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    1. they expect pursuing those passions to be easy and find other things less interesting

      I find this section interesting because I definitely relate to the thought that things I am seemingly more suited for over other things should be easier than things that don't align with my personality type, but I also believe that this way of thinking isn't necessary harmful because it can help younger people discover something they are passionate about, potentially leading to successful careers that would have been otherwise dismissed.

    2. people believe they are guided by deep, unobservable essences (see Strohminger et al., 2017, and Quillien, 2018, for recent reviews) and that basing decisions on those deep desires is key to decision satisfaction

      how do things like believing we are predestined to behave/express traits a certain way based on our personality types effect/look different in individuals with things like borderline personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder, obsessive compulsive personality disorder, etc.?

    3. Though they did share some criticisms of MBTI, they also touted the usefulness of “typing” by presenting anecdotes of a woman finding dating success by screening on MBTI and, in service of the point that typing can foster positive feelings, presenting results of a study suggesting that parenting is improved when parents think their children belong to a coveted zodiac type

      What are the pros and cons of expecting someone to act a certain way based on predetermined traits that have been assigned to them by other people? Does this excuse certain behaviors and ignore other certain behaviors that would or would not be typically relevant to their personality types and/or zodiacs?

    4. MBTI generally avoids strong statements of what type predicts.

      I honestly don't feel like this is true. As a young teenager, I discovered the Myers-Briggs Test and became obsessed because of how specific it was about my "personality type". There is so much to be read about each specific personality type, and even how they are predicted to get along with other personality types. I would go as far as to say that they are almost comparable, if not on the same level as, a lot of astrological predictions,.