A review by roseleaf24
The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve Emre

3.0

This book covers the history of the Myers-Briggs Personality inventory. There are many fascinating nuggets here, but the book really bogged down in the middle. It's not as simple to brush off as the click bait articles about its amateur beginnings would have you believe, and I'm left feeling as I do about most personality descriptors: don't allow them to limit you, but if you feel like they describe you, find the benefit in that. I wish that the author had had a little bit more religious knowledge. Both women involved in the creation of the test were religious, but I was left confused about where there religious mind was rooted, so I didn't get the insight I feel like I should have gotten from this.