Personality Tests

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• A mother-daughter team created the Myers-Briggs test in the 1940s, based on a discredited idea from Carl Jung

• It’s now a $20 million per year industry

• Viv’s article on the Myers-Briggs

• Vox’s mini-documentary on the Myers-Briggs

• Janice from the Career Introvert thinks the personality tests can sway how we act

• Viv’s concern with these tests is that they don’t adapt, grow, and change with you

• Gretchen Rubin’s Four Tendencies Quiz and her blog post describing it as a more focused test

• Here’s the adapted Pottermore quiz that gives you all your Hogwarts House percentages, if you want to find out how much Slytherin you have in you

• Here’s what little kids are learning about Growth Mindsets in school these days

• Michelle from Intentional Travelers finds that the tests help her work better with others

• Sami says they satisfy her curiosity 

• The Forer effect shows how we believe that standard reports are customized just for us

• The Enneagram model is super old

• “Horoscopes for business people”: What Your Myers- Briggs Personality Type Means For Your Career in Forbes

• Sally discovered some very helpful insights about friendship and loyalty from her personality type

• The Notes From Your Therapist Instagram account is wonderful

• Burnout is now a legitimate syndrome according to the UN

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