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Why I like Myers Briggs (with dynomight's expansions)

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Let’s talk about Myers Briggs. For those of you that don’t know what I’m talking about - great! read on. For those of you that are rolling your eyes - hopefully I can get you to reconsider. I’ll elaborate more on this below but my thesis is that Myers Briggs provides a language to help you quickly understand people and make teams work better together. It helps you realize that everyone has different ways of interpreting and working in the world and it shifts one’s mindset from “This person is a duffus” to “This person sees and processes the world very differently from me, let me try to understand them better” which is a valuable thing to do.

Let’s talk about Myers Briggs. For those of you that don’t know what I’m talking about - great! read on. For those of you that are rolling your eyes - hopefully I can get you to reconsider. I’ll elaborate more on this below but my thesis is that Myers Briggs provides a language to help you quickly understand people and make teams work better together. It helps you realize that everyone has different ways of interpreting and working in the world and it shifts one’s mindset from “This person is a duffus” to “This person sees and processes the world very differently from me, let me try to…

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