We all have one in our life. A Myers-Briggs addict. They come in many different packages and many different walks of life. They live every day in a struggle they frankly think is normal and healthy. It's not. It's mildly oppressive and uncomfortable. They start to analyze all the minute they meet people. They use Myers-Briggs as ice breakers with potential romantic partners. This is why we need to help them. Here is the guide to helping the Myers-Briggs addict in your life.
1. Take on Multiple Personalities to Confuse Them
Really overwhelm them with too many different personalities coming out of one person. Make them question everything and really not be able to understand what is going on. This will show them living a life based on a set of four letters is really a life that makes everyone around them want to scream.
2. Help Them Realize People Can't Be Defined by a Test
Make them visit some far out mystical taoist monastery or something and make them start to think the world is actually one giant related sphere or whatever works. Then get some tie dye together and maybe listen to the Grateful Dead.
3. Help Them Get an Actual Psychology Degree
You could also educated them in something that is accredited. That works too.
4. Make Them Write the Word Ambivert 1,000 Times
Really break a true Myers-Briggs addict by making them realize people can shift based on the situation through the word ambivert. Chanting also can work when pen and paper are not available.
5. Get Your Pavlov On
Maybe every time they say "I think they're an INFJ" you press a lego into his or her foot, or every time they refuse to analyze a personality you give him or her a small piece of sponge candy. It really doesn't matter, just condition him or her to think of something else as the go to party ice breaker.
6. Make Them Meet Interesting People And Force Them to Not Analyze Their Personality
To know you've truly helped the addict, you take him or her to a party or event filled with interesting people. Let's say something with strong personalities, like an art opening. Then, you put your recovering addict to the test. Can he or she go the night without bringing up personality theory? This is the last step. Once this is accomplished you have affectively rehabilitated a Myers-Briggs addict.
