ANIMALS: Sleep vs Play

[godisagun]

Honestly, this channel is boss af. Great info. I'd like to see if you could make sections on your website for each type and under that, each variation of the types so the information is more easily consumed. I like the design of your website, but it can get a little overwhelming

[Wolfsspinne]

"That's just the way they are, and leave them the hell alone" I love that statement.

[livinthelionofjudah]

I love that you go so fast and just power through your graphics as if we are able to follow right along (I'm being serious). While I'm not tracking all the details the first time around, I actually prefer you going fast because it turns it into a challenge for me to understand. I'd much rather have that than someone who goes sooo slow, repeating what they've said to ensure everyone follows along (yes, I died daily in public school!)

[michaelvey]

Awww that was so cute “that’s just the way they are and leave them the hell alone”
-infj boy

[perjohanaxell]

The animals connect nicely with an extrovert introvert scale. From II to IE to EI to EE. May explain more extreme introvert/extroverts.

[pamelam]

I really like these videos on the animals. The last one really cemented for me that I am an INFJ, a very typical blast INFJ. I can also see how some other people in my life are sleep or play. It really expands MBTI quite a bit which makes more sense. 16 types is too narrow of a list, people are way more complex than that.

[CaveyMoth]

Two introverted functions together: "I sleep."
Two extroverted functions together: "Real sh**?"

[RacerMMXXII]

This Blast/Consume, Sleep/Play paradigm is pretty ingenious and i haven't heard it anywhere else. Very cool. I suppose I think so because I'm more of a sleep/play than a consume/blast.

[elmyvip]

I am SB/P. The pandemic really snatched away my play opportunities and kind of stripped me down to my default. School friends think I’m a total extrovert but don’t see the amount of time I over isolate at home to pull that off, I reference my family members input more often since they are more involved in what my actual personal life is like. Since graduating, I’ve gotten a job that has helped with play and now I feel my life is relatively more balanced.

[michaelbindner]

Sleep is meditate. Ti/Si is thinking about the past. Fi/Si is meditating about values. Ti/Ni is thinking through plans. Fi/Ni is determining values.

[jakobdavenport]

Oh so that's why I'm depressed

[dustinhawkins]

sleep > consume > blast > play

[bananewane]

Asking someone what animal they use first is like asking them whether they start walking with their left or their right foot.

[AustinOllar]

Yeah there's no doubt you are going to be repeating "everyone can do everything" probably for the rest of your life, because people will see things in themselves that seem normal to them, but are actually their saviors, for example.

I really think the whole idea of collective unconscious baselines for preferences is genius, as Shannon mentioned in one of the classes, that we just live in our own bio-domes and really have very little clue as to what is "collectively" normal or not as normal/average. You guys are really ahead of the times on a good amount of your stuff, so pretty grateful for that (even though there is still a lot of work that needs to be done of course, as you already know, but its at least in the right ballpark I believe)

[bumblyjack]

What's up with the phenomenon of those whose second Animal doesn't include their dominant function? That seems strange (even to me, someone who is such a type).

Examples:
1. an ExxP who is either Consume-Sleep or Play-Blast
2. an IxxJ who is either Blast-Play or Sleep-Consume
3. an ExxJ who is either Blast-Sleep or Play-Consume
4. an IxxP who is either Consume-Play or Sleep-Blast

Also, are these rarer than others of their types or relatively just as prevalent as people with their dominant function in their second Animal?

[DGolden]

I'm going to say I am a Consume-first-then-Sleep INFP, I like to gather a ton of information without ever really concluding on anything other than "Persons A, B, C, D & E have all said concept X is true, therefore, concept X is true" and that's only true until I discover someone else who doesn't agree and why, and if they have good reasoning or proof then I will conclude that concept X should be replaced with Y or even create concept X 2.0
I've also noticed, at least if I understand DSP's Animals well enough, I use Sleep a good fair amount as well but not as much as Consume. It tends to happen when I'm reviewing information I think, bc Fi-Si. But despite whether that's actually Sleep or not, I know I'm a Consumer first.

[michaelbindner]

Chart us upside down. Opposing animals need to be next to each other.

[TheNicMMc]

What if I want to be in play mode instead of sleep? I feel that I can't engage with my Ne+ Fe and that makes me worried. Ti+Si made me seem robotic in conversation and Ti+Ne genuinely seems to scare people. : /

[AustinOllar]

I think too, the whole ideology of taking away from your saviors is such a high level self-help tip.

It goes along the frame of "forced objectivity" vs "natural objectivity" that we are naturally seeing patterns subconsciously that resonate with us, as they fall within the patterns of how our psyche serves our saviors.

The thing is, success usually comes from removing comfort (saviors) and having open arms with our demons to some extent. Seeking some degree of comfort in the uncomfortable can actually force one to see reality through a more objective lense

[murnoth]

"He wants to have a seminar for 50 fuckin' hours" 😂