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I've lately gravitated to using a single key diagnostic for reading people: what behavior that you're normally capable of collapses under stress? You need the two sets of observations under distinct conditions to use this obviously, but it's one of the least noisy tests.
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Typical relaxed --> stress transitions: INTPs lose foxy curiosity and turn into INTJ caricature hedgehogs. ENTPs lose capacity for affection/intimacy and turn into weak Field Marshal ENTJs Using Myers-Briggs for convenience (the test isn't dependent on a specific mdoel)
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The stressed personality is always a weak/fragile/brittle version of an adjacent personality type that others do more comfortably/natively. So a good way to suss it out is to ask "what is this behavior a bad/incompetent version of?"
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Hey have you ever heard of David Keirsey's work? I think he did the *best possible refactoring of MBTI*. He was an engineer, psychologist, and flew military planes in WWII. Would love to pitch a ribbon farm article to you about Keirsey
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Exactly the idea of the Enneagram. Every personality type has one it moves to in it's most relaxed (or self actualized) state, another it moves to when the normal behavior patterns fail 8 (challenger) -> 2 (helper) in health -> 5 (investigator) in stress
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