Drew Burney

So in the late 60s, he actually started arguing the exact opposite, that actually there wasn't any such thing as like a stable personality that we could point to, and again, make those specific predictions.

Precisely because he was doing studies showing, I can't, this person's high and extraversion, I can't tell you if they're gonna speak up in this situation or not.

They just couldn't do it.

Came up over and over again.

William Fleeson was another researcher at this time who found that personalities seem to be more like a distribution.

There was a tendency, kind of a stable basin around which you would kind of float.

Exactly, exactly.

There's like a fabric around you that pulls you back into this well.

So if you're high in extroversion, yeah, generally you're high in extroversion, but that doesn't mean you're not introverted in certain situations either.

So kind of together, Michel came up with the idea of this if-then signatures, okay?

Yes, you have this kind of, not really set point, but distribution around which you float, like I said.

And then in certain situations, you change.

We've all experienced this, right?

The hats you wear or, you know, you're probably not the same person around your grandma as you are your best friend when you two are alone, obviously.

So we all know that experience, right?

The question then becomes then,

So which one of those is the real us?

Is that even the right question to ask?

You're high in openness, let's say, or you're introverted.

Where do you flip those scripts?