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as an intp I have 2 ways of studying at school 1- does absolutely nothing at all and somehow passes 2- does nothing until the last second, studies A LOT and gets a good grade

As an INFP I totally agree. I will bake my cake ALONE, after I have watched about 20+ cake baking videos IF I bake at all :P

2:12 Introverts vs Extroverts (I vs E) 3:47 Sensing vs Intuition (S vs N) 7:40 Feeling vs Thinking (F vs T) 11:15 Judging vs Perceiving (J vs P)

I dislike the stereotype that the arts are for Feelers, as if creating art doesn't present various problems to solve. There's a process, and different solutions to different problems. Using multiple techniques to better convey a message. Shape language and colour theory, spacing etc. etc. You can absolutely be a Thinker artist, not all art is about self-expression or "lifting people's spirits", sometimes it's absolutely a study in itself or a puzzle to be solved.

As an INFJ, when he was talking about Sensing vs Intuition, I felt that shit in my BONES. I do well in school without taking notes or reading through the books, and people always seem to think I'm really smart. Now, I'm not stupid, but it's not that I'm smarter, it's just that I grasp principles and concepts easily, and I don't even want to TOUCH the details unless it's related to my future career options. But man, when it gets down to actually doing things hands-on, whether that be fixing a car, working with dangerous power-tools, or having a grounded, factual, granular discussion, I start to fall apart. That's where Sensing people come in, with their deep and exhaustive but narrower knowledge to save my ass.

Sensors aren’t “dumb”, but the vast majority of “dumb” people are Sensors because the vast majority of people are Sensors. I hope this clears things up.

INTJ, went to my college physics class three times. First day, midterm, final. Got an A+. Professor thought I cheated, so he gave me a 2nd final with essay in front of him. Got A+. He asked how? I said, you teach exactly from the text. I read it, did test questions, essays at end of each chapter on my own. Sitting in class listening to you regurgitate the text is a waste of my time. I know, I'm rude, arrogant, and antisocial. I love it.

Lets all just acknowledge that Frank is a wonderful human being who's videos brighten our day!

12:35 "... the traditional, structured, academic, uh... Being in school." Looks like Grammarly has really helped Frank with his script and speech. 😂😂😂

As an ENTP, according to other ENTPs, we all get to the conclusion that even when we are thinkers, we don’t like that much maths or physics (even when we don’t struggle that much at those subjects), we are more interested in classes that give us the opportunity to express ourselves, as history, literature or philosophy… also, a lot of INTPs (which is considered the smartest mbti type) love arts, even when they are good at maths, it doesn’t represent something that they like or love to do.

I’m an INFP and i agree with the Feeling part. I love art history, it has no use in daily life but it is super fun so i continue to learn about it 😂

Frank: * Blinks * The comments: He's so introverted.

11:35, thank you, finally, it always bothers me that INTP's are depicted as some kind of super smart, coder sort of individual. I was just above average as a student, yes I get curious about things but at no point could I admit that anything learned was constructive, particularly useful or anything to do with the actual subject at hand.

I'm an INFP and I've always loved math. It’s always come super easily to me and I love puzzles too. But I think for me it's less about solving a problem and getting a result. Math gives me a way to play in my mental playground. I like the many abstract concepts found in it, especially in Calculus and Trigonometry. I absolutely hate Statistics though, because there are way too many rules and it's all word problems in the real world rather than in the world of concepts and ideas

INTJ here studying Psychology and I admit it's more difficult than science. It's easier to find the pattern in science or how things works 'technically', while human is an unknown entity and give more unpredictable outcomes.

FJ, you could be a teacher or a prof you know and you would do really well being a teacher or prof based on how you make your videos and how much we love them and get mbti educated and it’s so fun and exciting to watch you and listen to you explaining stuff

Infp here and yeah, this is really accurate :0 Art and English are my favorite subjects and I also really like science despite the stereotypes, and I think that's mainly because I have a passion for it and I like to connect things I've learned in science to other things and make it interesting for myself, though im not that great at chemistry and formulas aha

Everything is so on point. I'm an INTP I: Absolutely like to learn by myself and to research a lot, to get data. Can't stand study groups N: I grasp the concept very soon but then I fall in the details. Like I love to learn languages and while studying Latin and Greek I was very good at translating since the beginning. But then it came the time where I had to learn exceptions, tedious details etc... And I began to fail some tests. I had to really force myself to learn all those little details and it bothered me a lot. T: I am very very good at math and logic. Always have been good without any effort. Philosophy or literature, on the other hand... Not so much. But, at the university, I've discovered psychology and sociology and I've gone toward the study of them because I was using them to understand people motivations and reactions (it had always been a problem for me, kind of poor social skills). So they have become a tool to solve people as they were puzzles. Not to help anyone though. Indeed I didn't take psychiatry as major, I would be awful as psychiatrist. I would be able to understand the person, but I don't think I would have the skills to help. P: absolutely. I like to learn little bits of everything. Randomly. I don't like to be systematic. Indeed my school grades always followed a curve. Very high at the beginning (because I was excited about a new subject) and then worse and worse while I was losing interest and I got caught by something else. So now a know a little bit of a lot of stuff but nothing in real depth.

INFJ here, honestly, I always thought there was something wrong with my ability to learn. I take ages, I need to understand details, what and why and how and everything needs to be clear in my head before I do anything else. If I'm forced to try anything in practice before I'm 100% sure of every single thing I need to do, I panic, my mind goes blank and I forget everything I've learned so far. And I need to study alone, otherwise I can't focus. Good to know it's just an introvert thing:) (i'm also a virgo which might affect too lol:D)

“As intuitive you have to use sensing, looking at some more details” Me, an INTJ:”NOOOOOOOOOOO. OK I’LL DO IT” *sad noises*

This is the first time FJ confused me on a topic.. but as an INFP I probably don’t conform to any type of anything either. Only one thing is certain, P is for procrastination.

I'm an INFP. I agree with I vs *E,* N vs S and J vs P. I don't really agree with F vs T because I'm better at math and stuff. I just find it easier to explain something logical rather than something emotional because I just see it and I feel like it should be obvious to everyone. Probably because I have both high functioning autism(the kind that come with super intelligence. This is a social problem because most people aren't intelligent enough to understand what I'm saying) and ADHD(social problem because I can't focus on what people are saying) Edit: it's aspergers syndrome

As an INFP, I agree with the fact that my Intuitive side is totally showing, especially in math class. I do get good grade in math, but my method is really close to guessing the answer as you said. Sometimes, I don’t even apply the method that we learnt in class, I just try to find it my way. It’s true that I can struggle because of that, that’s what I have to work on.

As an ENFP I ask a lot of questions and can seem scattered, because I do not pay attention to detail. And ask questions that seem obvious to other people who are, or the questions just seem random. I process through talking it through with either just myself or someone else. Also games and stickers- great ways to get me to pick something up. But just in general I’ve always loved something new and just love learning in general (except learning maths- never liked how that was taught). I learn a lot better when i have interaction with other people, and also things that are engaging, like music- I’m great at learning song lyrics so one of the ways I revise is by parodying songs for my subject. Hate to be a stereotype but Maths and Science are not things that come naturally to me. I was much more of a humanities and Literature person. I love subjects that are well subjective. I’m not the biggest fan of something with a definitive answer. I like Evaluating things, exploring new ideas (so like English there is so much you can take from a text and there isn’t a right or wrong answer which I love). Even history yes there are facts which I find super interesting but there is so much room for debate and discussion and so many lessons and ideas you can take from past events. I also am taking Law. Yes you have the rules and law you have to apply and sometimes there is a definitive answer, but again there’s debate and discussion and it’s just so interesting to me- because I know one day it Can also help people and just it’s interesting to me. I’m so much happier at a level than secondary school, I go to a college which is a lot more independent learning yet you still get that classroom interaction (4 hours and 20 mins a week for each subject). You get homework but it’s a lot more you do work in your style and lessons are so much more laid back.

ENTJ here: I learn faster and better than anybody else, but if I'm not properly stimulated, I'll just end up fantasizing about my shit most of the time.

ENTJ Female here. I rarely move to Introversion, never move to feeling, sometimes move to perceiving but do often try to move to sensing and it has brought me lots of satisfaction. I always say I am a ENTJ with my "ESTJ moments" haha and I think it has helped me to achieve more. You are all right, we need to try to use other functions when needed/convenient.

Infp here, when i was in elementary school my parents and my enviroment valued so much getting good grades and learning that somehow stuck with me and i ended up in a biochemistry highschool class and graduated with a perfect b2 math exam (b1 would be the one the math class had to take), what i want to say is feelers can easilly learn logic based subjects if they value it

INTP You said 'group project' and I wound up reflecting on all the group projects where I wound up doing all the work because everyone else goofed off. To the point where the video is halfway over and I realised I wasn't paying attention anymore.

As an intuitive person I always assumed the sensors are the smarter and are better engineering students

Hey, math is basically made of cool ideas! - Sincerely, an INFP mathematician 😊

I wish there was a formal school for NPs 😂. I appreciate the structure because I don't really have it but I want the system to do it in an NP way. Deadlines are always good for us too, whether we like it or not. It's something concrete to dig us out of our misty NP cloud. - INFP

Currently crafting a personality based teaching pedagogy for my Harvard Higher Education Teaching certification and this video comes out! Will definitely be drawing inspiration from it! Thanks Frank!

I am an ISTP and the time I worked with an INTJ was interesting because the INTJ always saw things on a large scale, but I had to explain the details of that large process. It was a bit complicated for me to understand why he was so quick to come to that conclusion and it was difficult for the INTJ to explain details and not the big picture. In the end, we came out badly because INTJ was the leader and the complaint we had for our teacher was that the project did not contemplate details.

As an intuitive, I’d much rather be “dumb,” so I could be the richest man in the world lol

Me an INTJ with a sense of fashion & trying to understand how people act

Thanks for this video! I’m a homeschooling mama (infj) and I have four students. This video has helped me understand some of the dynamics I’m seeing. My oldest is 17 and is an ENTP. My second is 15 and appears to be an ISFJ. Very different learning styles and preferences. Your assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the sensors and intuitive s is spot on for this household! Would love to see more content like this, but I love your funny skits as well.

As an enfj, it actually helps ME study, by answering questions ppl ask me in class, so I enjoy being "the smart kid" because ppl ask me for help, and helping them helps me.

I'm ENTP and agreed, love group projects, go direct to action instead of reading a manual, but I do care with other ppl think and feel about my work (I'm an animator/artist), butttt when I'm learning I think a lot more if what I'm learning will be useful

INFJ on point as usual! Also FJ you're rocking the Prof look 🤩

So, in conclusion the letters pick up info this way. I: Lemme alone while I learn this stuff ugh. People >:( E: Hey come here and show me again I'm excited to learn with ya :D S: Marathon runners, the tortoise from the tale. N: Short runners, the hare XD F: Arts and humanities, social impact, who likes this too! T: Hardcore cold logic for me. Me likes this, I don't care. ME. LIKES. THIS. MATH. J: There's so many hours in a day, Laser-Guided Focus, ACTIVATE. P: Hoard stuff passing by like a dragon/sponge X3 As INTP, I'd get bored during school and draw or read. When the teachers asked me stuff I knew the answer already. But back then English wasn't terribly interesting and I had some trouble learning it :/ Had high scores though. But homeschool is the superior system fight me XD

INFP here. This really helps, since I have recently realized this about myself and recently realized that I needed to make an effort to be more detailed oriented in learning the facts about what I am hearing about or learning how to do, instead of being only intuitive about a topic or desired skill. This shows the way to how to be aware and dive deeper into the details, despite our discomfort in doing so and habits formed early in life. So, it can be done!

ENFP- Thank you! I resonated highly with the Extroverted learning style that is experiential/hands on/jump right in. Although not so much with the group learning part. I have a difficult time collaborating with others and prefer to work independently. The MBTI has helped me understand that I am a Cognitive Extrovert but not a behavioral extrovert. I think that’s why the ENFP is often referred to as the most Introverted Extrovert. I most resonated with the Perceiving rather than judging style. If something is routine, orderly, predictable, or “known”, my brain literally shuts down. I resonated with both the feeler and thinker styles and wondered if people think there is a most “Thinking Feeler” or “Feeling Thinker” of the 16 types?

Thank you, Frank!! As an infp I've always felt I was kinda dumb at learning things sometimes (or at least I didn't learn like everyone else did).But I think I have a better understanding of things now. I'm very grateful:)

INFP here. You nailed it with. EVERY. LETTER. Icredible as always. Also, those recommendations are brilliant too 🥰

The fact that he has a decent amount of subscribers and stills uploads videos so frequently is so satisfying ❤️❤️ 🥺

Yes I'm not procrastinating right now, I should study but I'm learning how to do it better

Feeler's here, Studying in engineering and I'm crying right now.

Nice Beatles reference in there 😆 Thanks for this video, it really helped me make sense of why I struggle with certain classes but not with others.

Hey Frank, an idea you could make a video going on r/MBTITypeMe. I think it'd be interesting to see how you'd figure out what their mbti might be based on the post, and why you think some people struggle so much to know their type.

Based on observation: ENTPs learn by walking around, reading / talking aloud etc.

INTP here and i fully relate to this, found your channel yesterday Frank, and im very much appreciating your content

Thank you for this one. It explains so much.

There is a problem of trying to pin thinkers vs feelers or intuitive vs sensors in this kinds of things. Because Introverted and extroverted functions work radically different a lot of times. Take the part of Frank saying what thinkers prefer to learn. At 8:36 "This is gonna help me get something done, this is gonna help me do my work and accomplish something" but that is how Te works, not Ti. Ti is driven interest and curiosity not how useful it is in external things. Ti finds joy in the process of learning more than applying that knowledge. A lot of times introverted functions have more in common with their opposite introverted counterpart than the extroverted version of said function, on the way they work. If you look for example an ExTJ and compare them to an IxTP they have almost nothing in common. You can't just simply put both functions together just because they are thinking, or intuitive, or sensors. Look at Se doms and compare them to Si doms, the dom functions and how they use them are drastically different.

I think something that is missing in this analysis is the part that memory plays in the learning process. I have noticed that all the XNXPs I know while according to this video they are supposed to be fast at learning have a weak memory and their attention is often scattered. While the XSXJs....let's say we are in the nerdy side. (And about the stereotype between the Ns and Ss, just thinking you know something because you grasped the main idea might be dangerous and sloppy. It's like the mass production. The fact it's fast and much usually means you to chose quantity over quality. A combination of both is the best I think. We need people with vision like the Ns but we also need the practical minds like Ss to make it come true.) My own personal experience (ISFJ) is that while in school I tried hard but I was a just good student, I was a total nerd in university. Which I suppose fits the pattern of interest helping you learn better. I have received 3 university scholarships in the row because I was the top student and my grades were top because I could memorize every single thing and I still remember everything after years. And not just the details about the subject but ideas, conversations and every other random thing that was going on around. And I have been told that my type has a great memory, so...shouldn't that play a part as well?

This is very accurate, thank you!

Another great video, FJ! Thank you

I feel called out the cake. In high school, I took Chemistry of Foods. We had to bake a chocolate cake. My groups cake was suppose to be the worse cake. It was not. Changed the recipe and added some strawberries because it looked pretty. Got my group into trouble because of it. The teacher did state the cake was the best tasting cake she had in the class.

You do the best personalized commercials on KZfaq & should be rewarded handsomely. I love this topic. Nothing is more fascinating to me on earth than how all our minds work differenty! It's Bananas!😂 I learned to expect fireworks when a stubborn Thinker type teacher tries to change my mind & teach me something, lol. You actually help me alot. You're a great teacher, Professor FJ! TY. You always crack me up & raise my vibe too. You got the goods!🤩🥳

Frank, This is a *great* video, I learned a *lot* from it, and *THANK you* for throwing those Beatles lyrics in there. Getting Better is one of my favorite songs!

I'm istj and this is really accurate! I love your videos!

INTP female. oddly enough, i'm better at languages and arts rather than math and all, but perhaps that's due to the fact that i used to be a feeler and picked up on all the arts types in primary school. when it came to secondary school i just didnt enjoy learning all that much so maybe thats why im not that great at math and science, just because i didnt really try to learn it.

This just made me think I'm much more balanced than I realised. Even though I might be introverted, I like to ask others their opinions on topics, I'm intuitive but I like to understand the details as well, I'm a feeler, but also love a challenge for the sake of a challenge. And I'm very much a judging person but I like to perceive all the information available as well... Quite a mishmash 😂

i just wanted to thank you for the commercial segway. it helped me feel like it was less of a cliffhanger, and more a part of the video :)

I enjoy all your videos! This one is especially interesting, thanks!

Since FJ became a professor, I’ve never missed class :)

this is do entertaining, because using your example in bakery i (an introvert) like to read all the recipe, the instructions and notes and then get the ingredients and stick to that.my mom (an extrovert) on the other hand reads the ingredients, skip the instructions, and just get into it lol and she even makes a different version of it, she makes her own. i need to try it and get good at it before making my own recipe, if this makes sense? so yeah, i relate

This is one of the most on-point and useful videos I've seen on this channel. I might even show this at my next work meeting! 🙂 (INTP)

This makes so much sense now, me and my friend are both very good in class, I’m Intuitive and she’s Sensing, I’m faster at learning and picking up things while she takes a while to take in the details and information, but as you said in the long run she ends up getting better on tests (by a bit) because she focuses ALOT on details while studying while I just read the lesson’s summary and tell myself I’m good to go

"Now if your like me, you write everyday, BRO" 😂. FJ your phenomenal, definitely informative but entertaining at the same time. 🙌(love all the closeup shots btw lol) .

This has just confirmed me being INTJ. Also I feel like I am the only introvert in my class after watching a lot of your videos.

Very knowledgeable video, thank you for the upload

Insightful video as always!

It's so unbelievable how accurate this is

Interesting how as a biiig feeling person I'm sooo in love with analyzing deducing and solving problems and explaining things which is why science is what my life revolves around, that's why I'm so into genetics and became a cytogeneticist where I analyze people's genomes to find and explain abnormalities and their effects.

Oh that was really clear for me:D Thanks

So excited !!!

As a Sensor - yes, can confirm I'm a ridiculously slow learner (damn it). As a Judging type - yes, can confirm that Uncertainty is NOT my friend, ie I prefer dealing with a narrower range of scenarios as opposed to dealing with what feels like infinitely too many scenarios. Heck, I'd even love to know my date of death so I can compute at what age I can stop working.

I am an infj, just found out a year ago. Studying has been my thing for 20 plus years. While everyone else were functioning adults with jobs and families, i felt like an eternal student. I can't absolutely say i am smart but i could say i study smarter. I grasp concepts and apply them in a broader sense. How things are interconnected and how they are not. I always took notes during lectures which other people borrow. My books have writing on the sides for easy review. I made diagrams and drawings to help in my study. I read slowly and carefully once to retain info and subsequent reads are for review or to remind me what i forgot. My best subjects were science and english . Math is my waterloo. Although i am good at accounting and analytic chem where things need to be balanced. When i am interested at something then i am really good at it, when i am not then i struggle. I often studied in the library with friends but sometimes i taught them. My friends told me i made things simple to understand. Even if i were not the best at math they told me i can teach math for dummies. I am good at predicting what would come out on tests.

Thank you Frank, your videos have helped me more than you realize. Now I understand why my husband and I solve issues differently. He is a sensor and I am an intuitive (ESFJ and INFP, yes I married my conscience). Makes so much sense now.

BEST VIDEO -OF YOURS- EVER! WELL DONE!

It would be interesting if you could establish some relationships betwen the 16 personalities and the three basic learning styles (visual, auditory and kinesthetic). As an INTJ I thought for most of my life my main learning style was auditory but turns out I am kinesthetic. However, my cognitive functions (and high IQ) helped me to be a quick learner, despite the lack of stimuli that I would have actually prefered. I figured it as an adult, studying my masters on Education.

I’m an INFP and in many parts of this video I thought I had gotten an incorrect result. For example, I have always been good at Maths, Physics etc. But not because I like the structure and the rules and I have spent hours upon hours studying them. No, my special ability is that I learn everything in connection to something else I already knew. I think in terms of connections. It’s something I do subconsciously with everything around me. So, when later I have to solve a Maths problem or learn a new concept in Physics it’s not as hard for me to do it because I’ve made the connections and know where to go looking for the necessary information.

It was easy to understand! Thanks!

Thank you, Frank. Thank you.

"Osmosis" was my first thought. ~ENTP I do think, though, that we're not the only type that does that. Just that maybe we all filter differently what we percieve.

“Let’s support this channel and see if KZfaq will show an ad.” *Proceeds to show Frank James talk about UrMyType*

owh this quality content, let me learn new knowledge a lot thx

ENFP here. Learning via Ne goes something like this for me, approach new topic and try to figure out the big picture, overall concept of what it’s about, what sort of underlying processes or components make up topic, then while I’m in the process of figuring more and more out diving deeper into the subject matter, my brain will make analagous connections via past experiences and past frameworks that I’ve learned and constructed before, that mirror one aspect or another of this new topic, then piecing together both new and old understandings I learn establishes a new framework for use down the road, and the process begins again with each new topic. The more experiences and knowledge I’ve accumulated over time, the quicker and easier that intuition pieces concepts together to absorb new information.

I don't think this video is relevant to MBTI but relevant to the letter typing more , cause if we take an ENTJ for example they actually do care about the details at least more than other intuitives and the problem solving of the letter T with the way you described it I think is more Ti than it's Te

10:38 damn how could you describe so well my understanding of mathematics versus my hate for electricity... Electricity makes absolutely no sense whereas mathematics are only the same patterns every time !

Thanks for the video! I really like your roommate personality videos so I really hope you do those again

At 9:36 it is exactly how I think about learning feelings and emotions and recognizing them in others - " The tool that I can use". As INTJ I agree with all those statements around, that emotions are useful when it comes to interacting with people and so, to become more developed in social skills, I think it's useful to learn.

INFP here, I forget everything all the time, that's why I love math and science, because it doesn't matter if I forgot an enzyme or a formula, if I understand it, I'll understand it forever, I'll just have to read it again but just for the details.

I keep seeing videos for the idea that no one has a different learning style. Always made me mad to see these and when I tried to watch one, it made me even more angry. My brother and I do not learn the same way. I don't understand the way my dad learns at all. The two younger siblings learn in very different ways. This analysis makes me very happy and helps me understand how to help myself learn some things better.

Great idea for a video!!!! Appreciated...

I am an INTJ woman from Brazil whereas my boyfriend is an ISFP. Frank James helped me understand my relationship and why me and my boyfriend have extremely different perceptions looking at the same situtation. I doubted my sanity many times cuz I thought people were too emotional while my bf thought people were too cold but again perceptions. So Frank James, if you ever read this: thank you a lot for making me understand that I am not an alien or robot I just perceive things differently and that's it. Of course I have to work on my not so strong parts but it is a relief to know that I am not a cold villain of some sort. Again, thank you

As a sad ISTP, I'm forced to learn from the big picture every time in class :( And I always struggle so much cuz I'm really really bad at seeing the overall concept, although I can remember and understand details quite well It doesn't help when everyone around me are Ns where they communicate and explain in concepts that I continue to struggle to understand

That's the thing that always made me thought, that I am partially (or even entirely when I got to know 16 personalities for the first time) INTP, because I always enjoyed Maths, I'm a programmer and have a very analitycal mind in terms of those topics. However the test always says that I'm INFP. And when I read the descriptions of INFP and INTP, I'm sure that I'm much more INFP. I realized, that when I make decisions about my life, especially when they affect other people, I am a feeler. Emotions play a big role, I often wander with my mind in different places and so on. Maybe I'm still a little bit of INTP, because sometimes I turn on "logical mode" in discussions (even more often when I don't care about the particular person) and sometimes I feel bad a little bit after that (not always), because it sometimes feels like "asshole mode" 😆 On the other hand there are also a lot of discussions when I say generalisations, taking other people's feelings into consideration, and then the "(probably) real thinkers" say that's not logical. And I actually agree with them on that level, but still feel that there's something more than just logic 😆 So, well, it's not that simple 😄

I did such a personality test, just to test if I still had the same personality (I had). This time I actually read ALL the text, and found out my inspiration and icon had the same personality type as me. I am an INFP-T. thank you for your time, and don’t forget that even if you’re alone someone will or is already loving you!