The Personality Brokers
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The Personality Brokers
| Full title | The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing |
|---|---|
| Author | Merve Emre |
| Published | 2018 |
| Pages | 322 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Emre’s history of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator — a mother-and-daughter pair with no clinical training, and how their instrument became a corporate industry. |
Where I heard about it
- A reply to @WillManidis — in the thread under his question “what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?” (June 2025). The full set of replies is on what is the single best book… (tweet).
Connections
- Psychology — The discipline the test borrowed from.
- Management — Where the instrument actually got used.
- what is the single best book… (tweet) — the thread this recommendation came from.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.