Before recording this episode we all took the Keirsey Temperament Sorter personality quiz and then revealed our results on air. Then #AL told us what it all means according to David Keirsey’s Please Understand Me and what each of our personal hells would look like. It was surprising to learn which members of the gang have the same personality types. We also talked about important matters like people who steal Tupperware. Plus we discussed about “No Substitution” policies at restaurants and did a round of Just Me Or Everyone.
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first off I haven’t heard the pod yet ! but Jenna’s hair looks amazing and greg’s eyes look stoned ! out.
FINALLY YOU DO PERSONALITY TESTS! I have been waiting for years for this podcast.
Word to the INTPs. One Percenters 4 Life.
Btw, INTPs tend to be big personality test proponents. We tend to be systemetizers for whom relationships don’t come as naturally, so it is a helpful toolbox. I think Jung was an INTP.
I have a feeling Daniel’s “anal?” towards the end of the show is going to become my new favorite drop.
While there are some people who would argue MBTI is good for figuring out preferences and making work colleagues more understanding and tolerant of each other and stuff like that, some psychologists say it’s lack of reliability and validity renders it about as accurate as a buzzfeed quiz. I think it can be fun, but I don’t put any stock into it as far as it being a tool that is helpful in an evidence based therapy situations (for individuals or couples).
Not that it matters but according to the “record” Jung was INFJ Idealist/Counselor but I think most of us other Idealist would be happy to throw him over the fence to the Guardians y’all.
I think Keirsey seems more useful/accurate than Myers-Briggs and other similar evaluation tools. All have limitations, but if used with the understanding that its a guidepost not a inflexible categorization – it can make any situation where teams must work together easier, because you can divide the work along the lines of everyone’s strong suit. I think an even better one is the Kolbe assessment which evaluates “striving instincts” … I’ve taken pretty much all the “major” assessment tools and I thought from a team building perspective the Kolbe was most useful. Because I work for a very well known company the developer of this testing format (Kathy Kolbe http://www.kolbe.com/) actually came herself to test our folks and present what exactly striving instincts are, how they worked out the way to measure them and how to use the results. Oddly, one of the reasons why we decided to try it was the first few of us who did it realized the outcome tied in pretty right on with Keirsey, Myers-Briggs and other tests we had taken and knew our types in those. I think it is a great idea to do this kind of thing if in order to be successful at whatever you are doing means that the GROUP or team/department has to be successful its best to have new/neutral language you can use when discussing others – for example “oh, Mary is dealing with this situation through Guardian eyes and so XXXX is going to be clearly very important” …. is a much more productive way of talking to / about her rather than saying ‘Mary is always going to be the uptight bean counter’ so that’s why she’s on us about getting that report out.