
I'm often the last to decide when ordering at a restaurant. Me, this is easy, strongly disagree. I know exactly what I want because I'm the kind of person that when I go to a restaurant, there's one thing that I always get. I, I have a favorite menu item and no matter what, most of the time, 98% of the time I'm getting that one thing. So I always know what I want before anybody else does.
00:38:51
Speaker
Yeah, I'm going to disagree also. Just disagree because that's happened to me a couple of times, but I'm like, I'm a very basic eater. So usually like I get like a lot of the same stuff when I go to places like steak and broccoli or something like, you know, I don't, I don't go too crazy with food. So I usually know what I'm going to get.
00:39:10
Speaker
But once in a while, I'll find myself at a place like really struggling. So like that's kind of rare, but it happens. So sometimes I struggle with with making a decision on food, but not often. So disagree for me. Number 16, I make time to listen to other people's problems.
00:39:32
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I'm going to agree lately. I haven't been doing it as much, but it kind of relates back to the other question that we had. I do listen to other people's problems and I enjoy helping them with them. It's just, I don't, people don't unleash their problems on me lately all the time. Like it's not something I'm doing a lot, but I definitely will. And I do.
00:39:54
Speaker
I'm gonna use a strongly agree here because I do love to listen to other people's problems. I love to give advice. I love to
00:40:04
Speaker
get perspectives that aren't mine, you know, and try to understand life experiences that I don't have. Um, I love it. So yeah, for me, it's definitely a strongly agree. Cause yeah, like we do in doing that you end up learning a lot too. It's not like you're just sitting there trying to solve someone's problem. Like you get something from it.
00:40:24
Speaker
Like you're also going through the problem in your head and like kind of solving it yourself and trying to help the other person. Like it's a cool little dance. So I do enjoy it. And, uh, I definitely agree, but like I said, it just doesn't come up too much lately. So.
00:40:41
Speaker
And one thing I love almost more than anything is seeing people work through and talk about the things that they don't think that they're allowed to talk about. Some people, when they talk about things to their friends or their significant other, and like they really talk about the deep loves and interests and passions that they have.
Time Management and Ethics
00:41:01
Speaker
I've had a few situations of friends of mine and stuff who had told me that like, Oh, I can't talk about this. They had asked me, is it okay that I'm talking about this for so long? Because this person or that person, like they just tell me to shut the fuck up. And I think to myself, wow, that's crazy. Cause I, there's nothing I love more than to watch somebody and to hear someone talk about something that they're passionate about. There's like a light in their eyes.
00:41:25
Speaker
And in their heart that just explodes. And I'm just like, hell yeah. Like I want to hear what you're passionate about or your problems or like whatever's going on deep within you. Because to me, this statement may as well say, I do not like small talk. I want to hear about what's going on deep inside a person. And that to me is, is beautiful. I love it.
00:41:48
Speaker
Yeah, and that's very common too when people will say when you mention that, that's like, oh, I can't really talk about this to so-and-so. It's really interesting to see a person in a vulnerable state and watch how they handle it. And it helps because then you're giving advice and you see if they take it or not or how that works for them because some things
00:42:11
Speaker
that, you know, you might do in the situation won't work for the person giving you, you know, their problems and whatnot. So, and for this one, even just listening, like a lot of times, like I won't even say anything. I'll just listen and just let the person get out what they want to get out. Yeah. That's usually the move. Yeah. That in itself is usually better than like saying, Oh, well, I think this because, you know, the person normally
00:42:36
Speaker
that doesn't get to talk about the things that they're passionate about, just need to get it out. Yeah, you got to be really conscious of that. Like you got to make sure that they're if they end with a question, like if they're not ending with questions, don't give feedback. Yeah, you don't have to like if they're just spilling it, then you're just like, Oh, I see. I understand how you feel this that but it's when they ask questions, then you get to really, you know, maybe start throwing some ideas at them.
00:43:01
Speaker
And that's like a conversational skill. And it's one that I always work on because obviously I'm not perfect at this. You know, I, sometimes I do interject and I do try to like, you know, impose my own ideas on people, but I really try hard not to. And I've been doing a better and better job as the years go on to that. Yeah, for sure. Okay. Um, let's move on to number 17 in games. Winning is my main objective. Oh.
00:43:29
Speaker
I guess I have to go with yeah I mean I guess agree not strongly I was gonna say strongly but I just agree because some games I don't really care too much about winning but usually if I'm in like any type of competition it's like yeah of course like I want to win and that's that's what's most important
00:43:49
Speaker
Yeah, there was a time where this would be an easy, strongly agree for me because I used to be like, I used to judge my value off of whether or not I was better than other people at things, which is stupid, but I am still very competitive. I mean, grew up wrestling boxed, like combat sports had been a huge part of my life for a long time.
00:44:11
Speaker
And inherent in those is just a competitive nature that you're not going to get rid of and not that I'd want to because I love competition. You know, whether that be physical or mental, even like debates, you know, I, I love watching debates. I don't like having debates as much anymore because people don't really.
00:44:31
Speaker
know how to have a good faith debate nowadays. People just like to disparage and hate on the other side, but winning is not always the main objective. Like if I'm playing a video game, even say the good people, depending on the game, you know, it won't really matter to me much if I win or lose, you know, and some, sometimes I might even like feel better if somebody else wins. Yeah. I know what you mean.
00:45:00
Speaker
But when you boil it down, what's the point is to win, you know, which is why I went with the greed, because I do have underlying that competitive nature and that thing inside me that when I do lose, I'm like, shit, you know, like I got to get better. Yeah, fun is important, but it's fun to win. And it's also in saying this, it's not like it's so important that I'm crushed if I lose at something. You know, it's not like that either. But yeah, I'm going to agree.
00:45:28
Speaker
Number 18, people rely on me to fix problems. Disagree. I mean, I don't really have anybody that relies on me to fix anything for them. Like if I'm fixing someone's problems, it's because I'm like kind of putting myself out there. It's not like I don't have like a family dependent on me. Like I don't, you know what I mean? So for me, I'm going to disagree, but
00:45:57
Speaker
Cause usually, like I said, if I'm going to fix a problem, it's more of me putting myself into the situation rather than like being forced into it. Yeah. I think I'm going to go with neutral on this just because when people do have issues, a lot of times I do have to help, but that's the thing. It's like, I'm not fixing people's problems.
00:46:18
Speaker
Well, it's, it's different because neither of us have kids. So like, if you have kids, this is a whole different thing. Of course. And you have people relying on you to fix their problems. Very true. But, um, yeah, it's mostly just helping people. People do ask me to help them with a lot of things, but I'm not fixing people's problems. So neutral. Yeah, I got disagree. Okay. Number 19 in a discussion.
00:46:45
Speaker
I argue until people come around to my viewpoint. This is really circumstantial for me because I do I don't I don't know I think I might have to go neutral because I don't usually and I don't actually care if somebody has the same view as me.
00:47:05
Speaker
But I enjoy the sport of like, you're kind of saying like with debate and argument, like it's kind of fun to, you know, sway somebody and like put, put your perspective out so well that can't be denied. But I don't have any stake in the game there. So that sounds probably like an agree. And see, there's a difference between accurately laying out your beliefs and arguing and not stopping until the person comes around to your viewpoint.
00:47:35
Speaker
Yeah, it's true. You know, this is specifically saying, I argue until people come. I strongly disagree. I'm just going to go disagree because there are circumstances where like people just don't understand what I'm saying. And like, I get to a point where I just, where I won't let them talk sometime. And I'll just be like, this is what I'm trying to say. Like, please understand.
00:47:55
Speaker
But now that you've laid that out, that's insane though. Cause it says, I argue until people come around to my viewpoint. Like I've not, I don't know if I've ever done that where I won't stop until they change their mind.
00:48:06
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. I'm going to strongly disagree now that you kind of read that out for me. Cause yeah, that's, that seems wild. Yeah. I'm going to strongly disagree as well. Yeah. Cause now when you think of like somebody who's done that to you and you can see how, how like that's so opposite to what you are. And then yeah, I'm going to disagree. Okay. Number 20. I don't like to be outdone.
00:48:30
Speaker
If I'm really trying to be honest with myself, I think I'm going to strongly agree because I fucking hate to lose. And I also hate when I do something and I see someone else do the same thing better. It's not that I get angry or like I hate on like the person that did the thing better than me, but it makes me feel like I didn't, I didn't do the work that I was worthy of or the work that I
00:48:54
Speaker
could have done. You know what I mean? It just makes me feel kind of not so confident in my own self because I always try to strive for the best. I'm gonna agree.
00:49:04
Speaker
Yeah. I'm going to, I'm going to lower mine to agree. It's not strongly because I don't like get all crazy data shape about it. And it's, it's circumstantial too. Cause like certain things, like I don't expect so much out of myself that I can't be outdone from like training and like kickboxing or something with someone who's been doing it twice as long as me. Like I'm not going to get upset if I'm being outdone.
00:49:28
Speaker
That's true. Cause there's something that you can learn. Yeah. When we were wrestling or we're like, when, you know, boxing and kickboxing, you know, when I get into the ring with somebody like, you remember Hector? Yeah. Like I had to spar Hector and Hector was a prolific amateur and I had zero fights and I go in.
00:49:46
Speaker
And I'm sparring with him, you know, and I learned so much from doing that, even though I got destroyed. You know what I mean? Like he's not, obviously they don't, when you're sparring, you're not, you're not killing each other, but there's something that's very important about doing something against somebody or like competing with someone who is better than you, because that's the way that you learn.
Honesty and Suspicion
00:50:06
Speaker
If you're the best and you're always winning.
00:50:09
Speaker
then you gotta look elsewhere for better competition if you wanna get better. Yeah, so there's value in being outdone. But then there's also the feeling that you get when you have been outdone, which isn't a good feeling. You don't like it, you learn from it and the value from it, but I have to agree with it still that I don't like to be outdone because there's always, you can think back to a time where you were so blatantly outdone and you have that bad feeling.
00:50:37
Speaker
Simply, I just don't like it, but I can see the value in it and appreciate it and like it in certain aspects. Very well said. Okay. Number 21. I find myself trying to beat my personal achievements. That's an easy, strongly agree. I really strive to, to be better than I was like the day before. So staple of how I try to live my life. I don't do great at it all the time, but I really try hard.
00:51:04
Speaker
Yeah, I'm going to agree because I do and, but I feel like I could do more. I mean, I guess it still says I find myself trying to beat my personal achievements. I am always trying to improve on the things that I enjoy doing, but I could probably do it more.
00:51:23
Speaker
So I don't feel right with a strongly agree. I'm just going to go with agree. Like every time I pick up my base, I want to, I'm trying to, that's like one thing where I'm always trying to improve every time I play. Oh, I see. So what you're saying is that you may, you find yourself in situations where you think that you could do more to improve than you're doing. Yeah. Yeah. You know what? Honestly, I'm in, I'm in the same boat as you, but I'm going to keep my strongly agree just because
00:51:52
Speaker
Yeah. If that's your gut. I still always try. I still always try. Yeah. If that's your gut, then I would stick with it. Number 22. I set personal goals, such as new year's resolutions.
00:52:05
Speaker
I have to strongly agree on this one because it brings up new year's resolutions because last year I had set some resolutions and I crushed it with quitting cigarettes and losing weight and quitting alcohol, all that. And I, I lost like 75 pounds and I don't smoke cigarettes. So.
00:52:25
Speaker
I'm going to keep sticking with the new year's thing. I mean, it's, it worked for me this year because I wasn't motivated. So I set some personal goals. I, I did well with them. And this kind of goes along with the last question. Trying to beat personal achievements. Like, so I, I agree with that. So I'm just going to strongly agree with this one. Yeah, I think I'm going to just do a regular agree for this one because I've never set a new year's resolution before.
00:52:54
Speaker
But I do set personal goals, not like specifically like numbers or looking for, you know, certain things, but I, you know, I definitely do have like specific personal goals. Like one of my goals that dude, I never got to, I was so close, but.
00:53:13
Speaker
On my 30th birthday, I wanted to, cause like I'm a little person, I weigh 125 pounds. I wanted to bench 200 pounds just one time on my 30th birthday to prove to myself that I still could do it. Even though I've never bench 200 pounds in my life.
00:53:29
Speaker
I got to like 195 pounds to one time. And then I forget what something happened and like, and, and like I did, I got, I had, I had stopped going to the gym for a while, but that was like an example of like an exact personal goal that I've had or like with boxing or wrestling, like having, you know, winning certain fights or, you know, matches or whatever. Like I have definitely set even with this podcast, you know, we've, we're setting personal goals for ourselves as well. Yeah.
00:53:56
Speaker
On top and also with the lucid dreaming thing, I stuck to that and it's paying off. Also, I did it with my diet and I crushed it for 10 months and for the last four months, I still eat fairly healthy but I screwed up my whole diet. I feel guilty about it because I'm eating sugar and stuff again. So now that I'm saying it out loud here, I'm going to make sure I set that goal right now. I'm going to get my diet back to where it should be.
00:54:27
Speaker
Okay. Number 23. I need more time in the day to do what I need to do. I mean, I think anybody with a 40 hour a week job is going to agree. I am going to hit agree. I'm not going to do strongly agree because I do waste time and I'm trying to work on my time management, but
00:54:54
Speaker
Yeah, for sure. I agree that I, with more time in the day, I'd be able to do more of the things that like I want to do. Uh, I'm going to disagree. That was my initial thought on that. I don't.
00:55:06
Speaker
I don't need more time in the day. And also one of the things is I'm lucky because I get out, I've worked close to home and I get out at 3 PM. So I have my day and I do find myself wasting some of that time. So I can't say I need more time. I just need to manage my time better. I'd say, cause I have no excuses.
Adaptability and Fashion
00:55:25
Speaker
I have, you know, I get out of work. I have like 10 hours to, you know, play with. So I'm going to disagree.
00:55:33
Speaker
All I gotta say is anybody who's listened to enough of our podcasts in the intro, um, to hear me say like 10 times the YouTube channel is coming soon can attest that I, I do need more time of the day to get these, these videos edited and put them up. Yeah. There's definitely a lot of like things that I would like to do.
00:55:57
Speaker
If I didn't have to work 40 hours a week, there's so many things that I could get accomplished and done, you know? Well, now when you mentioned that, I totally see where you're coming from because you have to, with the podcast, you're the one who does the editing and stuff. So I could see how it would definitely, you would need more time. Number 24, I think of myself as a hard worker.
00:56:18
Speaker
I'm going to go, I know it's kind of weak, but I'm going to go neutral on this because I do work hard on things, but I don't, I often feel guilty that I'm not working hard enough. So it kind of evens out because I am a hard worker when it comes to a lot of things, but also there are things where I don't work hard enough at. I agree 100% with you.
00:56:45
Speaker
I feel the same exact way, but I'm going to go with agree because I think that what you said doesn't necessarily fall in the center. I think it falls a little more on the side of agree because I do think of myself as a hard worker. It just really depends on what I'm working on.
00:57:03
Speaker
Yeah, you know, you're, you're right. I mean, it's not, I guess like a lot of times I always try to, I sometimes I'm a little too critical on myself. That's what it is. But I do, I do, uh, work hard, especially and it's circumstantial. You know, if it's something I love to do or something like that really peaks my interest, I really do work hard. Number 25, finders keepers is a fair rule.
00:57:32
Speaker
Hmm. This seems kind of circumstantial too. Yeah. That's why for me, dude, it says straight up neutral because it's absolutely circumstantial. Yeah. I'm going to have to do neutral. Yeah. That's an easy one for me. I don't see a situation where it's always a good idea or always a bad idea. Sometimes I agree. Others is probably not very ethical. Yeah. It's like one of the most circumstantial statements on here so far I've seen. Yeah. Number 26. There's nothing wrong with telling white lies.
00:58:04
Speaker
Well, that might be the second most circumstantial statement on here. I'm going to go with neutral for that one too. I'm going to disagree and not saying that I don't do it or I'll put it this way. I think it would be better if I didn't tell white lies. Morally, I guess you'd say, I think that there's a white lie and like you said, circumstantial, but I think it'd be better if I didn't do that. So I would say in saying that.
00:58:35
Speaker
That would infer that there is something wrong with it. Not strongly, but I'm going to disagree. Aligning with truth is important. And even if it's instead of telling the white lie, I would just, uh,
00:58:50
Speaker
Restructure my sentence. Like if it's like something I want to lie about, I'll just say something true, but kind of to infer, you know, like, for instance, if someone's like, Oh, uh, does this dress look good on me or something? That's a white lie. It could be a yes, even if you don't think it looks good, but you could just instead say, you know what? I think you should wear this one instead.
00:59:27
Speaker
not to lie or just tell the truth. And he lays it out really, really beautifully. But he convinced me that it's just better to never lie. Even if it's a white lie, you could just say something that is true to you instead of kind of making up the little lie to make them feel better. You can structure truth to do the same thing, I would say. Well said. Yeah, I completely agree.
00:59:40
Speaker
are you you will you want me over I'm gonna I'm I'm going to disagree yeah you're you're right
00:59:54
Speaker
But I do tell white lies sometimes, so something that I feel like everybody's got to work on that.
01:00:00
Speaker
And when we all have Elon Musk's microchips in our brains, we won't be able to lie to each other. That'll be probably a glorious evolutionary moment in time. Who knows? I won't get it. With the inability to lie comes the abolishment of greed. All of the wrongs that we see in our country and in our world are like a result of lies and white lies. A lot of it.
01:00:28
Speaker
Okay, we can move on to number 27, which is I am often suspicious of other people. Um, I'll agree. Yeah, me too. I often like question people's true motives and things like that, especially with the internet. Yeah. I mean, it's a lot of people are just kind of grimy. That's just what it is. And this even goes back to like the lying, you know, like a lot of charlatans in the world.
01:00:54
Speaker
A lot of people would have probably strongly agreed that there's nothing wrong with telling a white lie.
Rules and Progress
01:01:00
Speaker
So that's what you got to be suspicious of people in my opinion, because otherwise you're just being naive. Number 28, the best policy is honesty. So this goes along with what we were, you know, just saying, and I'm going to strongly agree based on what I just said, basically align yourself with truth. And I think that's pretty much the most important thing you can do.
01:01:23
Speaker
You know what, I'm going to do an agree on this one. It's so funny. I was watching Ozark last night and I was watching the episode. It was an episode where. Are you going to spoil anything? No, I finished it. No, no, no, I will not spoil it for anybody. Um, I forget who it was, but somebody asked Marty bird something about telling the truth all the time, like not lying. And he said, like, you know, if, if basically, if all the time, honesty is the best policy. And he said, I don't think it's always the smart thing.
01:01:52
Speaker
Well, you could, I still think it's the best policy because if everybody used that policy, it would be better. Like, you know what I mean? Like sure, like you'd say it's not the smartest thing to always be honest, but that's just because there's a lot of bad shit going on. But it's the best policy. I think it's the best policy. I'm just, I strongly agree. I get where you're, where you're coming from though. But based off of all the things I just said in the last couple of questions, I have to strongly agree. Okay. 29.
01:02:20
Speaker
People tend to laugh with me rather than at me. I'll strongly agree. I feel like you have to have some type of thin skin in order to be laughed at. If someone's laughing at me, I should be laughing too because you gotta be able to find the humor in yourself. I can't think of the last time, probably middle school, no joke, where someone was laughing at me and I wasn't laughing too.
01:02:48
Speaker
Usually, if you don't take yourself seriously, which I think is another important rule to live by, just don't take life seriously, but don't take yourself seriously. And I think if you don't take yourself seriously, then you really can't be laughed at. Well, very well said and I have to agree strongly.
01:03:07
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Yeah, because yeah, I think you're right there. I mean, you can definitely make the distinction between like you making a joke and like you being sort of like the arbiter of comedy within your group, as opposed to like, you're getting made fun of a lot. I think those are definitely two different experiences that a person can definitely have. But like you said, the way to remedy that situation or the dichotomy of that situation is to laugh at yourself. That's, that's 100% right. It's perfect. And.
01:03:37
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Cause if you are, and it's like a good, even like defense mechanism. Like if you're the butt of the joke, just self-deprecation, you know? And then you, you're, then you turn it around. You're not being hurt by it. You're using it to gain, you know, more joy and laughter. Because all comedy has its roots in some sort of truth anyway. And if you can identify that truth in yourself, comedy is essentially you're laughing at yourself. Yeah. Don't take yourself too seriously.
01:04:03
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Which brings us to number 30. You would you like to read it? Number 30. You mustn't take life too seriously. So I did say take life seriously, but not, I'm going to strongly agree that you mustn't take life too seriously. Well, that, I mean, the word to is perfect in there because there's only, when you say something is to something, it's too serious. It's, it's too funny. It's to whatever. That means that obviously like inherent in the question, like, you know, it's not the way to go. So.
01:04:32
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And it depends, I guess, obviously, because this is like a personality quiz. So like, it's good advice to tell people to take life seriously, because it depends. It really just depends on the person. For me, I don't take life seriously. Like there's things that yeah, you have to take seriously sometimes, but if you acknowledge life in a certain way, you realize that there's nothing to be serious about.
01:04:55
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I mean, there's definitely things that you should take seriously in your life, but there's nothing that you should take too seriously. You should not take things overly seriously. It's a dream. All right. Yeah, I strongly agree. You mustn't take life too seriously.
01:05:12
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I just said agree just because, you know, there are situations where you would want to take things seriously, but yeah, you don't want to take things too seriously. When you die, you're going to be like, why did I take it so seriously? Well, I think a lot of it has like, like how you said, um, if you have kids, this, these questions change. And I think that like, if you look at someone with children, they should be taking
01:05:35
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their raising of their children like a little seriously, maybe too seriously too at some point. That's why I said like, it's a personality quiz for the individual. Like for me, I don't have that. So like, that's why I said, you know, some people should, it's good advice to tell them take life seriously when they have responsibilities and other things. But I think ultimately that you shouldn't take it too seriously. Okay. Number 31.
01:06:04
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I enjoy a good laugh. Who doesn't strongly agree with that? It's not, it's not possible to not enjoy a laugh. When you're laughing, you are inherently in a consciousness of an enjoyment.
01:06:21
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But if you're like in such a depressive state, the thought of laughter might anger you or if you're just such a hateful person, even though, like you said, primarily, you can't you have to agree with this primarily because laughing does feel good. But if just the thought of laughter is sickening to you, if you're that depressed, like I could see how like a really serious or somebody who takes life too seriously, maybe. But yeah, it's kind of insane. Definitely strongly agree.
01:06:51
Speaker
It's almost like, have you ever heard someone say, I don't like water? What do you mean you don't like water? That's one of my biggest pet peeves. I hear somebody say that. I'm like, you just never thought about a damn thing, have you? You're like 80% water. Yeah. Number 32. I work to live rather than living to work. Um,
01:07:15
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Currently, I have to agree with this because I don't love my job, but I do enjoy my job because it gives me the freedom to basically learn all day while I'm working. It's not too strenuous. I really enjoy it because I just have my headphones in, I'm listening to podcasts, I'm learning things, trying to expand my mind while I'm working.
01:07:38
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and in that case i do love it because mostly that's a lot of what i would be doing if i wasn't working anyway so i get to do that stuff while i work but i don't uh
01:07:51
Speaker
I don't live to work. If I had a job that was, you know, if I got paid for this podcast or, you know, playing music or, you know, taking psychedelics and meditating, then, you know, that would be different. Absolutely. But I do work to live, but I'm only going to agree with that because like I said, I do get to pull a lot of enjoyment out of my work. I'm going to agree as well.
01:08:21
Speaker
Because I definitely work to live. Um, I have a job that doesn't fulfill me really in any way in terms of like living to work. However, I did put just an agree because there are definitely things in the, in the realm of living that I feel I should be doing more of. I want to, I want to travel more.
01:08:44
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Um, and I want to do more things that culture me and think, you know, stuff like that. Um, so I'm still not living to the potential that I want to live. But in terms of the statement, I definitely work to live rather than living to work. Cause like you said, man, if we got paid.
01:09:03
Speaker
to do this podcast, if we were getting paid to do something that we were passionate about, that'd be a different story. Then we could gain fulfillment by living to work. But in our current situation and in most people's situation in the world, they'd be super lucky to have a job and get paid for something that they're passionate about where they can say that they live to work. Yeah. And unfortunately, that's just not the case for most of us.
01:09:29
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And I mean, it's okay because, you know, we, we do this thing here in America and in Westernized countries, but you know, we've lived in luxury and we have a lot of things that people don't have. So I'm, you know, at the same time as like, you know, I don't.
01:09:45
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I don't find fulfillment in my job. I still am very grateful to be in a position where I can do the work that I do, not hate it, and I can enjoy the luxuries of living in America. Yeah, I totally agree. And like I was saying, basically, because we have all these things. It's amazing. I can enjoy myself while doing the job because I get to have a cell phone.
01:10:09
Speaker
You know, listen to, you know, podcasts and any read books while working or, you know, listen to them, whatever. Um, so yeah, I, that's what I'm going to go with agree, but definitely don't, uh, don't live to work. Number 33. I find it easy to adjust to new situations.
01:10:30
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I'm going to agree. What I think of this is a lot of people might, if you think about it, you might think to disagree, but it's in our nature to adapt. Us as human beings, we're so adaptive. It's the biggest skill we have and I feel like
01:10:50
Speaker
Thinking about change, that's like just a big fear. It triggers fear. But when the change happens, you adapt. And I feel like, yeah, I have to agree with this because
01:11:02
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It might, maybe like thinking about it might trigger something in you, but when it actually happens, I feel like I adapt very well. You know, like for instance, like even in moving to a new school in high school, like I thought, oh, that's going to be the worst. Like I've spent my whole life with a group of kids and then in ninth grade, the first year of high school.
01:11:20
Speaker
I'm going to go get thrown into a whole new atmosphere and I'm thinking, oh, this is going to suck. But I adapted very well and like, you know, made a bunch of friends. I mean, getting thrown into a psych ward, like that's not something you anticipate. And, but what you do is adapt and you make it work. Same thing. Like you just thrown into situations that seem, you may think that you can't handle it. I mean, I'm speaking for myself, but I always end up, uh, just
01:11:49
Speaker
being able to adapt to it. I think that's like the most impressive thing about us human beings. Like we can really get used to anything and that's, it's a terrifying thing also. Cause if things go South, we could get adapted and used to like a horrible situation and just deal with it. And a lot of people do that spending their lives, you know, doing something that they don't really enjoy, but they're just used to it and adapted to that situation. And then they keep, they continue along that same path.
01:12:20
Speaker
You could even say I find it easy to, or I find it natural to adjust to new situations because to me it seems, it seems natural. Cause like you said, the thought of it a lot of times is what's hard, but the actual adaptation, like when I switched jobs, that was probably my most recent, really big adaptation because I was working for the same company for 12 years.
01:12:49
Speaker
I graduated high school and then three days after I graduated high school, I started working a job at a car dealership and I was there for 12 fucking years. And then I moved right to a job that was completely the opposite of that, where, you know, you're, you're in like an office setting where you're doing work that is much different. I mean, just.
01:13:14
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polar opposite and it was an adjustment period, but it wasn't that hard to adapt. And I, I thought it was going to be more difficult than what it was. Exactly. Yep. Are you going to agree or strongly agree? I'm just going to agree.
01:13:30
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Not all situations are going to be easy to adapt to because just because you're able to adapt doesn't make it easy necessarily. Yeah. I see what you mean. So I'm going to go with the agree because I do think that I am naturally the kind of person that can adjust to situations that are manageable, but there's always going to be unmanageable situations that are not easy to adjust to. Okay. Number 34. I like to have a schedule to work by. What do you think?
01:14:01
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It depends. I think I'm going to go neutral because certain things I do like my job, we put together a very detailed step-by-step agenda for the day. And I love that with certain things. It works really well, but not all the time. Like I don't with this podcast, you know.
01:14:22
Speaker
Certain things are very scheduled, but when it comes to like editing and when it comes to like certain things like that, I do it whenever I can. So I don't have a set schedule. This almost goes back to if I had more time in the day, I would have a more set schedule. So. You know what? Maybe I will, I will do an agree because I don't tend to do things on a schedule, but if I had the opportunity to, I think I would schedule my time more efficiently.
01:14:52
Speaker
Yeah, I'm with you and I also pick agree. And I think two important words there is like and work. Like I like to have a schedule to work by. So like when it comes to work, that type of thing, I think it's better. I'm more efficient and I'm better if I have like a schedule, something organized.
01:15:14
Speaker
But I had to think about it because when it comes to just life in general, I don't really, not very scheduled or organized, but when it comes to like work.
01:15:24
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I like having a regiment, like something, you know, look at and work through. So I'm going to agree. And even with exercise too, like that's considered work. A hundred percent. And when I exercise, I do have a very stringent set of things that I do. Yeah. On the same way. And we probably have that ingrained in us from like wrestling and.
01:15:45
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doing all those workout programs like that that like this is embedded into our brains it is from being little youngins little combatants yeah okay 35 I consider myself to be fashion conscious
01:16:03
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I'm going to do agree. There are levels of fashion that I will never understand and I will never want to understand, but I think when it comes to like normal casual wear, I quote unquote fit in with the crowd. Like I'm not some, you know, I don't wear like weird shit.
01:16:19
Speaker
that's the thing and that's I'm gonna strongly agree but that's when you're talking about that stuff that you don't understand that's it's nonsense I think like fashion where I would it's the stuff see there's a difference between in my opinion so I'm just giving my opinion like all that really trendy stuff but like true fashion is like close that transcend time you know like I
01:16:43
Speaker
things that work no matter, like not fashion trends. The way I look at it is like, if you can look at someone and say that that just looks good in any situation, like I don't have a good idea of that.
01:16:56
Speaker
But I'm thinking like, you know, this crazy stuff people do, like, you know, like Lady Gaga and all this nonsense are like men wearing like pink dresses and stuff like that. I think of fashion like Peaky Blinders, for instance, like these beautiful suits, you know, dark, like earthy colors, things that work, you know, 100 years ago, 200 years ago, and still work today, stuff like that.
01:17:20
Speaker
I mean I'm not like huge into fashion or anything but when I look at someone I can tell and I know what I guess it's all opinion but I know what like a timeless fashion is. Yeah I mean I wouldn't presume to be able to say that like something is like a certain like aspect or level of fashion is like nonsense necessarily because like.
01:17:43
Speaker
Some people really, really are into that. And some people make a living off of it. And, you know, you have these, uh, like the Met Gala when, uh, AOC wore that. What did it, what did it say? Kill the rich or something like that? Like that's, uh,
01:18:00
Speaker
Like that's almost like social action via fashion. Like fashion is a very complex part of like the design world, I think, especially like I went to school for design. So like there was the fashion people, you know, and then there was like the design people and fashion is a whole nother realm of design. It's really crazy.
01:18:21
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That's why I put agree cuz like I think I'm conscious of like how things look and how fashion changes over time But I'm definitely not in tune with like some of the real weird stuff that happens in fashion Yeah, I I know what you're saying I have like a little different view on it only because a lot of that stuff is just trend and things that catch your eye or get you an Article written about you or something, but I see what you're saying and I'm not claiming to be some fashionista or something of course Yeah, but um
01:18:51
Speaker
I can tell if something isn't gonna work in 15 years, basically. Okay, number 36. To progress in life, one must follow the rules. Disagree.
01:19:04
Speaker
Not strongly because there are certain rules and frameworks that can really help you into progressing your life. But I think that overall statement is bullshit because most of the people who have made great changes and moved the world in great ways have done so with the exact opposite.
Questioning Societal Rules
01:19:23
Speaker
See, this is why this is weird to me because I agree with you there. And I also think disagree based on one word because it says to progress in life, one must follow the rules. What the hell are the rules? Because if it was to progress in life, one must follow rules. I would agree with that strongly. I'm playing like a set of your own rules, like a.
01:19:45
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Uh, something like a code or a higher power or something to live by. But if it's saying the rules, does that mean that the rules laid out to you? You know, exactly. That's what that is. That's what I read it as. Okay. Yeah. Cause if that doesn't there, I think it's, uh, cause like Jordan Peterson, he gave us those books of all the rules and they're great and following them will help you progress in life. But whose rules are they, you know, this type of thing. If it's just the rules, meaning rules that are, have been laid out for you.
01:20:15
Speaker
then I'm gonna strongly disagree. I'm gonna just disagree just based off what you just said too about Jordan Peterson's rules and stuff like there are certain rules that definitely you can build a framework around that will help you progress in life but also the word must is sort of problematic there too like you must follow the rules like it seems too stringent and strict and I think
01:20:42
Speaker
The basis of the question is to get you to think outside the box and think like, what about the people who broke rules and moved the world in great ways, you know? But still like you, like the Jordan Peterson thing, I don't think that applies because that's what I'm saying with the word the, like the rules, like whose rules? Like I'm, I'm assuming the rules mean societal norms, basically. I guess like the laws that you have, that type of thing.
01:21:10
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Um, well, laws, yeah, that actually is a good, there are some laws that in order to progress, you definitely need to follow. Like you shouldn't be killing people. You shouldn't be hurting people. You know what I mean? Like there are certain facets of the rules, quote unquote, that I think should be followed, but it's I'm still, I'm disagreeing, but I'm just not going to strongly disagree.
01:21:31
Speaker
But yeah, if it was just one must follow rules, I would strongly agree because you have to set a standard for yourself and live with purpose in a certain way.
Reflections on Archetype Test
01:21:43
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But since it says the rules, I'm going to strongly disagree because I'm assuming that means doing everything by the book, never coloring outside the lines, that type of thing.
01:21:54
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And that was the final question, so we are going to submit our results here and see what we got. Are yours all extremely close? Yeah, yeah, mine are too.
01:22:07
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All right. So the way that it breaks this down is it gives you your percentages of each archetype, but on the very top, it says your self archetype and it gives you your, like your most prominent self archetype and it gives you a bit of a description. Then it gives you your persona archetype and it gives you a bit of your description of the two, like the top archetype for each one, the top archetype for self and the top archetype for persona. So.
01:22:36
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My top archetype for self is a 74% match for the innocent child. So that is described as naive, but a breath of new life and fresh ideas. Your inner self archetype is that which closest matches your true personality. Your inner self is primarily influenced by the innocent child archetype.
01:22:58
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And then for my persona archetype, it also says the innocent child. Um, so that's the same exact thing. Um, but my persona most matches the archetype of the Joker, even though it says innocent child.
01:23:14
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Yeah, we have the exact same thing. Really? Yeah. Mine's the same. And, but also it's, I'm tied with Joker. Yeah. Are you tied with Joker too? Um, for myself table. Um, my innocent child is 74. My Joker is 73.
01:23:31
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Okay, so yeah, for myself, innocent child and Joker are both 74. And then I have great father and hero at 72, magician at 72. Um, but for my persona, I'm same thing, innocent child, but 1% lower is wise old man. And then the rest are pretty lower. So those two are the top ones.
01:23:54
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Yeah, we got the same thing. I also have a great father and wise old man too. And also for archetype hero and wise old man. So yeah, we have like the exact same thing. That's weird, because we disagreed on, you know, quite a few things. We did. Yeah, we did disagree on quite a few things. Yeah, I'm gonna dig a little deeper into these results when I have some time and kind of look into the the archetypes and what what is said about them, what Jung wrote about them.
01:24:22
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These results don't resonate for me. The innocent child and Joker, neither of those resonate, even the way they're described. Maybe a little bit more with the innocent child, but I'm tied with Joker and lighthearted, sociable, and fun to be around. I'm not saying I'm not those things, but it doesn't really resonate on a level that I had expected. In comparison to last like a while ago when I did the Myers-Briggs, it was like so accurate, it was dead on. It like told me a whole bunch of stuff and I was like,
01:24:51
Speaker
Yep, yep, yep, yep. All this, you know, it tells you about like jobs that you like could, that would work for you, like different professions. Uh, it really, it went deep into it and it was, uh, it was pretty accurate, but this was fun to take. It was. Yeah, it was fun to take. And like, it's interesting. Like there are some here that I feel like I would have more of like caregiver.
01:25:13
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Yeah. And wise old man, I'm close. That's like, it's 1% lower. It's 71.5. Whereas innocent child is 72.5. And that makes more sense to me too. My largest percentage difference is 3% between all of the archetypes that I am. So yeah, it's pretty close. Pretty cool. That was a fun one. Yeah, it was good. Uh, you know, leave a comment, tell us what you got. That was if you resonated at all with us.
01:25:44
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Or if you differed. Yeah. And, and let us know if you think it, if it's, if it's accurate for you.
Wrap-up and Audience Feedback
01:25:50
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