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CompatibilityWhat Kind of Personality Actually Fits Me
The person you click with from the first conversation and the person you stay at ease with for years can be two different people. Here's what the feeling of being a good fit is actually made of, and how to find the conditions for the people who suit you through your own notes.
Public & private selfWhat 'Social Self' & 'Private Self' Mean
Gaming words for a main character and an alt have come to mean, in personality talk, the you around people and the you alone: your social self and your private self. Here's where the terms come from, their three uses, and why both are the real you.
Personality testsWhen Your Self-Esteem Keeps Dropping
Does praise fade quickly while a single critical remark lingers for days? Self-esteem that keeps dropping is often not about you falling short, but about praise landing on your outer self while criticism sticks in your inner self.
Personality testsAm I Weird for Having Such Big Mood Swings?
Being fine in the morning and sinking every evening doesn't mean you're broken. Here's how to tell ups and downs that come with your temperament from signs worth looking into, and why blaming yourself doubles the swing.
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The Texture of a Wide-Amplitude Heart
If your mood rises and falls several times a day, start by learning when and where it swings hardest instead of trying to get rid of the ups and downs. Here's how people with a wide emotional amplitude can draw a map of their own heart.
Personality testsAnxious When It's Not Perfect, Is It Okay to Let Go a Little?
It's finished, yet you can't take your hands off it and you keep reopening the file. Here is a practice for letting go without lowering your standards, by deciding in advance how far each task needs to go.
MBTI & typesWhen You Want to Know Yourself More Deeply Than a Personality Test
Most of your results fit, but a few lines keep snagging? Here's what a personality test can and can't tell you, and five ways to use those snagging sentences to read yourself more deeply.
Personality testsI Get Especially Nervous in Front of People
Do you talk easily with friends, yet your voice shakes the moment you have to present? The shaking isn't timidity; it's that when all eyes turn to you, your attention swings away from what you're saying and onto yourself.
Public & private selfKind to Everyone, Drained When Alone, Is It Good-Child Syndrome?
Always the kind one out in the world, yet drained for no reason when you're alone? When kindness hardens into a role, your inner self loses both its own tastes and a way out for its uncomfortable feelings.
Personality testsCan't Make Decisions, Am I Just Indecisive?
Does even one menu take you forever, and do you keep wondering afterwards whether the other choice would have been better? Deciding slowly may not mean your willpower is weak at all, just that you are weighing more variables than most people.
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