Either/Or, or Shades of Gray

Once upon a time there was an adult mind who craved simplicity. One day it met up with its mirror opposite who craved complexity. They argued. Failing to resolve, they called Einstein to referee. “Tis wise to be as simple as possible, but not too simple!” the German-American wise man urged. In my field—personometrics, the...

Typing is So Twentieth Century

Jobs expert Lily Garcia wrote in The Washington Post for January 31, 2010 that we should “skip the test if you don’t want your personality pegged at work.” She was responding to a reader whose employer was requiring employees to take the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), and who lamented that “I’d just rather not be...