Forget Personality Types: Think in Terms of Personality Thresholds

Introverted. Extroverted. Detail-oriented. Assertive. Expressive.  We use these words to define this thing that we call a person’s “personality.”  Psychologists (and their ancestors, going back all the way to pre-history) have developed certain standard measures of personality, and these measures can be, well, measured.  Yet, how useful are these personality measures (or “traits”) really?   I’m wondering if the question isn’t whether [...]

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