5 Ways to Think About Personality Types

                        5 Ways to Think About Personality Types

I've always been fascinated by attempts to document personality types. Part of that fascination surely stems from the fact that in another life, I'd be a psychotherapist. And part of it is that as I go about the networking process that is part and parcel of looking for a job, I'm coming into contact with all sorts of personality types along the way.

If you pay someone to advise you on changing careers these days, the very first thing they'll likely do is administer a personality test to see what career paths you're suited to. Personality tests are also increasingly part of the recruitment and promotions process at top firms.

I've had my own brush with them along the way, recounted in this post about how -- for better or for worse -- my own essential personality "type" doesn't seem to have changed much over the years. But I'm always excited to learn about new ways to parse personality.

So, how should we think about personality types?

1. Extrovert vs. Introvert. Extroversion/introversion is one of the four key dimensions of the famous Myers-Briggs type indicator, which remains the gold standard for many in assessing