Here is your professional development for the day: www.16personalities.com

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(that test is a little harder to fool than most and seems to be lacking the necessary accommodations to situational personality, but it’s still one of the rare fun ones)

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That one stood out to me. Knowing my kid is kind in spades, I leaned a bit towards smart. Also: interesting UX choice to make the bubbles grow the further from neutral they got.

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Amen!

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I mean, indubitably

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Exactly. Opinions are dumb. Real views are rare enough to be nurtured.

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And maybe acknowledged as worth engaging, if not respected

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Bullseye. I’ve been reading C. S. Lewis’ nonfiction again and I absolutely respect the care and development of his arguments, even if I don’t espouse his fundamental beliefs.

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Way to personally grow! I got Debater, what did you get?

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(I’m precisely 79% extraverted and 64% assertive)

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Interesting. Did you see the celebrities you might resemble?

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Damn, that’s spot on. Especially the Bjork.

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I got Weird Al, The Joker, Jack Sparrow, and Jim Halpert from the Office. Ooh, and Mark Twain.

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I’m obviously most proud of Weird Al.

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Maybe you’re optimistic and rosy but just don’t know it.

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Or maybe you express it, um, differently [EMOJI]

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Apparently my career path is freelance because I don’t like managing or being managed.

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They also tell me that I consider thinking to be working, and nobody else does. That’s spot on.

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Oooh, let me know how that one goes.

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(and yes, the workplace bits were spot on for me as well—basically, worklife is gonna be hella hard and I stand a good chance of being a solid failure with a good sense of humor)

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By the way, I’m going to start referring to you as a cross between Lisa Kudrow and Fox Mulder. Seems about right [EMOJI]

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Long ago, my Meyers-Briggs results were pretty consistently INFP, but then again, I tended to answer questions according to how I wanted to be at the time or in such a way as to be “neutral” on every spectrum.

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I wonder, though, how much personalities are even self-noticed by people except when they’re called up in conflicts or in artificial situations like this. And regarding personal growth, I wonder if personalities are limits and growth is the means that are taken within those limits. I might be an introvert when I want to be (when it is advantageous) but that doesn’t alter my fundamental predilections.

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I’m mostly with you. I’ve been a personality agnostic (probably skeptic is more accurate) for a long time (probably started during another phase of self-de-romanticization), but haven’t exactly worked hard to define personality. I wouldn’t say personality is a limit on growth, just that it’s the lawn you were given to play in. You can venture out to other meadows, but you always tend to return and cultivate it according to what you learned. Totally agree about the convenient behaviors.

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