Are you an Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging personality (INFJ)? Maybe you’re an ENTJ or INTP? Don’t know what I’m talking about? You obviously haven’t checked your Myers-Briggs personality type.
We love a label in our society.
It’s so much easier to identify where we belong, whom we belong with, and why, when we all have tidy labels to our names. Whether it’s the vagueness of your horoscope, the procrastinating fun of the What Hogwarts House are you? quiz, or the slightly more credible Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, personality tests and their subsequent write-ups continue to be popular.
In the US alone, there are more than 2,500 different personality tests available on the market for a range of uses: From corporate team building to assessments for jobs and tests for specific aptitudes often used in candidate selection processes. It wasn’t too long ago that the idea of completing a psychometric test for a job was a daunting exercise. Now it seems that we relish the opportunity to dive into our psyches and find out what makes us tick, whether it’s for work or pleasure.
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