Personality Test

The Myers-Briggs personality type indicators have been around for a long time, and enjoy respectable credibility. This discussion doesn't belong in this forum. But it is worthwhile dwelling on. The MB tests broadly put a categorisation on what most of us know already . . . that people are different: they think, they process information, and deal with each other in different ways. If we recognise and allow for these broad differences, we can work and comminicate with each other more effectively. The 'Golden Rule' tells us to treat each other as we would like to be treated. This is not very helpful, because how I wish to be treated is not necessarily the same as how you wish to be treated. More useful is the rule: "Treat others as they wish to be treated", which places an obligation on you to find out how the other wants to be treated, rather than the grand assumption behind the Golden Rule. M-B is really useful in chracterisation (i.e. in writing plays, novels or screen plays), because it allows a writer to develop characters that are internally consistent.