Nomad + Spice

Personality Tests


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  • Check out our Reading Retreat in a Scottish Castle! Just ONE spot left!
  • A mother-daughter team created the Myers-Briggs test in the 1940s, based on a discredited idea from Carl Jung
  • It's now a $20 million per year industry
  • Viv's article on the Myers-Briggs
  • Vox's mini-documentary on the Myers-Briggs
  • Janice from the Career Introvert thinks the personality tests can sway how we act
  • Viv's concern with these tests is that they don't adapt, grow, and change with you
  • Gretchen Rubin's Four Tendencies Quiz and her blog post describing it as a more focused test
  • Here's the adapted Pottermore quiz that gives you all your Hogwarts House percentages, if you want to find out how much Slytherin you have in you
  • Here's what little kids are learning about Growth Mindsets in school these days
  • Michelle from Intentional Travelers finds that the tests help her work better with others
  • Sami says they satisfy her curiosity
  • The Forer effect shows how we believe that standard reports are customized just for us
  • The Enneagram model is super old
  • "Horoscopes for business people": What Your Myers- Briggs Personality Type Means For Your Career in Forbes
  • Sally discovered some very helpful insights about friendship and loyalty from her personality type
  • The Notes From Your Therapist Instagram account is wonderful
  • Burnout is now a legitimate syndrome according to the UN

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Nomad + SpiceBy Kit Whelan + Viv Egan

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