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You Really Are a Genius

You Really Are a Genius

The Four Types of Hardwired Intelligence In 1904, government officials in France asked psychologist Alfred Binet to come up with a way to determine which students were most likely to experience difficulty in school. Binet collaborated with a colleague, Theodore Simon,...

The Billion Dollar Lie

The Billion Dollar Lie

Are Personality Tests the Billion Dollar Lie? Testing “personalities” is big business. The personality testing industry is expected to cross the one billion dollar mark in annual revenues by 2020. There are well over 2,500 personality questionnaires on the market,...

The Mirage in the Mirror

The Mirage in the Mirror

How We See Ourselves is Often Quite Different From What Others See Daniel Goleman, the author of the widely acclaimed Emotional Intelligence, recently penned an article on Self-Awareness, which he begins with a not atypical story about how a manager’s staff views him...