Planning Disney World trips based on personality – PREP092

Hi Shannon,

I LOVED this episode! As someone who holds an MS in Counseling I just want to say, major props for doing premarital counseling and for having your children do this assessment!!! I fell in love with the MBTI-II during my graduate program (I'm an ISFJ). The fact that it's based off of 30+ years of research makes it so reliable and applicable to every (or almost every) facet of life. I'm the planner for my husband's and my trip in April 2016 and the fact that we're both I's was a huge factor in deciding when to schedule our trip. In our experience, a lot of people (E's) just don't get how emotionally and physically draining being around people can be, thank you for bringing awareness to it! We're not "wrong," "bad," or "wimpy" (yes, someone did call me that!) for finding crowds and loads of stimuli exhausting, we're just different! :)

The idea behind this podcast (plan in accordance with what people in your group like) is a good one, but it's unfortunate that you choose to base it on Myers-Briggs, which has pretty conclusively been shown to be completely made up and entirely without scientific validity. It's like planning your WDW trip based on astrology signs.

Even more than trip planning, I would be extremely wary of telling young people to take one of these personality quizzes, out of fear that they will give the results more credibility than deserved (which is none at all) and then put themselves inside that artificial box as they start to think about their futures. I would just stick to planning based on specific and objective criteria, like "hate to wake up early" or "afraid of roller coasters."

Shannon, this is great! Like you, I'm an ESTJ and I loved planning our Feb '15 trip and all the structure it gave us. I told friends I didn't remember putting so much planning into something since I planned my wedding almost 20 years ago, and I loved every minute of it. We were there during a slow to moderate time so the crowds weren't much of a problem (relatively speaking) but I think I could have easily handled more. My husband really liked the structure but pushed for afternoon breaks. This is a good reminder to make sure everyone has a say in what you do so no one gets too stressed out.

One thing about taking the refillable mugs into the parks... If you are eating at table service for one of your meals... I have always made sure to ask for one more refill of my drink before we leave the restaurant. Then i just dump it into my refillable mug and take it with me.

Hi Shannon, just a comment on the crowds,we went May 3 to May 9 to WDW.The crowd calendars all said low to moderate crowds, let me tell you the place was very crowded, lots of school groups and a lot of European people. The calendars said mostly, 4 out of 10, I would hate to see what 8 or 9 out of 10 looks like.