16 Personalities
ENFJ: The Protagonist. They inspire and guide others' growth.
An ENFJ is the person who notices, in a meeting, that someone hasn't spoken all afternoon and hands them the floor. Their code brings toget…
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ENFP: The Campaigner. They explore the world with creative enthusiasm.
An ENFP is the person who walks away from a casual conversation with three new projects and the feeling that the other person has a talent…
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ENTJ: The Commander. They drive teams toward goals with determination.
An ENTJ is someone who, faced with a vague goal, tends to turn it into a plan with deadlines, owners and success criteria. Their code bring…
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ENTP: The Debater. They question everything to create new ideas.
The ENTP profile, which the 16Personalities website calls the Debater, is one of the sixteen types in the MyersBriggs model. It's defined b…
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Big Five
Big Five vs. Five-Factor Model: Are They the Same Thing?
In practice, yes: "Big Five," "FiveFactor Model," and "OCEAN" are used as synonyms for the same five personality dimensions. But the first…
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ESFJ: The Consul. They help maintain social harmony.
An ESFJ is the person who remembers everyone's birthday, organizes the holiday dinner and notices before anyone else that a colleague is go…
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ESFP: The Entertainer. They fill their surroundings with energy and fun.
Understanding the Entertainer: the ESFP profile in depth Within popular psychology, the MyersBriggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is one of the bes…
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Learning Style
Auditory Learning Style: Learning by Listening
What the auditory style describes People who identify with the auditory style say they prefer to have things explained out loud: a welltold…
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Learning Style
Kinesthetic Learning Style: Learning by Doing
What the kinesthetic style describes People who identify with the kinesthetic style say they learn better by doing a task themselves than b…
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Learning Style
Reading/Writing Learning Style: Learning by Writing It Down
What the reading/writing style describes People who identify with the reading/writing style say they understand and remember better what th…
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Learning Style
Visual Learning Style: Learning by Seeing
What the visual style describes People who identify with the visual style say they understand and remember better what they see represented…
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ESTJ: The Executive. They manage projects by imposing order and rules.
The ESTJ personality profile is one of the sixteen types in the MyersBriggs model, and it's characterized by organizing its surroundings th…
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ESTP: The Entrepreneur. They take calculated risks by acting fast.
The Entrepreneur: action, facts and calculated risk In the world of personal development, the letters ESTP (Extraversion, Sensing, Thinking…
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Business and Decisions
Cautious Strategist: Moving Forward With Guarantees
The cautious strategist style moves forward with guarantees: it prefers a solid plan and anticipating problems before fully committing. Imp…
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Big Five
Extraversion: The Personality Trait Behind Social Energy
Extraversion is a core personality dimension that defines an energetic, enthusiastic, assertive approach to the social and material world.…
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Self-Awareness
Glossophobia: Why Fear of Public Speaking Is One of the Most Common Fears
Glossophobia: the most common fear hardly anyone names If your hands shake before a presentation, you're in very good company: around a thi…
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Emotional Intelligence
Social Skills: Managing Relationships Well
Some people go unnoticed at a party and yet are the ones best able to calm an argument between two friends. Social skills have little to do…
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Work and Productivity
Results Driver: you push the group toward action
You push the group toward action and results: it's hard for you to watch a stalled task without stepping in to move it forward. When a conv…
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INFJ: The Advocate. They seek the deeper meaning of things.
The INFJ profile is one of the sixteen types of the MyersBriggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a questionnaire that sorts people according to four…
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INFP: The Mediator. They act guided by values and empathy.
The INFP profile is a personality structure defined by a very firm inner value system, one that doesn't easily shift with circumstances, an…
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Business and Decisions
Innovator: Novelty Is the Engine
The innovator style's engine is novelty: it gets more excited imagining different ways of doing things than perfecting what already exists.…
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INTJ: The Architect. They build long-term logical strategies.
Understanding the INTJ mind The MyersBriggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a very wellknown tool, though not the most scientifically rigorous one…
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INTP: The Logician. They analyze theories and love solving mysteries.
The dilemma of the misunderstood thinker The INTP profile (Introversion, Intuition, Thinking, Perceiving) makes up roughly 3. 3% of the pop…
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ISFJ: The Defender. They protect and care with quiet loyalty.
Quiet loyalty: understanding the ISFJ mind Within the MyersBriggs Type Indicator (MBTI), one of the most popular tools for sorting personal…
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ISFP: The Adventurer. They express their art by living flexibly in the present.
The ISFP (Introversion, Sensing, Feeling, Perceiving) type describes people who express their sensitivity by living flexibly in the present…
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ISTJ: The Logistician. They organize processes based on real facts.
The ISTJ personality is a profile marked by a deep sense of duty, reliability and the methodical organization of reality. Put simply: they'…
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ISTP: The Virtuoso. They fix problems using tools and logic.
ISTP: the factual, logical problemsolver The acronym ISTP describes a personality pattern marked by Introversion, Sensing, Thinking and Per…
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Relationships and Social Life
The Psychological Power of Mystery: Mata Hari's Incomplete Lesson
When Margaretha Zelle arrived in Paris in 1904, she had half a franc in her pocket and no experience as a dancer. A year later, half of Eur…
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Self-Awareness
Nearsightedness and Intelligence: A Mystery Science Has Begun to Solve
Children in gifted classes are, on average, considerably more nearsighted than their classmates. For decades, some psychologists saw that f…
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Relationships and Social Life
The Woman Who Couldn't Sleep Without Being Held: What We Really Cling to in a Bad Relationship
Walter Riso tells the case of a woman who couldn't leave her husband (a cocaine user, which he openly admitted) despite having no love left…
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Relationships and Social Life
The Woman Who Shut Down Like an Engine Out of Fuel Whenever Her Husband Traveled
A patient of Walter Riso's stopped eating, getting dressed, and even getting out of bed every time her husband went on a trip. Not out of s…
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Relationships and Social Life
The Parable of Jonah: Why Erich Fromm Said Love Is Work, Not a Feeling
For Erich Fromm, loving isn't feeling something for someone: it's actively and consistently tending to that person, that idea, or that caus…
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Business and Decisions
The Supposed 3,000-Year-Old Complaint That Explains How Every Generation Sees Business Failure
A muchquoted complaint, attributed to a Babylonian tablet from around 1000 BC whose original has never been documented, reads: "The youth o…
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Relationships and Social Life
Milk and Honey: Erich Fromm's Distinction Between Caring for Someone and Giving Them Joy
Erich Fromm distinguished two layers within a mother's love: one that keeps the child alive and safe, and another that conveys that being a…
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Relationships and Social Life
Books on Friendship and Communication
From Plato to modern negotiation: five texts on getting along with others This page transparently gathers the books and texts that serve as…
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Love Languages
Books About Love and Relationships
Five books, five different angles on love and connection This article brings together, transparently, the books that have served as real so…
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Self-Awareness
Books on Self-Awareness and Wellbeing
How this guide is organized This guide brings together the books cited in the articles of the selfawareness and wellbeing category. It isn'…
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Work and Productivity
Books on leadership and teamwork
Five management books, five angles on leadership and work This article lists, transparently, the leadership and productivity books that hav…
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Business and Decisions
Books on Business and Decisions
Five business books and where we use them This article gathers, transparently, the popular business books cited in the test results of the…
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Work and Productivity
Delegating Leader: you adapt your leadership style to each person
You adapt how you lead based on who's in front of you: more autonomy for whoever already masters the task, more support for whoever is just…
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Work and Productivity
Inspirational Leader: you lead through shared vision and example
You lead through shared vision and example: you want your team to grow and feel part of something meaningful, beyond just getting tasks don…
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Work and Productivity
Organizing Leader: clear structure and well-defined expectations
You lead with clear structure: welldefined expectations, rules and rewards that leave little room for ambiguity. Your team knows, at all ti…
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Work and Productivity
Hands-Off Leader: you trust the team to organize itself
You trust your team to organize itself with little direct intervention on your part, and you'd rather be available than direct things close…
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Business and Decisions
What the Tao Te Ching Teaches About Leadership and Negotiation (and What Current Research Confirms)
Sun Tzu has his own aisle in every business bookstore. Lao Tzu doesn't, and that's a shame: the Tao Te Ching says more about how to lead wi…
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Self-Awareness
What Your Brain Decides in a Fifth of a Second
Before you finish reading this sentence, your brain will have completed, several times over, a process science has been timing in milliseco…
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Self-Awareness
Chess Grandmasters Don't Have a Better Memory Than You
Give a chess grandmaster an ordinary memory test, with no pieces or boards involved, and they perform about as well as anyone else. And yet…
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Lifestyle and Attitudes
Growth Mindset: Believing Talent Can Be Developed Through Effort
Growth mindset: failure as information, not a verdict One phrase sums up this way of understanding learning fairly well: failing isn't the…
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Lifestyle and Attitudes
Leaning Toward a Fixed Mindset: How to Start Changing It Without Blame
Leaning toward a fixed mindset: a way of thinking, not a verdict First, something important: this isn't a diagnosis of your real potential.…
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Lifestyle and Attitudes
Mixed Mindset: Growth in Some Areas, Fixed in Others
Mixed mindset: not one belief, but several, split by domain You don't have a single way of understanding talent. You have several, and each…
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Relationships and Social Life
Fear of Commitment: Why Every Modern Relationship Comes With a Built-In Exit
Every modern relationship, even if nobody says it out loud, comes with a builtin emergency exit. Sociologist Anthony Giddens called this th…
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