Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Okay, my friends, this might be a bit of a controversial one for people who love these

personality tests, these skill finder tests, these quizzes and so forth that identify more of who it is that we are

helping us understanding ourselves in different ways. I want to tell you that much as I love having

fun with, look, you know, all the things, human design, astrology, gosh, what else is there? Look, all the things, right? Throw everything at your

success. Why wouldn't you? I want to share something important with that also being true.

Okay? Don't allow yourself to be reduced to something like four letters, right? So the Myers-Briggs test,

for example, I hear people, and I have for years, almost introduce themselves with their Maya

Briggs type, like I'm an ENFJ, and I, see, I don't even know what the letters are. But from my

understanding, please correct me if I'm wrong,

there are four letters and you get, or four categories, each with a letter, and then that defines who you

are. Certainly it can be helpful understanding maybe if someone's an introvert or if they're an

extrovert, but even that is a bit of a gray area, isn't it?

There is a whole spectrum of who we are, depending on life stage, depending on our energy,

depending even on our time during our cycle each month as a woman.

To me, it just feels reductive and I don't pay attention I honestly I truly try not to pay

attention when someone tells me their personality type I can understand why people like it

because it gives language to differences and some people connect this way but it is so limiting

plus people start saying things like oh oh, that's just my type,

instead of allowing themselves to expand and change. It's interesting, I had this conversation

with one of my editors in New York a few years ago, and she's like, I really don't agree with

Myers-Briggs because she said that she did it when she was, I think, in college.

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