Unpopular opinion, but I find personality tests to be largely useless. Find out how your current self operates, sure. But many are tempted to use classifications as an excuse for their flaws. We are adaptive beings capable of great change and betterment. Why stagnate?
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Replying to @cosimia_
Not that it is well-practiced by many (or even practicable), but the attentive embrace of constraints (perhaps of dubious origin as they may be - mystery persists) *can lend itself to more creative engagements via a (potentially) enriched landscape of what is considered possible.
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Replying to @KeenDisregard
e.g. when - through some such assessment - an individual discovers ways to articulate experiences or perspectives that they did not see others express, whether in their daily life or other media, one learns helpful 'tips' for adapting to their supposed personality 'traits'.
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Replying to @KeenDisregard
but that is just highlighting a possible exception to what you - I think correctly - identify as the tendency toward stagnation, namely by merely expanding and personalizing one's lexicon of excuses from the inextricable dynamism of life.
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Replying to @KeenDisregard
I think I understand better now! That exception does have the potential to have value if stuck to I think. But yes, as you said. It's a slippery slope to stagnation and excuses. Thanks for your thoughts <3
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Replying to @cosimia_
Exactly, "if stuck to", so with complexity+ it becomes a challenge of maintaining perceptual / behavioral coherence with many strategies, and when approaching that level of abstraction, it becomes a strange field of game-theory hyperdimensional topological and navigation problem.
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Replying to @KeenDisregard
And of course we only have so much "bandwidth" as individual organisms in decision making and perception - used in "sticking to things" for example - so here is another common case in which personality tests can be useless: there's no meaningful capacity for integration.
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Replying to @KeenDisregard
In this case they are TMI. Similar things are at play at the "national scale" where the problem might be more like, "1. Information overload disrupts sense making capacities, 2. Fall back sense making patterns are engaged, 3. Biased fall backs grow in complexity, 4. Repeat..."
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Replying to @KeenDisregard
Ohh.. Twitter ramblin'. I think the term "habit extinction burst" is relevant to 2 and 3.
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Replying to @KeenDisregard
Now I'm off to enjoy the coffee train offline, so I'll leave with what might be a more fun phrase of warning: Yes, Don't take personality tests or watch the news, because who can navigate their way through a chaotically strobe lit minefield? Consider other options! Ciao!
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