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🗓️ 31 August 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey there. This is chapter three of our series on the rise of the Myers-Briggs. If you haven't heard |
0:06.2 | chapters one and two yet, I recommend going back and listening to those first. And if you invited some |
0:11.5 | kids to join you, or if you are a kid, be warned that this episode includes at least one four-letter |
0:18.3 | word that begins with an S. |
0:21.9 | Okay, here we go. |
0:26.8 | A few years ago, Kuenisha Jackson Wright got some bad news. |
0:30.3 | Her company was having a staff retreat, mandatory. |
0:33.3 | She was not looking forward to it. |
0:36.3 | Because, you know, you have all these group activities, |
0:40.1 | and you have to talk, and you have to, like like share your feelings. And one of the big activities at this retreat? |
0:43.6 | The Myers-Briggs type indicator. |
0:46.6 | Everyone had to take the test a while back. |
0:48.8 | And the plan was that at the retreat, they do a big reveal of the results. |
0:53.5 | And Kanisha was pretty sure this wouldn't go well. I mean, they do a big reveal of the results. And Quanisha was pretty sure this wouldn't go well. |
0:57.0 | I mean, they do say there's no wrong personality, but I definitely get the vibe that there is a wrong personality. |
1:04.6 | And mine, I believe, is the one that was considered wrong. |
1:09.3 | Quinitia was an introvert at a company that liked extroverts. |
1:13.2 | So I was kind of dreading the results because I'm like, of course, it's going to come out, |
1:17.6 | you know, that I'm an introvert. |
1:19.0 | And, yeah, slapping labels on themselves and their coworkers didn't go so great. |
1:24.3 | Introverts would have to write down some words that they associate with extroverts and then |
1:29.7 | vice versa. So like the extroverts were saying, oh, we think that introverts are too |
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