Since the 1960s, some 50 million people have taken the test, and personality testing is a $2bn industry, growing around 15% per year. Later, galvanized by a desire to aid humanity during the second world war, Isabel applied her mother’s research to the workforce, designing a questionnaire – again with the help of her own daughter and her friends around the kitchen table – intended to help people find the job best suited to them this initial version of the MBTI was released in 1943 (There have been many iterations since – the four letters were never copyrighted). Two decades later, Katharine became a devoted Carl Jung acolyte following his groundbreaking 1921 book, Psychological Types his work provided a vocabulary and validation to her previously discarded projects. Following the deaths of two of her children, Katharine Briggs was determined to closely monitor her surviving child, Isabel, and conducted experiments on her and other neighborhood children. The business of personality typing as we know it was seeded in 1901 in a Washington DC living room. “I wanted to understand how these two women who had no formal training in psychology had come to design the world’s most popular personality test,” Emre says in the film. Persona is informed by the 2018 book The Personality Brokers by the Oxford University professor Merve Emre – also one of the documentary’s executive producers – which traces the history of the two women who created the namesake Myers-Briggs instrument. Hawkins’ new HBO Max documentary, Persona: The Dark Truth Behind Personality Tests, investigates America’s infatuation with personality testing, revealing the surprising origin story behind the MBTI while surfacing ethical questions and criticisms that these seemingly harmless instruments are profoundly discriminatory and reflective of larger troubling issues of who exactly is considered worthy and valuable in society. The pop-culture element, the fact that it was still being used currently in dating apps, and the fact that it was this power structure that was brought to bear on people’s lives without people maybe even noticing” – a theme that resonated with his 2019 documentary XY Chelsea about Chelsea Manning – “that all made me think this was something that I really wanted to look into”. “It dawned on me that the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator was actually derived from Jung’s work, and that absolutely fascinated me. The four letters appeared again a few years later when Hawkins was reading about Carl Jung. Gold individuals are well-suited for careers in finance or public service.The four letters issue from the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the world’s most well-known personality quiz, which categorizes everyone into 16 distinct types gleaned from four binaries: people are either introverted or extroverted, sensing (relying on evidence from one’s senses) or intuitive, thinking or feeling, and judging or perceiving. You enjoy knowing what your tasks will be for the day, and would not perform well in careers that are highly unpredictable.
Because of this, you can also become pushy and judgmental when you don’t agree with others’ decisions.īecause of their need for structure, security, and predictability, those whose true color is gold do well in jobs that are very straightforward and have highly defined duties. Others would describe you as a “ rule-follower” who “ does things by the book”. You enjoy being the best at what you do, and believe there is a right way to do everything. You enjoy having others rely on you to help. You enjoy finding ways to live out these values in various ways throughout your life, whether that be through helping others by volunteering or through your career. You hold your family’s shared beliefs very closely, and have a high moral standard. You rarely do anything that is unpredictable or unplanned. You are very predictable and responsible, which gives you a sense of security in life. You are very detail-oriented and love to plan ahead.
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