The Personality Brokers: The Strange History Of Myers-Briggs And The Birth Of Personality Testing

"Are you an INTJ? Or maybe an ESFP? If you know what I’m talking about, you’re among the multitudes who have taken the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. (For the uninitiated, that’s a series of questions designed to reveal your core personality type.) Author Merve Emre charts the unlikely origin of the personality test and the myriad ways it’s been put to use since (in college admissions, corporate hiring and firing, and matching spies to secret missions.) Emre spins a compelling tale about the mother-daughter team who gave the test its name, and along the way she raises fascinating questions about just what makes us who we are."