When someone walks up to a yogi and says, "I don't know who I am." The yogi responds, "Congratulations! You've arrived and figured it all out. Now let the fun begin! Play!" I love your point that we're always ongoing projects until we die. It sort of comes in waves and some sudden changes. I felt a shift in 8th grade, but I don't feel much different since I was 10 years old. Something clicked. I love the idea of creating yourself too. No one is a perfectly shiny box.
I had an identity crisis when I moved to school. It's weird because you pack up your stuff and you think you're you but once you get there no one knows you and you have to make a decision of what parts of you that you bring with and what parts you leave at home. Dunno, it was just a weird experience. Evaluating who I thought I was and who I wanted to be and who I really was.
+izzy120391 Completely agree. When I switched schools, I realized that I'd been slowly changing for years, and that now I didn't have to live up to the expectations of those around me.
+izzy120391 The weird thing is when you move around all of your life but then have to stay in one place for more than 3 yrs, and for the first time you have to be part of a coherent community. It's one of those things that's really strange but also kind of cool. Also kind of changes your identity, but maybe just living does that.
+izzy120391 I went through/am still going through the same thing when I got to college. I tried to fix the parts of my personality that I didn't like back home, thinking that I could just slip into a New Hanna and no one would know...but I fell into my old patterns and I'm still the awkward, dark humored, nerd I was. The great thing is, I've gotten to meet loads of wonderful people who appreciate those traits and often share them. I think it's easy to make sweeping declarations about turning a new leaf for a new place, but I've never been able to do big changes all at once, in my own experience real change happens overtime when no one notices until you look back and take it all in.
+Hannah Parrott yes, that is exactly my experience, it's funny when you're young and less mobile (i.e. can't drive) that even moving within the same area can have a massive effect, suddenly I was a country girl rather than a town girl, I travelled by bus rather than on foot, I had to pre-arrange get-togethers rather than just walking over to people's houses - and all of that really fundamentally changed my relationship with people.
Went and took that BuzzFeed quiz. I got Hank Green XD So, according to BuzzFeed, I am more Hank Green than Hank Green. Interesting. On the note of being yourself, it is pretty hard. Who am I? No idea, really. When I am being myself, I consider that to be as natural as possible. I give my most natural reactions and responses to the events surrounding me. I do whatever feels good and right to me in each moment I live. Sometimes, most of the time, it shifts and changes, but I suppose I am still being myself as much as possible by being naturally responsive in each moment. However, it could also be argued both for and against regarding whether holding back words or actions is not being yourself, or if being yourself includes a certain level of self-control and change-causing reflection.
+manfredatee I don't mind at all. There was a joke for a little while about a made-up third brother named David. Then some newcomers thought he was real. It took a while to sort out the confusion.
+Master Therion Hank is an English-Language imageboard website. Launched on October 1, 2003, Hanks boards were originally used for posting pictures and discussing manga and anime, as the site was modeled on Japanese imageboards, particularly Jerry. Hank quickly became popular and expanded, though much of Hankss content still features otaku, anime, and other Japanese cultural influences.
I'm always so amazed by the amount of just pure insight both Hank and John share with us. In a world where everyone seems to hide behind a mask of apathy I love that these two normal guys can actually make millions of people genuinely think about the the world and how we fit inside of it.
To anybody who is interested in personal identity, I highly recommend The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa. "“My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.” "“Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it's all evaporating. I continuously feel that I was someone else, that I felt something else, that I thought something else. What I'm attending here is a show with another set. And the show I'm attending is myself.” "What we see isn't what we see but what we are.”
This video had a way bigger impact on me than I thought it would. So many of the things that are important to my "me"-ness didn't come directly from me, but came from the books I read, the people I encountered, and the things I have seen. And I wouldn't trade that "me" for anything, even if she is different every day.
Hannah H. Yeah I thought he was a hufflepuff! But John's a hufflepuff, right? I'm fairly certain that's an official fact. Also can we discuss what makes him a Slytherclaw exactly?
Donna Noble Yeah, John is. Maybe Hank's more ambitious and that's the Slytherin part? Pretty sure he's not cunning or power hungry. And I can see how he's a Ravenclaw; I mean, he and John created an online community based on the awesomeness of being nerdy so
I think John has said he is a Ravenpuff. Also, I agree that Hank is more ambitious. Think of all the projects he has not only thought of but made a reality! I haven't really thought of it before, but Slytherclaw seems like a good fit for him.
+someoneelse227 John has said (in a Wimbly Womblies video, I think, and at LeakyCon) that he's a Hufflepuff. But yeah you're right, I can totally see Hank as a Slytherclaw :)
"You are never the same twice, and much of your unhappiness comes from trying to pretend that you are. accept that you are different each day, and do so joyfully, recognizing it for the gift it is." -Welcome to Night Vale, Ep. 75
I came out as a lesbian four years ago and now I'm finding out that I'm a little more wibbly-wobbly pan/bi sexual something or other. And I was so worried about coming out AGAIN because I thought people would be like "you can't do that. you can't come out TWICE" So this was really helpful and validating for that ever-changing self identifier. Thank you. I needed this.
The pursuit of not offending requires a self-righteous rationalization of dishonesty. Humility is directly correlated with the amount of time spent learning. Hopefully these two statements make sense in light of what you have said.
Ritter Joe I know I'm going to be called an SJW for this, but.. there's no need for honorifics here, especially because there is no gender-neutral honorific in the English language that is equivalent to 'sir' and 'ma'am'.. I would have just said 'You deserve more likes'.
+Cordelia Vedders oh trust me I understand (I mean I'm the person who casually slips references into srories, essays, and everything I can because if I didn't it would be a total missed opportunity)
Well, the vlogbrothers have done it again...made a video discussing a topic that I myself was contemplating a mere day ago. HOW does this keep happening?! Oh, and thank goodness I heard someone finally call out the imperfections of the statement "be yourself". (Also, coincidentally, after he talked about it I went and took that buzzfeed quiz... I was Hank.)
Well put Hank, thank you. It's amazing how solid our identity seems, or should be, isn't it? And yet there is really nothing inherent about it at all... it's a useful construct to have around as a shortcut, but we are never really beholden to it, we can always choose anew as we shed things and get in touch with what's really authentic for us. I recently did a series of posts on my blog about identity/ies, and your video really dovetails beautifully with them. Your videos manage to capture things so well and succinctly, I love 'em. Thank you for making and sharing them with us all. :)
Great video, Hank! This reminds me of what John often says about how people contain multitudes. Not only are we many different people over the course of our life, but we also are many different people at any one given point in time. Which may explain why I am easily overwhelmed when surrounded by huge crowds of people. It's so hard for my mind to grasp that every person around me has their own intricate and complicated life, with their own collection of intricate and complicated personalities, and it requires immense effort to actively take in, let alone attempt to understand, even a fraction of all the people and things that surround me on a daily basis. @_@ I guess reflecting about how complex you yourself are as a person helps you, in a way, to better appreciate the utterly complexity of the world we all live in.
Thank you SO much for this Hank!! So much of this rang true with me, it was so reassuring to realise that other people feel the same ... I don't think we realise. Especially that 'Be Yourself!' idea! Every time I get told that I freak out because understand who I am is so difficult!! But yeah, thanks. And awesome to see that you're an ENFP too!!
When you said that the phrase “Be Yourself” makes no sense at all i was just LIBERATED, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR FINALLY SAYING WHAT I’VE BEEN STRUGGLING TO ADMIT MYSELF
I thought about myself as a Hufflepuff for a long, long time. Re-taking the Pottermore test and many other personality tests, it turns out I might actually be a Ravenclaw. It shocked me at first, but then I realized that, if I rather wanted to be a Hufflepuff, then that is what I should be.
"Why live life as one person when you can be so many people" is the reason I love the things I love. Writing. Acting. And my multiple personalities. :) Thank you.
New favorite Hank Green Quote: "When people tell you to be yourself, and they expect that to mean something. That is not advice, that is an existential crisis waiting to happen!"
As well as reminding us that it's okay to be in a state of constant change and not have a solid idea of who we are "supposed" to be, this also reminds us of the fact that it's okay - and necessary - for other people to change. Like your favorite content creators.
Just to share as someone who's struggled with identity, self-discovery and understanding is really hard. What helped me most was actually understanding my Hogwarts house! I had thought for years that I was a Ravenclaw, but I'm really a Hufflepuff. Admitting to myself that I had gotten my house wrong was a really big step towards understanding myself and moving forward during the transition from high school to college. Being able to admit that middle school me and college me aren't the same me was a growing experience.
I went through something similar to that as well. My life has essentially been one long identity crisis, but accepting my hogwarts house did help me a lot. For a long time I thought I was a Gryffindor, but I actually felt better upon accepting that I was a Slytherin. While we can't really too heavily on these things to tell us who we are, and they can only go so far, they can be really helpful in at least lessening an existential crisis. Meyers Briggs helped me a lot too. I was mistyped as an INFP for a while, but I'm actually INTP :)
Thanks for sharing! Especially when slytherins get so much unwarranted hate. I totally agree with you, stuff like knowing your house and Myers Briggs can only go so far.
10 years on TH-cam and somehow you're *still* putting out content that makes me think and makes me feel feelings. I truly don't know how you do it, but so glad you do!
+Rachel Gaynor Again, functions. INFP's stack is different from INFJ's, heck, no same function anywhere Fi-Ne-Si-Te INFP Ni-Fe-Ti-Se INFJ Look it up, if you want to, I'm too busy to explain rn
You are the sum of your experiences. You are the feeling in your gut when you see a situation. You are what your instincts drive you towards. You are the emulation of the people you love and respect. You are all these things and you will either grow or stagnate depending on the choices you make.
Hubby has a very interesting approach to life, which I am trying to adapt to my own life - Ego sum. The idea of just being makes it so much easier to roll with the proverbial punches and I have discovered that I care so much less about negative comments and destructive retoric if I can be ever-evolving in my mental state. It has sure as hell helped me cope with anxiety attacks and episodes of deep depression more times than I can or care to count.
*much hugs* I really needed this right now. I'm having some major struggles with identity in this quarter-life crisis thing I'm doing and this video was comforting. Thanks Hank! Also! Woot fellow Slytherclaw!
Vaguely quoting John Green from an older video: "As an adult I am obligated to tell you to 'be yourself'... but who's self would you otherwise be being?"
Dear Vlogbrothers I hope you know your apart of my morning routine, I hope you know how inspiring you are to me. I watch one of your videos every morning to get by (followed by hot cocoa of course) thank you for getting me through high school so far. I'm still a freshmen schools not over yet but I want to thank you. Your getting me to things I would never do. I tried out and got into the talent show and I sang in front of a crowd it was amazing. I tried to tell someone my feelings, it didn't end well but I had the courage to try because of you. I have friends, I made contact with people on my own, I get up and I know that you guys are there to make me laugh and to get me through whatever is next in my life, I know I can when you guys are there. So thanks for being so inspiring to me. For getting me through the hard times and for making the great times greater. I'm trying to create the life I want to live and to be the person I want to be, because of you so just thank you for being you.
Hey, thanks for this video, I kinda needed it, especially the ending. Last couple of years have been very interesting for me and I did a lot of stuff that would be unthinkable to past me, and was feeling kinda guilty towards past me. It's good to hear that it's normal to be a different person than I used to be.
For the past week I have been experiencing anxiety attacks about my post college life that I have never experienced in my life. I believe it was because of an identity crisis and just yesterday I kind of solved it while talking about my problems to my best friend my sister. But this idea gave me a sort of warm hug when Hank said that it is not an easy problem to solve. Now i know that I will never truly know my identity as it is always changing :) Thank you Hank :)
I clicked on the link to this video expecting the kind of deliberate thoughtfulness and organized progression of opinion supported by fact that I normally see when I watch your videos. What I got instead was a mad dash of desperately trying to find enough words to describe the magnitude of how it feels to think about fundamental concepts and relay how important these concepts feel even if they are unable to be fully understood. This could very easily be described as rambling, and overcomplicating a subject by breaking it down into smaller pieces than it should be. However, despite the sparse population of truly useful content in this video, it did lay down a good framework for the useful thoughts that it conveyed in the end, and the style was an enjoyable change of pace from what I usually expect from a vlogbrothers video. Thank you for sharing what I can only describe as your word vomit. Also, at the last bit all I could think was "time to go fuck a blender."
Im studying psychology in an American university currently and its interesting to see how science tries to define a person and their mind so concretely, but then have it contradict with my own perceptions of myself and "who I am." I also very much enjoyed this video and your thoughts because as an emerging adult/college student, I am doing lots of "who am I?" questioning. So its nice to try to figure it out some more with more thoughts on identity from more people. Thank you!
YES. Just yes. "Being yourself" is just not a thing. I'm glad you addressed this...and recognized that it's okay if I'm confused by myself or can't always be exactly what I want. Maybe I'll never know "who I am," but I guess that's okay, as long as I'm doing my best.
I don't know man, he seems to be much more of an ENTP to me too. Of course, I don't know him irl and all, but I recall reading one of his posts on tumblr about MBTI and he didn't know about cognitive function, only the four letters which is a common cause of mistyping. Looking at functions though, Ti-Fe is a lot more like Hank than Fi-Te.
+MyFishNamedStJimmy I pinned him as an ENTP too. But it makes sense. Someone who felt more outwardly would care enough about others' emotional benefit to slow his speech down to understandable levels...that took him years to figure out. Hank is an inward feeler
+MyFishNamedStJimmy I consider their podcast, Dear John and Hank, to be this great example in general of the difference between Fi and Fe actually. John's Fi is very clear and it's this really interesting distinction from how Hank thinks and processes things. After watching them for years, I'm pretty sure Hank is an ENTP too. So, I'm p much just agreeing haha--I see strong Ti-Fe too.
@vlogbrothers Hank, I wonder whether this is sort of identity crisis is why John (and many others) love Doctor Who, the show about a man who is *literally* 13 different selves over the course of two thousand years. I am reminded of Matt Smith's final lines. They're great words to live by: "We are all different people, all through our lives, and that's okay. That's good. You've got to keep moving, so long as you remember all the people that you used to be." Thanks for another great video :)
+CraftKitty Well of course the complexities of the human personality cannot be measured in the 16 permutations of a seemingly random set of 8 letters, but to say that they're "bullshit" is kind of besides the point. Personality types are no more than a comfort, another category, another method for the brain to try to understand the brain. Gender is also a category. Race, sexuality, nationality... We all fall slightly outside of these commonly accepted categories and norms because at the end of the day they are no more than averages of humans as a whole. We all know how skewed averages can be. To call personality types bullshit would be the same as calling all these other categories bullshit. Yes. I agree with you. They are. But is that why we use them? To seek truth? No. As Hank Green says, the story of the self is composed of at least a little bit of a lie. A little bit of who we strive to be and not entirely who we really are at the moment.
The end bit is really poignant and important because I know some people who, from what I can tell, are the same person they've been for many years and they're worse off, and just plain worse, for it.
This is my favorite video of the year so far. It means a lot to me the things you said and it comes to me at a very important time when I am trying to make decisions about my life and stressing about them.
As a person in their twenties on the verge of great big decisions I really needed this video. It's good to know that I'm not alone in my unknowing of myself :) thanks for exiting Hank!
I loved this video. I thought it was hilarious the quiz said you were Miranda. I also love your logic on the whole Be Yourself idea. It makes so much sense!
Yeah I would definitely agree astrology is inaccurate, (i mean like you're basically basing your personality on the movement of the planets and stars), but sometimes you just feel like an INTP and a Scorpio strongly and maybe that's because we (or maybe it's just me, i'm assuming other peeps feel like that) like to find something or a certain type to identify with
Chris Ward yeah, humans just like patterns and categories, right? like for example, I don't think this really means anything but I did notice that both you and the other reply are also INTP ! haha
+Raquel E sure astrology is bunk as hell (scientists used to make it up to they could impress kings with their bogus predictions but it was all lies so that they could make money and a decent living), but I have studied mbti, socionics and jungian functions for a long time and they are extremely astute. They say the use of science is in that it can predict things, and I find that with socionics, I can predict traits and behaviors, group interactions. Most of the time when people think it is bunk, it is because they mistype themselves and others and the tests are garbage compared to deep understanding of the person and the types and function.
Aah. This is before Hank Green came out as bisexual. I appreciate that a video of an evolving identity unintentionally highlights and aspect his identity that will (in the then future) evolve or be revealed.
I definitely believe the people around you influence who you are. For example, I became friends with someone who was pretty much the opposite of me in 2nd grade. I'm not really sure how we became friends as we were so different, but low and behold, 8 years of friendship later we were like twins. We liked the same stores, music, sports, activities, books, fandoms, movies, clothes, and we would always catch ourselves saying the same thing at the same time. It's crazy how much you change by who you are with.
Best vlogbrothers video ever. I think no one has ever said anything like that before. Hank, you told me exactly what I wanted to hear, but didn't know I needed it. Thank you
Also, THANKS FOR PUTTING THE SUBTITLE! It helps me so much to understand, because sometimes, for us bilinguals, it gets very hard to understand every word in such speed.
+Ian Neufeld And the problem I found with quizzes and such is that you evaluate the results, noting which parts are accurate and which are offbase. So while maybe you discover a new label (INTP!) the meat of it is all a priori knowledge. It's nice to have that articulation, but ultimately you haven't discovered anything new about yourself -- unless you're willing to blindly accept the results of internet quizzes. Which you shouldn't. #Ravenclaw
+Ian Neufeld I haven't thought about personality tests the way you did before, but what you say makes so much sense as well. My problem with them (which you've mentioned as well) is that there simply aren't enough categories to account for the sheer number of actually different and unique individuals. Therefore, people are trying to define or evaluate themselves based on false premises. I haven't thought about how people are blindly accepting the results before because I don't do that, but it's true that it happens. And that's harmful regardless of whether or not the tests are accurate or fine-grained enough.
I liked this reflection on the self so much, just as a thoughtful exploration. Then Sunday night David Bowie passed away, and now I'm viewing it in a subtly different light. Bowie was a master of self-invention and reinvention. He changed himself repeatedly, and it looked effortless. I would think he too found it hard to let go of things that worked in pursuit of some new idea or focus. But maybe also he couldn't help but go for the new thing. He certainly stayed current with music more than most super-successful musicians seem to. Anyway, it's a weird and sad but maybe thought-provoking series of events to be thinking about Hank's video and about David Bowie's life and legacy at the same time.
I THINK ABOUT THIS SO OFTEN. And yes, the "be yourself" thing always turns into an existential crisis. It's also nice to know you're also a slytherclaw!!
ENTP!!! Okay, my more reasonable comment now that I am actually able to use my computer instead of my phone: As a Myers-Briggs-aholic, I do not believe that you are an ENFP. It's sort of a Myers-Briggs community no-no to tell someone that they're not the type that they claim to be, but I've got a pretty strong argument here. The Myers-Briggs doesn't have so much to do with the four letters (referred to as the "dichotomies") as it does with the 8 cognitive functions. Each person has all eight, but only four of them are used on a more conscious and frequent level (the use and reliability of each function dwindles as you go down the stack). ENFPs and *ENTPs* -- the type I believe you are -- share the first and fourth function, but their second and third are different. ENTPs are much more emotionally expressive than ENFPs, despite what the letters suggest. The second function of an ENFP is *introverted feeling*, which means that they don't typically externalize their emotions. They can certainly be very passionate and animated, but their faces don't usually display their true, nuanced emotions. ENTPs, on the other hand, are *extroverted feelers*, meaning that their emotions will be more easily observed at the physical level. Hank, you have got one of the most emotionally expressive faces I've ever seen. A good compare-and-contrast model would be John -- an INFP -- who can get very worked up about his subject matter while still having a pretty expressionless face in comparison to yours (because he, like an ENFP, is an introverted feeler). In my opinion (and others that I've seen across forums and such) you are practically the ENTP poster child. Every vlog I've seen from you only reaffirms your ENTP...ness (yes, awkward term, I know). *This* vlog reaffirms it as well. You see the subject of personal identity as very abstract and distant, while an ENFP would actually be quite the opposite (being an introverted feeler makes you err more on the hyper-individualistic side. They tend to have a very strong sense of who they believe they are). Had to get that out of my system, even if you never read this. My ENFP boyfriend was highly amused when I had my little impassioned rant about why you weren't an ENFP (being an INFJ, I am also an extroverted feeler. I get pretty worked up if the issue is interesting to me).
your theory on glasses and intelligence is really interesting! i think it's mainly on expectations. in my case, i didnt have glasses for the majority of my life until a couple of years ago. however, the expectation of being smart was always implemented there by my parents. and i rise to fulfill that expectation. similarly, as another effect and cause, my friends also see me as really smart (or at least they think) in which i also fulfill, to some extent.
'I crave consistency in myself but myself denies me that simplicity'. Hyup And thankyou soooo much for the 'be yourself = existential crisis' thing. It can be hard to know how to tell people it's not helpful advice but now I have a way how!
Thinking about this, and I have realized that I am totally not the same person I was 10 years ago! I identified with completely different labels back then, because I didn't know that the correct labels even existed. So, as of 11 January 2016, I am a excited to present myself. I am lithromantic, panromantic, asexual, 35 year old, cis female, INFJ, Ravenclaw, who has ADHD with OCD tendencies. Thank you, Hank, for making me face my own existential crisis and come out better for it.
I really, really loved this video! Reminds me a lot of the stuff you and John talk about on your podcast. I've just started my first year of college, and while it's hard to go through existential crises over who we really are, watching this video did help me feel a lot better to know that I'm not alone, that we are all just people trying to figure out who we are before we inevitably die and trying to have who we are and what we do mean something to us in the meantime. Not sure if that made total sense.
Oh wow I didn't know the correlation between bad eyesight and intelligence was an actual thing. I'm not surprised though, like 70% of people in my year level, including the dux of the year wore glasses/contacts. Also, any INTJs out there ;)
When the cows come home depends on where you put your cows. We put our cows in the mountains above the town for the summer. Cows would rather walk down hills than up them, so over a few weeks they would tend to wander back down into town. If you put them higher in the mountains, they would seek lower elevations in response to colder weather. If there isn't a clear uphill-downhill relation ship between pasture and home, cows wont come back. Cows don't think of home the same way we do. So, when the cows come home can be a few weeks, a few months, or never. Depending on your home and on the cows.
Best quote of the year so far, "people who are like 'be yourself', and they expect that to mean something. That is not advice, that's an existential crisis waiting to happen!" -Hank Green Absolutely brilliant. I love it.
'Be yourself is not advice. It's an existential crisis waiting to happen.' This needs to be a tshirt.
Ha! Agreed
Yes!!!!
+Colin Jagoe I would buy that shirt and wear it regularly.
Just don't show Dan Howell, or else he will lose his shit.
Yes!!
All those years of "Who the eff is Hank" jokes had to take their toll eventually...
Hahaha! Yep, mission accomplished 😈
i thought the same thing
+Marie Lastname Hank is a moment at which an individual questions the very foundations of their life.
Who the fuck is Hank? :p
+Marie Lastname I have seen it so many times and was always confused? It never dawned on me that that was a joke.
"I crave consistency in myself but my self denies me that simplicity" - Hank 2k16
I relate to that so hard
THIS
This is too relatable.
When someone walks up to a yogi and says, "I don't know who I am." The yogi responds, "Congratulations! You've arrived and figured it all out. Now let the fun begin! Play!"
I love your point that we're always ongoing projects until we die. It sort of comes in waves and some sudden changes. I felt a shift in 8th grade, but I don't feel much different since I was 10 years old. Something clicked. I love the idea of creating yourself too. No one is a perfectly shiny box.
Who are you! Who am I? You keep calling me John!
oh good god this made my day xD
Hahaha exactly, identity crisis right there
+beatngu Really, he keeps calling me John, but what confuses me more is that apparently he keeps calling you John too!
+L DeSAG If he's John and you're John and John's John... then who's flying the plane?!
+beatngu It's a Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging, all ready to use... (and Brother John is #9)
I took that Buzzfeed quiz and I got Hank
And I took a different quiz based on my zodiac sign and got Dan
Which specific quiz is it?
I had an identity crisis when I moved to school. It's weird because you pack up your stuff and you think you're you but once you get there no one knows you and you have to make a decision of what parts of you that you bring with and what parts you leave at home. Dunno, it was just a weird experience. Evaluating who I thought I was and who I wanted to be and who I really was.
+izzy120391
Completely agree. When I switched schools, I realized that I'd been slowly changing for years, and that now I didn't have to live up to the expectations of those around me.
+izzy120391 The weird thing is when you move around all of your life but then have to stay in one place for more than 3 yrs, and for the first time you have to be part of a coherent community. It's one of those things that's really strange but also kind of cool. Also kind of changes your identity, but maybe just living does that.
+izzy120391 I went through/am still going through the same thing when I got to college. I tried to fix the parts of my personality that I didn't like back home, thinking that I could just slip into a New Hanna and no one would know...but I fell into my old patterns and I'm still the awkward, dark humored, nerd I was. The great thing is, I've gotten to meet loads of wonderful people who appreciate those traits and often share them. I think it's easy to make sweeping declarations about turning a new leaf for a new place, but I've never been able to do big changes all at once, in my own experience real change happens overtime when no one notices until you look back and take it all in.
+hannathesinger Im on mobile so i cant thumbs up your comment but wow you summed up personal change wonderfully and concisely. Like, yeah.
+Hannah Parrott yes, that is exactly my experience, it's funny when you're young and less mobile (i.e. can't drive) that even moving within the same area can have a massive effect, suddenly I was a country girl rather than a town girl, I travelled by bus rather than on foot, I had to pre-arrange get-togethers rather than just walking over to people's houses - and all of that really fundamentally changed my relationship with people.
Went and took that BuzzFeed quiz. I got Hank Green XD
So, according to BuzzFeed, I am more Hank Green than Hank Green. Interesting.
On the note of being yourself, it is pretty hard. Who am I? No idea, really. When I am being myself, I consider that to be as natural as possible. I give my most natural reactions and responses to the events surrounding me. I do whatever feels good and right to me in each moment I live. Sometimes, most of the time, it shifts and changes, but I suppose I am still being myself as much as possible by being naturally responsive in each moment. However, it could also be argued both for and against regarding whether holding back words or actions is not being yourself, or if being yourself includes a certain level of self-control and change-causing reflection.
Nerdfighteria has been asking this question for years... Who the eff is Hank?
+Master Therion
More importantly, what about David? Why doesn't he get to be in any of the videos? :D
+some person I think I missed David... Mind filling me in?
+manfredatee
I don't mind at all.
There was a joke for a little while about a made-up third brother named David. Then some newcomers thought he was real. It took a while to sort out the confusion.
+some person Thanks.
+Master Therion
Hank is an English-Language imageboard website.
Launched on October 1, 2003, Hanks boards were originally used for posting pictures and discussing manga and anime, as the site was modeled on Japanese imageboards, particularly Jerry.
Hank quickly became popular and expanded, though much of Hankss content still features otaku, anime, and other Japanese cultural influences.
I'm always so amazed by the amount of just pure insight both Hank and John share with us. In a world where everyone seems to hide behind a mask of apathy I love that these two normal guys can actually make millions of people genuinely think about the the world and how we fit inside of it.
To anybody who is interested in personal identity, I highly recommend The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa.
"“My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.”
"“Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it's all evaporating. I continuously feel that I was someone else, that I felt something else, that I thought something else. What I'm attending here is a show with another set. And the show I'm attending is myself.”
"What we see isn't what we see but what we are.”
+Christopher L the last one I really loved
This video had a way bigger impact on me than I thought it would. So many of the things that are important to my "me"-ness didn't come directly from me, but came from the books I read, the people I encountered, and the things I have seen. And I wouldn't trade that "me" for anything, even if she is different every day.
I never knew Hank was a Slytherclaw
Hannah H. Yeah I thought he was a hufflepuff! But John's a hufflepuff, right? I'm fairly certain that's an official fact.
Also can we discuss what makes him a Slytherclaw exactly?
Donna Noble Yeah, John is. Maybe Hank's more ambitious and that's the Slytherin part? Pretty sure he's not cunning or power hungry. And I can see how he's a Ravenclaw; I mean, he and John created an online community based on the awesomeness of being nerdy so
I think John has said he is a Ravenpuff. Also, I agree that Hank is more ambitious. Think of all the projects he has not only thought of but made a reality! I haven't really thought of it before, but Slytherclaw seems like a good fit for him.
+Hannah H. I never knew you could put the names together - this whole time I thought I had to pick between Gryffindor and Hufflepuff
+someoneelse227 John has said (in a Wimbly Womblies video, I think, and at LeakyCon) that he's a Hufflepuff. But yeah you're right, I can totally see Hank as a Slytherclaw :)
"I crave consistency in myself but myself denies me that simplicity"
I feel this so much
Anyone else read the title of this video and start mentally belting Les Mis?
+Tessa SAME
+Tessa Yes! so very much yes!
+Tessa jean valjean.
Many, many times...
+Tessa TWO FOUR SIX OH ONEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
The fact that Hank took that buzzfeed quiz and ended up with an answer other than himself might be my favorite thing ever.
Who am i.... None of your business. - Dr. 6.
+Karan Chaphekar OMG I CAME TO COMMENT THAT
+Karan Chaphekar Greetings Traveler.
Well met!
+Karan Chaphekar
A man once asked his female psychologist if it was 'Miss,' or 'Mrs.' Her answer was 'It's Dr.'
"You are never the same twice, and much of your unhappiness comes from trying to pretend that you are. accept that you are different each day, and do so joyfully, recognizing it for the gift it is."
-Welcome to Night Vale, Ep. 75
I came out as a lesbian four years ago and now I'm finding out that I'm a little more wibbly-wobbly pan/bi sexual something or other.
And I was so worried about coming out AGAIN because I thought people would be like "you can't do that. you can't come out TWICE"
So this was really helpful and validating for that ever-changing self identifier.
Thank you.
I needed this.
"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago."
The pursuit of not offending requires a self-righteous rationalization of dishonesty.
Humility is directly correlated with the amount of time spent learning.
Hopefully these two statements make sense in light of what you have said.
It’s all good. Hank would come out as bisexual years after this video where he proclaimed himself to be heterosexual.
The self is not a still portrait, but rather a video.
You sir or lady, deserve more likes
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Ritter Joe I know I'm going to be called an SJW for this, but.. there's no need for honorifics here, especially because there is no gender-neutral honorific in the English language that is equivalent to 'sir' and 'ma'am'.. I would have just said 'You deserve more likes'.
Ritter Joe For the record, I am a sir.
who am I......24601!!!!
thank you so much
+Kaleigh Morse I had to say it or I'd implode
+Cordelia Vedders Yes. Just yes.
+Cordelia Vedders oh trust me I understand (I mean I'm the person who casually slips references into srories, essays, and everything I can because if I didn't it would be a total missed opportunity)
+Kaleigh Morse it's the worst when people don't get it
"Thanks for the identity crisis buzzfeed" 😂
Well, the vlogbrothers have done it again...made a video discussing a topic that I myself was contemplating a mere day ago. HOW does this keep happening?! Oh, and thank goodness I heard someone finally call out the imperfections of the statement "be yourself". (Also, coincidentally, after he talked about it I went and took that buzzfeed quiz... I was Hank.)
And by watching this video, who I was a few minutes ago is now (a little) different from who I am now.
This could become headache inducing.
"Let the existential crisis begin" is actually one of my favorite things to say...
Well put Hank, thank you. It's amazing how solid our identity seems, or should be, isn't it? And yet there is really nothing inherent about it at all... it's a useful construct to have around as a shortcut, but we are never really beholden to it, we can always choose anew as we shed things and get in touch with what's really authentic for us. I recently did a series of posts on my blog about identity/ies, and your video really dovetails beautifully with them. Your videos manage to capture things so well and succinctly, I love 'em. Thank you for making and sharing them with us all. :)
Finishing up a full vlogbrothers marathon with this video. :) Woot!
Well done, now you'll suffer withdrawal symptoms and restlessness from having to wait until Tuesday etc and will be one.of.us... 😜DFTBA
+Belinda Weber Oh, I already am. Hehehe. This is my second one.
+mustardsfire22 Congrats! I'm still back in 2009
Great video, Hank! This reminds me of what John often says about how people contain multitudes. Not only are we many different people over the course of our life, but we also are many different people at any one given point in time.
Which may explain why I am easily overwhelmed when surrounded by huge crowds of people. It's so hard for my mind to grasp that every person around me has their own intricate and complicated life, with their own collection of intricate and complicated personalities, and it requires immense effort to actively take in, let alone attempt to understand, even a fraction of all the people and things that surround me on a daily basis. @_@
I guess reflecting about how complex you yourself are as a person helps you, in a way, to better appreciate the utterly complexity of the world we all live in.
just took the test , im you -____- weird
You're more Hank then Hank.
+flat moe I got Hank also. Can the world handle more than one Hank!?
There needs to be a whole post saying I am more hank than hank
Another person- I am hank
Another-No! I am hank!
Another-No! I am hank
+Lucy swiftie I am Hannah Hart :3
hank should do a parody of the real slim shady
Thank you SO much for this Hank!! So much of this rang true with me, it was so reassuring to realise that other people feel the same ... I don't think we realise. Especially that 'Be Yourself!' idea! Every time I get told that I freak out because understand who I am is so difficult!! But yeah, thanks. And awesome to see that you're an ENFP too!!
"I am just a collection of things I have chosen to notice"
When you said that the phrase “Be Yourself” makes no sense at all i was just LIBERATED, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR FINALLY SAYING WHAT I’VE BEEN STRUGGLING TO ADMIT MYSELF
I thought about myself as a Hufflepuff for a long, long time. Re-taking the Pottermore test and many other personality tests, it turns out I might actually be a Ravenclaw. It shocked me at first, but then I realized that, if I rather wanted to be a Hufflepuff, then that is what I should be.
"Why live life as one person when you can be so many people" is the reason I love the things I love. Writing. Acting. And my multiple personalities. :) Thank you.
New favorite Hank Green Quote:
"When people tell you to be yourself, and they expect that to mean something. That is not advice, that is an existential crisis waiting to happen!"
This has been my favorite vlogbrothers video in a while. Thank you.
Guys, we finally found out the answer to "Who the eff is Hank?"
As well as reminding us that it's okay to be in a state of constant change and not have a solid idea of who we are "supposed" to be, this also reminds us of the fact that it's okay - and necessary - for other people to change. Like your favorite content creators.
Just to share as someone who's struggled with identity, self-discovery and understanding is really hard. What helped me most was actually understanding my Hogwarts house! I had thought for years that I was a Ravenclaw, but I'm really a Hufflepuff. Admitting to myself that I had gotten my house wrong was a really big step towards understanding myself and moving forward during the transition from high school to college. Being able to admit that middle school me and college me aren't the same me was a growing experience.
I went through something similar to that as well. My life has essentially been one long identity crisis, but accepting my hogwarts house did help me a lot. For a long time I thought I was a Gryffindor, but I actually felt better upon accepting that I was a Slytherin. While we can't really too heavily on these things to tell us who we are, and they can only go so far, they can be really helpful in at least lessening an existential crisis. Meyers Briggs helped me a lot too. I was mistyped as an INFP for a while, but I'm actually INTP :)
Thanks for sharing! Especially when slytherins get so much unwarranted hate. I totally agree with you, stuff like knowing your house and Myers Briggs can only go so far.
10 years on TH-cam and somehow you're *still* putting out content that makes me think and makes me feel feelings. I truly don't know how you do it, but so glad you do!
any INFP's out there?
+Özlem Isci INTP here, but I was just barely a T instead of an F. I think that's close enough.
+〈-thatguyoverthere
you cant be both types, it's about cognitive functions
I suggest that you look it up :) -INFJ
I'm an INFP but I'm only slightly more P than J
+Rachel Gaynor Again, functions. INFP's stack is different from INFJ's, heck, no same function anywhere
Fi-Ne-Si-Te INFP
Ni-Fe-Ti-Se INFJ
Look it up, if you want to, I'm too busy to explain rn
+Özlem Isci INFJ, but I feel you on introversion friend
You are the sum of your experiences. You are the feeling in your gut when you see a situation. You are what your instincts drive you towards. You are the emulation of the people you love and respect. You are all these things and you will either grow or stagnate depending on the choices you make.
best hank vid in a while
Hubby has a very interesting approach to life, which I am trying to adapt to my own life - Ego sum. The idea of just being makes it so much easier to roll with the proverbial punches and I have discovered that I care so much less about negative comments and destructive retoric if I can be ever-evolving in my mental state. It has sure as hell helped me cope with anxiety attacks and episodes of deep depression more times than I can or care to count.
0:03 "Do other people know who I am?" ... clearly not, from all the 'Who the eff is Hank?' questions
*much hugs* I really needed this right now. I'm having some major struggles with identity in this quarter-life crisis thing I'm doing and this video was comforting. Thanks Hank!
Also! Woot fellow Slytherclaw!
Vaguely quoting John Green from an older video: "As an adult I am obligated to tell you to 'be yourself'... but who's self would you otherwise be being?"
Dear Vlogbrothers I hope you know your apart of my morning routine, I hope you know how inspiring you are to me. I watch one of your videos every morning to get by (followed by hot cocoa of course) thank you for getting me through high school so far. I'm still a freshmen schools not over yet but I want to thank you. Your getting me to things I would never do. I tried out and got into the talent show and I sang in front of a crowd it was amazing. I tried to tell someone my feelings, it didn't end well but I had the courage to try because of you. I have friends, I made contact with people on my own, I get up and I know that you guys are there to make me laugh and to get me through whatever is next in my life, I know I can when you guys are there. So thanks for being so inspiring to me. For getting me through the hard times and for making the great times greater. I'm trying to create the life I want to live and to be the person I want to be, because of you so just thank you for being you.
Thanks for the identity crisis Hank. Thanks for that.
Hey, thanks for this video, I kinda needed it, especially the ending. Last couple of years have been very interesting for me and I did a lot of stuff that would be unthinkable to past me, and was feeling kinda guilty towards past me. It's good to hear that it's normal to be a different person than I used to be.
As I was watching, and Hank said that he was an ENFP as well, I literally made a face like the blinking man meme.
For the past week I have been experiencing anxiety attacks about my post college life that I have never experienced in my life. I believe it was because of an identity crisis and just yesterday I kind of solved it while talking about my problems to my best friend my sister. But this idea gave me a sort of warm hug when Hank said that it is not an easy problem to solve. Now i know that I will never truly know my identity as it is always changing :) Thank you Hank :)
Manic Hank is Philosophical Hank. Pre curser for Crash Course Philosophy me thinks?
Agreed. Seems very likely.
I clicked on the link to this video expecting the kind of deliberate thoughtfulness and organized progression of opinion supported by fact that I normally see when I watch your videos. What I got instead was a mad dash of desperately trying to find enough words to describe the magnitude of how it feels to think about fundamental concepts and relay how important these concepts feel even if they are unable to be fully understood. This could very easily be described as rambling, and overcomplicating a subject by breaking it down into smaller pieces than it should be. However, despite the sparse population of truly useful content in this video, it did lay down a good framework for the useful thoughts that it conveyed in the end, and the style was an enjoyable change of pace from what I usually expect from a vlogbrothers video. Thank you for sharing what I can only describe as your word vomit. Also, at the last bit all I could think was "time to go fuck a blender."
I'm more Hank Green than Hank Green according to Buzzfeed
Im studying psychology in an American university currently and its interesting to see how science tries to define a person and their mind so concretely, but then have it contradict with my own perceptions of myself and "who I am." I also very much enjoyed this video and your thoughts because as an emerging adult/college student, I am doing lots of "who am I?" questioning. So its nice to try to figure it out some more with more thoughts on identity from more people. Thank you!
I'm a meat Popsicle.
Not even gonna question it.
At least you know who you are
+Binge Watchers so theres a giant stick in your butt?
+Binge Watchers So, Captain America?
+Binge Watchers Thanks for that... Now I have to go and watch Fifth Element!
YES. Just yes. "Being yourself" is just not a thing. I'm glad you addressed this...and recognized that it's okay if I'm confused by myself or can't always be exactly what I want. Maybe I'll never know "who I am," but I guess that's okay, as long as I'm doing my best.
I KNEW YOU WERE AN ENFP
I KNEW IT!
+Lianne Dekker I feel like he's more of an ENTP
+Slender Mane He probably seems more like an ENTP in his videos because of their style
I don't know man, he seems to be much more of an ENTP to me too. Of course, I don't know him irl and all, but I recall reading one of his posts on tumblr about MBTI and he didn't know about cognitive function, only the four letters which is a common cause of mistyping.
Looking at functions though, Ti-Fe is a lot more like Hank than Fi-Te.
+MyFishNamedStJimmy I pinned him as an ENTP too. But it makes sense. Someone who felt more outwardly would care enough about others' emotional benefit to slow his speech down to understandable levels...that took him years to figure out. Hank is an inward feeler
+MyFishNamedStJimmy I consider their podcast, Dear John and Hank, to be this great example in general of the difference between Fi and Fe actually. John's Fi is very clear and it's this really interesting distinction from how Hank thinks and processes things. After watching them for years, I'm pretty sure Hank is an ENTP too. So, I'm p much just agreeing haha--I see strong Ti-Fe too.
@vlogbrothers Hank, I wonder whether this is sort of identity crisis is why John (and many others) love Doctor Who, the show about a man who is *literally* 13 different selves over the course of two thousand years.
I am reminded of Matt Smith's final lines. They're great words to live by:
"We are all different people, all through our lives, and that's okay. That's good. You've got to keep moving, so long as you remember all the people that you used to be."
Thanks for another great video :)
I am CODY and I AM an INFJ! Hi ENFP Hank
Hello Cody the INFJ!
+Alyssa Bao hello to YOU TOO!
+CraftKitty Well of course the complexities of the human personality cannot be measured in the 16 permutations of a seemingly random set of 8 letters, but to say that they're "bullshit" is kind of besides the point. Personality types are no more than a comfort, another category, another method for the brain to try to understand the brain. Gender is also a category. Race, sexuality, nationality... We all fall slightly outside of these commonly accepted categories and norms because at the end of the day they are no more than averages of humans as a whole. We all know how skewed averages can be. To call personality types bullshit would be the same as calling all these other categories bullshit. Yes. I agree with you. They are. But is that why we use them? To seek truth? No. As Hank Green says, the story of the self is composed of at least a little bit of a lie. A little bit of who we strive to be and not entirely who we really are at the moment.
+Past Life Pro (Creativity For Life!) Enjoy The Cinemas! Hello Cody the INFJ I am Udy the INTP
I'm INFJ too!
Best opening 1 minute of a video EVER. (Also the rest is equally perfect)
The end bit is really poignant and important because I know some people who, from what I can tell, are the same person they've been for many years and they're worse off, and just plain worse, for it.
Also, Who the F is Hank?
RIGHT??
This is my favorite video of the year so far. It means a lot to me the things you said and it comes to me at a very important time when I am trying to make decisions about my life and stressing about them.
So been working on Crash Course Philosophy?
As a person in their twenties on the verge of great big decisions I really needed this video. It's good to know that I'm not alone in my unknowing of myself :) thanks for exiting Hank!
+Kristen Case No one really knows what makes then who they are. There are only people who aren't think about who they are.
The age old question, "who the eff is Hank" is finally answered.
I loved this video. I thought it was hilarious the quiz said you were Miranda. I also love your logic on the whole Be Yourself idea. It makes so much sense!
I think Myerrs Brigg and astrology is all bunk... but I am also sometimes very aware that I'm a Virgo INTP
I don't believe those either but I know I'm a Pisces and INTP
Yeah I would definitely agree astrology is inaccurate, (i mean like you're basically basing your personality on the movement of the planets and stars), but sometimes you just feel like an INTP and a Scorpio strongly and maybe that's because we (or maybe it's just me, i'm assuming other peeps feel like that) like to find something or a certain type to identify with
Chris Ward yeah, humans just like patterns and categories, right? like for example, I don't think this really means anything but I did notice that both you and the other reply are also INTP ! haha
Look at the cognitive functions not the E vs I, N vs S bs.... Btw I'm also an INTP
+Raquel E sure astrology is bunk as hell (scientists used to make it up to they could impress kings with their bogus predictions but it was all lies so that they could make money and a decent living), but I have studied mbti, socionics and jungian functions for a long time and they are extremely astute. They say the use of science is in that it can predict things, and I find that with socionics, I can predict traits and behaviors, group interactions. Most of the time when people think it is bunk, it is because they mistype themselves and others and the tests are garbage compared to deep understanding of the person and the types and function.
This video started out pretty frantic, but ended up quite comforting! Thank goodness! And thanks, Hank!
So about that heterosexual part
Aah. This is before Hank Green came out as bisexual. I appreciate that a video of an evolving identity unintentionally highlights and aspect his identity that will (in the then future) evolve or be revealed.
HOW DID I JUST FIND OUT YOU ARE A SLYTHERCLAW I AM NOT ALONE OMG
literally that just gave me the biggest confidence boast
I definitely believe the people around you influence who you are. For example, I became friends with someone who was pretty much the opposite of me in 2nd grade. I'm not really sure how we became friends as we were so different, but low and behold, 8 years of friendship later we were like twins. We liked the same stores, music, sports, activities, books, fandoms, movies, clothes, and we would always catch ourselves saying the same thing at the same time. It's crazy how much you change by who you are with.
Who the f*** is hank
he's the brother of John Green ....
+Adriana Poveda it's a joke… if you don't get it, I'm sad
No, I get
I'm just kidding too ;)
he's a sea monster who often gets called by his creator's name and that give him identity crisises.
+benthebarbarian hank is the name of a storm from 1988 in Uzbekistan that left everything but a single beach towel demolished
HANK. How did you jump inside my brain and whittle all of my thoughts down to a 4 minute video. Glad I'm not the only one asking myself this question!
Anyone else INTJ?
Me
+AvaGraves They tell me we're a rare personality type
Especially women INTJs
Yes
+AvaGraves Me
Best vlogbrothers video ever. I think no one has ever said anything like that before. Hank, you told me exactly what I wanted to hear, but didn't know I needed it. Thank you
Also, THANKS FOR PUTTING THE SUBTITLE! It helps me so much to understand, because sometimes, for us bilinguals, it gets very hard to understand every word in such speed.
So the real question you were asking in this video was who the eff is Hank?
I have never heard someone else articulate these thoughts. I thought I was crazy...this has been put beautifully and is SO helpful.
I stopped asking "Who am I?" after realizing my identity had become person seeking their identity. "That's stupid! I don't want to be that!"
+Ian Neufeld And the problem I found with quizzes and such is that you evaluate the results, noting which parts are accurate and which are offbase. So while maybe you discover a new label (INTP!) the meat of it is all a priori knowledge. It's nice to have that articulation, but ultimately you haven't discovered anything new about yourself -- unless you're willing to blindly accept the results of internet quizzes. Which you shouldn't. #Ravenclaw
+Ian Neufeld I haven't thought about personality tests the way you did before, but what you say makes so much sense as well. My problem with them (which you've mentioned as well) is that there simply aren't enough categories to account for the sheer number of actually different and unique individuals. Therefore, people are trying to define or evaluate themselves based on false premises.
I haven't thought about how people are blindly accepting the results before because I don't do that, but it's true that it happens. And that's harmful regardless of whether or not the tests are accurate or fine-grained enough.
I liked this reflection on the self so much, just as a thoughtful exploration. Then Sunday night David Bowie passed away, and now I'm viewing it in a subtly different light.
Bowie was a master of self-invention and reinvention. He changed himself repeatedly, and it looked effortless. I would think he too found it hard to let go of things that worked in pursuit of some new idea or focus. But maybe also he couldn't help but go for the new thing. He certainly stayed current with music more than most super-successful musicians seem to.
Anyway, it's a weird and sad but maybe thought-provoking series of events to be thinking about Hank's video and about David Bowie's life and legacy at the same time.
according to buzzfeed I'm 66% dark side and 33% light side and that was in two separate quizzes. run away 😈
I THINK ABOUT THIS SO OFTEN. And yes, the "be yourself" thing always turns into an existential crisis. It's also nice to know you're also a slytherclaw!!
Missed opportunity to title the video "Who the F is Hank?"
I think this might be my favorite video that Hank has ever made
ENTP!!!
Okay, my more reasonable comment now that I am actually able to use my computer instead of my phone:
As a Myers-Briggs-aholic, I do not believe that you are an ENFP. It's sort of a Myers-Briggs community no-no to tell someone that they're not the type that they claim to be, but I've got a pretty strong argument here.
The Myers-Briggs doesn't have so much to do with the four letters (referred to as the "dichotomies") as it does with the 8 cognitive functions. Each person has all eight, but only four of them are used on a more conscious and frequent level (the use and reliability of each function dwindles as you go down the stack). ENFPs and *ENTPs* -- the type I believe you are -- share the first and fourth function, but their second and third are different.
ENTPs are much more emotionally expressive than ENFPs, despite what the letters suggest. The second function of an ENFP is *introverted feeling*, which means that they don't typically externalize their emotions. They can certainly be very passionate and animated, but their faces don't usually display their true, nuanced emotions. ENTPs, on the other hand, are *extroverted feelers*, meaning that their emotions will be more easily observed at the physical level. Hank, you have got one of the most emotionally expressive faces I've ever seen. A good compare-and-contrast model would be John -- an INFP -- who can get very worked up about his subject matter while still having a pretty expressionless face in comparison to yours (because he, like an ENFP, is an introverted feeler).
In my opinion (and others that I've seen across forums and such) you are practically the ENTP poster child. Every vlog I've seen from you only reaffirms your ENTP...ness (yes, awkward term, I know). *This* vlog reaffirms it as well. You see the subject of personal identity as very abstract and distant, while an ENFP would actually be quite the opposite (being an introverted feeler makes you err more on the hyper-individualistic side. They tend to have a very strong sense of who they believe they are).
Had to get that out of my system, even if you never read this. My ENFP boyfriend was highly amused when I had my little impassioned rant about why you weren't an ENFP (being an INFJ, I am also an extroverted feeler. I get pretty worked up if the issue is interesting to me).
I don’t think a stranger in the internet can type him better than himself xD
your theory on glasses and intelligence is really interesting! i think it's mainly on expectations. in my case, i didnt have glasses for the majority of my life until a couple of years ago. however, the expectation of being smart was always implemented there by my parents. and i rise to fulfill that expectation. similarly, as another effect and cause, my friends also see me as really smart (or at least they think) in which i also fulfill, to some extent.
I'm an ENFP too!! Any others out here?
My best friend is an ENFP. Honestly you guys are awesome.
Kayla Allen
Yay, that's me!!! :)
Kayla Allen ayyy
What does it mean?
'I crave consistency in myself but myself denies me that simplicity'. Hyup
And thankyou soooo much for the 'be yourself = existential crisis' thing. It can be hard to know how to tell people it's not helpful advice but now I have a way how!
Of course he's an enfp
Thinking about this, and I have realized that I am totally not the same person I was 10 years ago! I identified with completely different labels back then, because I didn't know that the correct labels even existed. So, as of 11 January 2016, I am a excited to present myself. I am lithromantic, panromantic, asexual, 35 year old, cis female, INFJ, Ravenclaw, who has ADHD with OCD tendencies. Thank you, Hank, for making me face my own existential crisis and come out better for it.
Any fellow INTPs around here?
Right here.
Hello there
+Clara Oswald Ayyy I'm joining the party (haha jk parties are a personal nightmare)
I'm here! (Ha ha, bit late but story of my intp life... 😬)
Hello! it's been a decade!
I really, really loved this video! Reminds me a lot of the stuff you and John talk about on your podcast. I've just started my first year of college, and while it's hard to go through existential crises over who we really are, watching this video did help me feel a lot better to know that I'm not alone, that we are all just people trying to figure out who we are before we inevitably die and trying to have who we are and what we do mean something to us in the meantime. Not sure if that made total sense.
Oh wow I didn't know the correlation between bad eyesight and intelligence was an actual thing. I'm not surprised though, like 70% of people in my year level, including the dux of the year wore glasses/contacts.
Also, any INTJs out there ;)
I'm an INTJ.
When the cows come home depends on where you put your cows. We put our cows in the mountains above the town for the summer. Cows would rather walk down hills than up them, so over a few weeks they would tend to wander back down into town. If you put them higher in the mountains, they would seek lower elevations in response to colder weather. If there isn't a clear uphill-downhill relation ship between pasture and home, cows wont come back. Cows don't think of home the same way we do. So, when the cows come home can be a few weeks, a few months, or never. Depending on your home and on the cows.
24601?
I'M JEAN VALJEAN!!
katherine leavitt Greetings, Jean Valjean. I'm Koppa Dasao.
+Koppa Dasao And I'm Javert
Laura Corum Greetings, Javert. Harassed any hookers lately?
Laura Corum Which Lord?
Best quote of the year so far, "people who are like 'be yourself', and they expect that to mean something. That is not advice, that's an existential crisis waiting to happen!" -Hank Green
Absolutely brilliant. I love it.
Don't let Dan see this video.
Hank, jesus, it's only January--couldn't you have waited a couple months to make my favourite video of 2016?