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The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing

The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing

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The Personality Brokers is an inside look at the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, a popular personality test created by a mother-daughter team of fiction writers with no formal training in psychology. It explores how the test has infiltrated boardrooms, classrooms, and beyond, and examines the question of what makes us who we are. It has been praised as a New York Times Critics' Best Book of 2018, an Economist Best Book of 2018, a Spectator Best Book of 2018, and a Mental Floss Best Book of 2018.

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The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing

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