Can you think of other examples for each function here in Waterloo Region or in your own municipality if you're from elsewhere?
Carl Jung's 8-cognitive-function framework developed further by the mother-daughter duo of Katherine Cook Briggs & Isabel Briggs Myers has shaped the way individuals, communities, and companies think about human personality.
Consciousness Prints Podcast with Jonathan M.W. Klassen aims to challenge the idea that one's personality and identity can be defined by any one type, label, role, credentials, title, past experiences, community involvement, racial/national/cultural background, religious/political/social views, or even physical or mental health diagnosis.
Jonathan wants to showcase himself and his guests in a way that demonstrates as many dimensions of who they are as a person as possible: their Feeling, Thinking, Sensing, and Intuition, in both Introverted and Extraverted forms.
The goal isn't to discuss this "frame"work or necessarily "frame" people's self-expression in this regard, but rather to "print" people's consciousness online for others to experience and learn from.
And to think about the diversity that exists within each individual's consciousness, and the diversity of conscious experience that exists within humanity and this world.
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Jonathan understands that the physiological basis for these "cognitive functions" in the human brain hasn't been scientifically proven yet.
He now questions the idea that people have an inherent "cognitive function stack" and corresponding "type" that defines their personality.
But whatever is true or not true, he believes using this 8-function framework can be a useful tool to understand different ways people, including himself, operate in and understand the world and their own self and life.
And that using and strengthening as many of these parts of the self as possible over the course of one's lifetime is what leads to a fulfilling and productive life.
Interested in having a conversation with Jonathan about this or anything that is on your "consciousness" on a video podcast?
Email business@jonathanmwklassen.com to inquire or sign-up!