Your personality type describes your past, not your future

A personality test asks what you have done and how you have felt in the past. Then it hands you a result in the permanent present tense, as if it were a fixed physical property. Nothing in the scientific method supports that conclusion.

Every personality description has two sentences hidden inside it. The first is a simple observation: I am quiet in large groups. The second is a conclusion you invented: so I can't lead. The first is just past data; the second is a self-fulfilling limitation.

At fifteen, I convinced myself that math wasn't my thing. Today, I design enterprise software systems for a living. The original description was accurate about my past, but completely wrong about my capacity.

Take your personality description and cross out every sentence that claims what you can never do. What remains is a helpful record of where you have been, not a ceiling on who you can become. Check out my book Why I Love in the link below.