16 Personalities & Types
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Why I Returned To Make Another 16 Personalities & Cognitive Function Test
After years away, I return to the 16 personalities framework to rebuild my tests with concrete, actionable insights. Join the journey.
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Beyond 8 cognitive functions: My new 16 Thought Patterns test
Discover how your thinking style shifts across work, relationships, and solitude with my new 16 Thought Patterns test. Move beyond static labels to understand…
Cognitive Functions
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How I Let Go of the Excuse of “I’m Gifted but Lazy”
Erik Thor explores why the gifted but lazy myth becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy—and how to break free from the smart-and-lazy identity.
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Why I Returned To Make Another 16 Personalities & Cognitive Function Test
After years away, I return to the 16 personalities framework to rebuild my tests with concrete, actionable insights. Join the journey.
Enneagram & Core Drivers
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How the Fawn Response Uses Pleasing to Stay Safe
A colleague asks me to take on extra weekend tasks that I do not have time for, or a friend makes a subtle, unkind…
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Why the Flight Response Keeps Us Moving and Planning
I am sitting on my sofa after dinner, and the room goes quiet. There is nothing I urgently have to do. Within thirty seconds,…
Values & Self-Realization
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I Thought Shame Was Making Me A Better Person. It Wasn’t.
In this personal essay, I explore how shame drove my coping patterns—people-pleasing, hyper-competitiveness, and avoidance—and how I learned to face shame with self-compassion.
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Why I Returned To Make Another 16 Personalities & Cognitive Function Test
After years away, I return to the 16 personalities framework to rebuild my tests with concrete, actionable insights. Join the journey.
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Why the Flight Response Keeps Us Moving and Planning
I am sitting on my sofa after dinner, and the room goes quiet. There is nothing I urgently have to do. Within thirty seconds, a distinct…
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How the Fight Response Protects Against Vulnerability
A client tells me my design draft looks amateur, or my project manager interrupts our weekly team meeting to claim my progress is behind schedule. Instantly,…
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Why We Freeze When Emotions Feel Overwhelming
My uncle leans across the dinner table at Christmas and asks why I have not found a steady job yet. My brain goes completely blank. My…
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Why Anger and Passion Are Two Sides of the Same Body Signal
A man pushes his grocery cart directly in front of mine at the supermarket checkout, or a coworker presents my project slides in a staff meeting…
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How Anxiety and Excitement Are the Same Physical Sensation
I am standing backstage right before I give a talk, or I am sitting at my kitchen table before a difficult phone call. My pulse jumps…
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How Shame and Love Exist on the Same Physical Continuum
I am having dinner with my partner and a close friend, and I make a clumsy mistake. I knock a water glass across the table, or…
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Only Humans Can Be Truly Original
Why artificial intelligence should inspire us to deepen our craft rather than retreat, the difference between algorithmic imitation and lived experience, and what human creativity is…
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It Was Never Introversion, It Was a Lack of Self-Respect
Why treating introversion as an instruction manual for isolation leads to depression, how harsh self-criticism disguised as boundaries destroys connection, and what real social integrity looks…
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Socializing Should Not Feel This Exhausting
For years, we have been told a comforting story about introverts and extroverts. The story says that extroverts are superficial performers who get energised by crowds,…
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The Difference Between Personality And Character
When I was twenty, I was trying to figure out who I was. I was in university, thinking about what kind of job I wanted, and…
The Age of Self-Realization
An exploration of what it means to live in alignment with your true values. In a world full of external noise and identity traps, this book is about overcoming internal conflict, understanding your cognitive patterns, and finding the courage to grow into who you are.