The Personality Brokers: The Strange History Of Myersbriggs And The Birth Of Personality Testing

The Personality Brokers: The Strange History Of Myersbriggs And The Birth Of Personality Testing

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An Unprecedented History Of The Personality Test Conceived A Century Ago By A Mother And Her Daughterfiction Writers With No Formal Training In Psychologyand How It Insinuated Itself Into Our Boardrooms, Classrooms, And Beyond. The Basis For The Hbo Max Documentary, Personathe Myersbriggs Type Indicator Is The Most Popular Personality Test In The World. It Is Used Regularly By Fortune 500 Companies, Universities, Hospitals, Churches, And The Military. Its Language Of Personality Typesextraversion And Introversion, Sensing And Intuiting, Thinking And Feeling, Judging And Perceivinghas Inspired Television Shows, Online Dating Platforms, And Buzzfeed Quizzes. Yet Despite The Test'S Widespread Adoption, Experts In The Field Of Psychometric Testing, A $2 Billion Industry, Have Struggled To Validate Its Resultsno Less Account For Its Success. How Did Myersbriggs, A Homegrown Multiple Choice Questionnaire, Infiltrate Our Workplaces, Our Relationships, Our Internet, Our Lives?First Conceived In The 1920S By The Motherdaughter Team Of Katherine Briggs And Isabel Briggs Myers, A Pair Of Devoted Homemakers, Novelists, And Amateur Psychoanalysts, Myersbriggs Was Designed To Bring The Gospel Of Carl Jung To The Masses. But It Would Take On A Life Entirely Its Own, Reaching From The Smokefilled Boardrooms Of Midcentury New York To Berkeley, California, Where It Was Administered To Some Of The Twentieth Century'S Greatest Creative Minds. It Would Travel Across The World To London, Zurich, Cape Town, Melbourne, And Tokyo, Until It Could Be Found Just As Easily In Elementary Schools, Nunneries, And Wellness Retreats As In Shadowy Political Consultancies And On Social Networks.Drawing From Original Reporting And Neverbeforepublished Documents, The Personality Brokers Takes A Critical Look At The Personality Indicator That Became A Cultural Icon. Along The Way It Examines Nothing Less Than The Definition Of The Selfour Attempts To Grasp, Categorize, And Quantify Our Personalities. Surprising And Absorbing, The Book, Like The Test At Its Heart, Considers The Timeless Question: What Makes You, You?

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