Is there a "personality test" you've done you found helpful?

Most are made up and silly.

The only one I’ve liked was in college I did a “communication style” one. Where it showed a bunch of different like emails, posts, and conversations and asked which you preferred to receive and which you were likely to write.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/25eff5cb-bd95-49c2-b463-5b2aa1647ff1.png

10 years later I still think about it, cause the goal of the work was to talk about how if you’re a certain communication style what to keep in mind with communicating with others. Like tips to not get frustrated with yellows who don’t care about facts when sending emails and how to write emails that don’t bore and frustrate people if you’re blue. (I’m blue green. I can sometimes write long emails)

I thought about it the other day cause a guy was complaining about all these emails that didn’t seem to say anything, they were just about feeling good, and he just wanted them to spit it out. Which corresponded to firey red getting mad at green.

So with that context, do you have any that actually had an impact on you?

Katrisia,

OCEAN is useful.

For fun but also interesting because it is a piece of history? The four temperaments (Hippocrates).

beefbot,

Agreed!
Also: OCEAN and the Big Five are the same idea

Kolanaki,
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I don’t need a test to tell me what my personality is. I’m literally me practically every day.

dominiquec,
@dominiquec@lemmy.world avatar

I enjoy the D&D alignment chart.

amio,

It's not like that's a worse metric than MBTI

boredtortoise,

I should’ve just said my result is “Chaotic Good” at that corporation “team-building” personality test workshop

NeoNachtwaechter,

I have done many.

“Helpful” needs to be defined. In my younger life it helped me to find out about my personality. Later it also helped to understand other people.

Sometimes these tests gave contradicting results, so I learned that these results can never be taken 100% literally. You have to decide what to take from it and what to leave.

MBTI was the first one that fully admitted this, and that book even explained how these things change when you get older. So I consider this the most helpful one.

The strongest one IMHO was the Enneagram. But also most hard to understand.

The most scary one (and in retrospect, the most funny one) was at Scientology. It helped me to understand what a bunch that is and how they can catch people.

Paragone,

When these 2 books are combined, they can be profoundly helpful:

www.amazon.com/…/1939754070/

www.amazon.com/…/B084VVB64H/

It’s the 2nd book which is the most-convincing ( because the improbable-recommendations it makes are sooo damn right, based on my last half-century of experience ),

but without the 1st book, the 2nd book has much less traction in one’s understanding.

2 books on one’s life-process-lopsidedness which can be equally-profound, are

www.amazon.com/…/B003TO5EF0/

( do the ingredients-list experiment:

find your metabolism/“dosha”, & identify which set of ingredients would be most-harmful for you vs which would be most-pacifying for your health, & make a meal where each course is a pair of dishes, 1 maximally-aggravating, the other maximally-pacifying, & see which your own body prefers…

Mindblowingly eye-opening, that.

All the meals I’d eaten, before, had been a mixture of harming-my-health AND healing-me foods, an insane “strategy” that hadn’t been working!

Now, however, for all the years since I did the experiment, my health has been subtler & better a harmony.

Let the experiment-evidence decide for you, if your metabolism is one of the fundamental-metabolisms: then it should be clear-as-day. )

and

www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0028UBEVO/

Again, both books are required for proper understanding.

The Yoga book shows you the kind of way you work-with your metabolism/“dosha”.

The ingredients-list in the “Ayurvedic Healing” book is sooo fundamental to my health that I simply don’t go grocery shopping without it, anymore.

This book is on the life-STAGE archetypes, like shattered-by-trauma

( the pair of “cards” “The Lightning Struck Tower” and whatever the crab-sifting-memories-in-the-lake-of-memories while the “wolf” and the “dog” try to get one off one’s true-path through aversions or desires )

or having to disconnect from the outer world, in order to go deep within oneself to decide something important, re one’s lifepath ( the choice/love card, card-6, iirc )

www.amazon.com/…/B0716CHXJQ/

That one book I’d recommend getting the physical book, however: the archetype-stage illustrations are not included in the ebook.

The difference between it and ALL the other “tarot” books I’ve ever encountered, are…

  • the profound understanding in Haich
  • the uncontaminated archetype, ONLY ONE archetype per state
  • the interwoven symbolism really is significant.

I’m not saying to just become a believer in its symbolisms, but I definitely am saying that if you ever want to understand someone’s sentience-stage, their life-state, you need to understand the stuff in that little profound book, and if any sudden change happens to someone, then that little book can help them know what they’re needing to focus on, to continue living unbroken, un derailed.

It’s an important psychology grounding.

Kegan & Lahey’s “Immunity to Change” is on the 3 unconscious-mind development stages of adult human life, and how our unconscious-mind “fights off” growing-up/adapting, to protect dysfunction/inertia.

It’s also important-as-hell for our lives.

Especially nowadays.

Daniel Kahneman’s “Thinking Fast & Slow” is on the imprint-reaction mind, which I call Kahneman1, & the considered-reasoning mind, Kahneman2, and how Kahneman1 mind fights to prevent the considered-reasoning mind from having any say in anything it feels it “owns”.

All ideology/prejudice imprint-reaction, left, right, religious, political, ALL of it, takes advantage of Kahneman1 mind, to try to own populations, & through them, countries/worlds.

It is the single most-important psychology book in our whole world, right now.

Communist “proletariat dictatorship” & right-wing “populist dictatorship” are both the same thing, fundamentally:

highjacking of the world for factional-supremacism, through Kahneman1 mind’s mechanisms.

I stop here, as of the thousands of books I’ve dug into, those are the most important ones for profound understanding.

SiblingNoah,

I was fairly impressed with the Truity enneagram test.

shinigamiookamiryuu,

I’ve set up a few of them, but helpful ones by other people are scarce. Personality tests are constructed based on principles of litmus-style generalization and me and what I’m doing them for tend to slip through the cracks. I’ve taken many for instance to see what my political alignment is and it’s always inconclusive since they think in black and white, assuming it’s not outright wrong because they want recruits. I’m likewise credited with “sorting systems” which themselves work but perhaps because they’re not there to shoehorn distinguishing absolute borders between people.

Nemo,

The one that confirmed I should talk to a psychiatrist about a possible ADHD diagnosis.

bluGill,
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The brutially honest personality test. Which was your standard MB test (not very useful) except it points out typical weaknesses and thus is something to watch out for. I know what I'm good at.

MacGuffin94,

The love language test in part because it was a great way to start a conversation about our romantic needs with my spouse.

ericbomb, (edited )

Oh that makes a ton of sense!

Even if the categories are iffy, both people getting different results is probably enough to go “hey maybe we need to talk about what makes us feel loved”

HootinNHollerin, (edited )

Strengths Finder was scary accurate for me

newbeni,

I had to do that one and it was no where close. It’s funny how that stuff works.

triptrapper,

Probably an attachment style test. Attachment theory is empirically valid, and knowing your attachment style can help you understand relationship patterns: communication, behaviors, emotional needs, etc.

After that, the love languages are a good start to a conversation. Essentially they can help you figure out how you prefer to be cared for, and how you tend to show that you care. The categories themselves are arbitrary, and they’re based on observations by a baptist minister who offered relationship counseling. He’s not a licensed mental health professional, and the love languages aren’t empirically based. One issue I have with his book is that he claims that men tend to have “physical touch” as their love language, and that women should have more sex with their husbands to help them feel loved.

The Big Five personality traits are the most valid of the popular personality tests, but I didn’t feel like they helped me understand myself more.

TootSweet,

The gold standard in personality tests is the NEO PI-R.

I’d recommend the book Me Myself and Us by Dr. Brian Little. Or even just search YouTube for lectures he’s given.

stoy,

All personallity tests are idiotic and unscientific.

OpenStars,
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None really work, generally, but all try to make you think about the various factors involved and how other people might approach things differently from you, which is why they can be helpful:-).

Usernameblankface,
@Usernameblankface@lemmy.world avatar

So they’re helpful but they don’t work?

Bizarroland,
Bizarroland avatar

Most personality tests will not tell you anything about yourself that you didn't already know, it will not give you any insights into the correct way to live your life or what is going to work for you.

However, it can help you frame things about yourself in a new light or to help you come to understand the way that you work inside of a larger social picture.

So they don't work to tell you who you are, but they help you be who you can be.

OpenStars,
@OpenStars@discuss.online avatar

The other responder already had some good points, but I will add: not so much directly but yeah, indirectly they can help you especially to relate to other people.

e.g. let’s say that you are an extrovert (except this is Lemmy so uh…:-P) let’s say that you are an introvert, and wherever you fall on that spectrum, some extrovert sees a confused look on your face and just won’t shut the fuq up about the matter - they are relentless too, and you just want to walk away. THEY need to learn that when talking to an introvert, they need to shut the hell up, and allow the other person to digest what has already been said. Repetition, even using different words/scenarios/analogies/etc. makes the matter worse, not better.

While YOU as the introvert here may benefit from knowing that they legit were trying to help - that’s how they are, when they get confused, they talk MORE, rather than less (insert Unix CLI pun here:-D). It’s just their natural bent, reinforced over time in however they were raised, and not necessarily a bad thing in and of itself, b/c when directed at another fellow extrovert it could be fantastic. This may give you the freedom to say SHUT UP AND LET ME THINK - which ironically the other person, being an extrovert, may likely love how you are thus being so open about your needs.

Either way, it’s good to know about this dynamic of how relationships work, across the varying spectrums of the different aspects of personality traits. Knowledge is Power - use it wisely:-).

stoy,

That is just understanding the different types of personalities, personallity tests claim to detect what type of a personallity a person has, quite different.

The former is very useful, the latter is just plain crap

OpenStars,
@OpenStars@discuss.online avatar

Usually, unless you happen to be really strong on some aspect. It’s like how Google will “find things” - sometimes it does, as it tries to sell crap:-D.

jjagaimo,

The ones for autism :•|

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