How to Figure Out Your Personality Type, With Gretchen Rubin

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🗓️ 25 September 2017

⏱️ 70 minutes

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This week we're talking about personality tests. You know: those tests that ask you personal questions about your philosophy of life or your behavior or your ethics, and then tell you what kind of person you are. How much do they really reveal? And what does our desire to take them say about us? We'll be talking with a good friend of The Upgrade—and our first repeat guest—#1 New York Times best-selling author Gretchen Rubin. Gretchen is the author of the brand-new book “The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (And Other People's Lives Better,Too).” Then we'll be joined by some of the Lifehacker staff to talk about our own results on a couple of popular personality tests: The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, which uses Jungian theory to determine your personality type, and The Dark Triad Test, which purports to tell you how malevolent you are compared to the rest of the population. And producer Levi Sharpe takes to the streets to ask people what personality tests have (or haven’t) told them about themselves. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the upgrade, the podcast from the team at lifehacker.com, where we help you improve your life one week at a time.
0:20.5	I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief of LifeHacker. And I'm Alice Bradley, Lifehacker.com, where we help you improve your life one week at a time. I'm Melissa Kirsch,
0:21.8	editor-in-chief of Lifehacker. And I'm Alice Bradley, Lifehacker's deputy editor. And today we're talking
0:27.1	about personality tests. You know those introspective surveys you take, those tests that ask
0:32.3	you personal questions about your philosophy of life or your behavior or your ethics. You
0:37.1	answer a bunch of questions,
0:38.2	then these tests give you results along with advice on how to live more effectively.
0:41.8	We'll be talking with a good friend of the upgrade and our first repeat guest, number one,
0:46.4	New York Times bestselling author Gretchen Rubin.
0:49.4	Gretchen is the author of the brand new book, The Four Tendencies, The Indispensable Personality Profiles
0:55.1	that reveal how to make your life better and other people's lives better, too.
0:59.4	A lot of times if you know their tendency, that gives you insight into how you can manage
1:02.9	the situation better.
1:03.7	Then we'll be joined by some of the life hacker staff to talk about our own results
1:07.4	on a couple of popular personality tests, the Myers-Briggs type indicator, which
1:12.4	uses Jungian theory to determine your personality type, and the dark triad test, which purports to
1:18.2	tell you how malevolent you are compared to the rest of the population. Yeah, I think it can
1:22.3	make people not realize the richness and depth of their own personality. I'm a real sucker for
1:27.4	personality tests.
1:28.4	Yeah?
1:28.7	Even though I don't really believe in them, it's like astrology.
1:31.0	Like I just, I want to see myself in results for anything that I take.
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