No Room For Naunce

Many personality assessments end with your being labelled as a certain “type.” For these tests, you are put on one pole or the other of one of these dimensions.

But in fact, chances are, you’re probably in the middle of most of those core personality characteristics. And so it gives you a false sense of how extreme you are.

You might get told that you are an extrovert because you’ve had to become comfortable leading meetings, but in reality, you don’t like to talk to strangers at parties and actually prefer to work alone.

Personality tests can be fun to take, but they can also be frustrating. They’re black and white. Most popular personality tests assume that people can be classified into distinct personality types. But, people don’t fit into neat boxes. Most people aren’t entirely introverted or entirely extrover...