In this episode, we go through different personality tests (MBTI, Enneagram, Strengths & Weaknesses, The Big 5 Personality) and find out what our personality type for each one is, and whether we find it to be accurate or not based on different scientific research and our own experience. We discuss the issues, problems and limitations for each test, such as confirmation bias, inconsistency in results, and our subconscious tendencies to subscribe to an 'ideal self'. We explore how these tests can actually help in real life, and whether it is useful to categorise ourselves and other people. We then discover a hidden and surprising use for these personality tests with identifying others around us.

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References:

Adam Grant: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20130917155206-69244073-say-goodbye-to-mbti-the-fad-that-won-t-die/

Glory is a second year architecture student studying at the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, originally from Hong Kong.

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Yen Shan is a second year architecture student studying at the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, originally from Malaysia.

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