Drew Burney

I would also argue a little bit too, the tests like the MBTI, at best what they're telling you is more about your adaptations.

It's not about your actual core traits that you have.

I agree with that.

It's more about the stories that you're telling yourself about.

I would say that that's a real risk you're running too, is that this is really who I am.

And so now I'm going to latch onto those stories even harder.

A hundred percent.

I mean, there's an even deeper question though, too, around this, which is like, is this really the, like, are the big five the base level of who you are?

And that gets into like this deeper philosophical type of argument that we could have, you know, or go to like the existentialist, like Jean-Paul Sartre, right?

Living in bad faith was if you think you can't change yourself.

How deep does this go?

That I'm not sure about, honestly.

I'm honestly not.

I think this is like the empirical way that we describe who we are.

Is there a deeper level to it?

Absolutely could be.

I'm not sure.

Again, this is the best we have so far to explain how we could change what we're going to talk about as our adaptations and our behaviors.

Those early twin studies were very, very informative for us to figure out, like, what is the contribution of our genetics versus our environment?

Parsing all that out, these natural experiments that came about because these identical twins were raised apart, that gave us a great opportunity to study this, okay?