Alright, what up people? Now, I'm gonna have a series of videos coming out over the next two days about everything I've learned. I'm in New York still, alright? You see me in the hotel. If you're new to the channel, be sure to subscribe. Vlogs and all that are coming later, right? But right now, I want to sit down and talk about everything I've learned, bruh. I might have talked to LD for at least six hours in the last two days. I got a good chance to talk with Mike Wang. I talked to Scott O'Gallagher. Literally the only person I didn't get a chance to release it down and talk to is Ronnie 2K. But it's all good. I feel like I got a lot of information. So, I'm gonna get into this video, man. I put out some tweets.  And I'm like, I never thought about some of that. So I went up to the rooftop and asked even more questions. And I got some answers. Let's get into this. The first thing is about the badges. People are asking, yo, is there any new badges? Now, this is a paraphrase called Mike Wang said, I'm not sure. I don't think there is really maybe. So, I'm pretty sure there's not. I know there was some rename. Like Dreamlike Up and Under was renamed Up and Under Specialists. So there was some that was renamed. Some of them were redesigned. But there was no new badges I've seen. And Mike Wang said, he's pretty sure there's no new badges. Man, it's not at the Twitter because somebody responded to me. It was like, yo, agent, bro, is the Jump Shot creator unenlockable this year? And I'm like, that's a really good question. So I went up, asked LD. He's like, asked Mike Wang. I went, asked Mike Wang. Mike Wang said, yes it is. But you can unlock it online. And if I'm not mistaken, someone told me this. It was one of the roles to 99 Unlock. So if you guys are aware of how the rep system works this year, you have a player and you're trying to improve your player, grind your player all the way up to a 99 overall. In every step you take, 84, 85, 86, you keep getting things that you unlock. The unlocks 90 plus 90 to 99, those are real unlocks. Like 98, you get to be featured on a 2K TV episode. 99, you get something called the Legends badge and it buffs all the badges you currently have. So those are serious things, right? And it's going to be challenging to get because imagine everybody being on 2K TV. So they purposely are going to make it very challenging to hit those. But I'm saying Jump Shot creator is just one of those. The good thing about that though, is just like previous 2Ks, you can upgrade your player with buying VC or grinding VC all the way to a 86. So if you want to just buy VC, I heard you can go straight to 86, right? That's exactly what I'm about to do because I'm trying to make the most lit content possible. Listen, I'm going to be the Jump Shot plug, alright? And I'm going to get into all this archetype talk here in a second, man. But I just need y'all to know that just like last year, when I came out with the waviest Jump Shot, I'm coming out with the waviest Jump Shots this year. This is a huge one. Shout out to Twitter. Also asked this question. The grand badge is no longer in the game. And the very funny part about this was, LD told me he saw my 95 point game that I dropped early in 2K17. And y'all were telling me in the comments like, Agent, what has he done?  I was like, man, relax. I'm going to patch a whole archetype based on what one person on YouTube does. And they didn't really do it like that. But LD's like, they saw that video and they're like, okay, yeah, this is overpowered. And it was overpowered. I said in the video, it's overpowered. And I even said in that video, you better patch me or I'm going to continue doing this. And thank God, I feel like it was such an arcadey thing. I was surprised they even patched that into online. I'm glad it's finally out the game. LD also said there's going to be very few patches. So remember last year, a small thing would happen. They would throw a 7 gigabyte patch at us. They wouldn't tell us what was on it. And so we were just confused like, how many patches we're going to download until like the servers are fixed or the stuff we're asking for is going to be fixed.  I'm paraphrasing. He didn't exactly say it like that. But he said 2K18, they're going to make it a point to only really patch when there's a serious exploit necessary or they're just trying to make improvements. So they're not going to be patching like every other week. Like we might have seen a career high. What was it like 13 patches in 2K17? This is probably the most exciting information for me. Going into the event, I didn't see this coming.  So take this in though. Because the more I talk to the devs, the more I realize like, yo, I might want to make a pure sharpshooter this year. Because if you guys remember when people came back from the event last year, they didn't get as, you know, you don't get to play the game for only so long, right? So when they came back, I remember a few people saying that you can't really juggle with sharpshooters. What happened? Because there's 6-2 speed boosts in sharpshooters now. So you don't want to really, if someone says you can't juggle other players, relax. We just haven't figured out how to do it yet. But the more I spoke to the devs, they were saying like, you can go for a primary sharpshooter, secondary shock crater, or whatever blend you want to go with, but you're not going to have the absolute max. You can be really good at 2 things, or you can be the best at 1 thing. And depending on the slider, there's going to be a lot of testing going on. This is going to be really interesting. People are going to be making a lot of new different builds. And now because it's primary and secondary, it's adding a whole new dynamic, you could always try something new. It's going to be lit. And so at first, I was thinking I was going to go with primary, making primary, sharpshooting, secondary. But after playing the game more, I was playing with my player on the park. I was playing with a primary sharpshooter and a secondary shock crater. And I was like, on good releases. At first of all, it's a lot harder to hit greens. That's a very big fact. But I was missing on like straight up full shock meter. It looked like a good release. And my primary sharpshooter, it was 84 overall. But it was, I'm like, really? So anyway, it's going to cause some testing. I'm just saying, I know everybody's excited to have two different archetypes, but it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world for you to consider doing the same archetype and being a pure player. In terms of the gameplay, it feels so damn smooth. It feels great. A lot of the dribbles you feel are the same. I was doing the same little stick things when it came to NBA 2K17 that I did when I was playing NBA 2K18. And I mean, I didn't learn anything new when it came to dribbling. For the most part, I didn't want to be a selfish teammate. I was on the park, there was other people playing. So I was trying to get my shots up. I was trying to shoot from agent range. And I don't know if my player had limitless range. But I wasn't really hitting nothing from agent range at the time, which brings me to my next point is Hall of Fame badges. If you were a pure player, a pure sharpshooter, you could have all the sharpshooter Hall of Fame badges. If you're a sharpshooter primary and like a lockdown secondary, you might only have one to three, if not zero, depending on the blend, you choose Hall of Fame badges.  Shout out to him. I'm looking below. But Mikhail verified this on his Twitter. And Mikhail is the plug of all plugs, bruh. I don't know how he gets all these codes. He's doing something, right? So I trust Mikhail with the info. He was saying you get one to three, if not zero Hall of Fame badges if you make a certain type of blend. So it really depends on what you do. For example, a sharpshooter and a shot creator are fairly similar. I see that having a little bit more. But a sharpshooter and a lockdown, maybe not as much. I also think it's interesting because the way the badge system is set up, there's key badges and then there's secondary badges. And unless I'm missing something, you can't get any badges outside of those. So I don't know how much it was exactly and not including personality badges. But it might have been like 15 or so. So it's not as... You can't get every badge in the game anymore. So you're more limited in that sense. So it's kind of interesting. We don't know enough about that because we weren't able to like...  I didn't even think of doing that. Annoying created a player. I was like, man... I like that you did that, man. That's smart thinking right there. The Shot Meter. The Shot Meter. The Shot Meter. Now y'all heard a lot about it especially since the last event that happened a few weeks ago. It's on the side of your player.  I tried shooting looking at the Shot Meter. I was shooting up bricks. The second I just started to look at my player and releasing when he was at his peak when it looked like he was in a shot pocket is when I started to hit my shot. So last year in 2K17, I had the Shot Meter still there but I rarely ever used it. It was more of a point of reference when I had an off game. I was like, okay, let me get back to this. But next year, and it's very small, the Shot Meter, so even like, it might look all full, full white or full whatever color you make it but there's gonna be times where it's full and you miss. It's because it's so small you can't really see the margin of error. If you made it longer, you'd really be able to tell a little bit more how accurate your shot was. So not only is it more inaccurate than it was last year, it's in a better spot. It's not underneath your player. It's on the side of your player. I like that. So for me, it's just not gonna be too useful unless I'm using a very new jump shot. A couple shots with the Shot Meter and then turn it off, I know what I'm doing. Now I heard this one from Mike Wang stream.  And so if you have a 60 open shot three, the number I heard was you're making 25% of your wide open shots. Which makes sense. It didn't make sense glass cleaners were pulling from limitless in the past. And so finally attributes matter, they said this is a more input based game, not as much as an animation based game, which is dope increases the skills gap for me. It makes it so that the archetypes really matter. And now that there's primary and secondary archetypes you at least get a little bit of depth if that's what you choose to do. I'm not sure exactly where I found, I heard this one from, but I heard it a bunch of times yesterday is you can buy VC to get to 86 overall. So if you wanna skip your way up there, in fact, I don't know exactly where the jump shot crater lands on the list of road to 99. But if it's under 86 and you're buying VC, you basically start with it. I know a bunch of people were asking me about Pro-Am. I asked about it, I didn't hear much back. So we don't know enough about Pro-Am now. I did have a clip where me, annoying was jumping into the Pro-Am, but for the most part, the practice arena looked identical to the way it did in 2K17. If you see the trailers, the game and even the scoreboard, the arena also looks identical. So I don't know if there's gonna be differences that we know of, but from so far, there's no news for Pro-Am. Another important note is, I know annoying talked about this in his video, and Mikhail also tweeted this, is if you play different game modes, it actually helps you rep up faster. I'm not exactly sure why, I'm sure they're just trying to get your foot in everything. And to be honest, I think this is a Pro-Am push because a lot of players that play park that don't mess with Pro-Am, I think it's people like, yo, if you try Pro-Am, I'm telling you you're gonna rep up faster. And so if you just do park, you're not gonna be moving as fast. I asked about the MyCorp because we didn't really hear anything about that at the event, and I didn't hear much back. All I knew was that, for those of you who don't know, it's like you're in your building, you get on your building to an elevator and you go downstairs, and then you're in this playground where you can play one on one now, you can play three on three, you know, you can play on the fives, they have the parks, you can walk into a tattoo shop, right? So you guys see in the trailer, you see all that goodness, you know how it works.  That's what I heard. Now as soon as I heard up, I'm like, bruh, do we have a high rise rooftop MyCorp? Because that would be phenomenal, right? And then I heard, I don't know, they didn't want to disclose anything just yet. But from what I hear, you go into your elevator to get into the MyCorp, so I'm assuming it's somewhere in the same building, which by the way, if there's a basketball court in the middle of the building, that'd be some lit shit, right? I'm trying to live in a building that has something like that. I keep seeing people talk about rep, rep, disrep, that rep, rep, where's rep agent? Where's that? I'm like, I don't know, guys.  Latency, there's the keyword. Listen, man, the latency was, it was better than 2K17, but that doesn't mean anything, right? So there was a couple of times, one, when I was playing with Cash, Cash lagged out. He had the most hilarious reaction. And then again, with somebody else, is I saw lag outs happen, but this is before launch. I don't know what that means for the serverics exactly. We know at launch, pretty much every game, but especially 2K is gonna have some issues at launch. I just hope that a week into launch is clear, you know what I mean? So we're not having problems where the menus are super unresponsive. But that's the one part that I'm worried about, that, and I talked to LD about this, and he said they, quote, unquote, buffed the servers. I don't know what that means, and they say something like that every year, so I was like, okay, but like, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know how, how do you gauge that exactly? So I think that's probably gonna be my biggest worry.   So, yo, even if we can get back to 2K16, I could deal with that. But really realistically, what I'm trying to do is just get it to the point where you're seeing reasonable input lag that you would expect in the game, right? But in general, my park felt smoother. I don't know exactly how to, to you guys, you're gonna have to feel the game because when people were explaining it to me that played it before me, I was like, oh, could you be a little bit more descriptive? There's no real way to describe it. You can hop on the sticks and find out for yourself, but it feels better, way better than 2K17, in my opinion. And here's a small one that I noticed and I was like, thank God, you can actually sprint on the MyPark now. So, it's a pretty big place.  I clicked R2 and I'm like, oh, you could sprint on the park now. So, it's the fastest way to get around. If you're not aware, a bicycle is one of the rewards on the road to 99 and the skateboard is as well. So, if you get tired of running and you get to the point where you unlock a bicycle or a skateboard, then there you go. Another one of the issues I had, and I was talking to Shakedown about this is, I don't know, like it's a really dope environment, but yo, can we like switch it up and Shakedown mentioned, yo, can we throw it at night time or do something to switch it up every once in a while because it's gonna be dope now, it's gonna be dope through December, but eventually it's gonna get stale and people are gonna want to play in a new environment. Previously, we had multiple parks to go to and I'm thinking like, yo, maybe we can see some changes, maybe something like park after dark, but hopefully more successful ends up happening or they drop some other parks or something happens. They said there's gonna be a rotation of park events as well, so Antiep is back in the game, Antiep has a whole new environment, so there's a lot of new stuff to happen, but I just hope it doesn't get stale. And probably another note, and this is gonna be important for a lot of people is, because there's no rep system across the board, it's a road to 99.    And so previously, you'd still be a legend or a superstar too, or an all star one, and now it's like you're really from square one. So when you're making a new archetype, especially if you wanna take it on the park and grind with it, you gotta take it seriously. Now, I think that's one of the negatives when it comes to having a rep system that works specific to characters, is each character is gonna be so difficult to get it up there, especially if the way I have it in my head, it's gonna be super challenging to hit 99. And to be able to have to even consider doing that or even hitting like 92 on multiple players, it's gonna seem like a serious grind. Anyway, I've been talking forever, man. If you enjoyed the video, be sure to drop a like. If you're all new, subscribe to the channel. Y'all know I'm coming with the fire, right? I'm prepared for this. Listen, thank you to 2K, man. They came all the way to Clash. Y'all about to see it all in the vlogs.  It'll be really cool hanging out with all those YouTubers. Most of them are gone now, but I'm gonna be in New York for the next few days. I'm gonna be chilling, shooting some videos. You should be challenging.  If you guys enjoyed, you know what to do. I'm gonna catch y'all later. I'm bobbing my head around too much. I'm gonna lay down, actually, before I'm out. Peace.


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but you want to take setups like coin. You see this a really, really tight distribution of all the carnage, right? You want to look at channels that are super, super... Welcome to Access to Trader, the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success, profitability and longevity. Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge, master your process and own your future. Hey guys, good evening everybody. Welcome to another day, another adventure in what we call the best reality show that's not on television, the wonderful world of the stock market. Hope everybody is doing well. So last night when I was recording the video, I was talking about, you know, what's going on on Facebook? How come it's getting killed? Obviously the news after I logged off, Snapchat, right? Snapchat, they guided lower, they pronounced. And this is one of the things that we were seeing, you know, we were seeing a lot of weakness, especially in retail. We've been seeing a lot of growth names getting taken down one by one. We'll get to individual pivots in a second. I want to show you guys some setups for tomorrow. But more important is it's not that Snapchat took down the market, it's what Snapchat represented. Anything with ad spending, customer acquisition, point and click, all that ad space, this is what it represented. And it took down as much as Snapchat got killed today. And it did, I mean the stock went lost 40% or so. It took down everything with it. So it wasn't that Snapchat killed the market. It was Snapchat what represented all of everything. We just always talked about it. Anything to do with ad spending, right? They got hit. I mean, Google at one point got down to what? 2037, you had Facebook obviously, a really big exaggerated casualty, Twitter, right? Everything, anything in sight that has anything to do with it, which is basically everything. And again, it wasn't an excuse, it's just kind of what we are in right now. It's again, surprising if you don't know by now, we're into bear market. And usually bear market comes out with bear market news. And again, we talked about a couple of days ago how aggressively the lack of spending in retail really showed the consumer just refusing to give money out of their pockets because of just the cost of living is getting so expensive. So now it's just really trickling down to everything in sight. And again, if you look at the scoreboard, it's not that the Dow that had the big losing day. The Dow was actually up 40 points, right? But again, it's the Nasdaq. I don't care if the Dow trades up 1,000 points. I don't trade Dow stocks. I trade the Nasdaq and Nasdaq down almost another 2.5%, down 270 points. And you start looking on the cues. Again, we discussed now for the last, whoa, Tesla, bad print, nevermind. Bad print and Tesla, nevermind. That's a bad print. Just had to make sure, just because of yesterday, as of yesterday from Facebook, I just had to make sure something's going on here, some bad prints going on, but these are bad prints I can guarantee you. Tesla is not up 60 points after the close. I just looked and Microsoft is not down 10 points. Something's going on here. I don't know what it is, but something's going on. But anyway, if you look at what we talked about yesterday, actually a couple of days ago, where the potential of soft landing, I still believe somewhere right here around this 260 level eventually, will be represented. I think that's where you start making a little bit of a shopping list to kind of see where you want to start looking at some long-term value. But until then, again, you're going to have days that are up, right? You definitely have days that are up, but overall trend continues to be down. And this is kind of what I talked about a couple of sessions ago. If you notice all the up days, right? For the exception of the Fed days, right? You can see exception of the two really big Fed days in the three-week rally. All the other days on this, especially in this last move below the 50-day moving average, you can see that the green days are smaller, right? They're very contracting compared to the down days. This was a Fed day. This is an exception for that. And the down days are exaggerated, right? They're expanding, expanding, expanding, expanding. You could look how small yesterday's, like look how small the other day's channel was to the upside. Look how big the candles are to the downside. So that's what you're seeing. And that's the continued trend until we start at least reclaiming some minor channels. Like at least we talked about this area here, this 295 level on the weekend update. At least if we start taking above this 295 level, then we could start making a conversation of, hey, what happens next? But until then, listen, again, is the market possible rallies tomorrow? Again, I don't care about any individual update. There's just no value. Even a name like Zoom that came out some pretty good earnings today. You know, initially they took the stock down red, right away. Last night, this thing was trading at 108. They took it red today. You know, it got rejected off the top of the range here, went up a couple of bucks or so, but it wasn't a big deal. And that's the whole point that they're not rewarding anything. And that's the whole point. They're selling everything. And if anything comes up with a bid, it's a very, very small and short bid. And that's kind of where we are headed. Just as a somber note, I forgot to do this. It feels like I'm saying this like once or twice now, a month, man, there was another school shooting. I don't know how many of you guys actually heard this. Somebody retweeted this out. In a Texas elementary school, 14 students, including one teacher, 14 little kids, man. And it looks like an 18-year-old came into the school, shot his grandmother first, murdered 14 children and one teacher. I mean, just insane, the world we live in. So again, guys, always take a back, take a back and just say, look, I don't care how bad or good your day is.  Just be thankful your family's safe and everything else kind of takes place. But I just wanted to say a prayer for all the, again, senseless crime. It just feels like last week was Buffalo. Now this is just, the world is going to the Hell in a Ham basket very, very quickly. So let's talk about today. Again, Snapchat definitely helped, right? It definitely helped put the fuel to the fire. I was expecting pretty much a very muted day. Again, we're only a few days away from people really taking off. I think by, not by, I think by Wednesday, you'll probably get that last bit of aggression at one way or another. And you'll start probably feigning last Thursday and Friday into a light volume. So I expected kind of a very light volume kind of day today. And because of Snap, really opened, the trap door and a lot of names. If you look at pre-market, a lot of names that I even thought were really overextended as far as their gaps on their average to range just kept on going lower. And that was the kind of the point. So it really opened up everything onto the sun. And when you look at today's action, you started seeing some pretty big moves. Obviously, you can't trade everything. You can't see everything. And the most important thing is just see what you can and just kind of watch for it to confirm. But you had some big moves here. So yesterday, there was a big pivot on Amazon today. Confirmed 2078, if it builds below, can see 2048. So it took out that 2078 and then it took out that 2048, went all the way down to 2025. Obviously, this 2000 area is going to be a big deal because I think eventually if it does confirm this 2000 area, look how much room you have to the Bollinger Band. If it gets down here, you're talking about 1878, 1900. It's going to be very, very weird to view Amazon in losing that two handle. So it was weird to lose a three handle, let alone the two. So this thing still has room down. Again, maybe has a bounce for a couple of days, but I still think this thing goes lower. AMC, we talked about this for the last couple of days, 1140, if it builds below, can flush. They finally started taking it down. That's the most important. They couldn't even save the market leader from falling. So here was AMC. They finally took down this 1140, 1150 area, close pretty much at the lows of 1030. Again, I think this thing is going to probably settle in on the next couple of days around this 970, 950 level. So I think it's tomorrow below that Blotet's channel should give a move to 970, 950. I think it extends for another day. Square finally broke down. We've been talking about Square for a couple of days. 78, 88 held twice. If it builds below, it can flush. Here was Square, right? So they finally took down the 78, 88. Here was a 78, 88 once, 78, 88 twice. Yesterday's low was 79. It finally took out the 78, 88, traded out to 74. We started seeing 70 weeklies. I still like this thing go. I think if it confirms today's price action tomorrow, below that 74, I think this thing has a shot at 70, even 67 on the bottom ball in German. They came for the 70 weeklies and the 60s for June. So there's a pretty good betting considering the lack of institutional participation. Tesla came down. Again, they're still betting. They're still betting on the 600s. We're starting to see 600 weeklies, 590 weeklies. Again, this thing's going lower. It's not really, it's not Teflon anymore. It's going to go down like everything else. So we finally took down the low from 633, traded down to 620. Look, I think this thing confirms 620 tomorrow. You're going to see 607, 600. So institutional money flow is heavy on the sell side. On Tesla, Zoom, only went up a buck, went up to 97. Nothing really to talk about here. UPST got hit as well. 40, if it builds below, can flush more. Here was UPST, right? Took down that 40, went all the way down to 35. Again, Lumetrum is still has down over the longer course of an extended bear scenario. Here's 37. Coin, 60, 50, if it builds below, can flush. Nice little move on coin. Nothing huge, but nice little move on coin. Went down to like 59 and change. So I think below 59, this thing starts getting spread down. MSTR, not a big move, very, very thin stock. Only went down to like 85, 86 before it reversed. 77s, then 74s, then 59 on deck. And that is about it. So look, you have kind of the same dynamics. The most important thing for this bear scenario is don't try not to take anything overextended, right? There's a lot of names that look really terrible. But you want to try to, even though coin didn't collapse, but you want to take setups like coin. You see this really, really tight distribution of all the carnage, right? You want to look at channels that are super, super condensed. So if it does fail, you could catch it right away. If something is down six, seven, eight, nine days in a row, there's a high probability to reverse this. If you look at all the setups from today, most of them, right, they were very, very tight. Like if you look at coin, very, very tight. If you look at UPST, when it broke down a couple of days ago, it was super duper tight off this channel. So if you look at some names that I like for tomorrow, let me give you guys a couple of names that look pretty good here. Oh, look at Airbnb. Look at Airbnb. Airbnb broke down today, broke down today, put in a low. They were coming for the weekly 100 puts. I want to keep an eye on this thing below tomorrow, today's channel. That looks ready to go. Roku got hit pretty hard today and it stopped right on the bottom channel here. You can see, they're just defending this bottom channel here. If it loses bottom channel, you're going to see more selling coming across. Look at NET, another name that, look at this thing. This thing is ready to go. Look how tight this channel is, right? I understand this stock's gone killed, but you have two and a half, three weeks of data here. If this thing starts building below this channel here, this thing has a lot of room down, so keep an eye on that. Boeing, I like this continuation move on Boeing. Last week it broke the 20 traded down to 17, but starts losing 17, I think it sees 110. So that's it. It's the same pretty much game plan. If we do rally tomorrow, I just don't care. I really don't. I'm pretty much, I sit on all the sidelines and the rallies don't do anything, right? It's like literally, it's like trying to squeeze water out of a rock for the downside, for every downside move that you're getting, three, four, five dollars. It's like squeezing 50 cents out of the long side. It takes up so much mental equity and you know you're trading into supply. So one down tick, bit scatter like cockroaches. So that's kind of the discipline, right? That really is the discipline until these stocks start reclaiming higher levels. And right now, again, is it possible? They can, sure, I don't think it's possible, but the point is there's so much downward value that even if you have a green scoreboard, like yesterday, we had a green scoreboard and it was a pretty solid move on Amazon through the downside and Tesla through the downside. And there's a lot of charts out there. Is there so many, you know, Shopify looks like death. I mean, there's so many charts that look terrible. Look at Splunk. You know, he's got to pick the one that you want to trade. Look at Splunk. Splunk looks like he wants to challenge this 84, 63 level. There's just a lot of value here. Just the most important one is take the ones that you feel comfortable trading. Look at even a smaller price name like Lucid, right? Look at Lucid. Look how tight this channel is. Lucid tomorrow loses 1686, right? You have a lot of room down. So the key is take what you feel comfortable in trading, let trust, technical analysis, and hopefully the volume and the liquidity and the spread is tight enough that you get some really good institutional money flow, some option flow, and you have your desired outcome. Guys, have a great night. God bless. Again, stay safe, everybody. And with God's help, I'll see you all tomorrow. Take care.


This episode was prerecorded as part of a live continuing education webinar. On-demand CEUs are still available for this presentation through all CEUs. Register at allceus.com slash counselor toolbox. I'd like to welcome everybody to today's presentation on temperament, understanding extroverts and introverts. Over the next hour, we're going to define temperament, examine how knowing your temperament and the temperament of those around you can improve your communication, enhance relationships, and reduce stress. We'll explore in depth the extrovert introvert dimension. If you're familiar with temperament, you know there's four dimensions. Extrovert introvert is the first one, but we will be going through each one of those dimensions over the next four webinars. We'll identify potential conflicts between extroverts and introverts as it relates to recovery, as it relates to relationships, as it relates to a lot of different things. It's important to remember that temperament is a relatively stable set of traits, referring to preferred environments, learning and problem-solving styles and methods, ways of conceptualizing and approaching the world, a person's philosophical approach to the world, and time management. So that incorporates all four of the dimensions. Preferred environments is one of the things we're really going to be talking about today. The extrovert is the introvert. Temperament occurs along a complementary continuum. It's not better or worse. What we're talking about is just differences. If you want to think of it as balancing out or yin and yang, neither end of the continuum is going to make someone more likely to relapse or easier to get along within a relationship.  It's like being blonde versus brunette. Most people are somewhere in between each point. So when you do the kyrgyz temperament disorder or you do the Myers-Briggs or you do some other version, you're going to be asked questions on a Likert scale. And depending on how extreme you answer, whether it's a one, like, something that you feel is never going to be important to you versus a five, something that you feel is always important to you, or the person who answers three most of the time because they feel it's most of the time, it's important, but, you know, it could go either way. Those people that are threes, the middle of the road, tend to have more psychological flexibility on that particular part of that particular dimension. So I don't want to start thinking or I don't want you to start thinking that people are really rigid one way or the other necessarily. Now, some of us tend to be a little bit more rigid, but we'll get into that later. As stress increases, people gravitate toward their preferred temperament dimensions. So, for example, I tend to be somewhat of an introvert. I have certain extrovert characteristics, you know, I love presenting. I love being around people. But I also need my downtime and I need my time to get grounded and focus and all that sort of stuff. So when we're looking at temperament, when I get more stressed, I find it harder to find the energy to do all the stuff in a social environment and do this get grounded. So it's more important to me to make sure that I get myself grounded so I can deal with, you know, people and animals and I live on a farm. There's always something going on. Additional stress and vulnerabilities can be reduced through awareness of personal preferences. You want to prevent your stress. I could never do one of those jobs that is just, you know, you never know what's going to happen. My partner used to be a law enforcement officer and, you know, loved it because every day was new and exciting. It was never the same two days in a row. That would drive me bonkers. So it's knowing your personal preferences and making choices. Awareness of the preferences of those around you can also be important. And we're going to talk about how that can collide. But it can also work to your advantage as you start to understand what temperament does and understand your partners and your friends temperaments, your kids, people around you. And knowledge of how to create an environment supportive of your individual preferences. So when you start to get stressed out, you've got a safe haven that you can go to. So the extrovert will just kind of go through that person's characteristics first. This person tends to be expansive and passionate. Focus on multiple things sort of superficially. They learn about it and then they move on. It's kind of like taking a survey of psychology instead of getting a master's in psychology. They might be thought of as lacking in focus because they don't go through and get that master's. May have six half finished projects and find it easy to transition between multiple activities. The introvert on the other hand is intense and passionate. You give them something and they are going to want to learn everything there is to know about whatever it is. When we started farming, we organically farm. And one of the things that I did was get every book I could get my hands on on organic farming and homesteading. I wasn't just reading one or two books. It was like 17 books from Amazon came the same day. And I was just happy as a pig in slop and it was good. Some people would kind of see that especially extroverts might see that as overkill. The introvert will focus on one thing through mastery and can be thought of as being too self-involved. And part of this is because the introvert needs some time to focus and think things through before they talk. It's not that they are so concerned about themselves, but they need to figure out what they're thinking before they want to share it with everyone else. And we'll get more into that later. They're usually immersed in a project or topic sometimes to the exclusion of other activities and this can be a problem for the introvert. So let me go back on this one. Expansive versus intense. That's great. I mean, think about interrelationship. If you have one partner that's expansive and has 17 different hobbies and they're really well rounded. That's awesome. You know, there's always variety. If you have someone who goes really deep into something and is just obsessed with they get a hobby and want to learn everything about it. You know, that's good too, but the extrovert could get a little bit bored. And the introvert can get frustrated if they're jumping around from thing to thing. So it's important that the two people communicate about something. So maybe the introvert picks up one of the extroverts hobbies and learns everything there is to know about it. And then they can talk about that particular thing. Understanding that the extrovert, like I said earlier, is kind of like the survey of and the introvert is somebody who's going to learn everything there is to know. That doesn't make any better or worse. When you're talking about in the work environment, you want to have some people that have multiple different skills and multiple different ideas and then you want to have people that are your expert in. So it's good to have both of them. It's just figuring out how to help them work together. The interventions are on the next slide. When we're talking about recovery and you all know I come from a co-occurring perspective and a co-occurring field. The extrovert tends to be very expansive but less passionate about recovery. They'll learn a little bit about this and a little bit about that. But it's hard to get them to focus intensely on any particular thing sometimes unless you find their motivation and we'll talk about that. The introvert can get too intense on focusing on one particular thing to the exclusion of everything else. I've seen people in recovery become so intense and passionate about 12 steps that they forget everything else. Their life becomes getting up in the morning, going to meetings, going to work, going to a noon meeting, going back to work, going to a meeting after work and then going to a step study that night. They want to know everything there is and they're very intense about it. Now this can work for some people but generally you look at the balance in their life between recreation and health and wellness and all that other stuff and you find that it starts to lack. So both the extrovert and introvert can have difficulty with balance. The extrovert has difficulty really drilling down on topics because they get bored easily. It's also important that the introvert makes sure that they're paying attention to other things. Whatever they're working on is really important to them and they're passionate about it which is great. But they're going to have to take a break if they're involved in relationships with others or they need to take care of themselves. And you can see where people can let their health and wellness go if they start saying, well, I'm more involved in this right now so I'm not going to go to the gym. I'm not going to worry about eating. I'm not going to go to my meeting. So other things that are necessary for health and wellness can go by the wayside if the introvert is too focused on whatever it is they're concerned about. The extrovert, and I do want to point this out, finds it easy to transition between multiple activities. The introvert doesn't. And one of my characteristics, the introverted characteristics is I have difficulty transitioning. I can't just go and be in the middle of working on preparing a class and then talk to somebody on the phone and get right back to working on my class really easily. It takes a lot of focus for me to do that and it tends to be a little bit more stressful. So for interventions, we want to encourage each person to understand the other person's approach and avoid devaluing it. So what is it in this relationship or in your recovery that your temperament brings that's a strength. It's good in recovery. It's good in relationships to have a lot of different interests to have a lot of different ideas. That's wonderful. And it's important to recognize that other people who are more introverted that may know, you know, everything there is to know about the big book also brings something to the table. So I encourage introverts to set alarms or otherwise schedule in activities like family or going to meetings or recovery or working in there on their treatment plan to avoid getting consumed in one particular activity. So if there are things they have to do that are not whatever this item of consumption is, they need to schedule those in. So sometimes extroverts are hard to pin down so it's important to provide deadlines for specific tasks. We want to make sure that they keep making forward progress and remember and we'll talk about motivation and extroverts, I think on the next slide, but we need to keep helping them drill down so they don't get bored. We want to encourage partners of different temperaments to discuss their interests and goals and look at them as, you know, sort of a survey versus a mastery and accept that that's just the way that person happens to be and appreciate it. If it pertains to something like cleaning recovery, etc, clearly define what the goal is in observable measurable terms and what do I mean by that. Well, if you take an extrovert and an introvert and you put them in a room and you think survey versus mastery, and you say let's clean this room. The extrovert may tidy things up a little bit. The introvert may be down on their hands and knees doing the baseboards. So what is it that how is it that you define clean? How is it that you define successful completion? How is it that you define recovery? For example, the extrovert may define recovery in terms of not using the introvert may have a much more detailed description of what that means. So for social support. Now, we just talked about having difficulty making transitions between things and being very interested in a lot of things. I don't like the word superficial because so so often it's taken negatively. The survey versus mastery, you have that kind of thought pattern you have that kind of environmental interaction with that person may need different environments. The extrovert is generally easy to get to know whereas the introvert is more difficult to get to know. The extrovert likes meeting new people and having a lot of friends or acquaintances and they will talk to anybody. And that's how they think that's how they work. They know what's going on around them better than what's going on inside them. They tend to be very open and chatty and find reciprocal self disclosure quite easy they get extroverts get energy from other people introverts are drained by other people. It can be that it's not that they don't like them. It's just that it's exhausting to pay attention to what's going on around them all the time. The extrovert talks things out in order to figure things out. So you'll find an extrovert with a problem will call up a friend and try to brainstorm and introvert will go into their room or sit down at a table and start writing pro and con lists or something. The introvert ponders and then talks the extrovert talks while they ponder important point for recovery and relationships. Now the introvert is more difficult to get to know and they have to exert effort to meet new people. So think in a relationship how this could be a problem. If you have an extrovert that likes being around people draws energy from being around people loves crowds is really chatty really friendly and their partners and introvert and that's just exhausting. Then social interactions can be challenging. You can find that the extrovert will want to be in a situation like a big meeting or a group situation or for parties. They love being big parties. The introverts happier with dinner with a couple couples or going if we're talking about recovery going to a step study or individual counseling something that is less Where there's less input from a lot of other people because they're just taking all that in and trying to process it and they don't process it the same way the extrovert does The introvert is more likely to know what's going on inside them than what's going on around them. So the introvert has taken time. They're kind of grounded. They have an idea about what's going on inside them, but they may not be as aware of The positive and the negative going on around them and when they're submerged in that it can be exhausting because they know what's going on inside and all of a sudden they're bombarded. It's just how they deal with things. They like to think before they speak which makes makes them seem more reserved and they find connections with others during post event processing. If you've been in a relationship with an introvert, whether you're one or you're an extrovert doesn't really matter. You might find that driving home after a gathering or a party or a class. The introvert will will talk about things or will listen to the extrovert talk and then start to draw conclusions and go yeah you know I actually did Think that we had some things in common. Now they may not have shared that during during the interaction with whoever it was because that's not where they were yet they hadn't put those pieces together introverts tend to be very reflective and introspective Extroverts are what I call active learners and they tend to learn and process as they go. So again if you've got them in relationships this can be a huge stumbling block because the extrovert needs to be around people just I mean isn't isn't need that's where they get their energy. The introvert really needs that downtime so if they have to go to work and be around people all day long they need some downtime when they get home. How does that the extrovert feel if the introvert comes home and automatically goes to watch TV or have some sort of quiet time. The extrovert can feel rejected if they don't understand that's just part of this person's process. We want to encourage each person to be aware of the others feelings and situations where the extrovert may be really excited. The introvert may be really overwhelmed finding that happy medium if you've got to go to a big group thing. How is the introvert going to deal with that and how are you or how is the extrovert going to help the introvert deal with it if they're different if they're both introverts then they got to figure out how they're going to band together and do the do the introverts Christmas party but interventions really are very similar if you're thinking about work versus relationships because at work you do have relationships so you want to make sure that you're paying attention if you're working with people in relationships who have different temperaments the extrovert like I said may get bored easily where the introvert may be intensely fascinated if you've ever gone to a museum with a small child. You know how they bounce around from think to think to think because everything's new and everything's really exciting and most kids do that. Whereas my son when you would take into the museum you could plan on making it a day process because he would go and he would read the little plaque and then he would think about it and he'd ask questions which was great but he was intensely fascinated with everything so it took us an eon to get through to get through a museum trip whereas this sister once she was old enough to start going with us to she's not as intense about things so she would get bored and she'd be like come on can we go to the next thing helping the two of them respect each other's preferences but also figuring out how to navigate that is really important not only for siblings but in relationships as well have each partner share what they need want or envision as effective social support for the extrovert it could be having 20 friends to talk to for the introvert it could be having one good friend. It's not necessarily about the quantity of contacts it's about the quality of one. We want to explore reasons for feelings of jealousy or inadequacy in the relationships and normalized behavior. Because extroverts may want feedback or support from multiple people which is that's just how they are you know they're going to tell their friend Jane and then they're going to tell their friend Sue and then they're going to tell their friend Bob. And then they're just they want feedback they want input and they're going to think about it every time they tell it or ask about what somebody else's opinion is they're going to be formulating their own opinions this is their process. Introverts on the other hand may always seek seek feedback or support from one or two people. So the extrovert may feel jealous if the introvert's always going to one or two people or going to that person and yet another person and they're like well why do you always have these intense discussions with so and so. And it may be because both of them are introverts and understanding the reason for the discussions and how we process things. Whereas introverts can feel jealous because extroverts have to not have to but generally prefer to talk to multiple people about a problem and get multiple inputs. Even if they've already talked to their introvert partner and the introvert partner might might be going well what my input wasn't good enough. So we want to make sure to work on any feelings of jealousy or inadequacy that may come out and help them understand that this is just their process. Extroverts do better in groups and draw energy from people so they will be the life of the party. They will do really well in support group situations they'll do great in group therapy. They do good in classes because they like to think on their feet, and they like to be around other people. Extroverts on the other hand like introspective activities and draw energy from personal grounding so they may do better with a step study or reading their book and then doing a workbook instead. Or even doing a workbook and sharing it with their coach or their sponsor or their therapist. So in recovery we want to figure out what situation is best for our particular clients. And when I was in a residential setting, I've told you before we had impact in like Sardines. So the introverts that were in the residential setting would get really stressed out. Why? Because they had never had a moment's peace. They literally could not go to the bathroom by themselves because there was always somebody in the bathroom. It was important to help those people recognize that there's nothing wrong with you. This is just how you're wired. You need some quiet time to get refocused and re-grounded. And we designated certain spaces on the campus where they were allowed to go with counselor permission. We had to know when they were leaving the facility, but they were allowed to go to rest and reflect during certain periods of the day. That allowed them to get quiet time. There was enough space where you never had to have multiple people sharing the same quiet space and help reduce a lot of the stress in the environment. The extroverts on the other hand, often during those down times, had time to play volleyball and do other things that were extroverted and loud and exciting. And they would talk while they were playing volleyball or they would talk while they were playing cornhole or whatever it was. And that's how they processed things. So knowing how your clients process things, helping them understand what they need because a lot of us have no clue exactly what's causing our stress. We just know we're stressed out.  The extrovert, like I said, would rather figure things out while they're talking. So this is the person who has a problem. Something happens and the first thing they do is pick up the phone and either call or start texting their best friend. They're the person who often tends to talk and share a little bit too much sometimes because when they are in their processing phase, pretty much anybody who comes around can be a reasonable sounding board. They're considered good talkers and are often auditory learners. So this is important. If you've got somebody who's an auditory learner and you are asking them to do a lot of stuff that's written, you know, I want you to go read three chapters in the big book or I want you to read this book. That may not be their learning style. That may not be their learning preference because they talk it out as they learn. So if you have written material that they have to go through, how do you how do you do that? You can't just uproot the entire treatment program. No, but you can go through it in bits. So instead of saying go read three chapters and then tell me what you learned. Let's take it section by section and let's talk it through just like you would do a big book study or a Bible study or you know just about any other kind of study where you get together in a group and study written material. Introverts figure things out and then talk. So again, going back to coming a relationship where you've got one extrovert and one introvert. If the introvert and extrovert get home at the same time, this can be a highly conflictual situation because the extrovert wants to tell the introvert everything that happened during the day and process it. And the introvert just can't wait to get some quiet time so they can process what happened during the day. Encouraging them to figure out how to work this out. A lot of times I found it works best for for many people. Many couples to know that when they come home, there is going to be some sort of 30 minute activity or whatever where the introvert can go and just have some quiet time. And the extrovert can start making dinner or clean the house or call a friend and tell them what happened during the day or whatever else happened. And then after that 30 minute period, they can get back together. If the introvert has to drive a long way home from work, that may be enough time for him or her to process what happened during the day if they want to think it out. So this isn't always necessary, but if it is, finding ways to compromise so the introvert can get grounded and get in the right head space to be able to listen to the extrovert and help listen to the extrovert effectively. In disagreements, the extrovert may feel dismissed and the introvert may feel cornered. When they start to argue, the introvert may hear the extrovert's argument and say, okay, you know, just let me think about it, and then want to go think about it. The extrovert, that's not how they process.  We need to talk this out. And the introvert may be like, well, I can't talk things out. That's not how I do it. So the introvert feels cornered because they don't have time to process everything. Encouraging the two of them to understand that, you know, the introvert may need some time to process. The introvert may feel talked over because the extrovert just wants to talk it out and wants to basically use the introvert as a sounding board because that's their process. It's not that they don't care what the introvert has to say, but they may have a lot to say and they don't really know yet because, like I said, they figure it out while they talk. When one partner is under stress, another conflict can happen when they respond with their personal problem-solving approach. So if the introvert is under stress and the extrovert responds by going, well, let's talk about it. Let's talk about, you can tell me everything that's going on, and then we'll figure it out together. And the introvert gets really irritable and says, no, I just need some time. It can cause some conflicts. Again, feelings of rejection and isolation and all that stuff can come up. In counseling, we can help people process, you know, is that really what was going on? And where is this stuff coming from? A lot of it is quelled, if you will, just by educating both people that this is a process. We don't all solve problems in the same way because a lot of people have never stopped to think about that. Interventions that can work with these two on this particular dimension allow the extrovert to say their piece in an argument, validate understanding. So if you go back to rules for fair fighting, paraphrasing, making sure you understand what the extrovert has said before you go process it is important because otherwise you may be processing the wrong stuff. So if you're having a disagreement, making sure there's clarity on what's been said, but before a resolution is come up with, the introvert may need 30 minutes to go sit on the porch or go on a run or go do something to get their head together. Another method that can work, the extrovert writes down the problem, which is kind of a way of them getting it out. Let's the introvert read the narrative, think about it, and then the discussion ensues 30 minutes later. One of the cool things if the extrovert will write it out is a lot of times they will write it and then they will erase and rewrite to make it clear. So while they're writing the narrative, they're clarifying it in their own head. Now, I said they're often auditory learners, so a lot of extroverts just don't want to do this and you know, I get it. So if that doesn't work for them, that's fine. Understand your partner's process and develop a system to allow them to work through it because not every partner is going to come home and say, you know what, I had a really rough day today and I need 30 minutes to get my head together just, you know, and I'll be in in a while. So it's important that the partner understand, the other partner understand that, you know, sometimes Sue's going to come home from work and need 30 minutes to take a bath or take a shower or go on a run or do something before we talk about our day. And it's not that I'm not important. It's that she or he needs to get their thoughts together. One of the key things here, because introverts know it's going on in them, but not as much around them, is the fact that they will have a bad day and they may come home and have their 30 minutes, get their head together, and then they'll be like, okay, you know, problem resolved and go about their business. And the extrovert's going, going to clue me in, what happened? Because the introverts find now they feel okay, problem solved, no further attention is needed. Extroverts often want to be clued in, even if it had nothing to do with them. So, you know, you figured out whatever happened at the office and figured out how you're going to deal with it. Clue the partner in, you know, what happened, you don't have to go into great detail. Introverts may forget to ask about your day, even if they want to hear about it. Because again, they're more aware, not concerned, but they're more aware of what's going on inside themselves, because they are reflective. And they kind of, a lot of times we assume that everybody's like us, so they may forget to ask, how was your day? So extroverts may need to kind of initiate the discussion, because extroverts are the talkers, introverts are the listeners. Extroverts often need to verbally process their day to figure out kind of what's going on inside themselves. And they may come home and they'll be like, I'm exhausted. Let me tell you what happened today. And just get it out so they can, that's how they lay things out. You know, if you want to think of talking as laying things out. So they need that kind of time. Introverts in recovery may need external feedback for perspective. Because introverts know what's going on inside themselves, but addiction tends to be a little sneaky. They may know they feel bad, they may know they're struggling, they may know they hurt, but they may not be able to figure out which direction to turn. Extroverts in recovery are a little bit different. They often are very aware of what's going on around them, but not aware of what's going on inside them. So it's important for the extrovert to be able to have someone, whether it's another extrovert, who can point out this is what's going on. And you need to be conscious of what's going on with you. Temperament and environment. Extroverts, again, they like energy, they like excitement, they like stimulus. So they often enjoy background noise like TV and radio, and they don't really mind clutter as much because it's not overwhelming. This input that they get from visual input or auditory input isn't nearly as overwhelming. Whereas the introvert may prefer peace and quiet and prefer organization. So we'll start with recovery and treatment centers because that's shorter. Think about residential treatment center environments. They're noisy. So having quiet time where people can rest, relax, reflect is important. But if you have extroverts who find it difficult to be in the quiet, you know, that may be a treatment issue that they've got so much stuff going on in their head that they don't like being in the quiet because they start to think. Or it could just be not how they are wired and to relax, they need to have some sort of stimulation. Headphones can be an option. Going outside and listening to the birds, you know, that's still stimulus input. And paying attention to clutter. If you've got people packed in like sardines, making sure that they're keeping their personal spaces relatively clean. I mean, let's be reasonable. It's not a white glove test. Extroverts can feel stir crazy if it's too quiet for too long. Now, they can stand periods of time, but if it's, you know, silence all day long, it can be overwhelming. And if you're going, when is it ever silent all day long? When if you have someone who is in residential and maybe they're sick and they can't do anything so they're not going out with everybody else to the groups and everything, it may get very, very quiet back there. And they may start to feel a little stir crazy, which could be good because it could be motivation to get out of bed or it could be adding extra stress. So pay attention to what makes people motivated and comfortable. In relationships, if you live in the same house, whether it's a romantic relationship or siblings or roommates, the introvert can be overstimulated with too much noise. And, you know, it can be as simple as city versus country. You know, I couldn't imagine living in a city where there's constantly horns honking and this and that. I think I would learn to tune it out. But initially it would be a little bit overwhelming hearing all that stuff constantly. I had a friend who used to live literally on the L in Chicago. And that train went by like every 15 minutes and didn't bother him a bit. But I just couldn't imagine trying to sleep through that. Other things like kids, dogs, television, there's often a lot of noise in various households. So understanding what each person needs is really important. The extrovert usually doesn't mind that much. Earplugs and headphones, if you need quiet and there's not quiet, make it quiet. If you need noise and there's no noise or it's quiet time, headphones can help. Schedule quiet times at home. If you have a lot of noise and stuff going on or in the treatment center, where you know there's going to be 30 minutes or an hour where people who need the quiet time can have it. And, you know, other people can find something to do. Create quiet spaces. Sometimes it's not easy to create a quiet time at your work or create a quiet time at your house. But you can create a space that is always quiet. So children know if mommy goes down to her office that we're not supposed to bother her unless, you know, the house is on fire. Or at your office, if you have a quiet space where my staff used to know if my door was shut, that please don't bother me. I needed quiet time to get something done, you know, unless it was an emergency because I always had my door open otherwise. Anything to help you figure out how to get the quiet time you need if you need that is important. Likewise, if you need stimulation, figuring out how to make that happen. Develop your daytime work schedule to conform to personal preferences. We work eight hours a day, five days a week. So that's 40 hours a week plus drive time to and from. So that's a lot of time each week that we're awake and in this work mode, work environment. So how can you create a situation where it confirms conforms more to your preferences, whether you're around people and able to interact and socialize, or you need more quiet time and reflective time. If noise bothers you, you can add carpet and wall tapestries to absorb some of the noise. Because blank walls and wood floors or tile floors are really noisy and echoey. Be aware of your personal stress times and arrange your environment accordingly. So again, if you've got two people who have very different noise and activity needs. It's important that they also understand when their stress times are hopefully it's not at the same time but if it is communicating about what is it that I need when I come home from work. What is it that I need first thing in the morning. I'm one of those people who needs one of those cups of coffee that says, not yet, not yet. Okay, you can speak now. First time first thing in the morning is not the time to start bombarding me with stuff unless it's urgent. So it's important to understand that environmental stressors can be huge vulnerabilities. So if you need quiet and you are always bombarded with stuff. Eventually it gets exhausting which can make you more irritable and more likely to feel anxious or depressed.  Again, feelings of depression can set in an isolation. So it's important to arrange your environment. So you're getting the energy wherever you need it from extroverts don't mind interruptions and transition easily between tasks. I wish I was that person introverts dislike interruptions and have difficulty transitioning. The example I can give you is if you've ever been awakened from a deep sleep, you know, not kind of dreaming, but one of those really deep sleeps and you wake up and you're not even sure what day it is, or where you are. And that actually happens when you get into that deep deep sleep it's hard to wake someone, and they're disoriented when they first wake up. And this is kind of how the introvert feels if they've got a transition between multiple activities here and there when I worked at the treatment centers. I would be working on notes or something and then I would go facilitate a group, and then I would come back, and it would take me a little bit to get back into the groove of doing the notes again, because I don't transitions easily as maybe an extrovert might. Like I said, my partner used to be a cop, and it's one thing to another you go from one call you might be a domestic to, you know, patrolling something so you're going to activity and quiet and crisis and no crisis, and just constant and that's what he preferred. So potential conflicts which can add stress, kids, kids interrupt. That's just what they do. You have to be more flexible with kids. So understanding how to deal with that and helping children understand not only their temperament but your temperament. Just because they need something doesn't mean they need something right now this minute and I've got to talk to you about it. So having them understand where your quiet spaces are. It's important. Pets, the phone, your partner appointments, anything that is going to make interrupt you or make you transition. If you're an extrovert, not a big deal. If you're an introvert, it can really kind of throw you off kilter because of the difficulty transitioning. So what do you do about it. Extroverts can handle interruptions while the introvert is on an intensive task. So maybe the introvert is working on the bills. The extrovert can handle the kids, the dogs, the phone, whatever. In treatment, the introvert may need time to process something. So extroverts can go do something else that is more active, more socially oriented. So they're not in the same space with the introvert while they're trying to do their intensive task. A lot of our clients would go back to their bunks when they were trying to work on assignments. So the rooms during the day were always labeled as quiet spaces during the evening, not so much. So it enabled the introvert to go away from all of the activity. Introverts need to be aware of time and time sucks because they can transition so easily. They can get distracted and or I'm sorry introverts can get too focused on something. And they need to be cognizant when they're doing something because they're so intense and they're not getting interrupted. They can lose hours. I've gotten into something before that I'm working on on the computer and I'll look up and I'll be like, Oh, three hours have passed, had no idea. So it's important that they schedule use clocks alarm something so they don't get too sucked in and miss family time, dinner, all those other things. Introverts can handle life while the extrovert gets things done. So we don't want the introvert to have to transition. But it doesn't mean that the introvert can't take a period of time and go, Okay, I will focus on the kids and the dogs and cooking while you go do whatever you've got to do. Introverts need to schedule focus time around the needs of the family recovery and wellness. We say that recovery is a selfish program, which is true, because people need to learn to schedule time for their own recovery health and wellness. But it's important to not have that consume everything. So it's important for them to schedule focus time that is recovery involved or wellness involved if you're not in recovery. It's important to take care of your own self because you're not very good to anybody else if you're falling apart and the family and work, whatever your priorities are, setting blocks of time for those things. The introvert needs blocks of time. They don't do well with just kind of multitasking. If you have an introvert in the house, kennel the dog can turn off the phone. You know, Fido can be kennel. They were cave animals. It's not cruel to kennel them for an hour or two. Scheduled appointments so they don't interrupt your focus time. And sometimes it's not possible. Yeah, my son's got a dentist appointment next week at two in the afternoon, which is like smack dab in the middle of the day. No other time I could get it. Normally I try to schedule them for either the beginning or end of the day. And introverts can create a transition ritual for me that is coming into wherever it is making my coffee and sitting down and then I'm focused again. I don't know why it works, but it works. So whatever your transition ritual is not that I'm suggesting you take up coffee if you don't already drink it. But it helps me get my mindset for okay, I'm going back to doing X task. If you think about it, we kind of do the same with elementary kids when the bell rings, and they change between between different courses. It's their time to go. Okay, I'm done with social studies. I'm moving on to math now. Each person is a combination of some introverted and some extroverted characteristics. So you're not usually going to find everybody who says yes 100% to everything in one column or the other, which is good because it means you've got some flexibility. And you may not be completely rigid about some things. Remember, I said it's on a Likert scale. So for preference of not having interruptions, I'm kind of a five on that one. I really prefer not to have interruptions a lot. And the more stressed I get, the less tolerant I am of interruptions. So it's important to remember that knowing your own preferences can help you reduce your own vulnerabilities to stress. So if you know you need quiet time, or you know you need to be around people a certain amount of time in order to feel energized in order to feel good in order to feel happy.  They're going to help you feel more relaxed and at ease, which reduces your vulnerable vulnerabilities to stress anxiety and depression. Knowing the preferences of your friends, family and coworkers can help you understand more about how to interact in harmony with them because they're probably different. As my kids have grown up, you know, I've watched them become actually more solid in their temperament than they necessarily were as kids. But my daughter is very, very much like me. She's very structured 830. We start lessons 10 o'clock. We take the dogs out. I mean, she's got a schedule and an alarm for everything. She's actually more Richard than I am anymore. But she's also very much an introvert. She gets stressed out being around a lot of people, whereas her brother just can make friends with anybody. He chats with everybody. So understanding their different temperaments and how different situations can make them feel stressed out as a parent is important to me because then I can know kind of what direction I'm going when we have martial arts tournaments. I know she's going to get a lot more stressed out than he is. And so I can work with her on talking about what's stressing her out and that kind of stuff. But I also know she needs quiet time and if I'm constantly hounding her, hey, what's wrong? What's wrong? She's going to get a little cranky. Just like two people with depression may have different symptoms. Two extroverts may have different extroverted traits. Like I said, they're not all 100% down the line. So don't just assume that since somebody's an extrovert, they don't transition well and they want to be around people all the time. And this is true 100% across the board. We're people. We're not that predictable. But it's a good starting place to go, okay, this person tends to be a little bit more extroverted or introverted. So when we start doing a treatment plan, let's think about catering to those needs and making sure that they are paying attention to those needs. If we're doing couples counseling, let's see if they're on the same page or let's see if they're different. And if they're different, let's figure out how we can help them compliment each other instead of contradict each other. So a quick assessment, just a quick idea when you're talking to somebody, do they or do you think it out or think then talk? Talk it out or think then talk. So, you know, thinking that out. My son, he talks it out. He'll talk to himself. He'll talk to the dog. He talks it out. My daughter wants to think it out and then talk. Are they friends with everyone or do they stay with one or two people? Good to know. Gives you an idea about what kind of environments might be stressful. So if they go to a particular environment or you know they're getting ready to go to a big thing, you can help prepare them for it. We were supposed to go to an ice skating event. And I was really psyched because I wanted to go ice skating. I hadn't been ice skating since I was eight. But my daughter was like, No, not in a million years. If I have to go, I will sit on the sidelines. But no, I am not going to go ice skating.  But that was too stressful to not only do something she'd never done before, but do it in front of 20 strangers. Can they or you focus on a task for an extended period of time or do they need variety? Now, this is where my son differs. Both of them actually will can get very focused on something and focus on it for an entire day or week or, you know, he'll go down the rabbit hole, if you will, learning about something. And she does too. She tends to too. So as far as variety, neither one of them is very superficial on anything. Do they prefer quiet or active environments? So these are the big areas. These are the big questions to ask about introverted versus extroverted. When you're forming relationships, when you're creating a classroom, working in group work, doing a treatment plan. The other questions to ask yourself is, you know, when you're weighing or identifying the similarities and differences between you and someone else. What is it that you're bringing to the table?  So that's awesome. And they compliment your traits by being good talkers. But the two of you can balance each other out and extroverts tend to get introverts to talk more and introverts tend to get extroverts to slow down a little bit. So it can be a cooperative balance. It's just accepting, appreciating and understanding instead of trying to change or question why somebody does something. Are there any questions? If you enjoy this podcast, please like and subscribe either in your podcast player or on YouTube. 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Income tax 2023-2024, itemized deductions, charity gifts by cash or check, and other than by cash or check. Get ready and some coffee because we need extreme concentration when doing income tax preparation 2023-2024. Most of this information can be found in the instructions for Schedule A Tax Year 2023, which you can find on the IRS website at irs.gov, irs.gov, looking at the income tax formula. We're focused on what I would call the below the line deductions, more specifically the itemized deductions. Remember, in the first half of the income tax formula is basically a funny income statement. Most income statements having income minus expenses resulting in net income here having income minus various deductions resulting in taxable income. Noting deductions for taxes are good therefore we'll typically look for more of them. And the difference between the above the line deductions. First, a word from our sponsor. Actually we're sponsoring ourselves on this one because apparently the merchandisers they don't want to be seen with us.  Like our trust me I'm an accountant product line.  Because apparently we're among the only ones equipped with the number crunching skills to answer society's current deep complex and nuanced questions. If you would like a commercial free experience consider subscribing to our website at accountinginstruction.com or accountinginstruction.thinkific.com. Adjustments to income and the below the line deductions include that the above the line deductions do not need to clear a hurdle such as the standard deduction in order for them to be useful. Whereas the itemized deductions typically do need to clear the hurdle of the standard deduction before they are useful to the taxpayer. First page of the forum 1040 focused on line number 12 standard deduction or itemized deduction taking the larger of the two. If we are itemizing then we'll have the schedule A. Schedule A is the itemized deductions. We see a list of some of the categories on the left although this is not the entire schedule. Noting that the itemized deductions have to clear the standard deduction standard deduction based primarily on filing status. So we'd want to memorize the hurdles to clear single filer 13850 married filing joint double to 27700 head of household in the middle 20800. If they're over a certain age and or blind we have an increase of those standard deductions. Here's for a single filer if one or two of those combo married filing joint where we have four combos that could be met to taxpayers to items and there's the related standard deductions.