Who are you? What do you want?

• I find personality tests to be fun, and they can also remind me that there are different ways of thinking about things and approaching life.
  • The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is good for reminding me that my way is not the only way, and that it's possible to work towards various ends with many types of folks. There's an online version which, while not as accurate as the full test, still has good descriptions of the different outcomes. The last time I tested, I was mostly ENTJ.
  • The Keirsey character and temperament tests have some similarities with Myers-Briggs, but also some interesting expansions, and a short history of personality theories from Hippocrates to the present. According to their online test, I'm INTJ. According to their info that makes me more like Ayn Rand than Margeret Thatcher (an ENTJ), a "Mastermind" rather than a "Field Marshall". I guess that has its good points and its not-so-good points.
  • On the lighter side, the Intergalactic Explorer test indicates what crew profile you might fit, and Kingdomality professes to name your medieval vocational personality. I scored as a QEMT:Engineer and Black Knight, respectively
  • Unfortunately, Careerpath's entertaining Star Wars Personality Quiz seems to be gone now. My profile was most like Luke Skywalker: "Your doppelganger is a whiny teen until circumstances make him a galactic hero". Oops. Maybe I'm in the transition right now.
• Of course there are also a lot of self-help and more general books out there. Unfortunately, most of the good ones I know of are kind of career-oriented, like *What Color Is Your Parachute* and Stephen Covey's *The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People*. They still have some good general advice, but I'd be interested in finding other good resources.