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If you’re a fan of personality tests — like many of us, or at least the self-reflective, psychology-obsessed ones are — you may have taken the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, a self-reported personality ...

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I am an introverted person who feels shy at events. Early in my career, I found conferences to be so overwhelming that I’d sometimes just hide in the bathroom, go into an anxious spiral of fear and ...