Here's the danger of type-based personality tests—for both children and adults
And this brings me to a core problem with type-based personality tests, and why you should not give them to your children, or yourself.and personality are two different constructs. Identity is much deeper and is how you view and explain yourself. Identity is generally conceived in the form of stories or narrations about oneself. Personality, on the other hand, is how a person consistently acts and or responds to various situations.
Identity predicts behavior, and behavior over time reflects personality. Research by Daniel Gilbert at Harvard has shown that people's views of themselves over a 10-year period change. When asked if they believe they are the same person they were 10 years ago, most people disagree. In other words, over the course of a decade , your views of yourself will change and adjust. As those self-views change, your behavior and, thus, your personality, will change..
Most people, it seems, have a fixed mindset about themselves. In a TED Talk, Gilbert says,"Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they are finished.", has said,"The more sacred an idea is to us— that is, the more deeply it is tied to our identity— the more strongly we will defend it against criticism." Paul Graham, the venture capitalist and essayist, said,"The more labels you have for yourself, the dumber they make you.
Here's what might happen when you take a type-based test seriously: You adopt a label about yourself. That label then becomes a deep aspect of your identity and narrative about yourself, which narrative becomes something you defend against criticism. Labels can lead to what Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer calls:"If something is presented as an accepted truth, alternative ways of thinking do not even come up for consideration. . . .
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