Strategies for self-analysis and personality tests that will promote self-knowledge and will help you figure out your unique purpose in life.
We’ve all heard the term “intelligence”, but few people actually know that there are several types of intelligence that describe personalities and the ways in which our brains work. Psychologist Howard Gardner of Harvard University created the Multiple Intelligences Theory which explains the nine ways in which we apply intelligence…
Did you know that there’s an ideal career waiting out there for you? Regardless, of what baby boomers or other individuals against the “made for” theory would say, there’s no denying that how much you enjoy your work has a lot to do with your personality type. That’s why experts…
Growing up, I used to hate fall. For me, this time of the year was associated with the end of my carefree and joyful summer holidays and the beginning of a new cycle of challenges at school, paired with the cold and rainy weather, which made this back to school…
It has been an age-old debate as to what exactly dreams are. Many questions have arisen on the topic, and dreams are filled with so much speculative history that it has become a concept of wondrous intrigue. Throughout documented time dreams have been revered, feared, judged, and interpreted. Entire careers…
Your music tastes or the type of music you listen to can actually give big clues into the way in which you think, researchers at Cambridge University have found. The study, which was published in PLOS ONE journal, focuses specifically on two types of thinking: empathizers and systemizers. Empathizers are…
Everywhere you look there are articles and stories about introverts and extroverts. But did you know that there are 4 different types of introverts? If you look into each personality aspect, there are different types within. I’m an introvert and the topic of introversion has always interested me, so I…
What if I told you that you are prone to thinking traps that affect your behavior and decision making and, as a result, control your life? As a human being, you probably will have noticed that what people think and say often bears little relation to how they act. Is…
“A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.” Dreams have been at the center of Psychology’s most profound questions,…
The test was designed in the 20th century by the Hungarian psychiatrist Leopold Szondi. The aim was to explore the deepest repressed impulses of a person on the basis of sympathy or aversion caused by the specific photos of psychopaths. The Szondi test is based on the general notion that…
Design a cross in a piece of white paper. The task is to sketch any shape, symbol, or anything that comes to your mind or has some meaning for you in each part of the page in the following order: 1) left top 2) right top 3) left bottom 4)…
