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We were pretty excited when we first did the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment a few years ago. It seemed almost magical that a personality scale was able to sort us into sixteen premeditated "character types": If you were an INTP you might enjoy being a scientist; if you were an ESFP you might probably end up as a performer. We like to associate our future selves with our perceived abilities, and our assumption is that there is perfect congruence between our self-perception and reality.

Four or five years down the road, when I began to be introduced to more personality scales such as the NEO-FFM, and various other abbreviated versions of the five-factor inventory, it struck me that the MBTI, or rather, its administration, was strangely idealistic and seemed to be conveying the message that everyone has it in themselves to make something out of their lives. The administrators of the scale assigned career types that have a certain level of social standing - and therefore a sense of social desirability - to participants. They also listed famous characters who were apparently of a specific character type, as though each and every one had been assessed through the MBTI, such that students might feel assured of their future success through the identification with successful persons.

I am tired and don't know what I am writing. I have been praised recently for writing decently, albeit by someone who doesn't know who the hell I am. But it still is a positive reinforcement.

I want to eat at Rock & Ash. The fries, freshly made, I wanna try it with the chocolate dip. If I'm hungry enough for a main I'd down a grilled chicken black pepper udon or an emperor chicken cutlet. But the mains don't seem fanciful enough :( Probably should add in some signature meatballs.