What happens when you take a group of people, wipe their memories, and throw them into an eerie corporate dystopia with no way out? You get Severance—Apple TV’s psychological thriller that somehow manages to be both unsettling and darkly hilarious. At the heart of this unsettling world are the severed employees of Lumon Industries, each…
Personality types and U.S. states—two things you probably never thought to connect, but now that it’s on the table, how can you not? Some states just radiate a certain energy. You know the ones. Texas walks in like it owns the place. Vermont is off somewhere reading poetry in a cabin. California is probably filming…
Do you ever feel like you and your partner, friend, or family member show love in completely different ways? As an INTJ I often show love by problem-solving or looking for intellectual intimacy. My ESTP husband shows love by calibrating thought processes and engaging emotionally (thanks to his tertiary function, Extraverted Feeling). Often in relationships…
I’ve been listening to the Hamilton soundtrack a lot lately (if the past ten years counts as “lately”). With all the chaos in the country right now everything in the musical feels especially resonant. That got me thinking, if each of the 16 Myers-Briggs personality types were a Hamilton lyric, which one would they be?…
So you want to know how an ESFJ works! You’re in the right place. Today I want to dig into the ESFJ’s cognitive functions. All those mental tools that work in the background of the ESFJ’s mind that make them the kind of people-conscious, stability-focused types they are. It’s hard not to like ESFJs. They’re…
