ISTPs are one of the hardest types to buy for. They aren’t normally the types who get really excited about the holidays (although there are always exceptions!). When I spoke to a variety of ISTPs I got a lot of mixed responses, but in general, they seemed to find the holiday season kind of frustrating…
In the personality community, one of the least talked about functions is the tertiary function. There are many theories for this; one being that there was a lot of disagreement over the direction of the tertiary function. Many typologists used to argue that the tertiary had the same attitude as the auxiliary function (extraverted if…
In the personality community, some of the biggest targets of condescension and superiority are sensing personality types. Why is this? I’ve had a number of theories, ranging from poor type descriptions to the reality that many intuitives are misunderstood in a largely sensing world and therefore lash back at sensors in a misguided sense of…
If you really want to dive deep into the more complex and rarely discussed aspects of personality type, then delving into the shadow functions can be a lot of great fun (and very helpful)! When you first took the Myers-Briggs® Type Indicator (or a similar online test) you were probably startled by how accurate your…
Do you like typing people in your free time? Do you like learning more about how your mind works and where your strengths and weaknesses lie? Do you really care about accuracy in your assessments of people? If so, you definitely will want to check out this list of 10 essential books about personality type….
