Hello everyone, my name is Jacob and thank you so much for listening to my podcast. On Fireside Personality Chats, I try to bring the theory of Jungian typology more down to earth through portraits and stories, thereby making typology more relevant and applicable to the everyday person. There are so many different interpretations and sub-models of Jungian typology. It can be hard to know what's correct or incorrect, and what's essential versus what's merely a type theorist's opinion. Theoretically, the type community should defer to Carl Jung to resolve the quandaries that arise from this. Unfortunately, for many people (including myself), his explanations are too difficult to understand so as to be of any real use. However, people like Isabel Briggs Myers serve as mediating authorities between us and Carl Jung, having made Jung's writing more accessible to the everyday, mentally healthy individual. In order for the type community to truly advance, it's important that we adhere as closely as possible to what these mediating authorities said, while at the same time being willing to adapt to an ever-updating understanding of human psychology and personality.