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Thanks, this has given me a new perspective. I went through mbti at a workplace and it was used to give us an understanding of our co-workers. Your point that

Thanks, this has given me a new perspective. I went through mbti at a workplace and it was used to give us an understanding of our co-workers. Your point that it's a self assessment and thus only "how you see yourself" and not.. y'know, how you actually behave, is in retrospect "no shit" but I missed this crucial point. It kind of changes every conversation with anyone I've ever had about our result.

_yb2s 2y ago
It sounds like it is being misused and misunderstood in a way that is actually BS. The way it relates to others is more subtle than that: Say someone is strongly extroverted and sees introversion as a negative thing… and dislikes and disapproves of their more introverted co-workers. If they come to explore, understand, and accept their own introverted aspects it will also take the steam out of their dislike for others who show those traits.