I recommend that everyone takes the MBTI personality assessment. #Tip

https://www.16personalities.com/personality-types

What is it?

MBTI - Myers–Briggs Type Indicator

The Wikipedia page plainly states that it makes pseudoscientific claims. That's certainly accurate in that the test was not created based on the scientific methodology. Neither is the trash you consume on social media, but sometimes it's pretty cool, right? I think we fall into Scientism when we think that someone can't come up with a useful tool like this using their subjective intuition. Especially when so many have used it and derived value from it.

Some have compared personality tests like this to horoscopes, which appeal to a part of the brain that sees connections, along with confirmation bias. I don't feel that way at all.

All it's really doing is asking you questions so that you categorize yourself based on specific criteria, grouping those traits together in a meaningful and thoughtful way, and then describing those traits. People that share modes of thinking and usually share behaviors and other qualities. I think it's highly beneficial to:

1. See how you share qualities and differ from other people.
2. Have someone else describe your thought patterns and behaviors to you so that you can better understand your strengths and weaknesses.
3. Learn why other people think and act the way they do and learn to better communicate with them.
4. Realize that there is a reason that we are the way we are.

Yes, everyone is unique and have much more going on that what 4 sets of traits can describe (although the test goes deeper if you want to), but really everything can be categorized and lets face it, we're not that unique.

MBTI has a good balance of intuitive, straightforward, and meaningful typing. I think personality assessments more arbitrary the fewer "types" there are, although they can all be helpful. I've taken the Colors assessment, as well as the Integrity Solutions one, which both have 4 types. The Ennegram test has 9 types but I believe the results there are harder to understand the numbers are totally arbitrary) and in general borders on the hokey/weird.

All that said, we can place way to much emphasis on what type we are, such that we might feel trapped in a certain paradigm, mode, or even destiny. Rather, we can change "types" by changing our actions and what we focus on. The mind is very plastic (figuratively and, increasingly, literally).