Types are fascinating patterns that are best discovered holistically.

Welcome to Beyond Personality Types, the original InterStrength podcast. Every week we provide you with the better ways to use and talk about personality theories. I am your host, Olivier Caudron, a self discovery facilitator. With me is Dr. Linda Berens, internationally renowned for her innovative typology approach. Come with us beyond the indicator results to rethink what you know about personality types. Is your use of personality type approaches truly efficient or just effective? And what's the difference between the two when it comes to fostering real growth? Hello and thank you for tuning in. In this episode of Beyond Personality Types, we dive into the heart of a crucial debate for type enthusiasts and what does it take for a typology approach to be genuinely efficient, not just effective? With the guidance of Dr.

Linda Berens, we'll unpack how efficiency requires more than quick results demanding accuracy, ethical application and genuine personal fit. While distinguishing it from mere effectiveness. You'll come away with greater clarity on how to evaluate and improve your own use of type theories, ensuring you offer clients and yourself the most impactful and responsible support on the journey of development. Let's see how efficiency will help us go beyond personality types.

Typology is a classification, especially in archaeology, psychology or the social sciences. The success of those approaches to identify a personality proves a need for many people to know their preferences. There are also plenty of information that one could use as a map to enjoy life better. Linda, what do you think about that statement? Typology is an efficient self development tool?

Well, it depends on what you mean by efficiency. When you talk to me about having this topic, I went to my favorite website, Dictionary.com efficient means generally that things are functioning in the best possible manner is one of the definitions you have least waste of resources or effort. Efficient is something that does whatever it's supposed to do with not a lot of effort. There's another definition that says producing an effect as a cause and it's causative. Personality type or awareness of our personality patterns can be causative and it can actually be efficient. The process itself can be very inefficient because shortcuts are taken. Like if you take a personality test, you get a result that says okay, I'm an istj and it tells me some stuff about what that means. And I say, oh yeah, I do that, I do that.

Okay, all right, so I think I'll go get a job as an accountant. Believe me, you do not want me to have a job as an accountant. That doesn't mean I couldn't do it. It's not efficient because it would take a lot of energy for me to master that craft and sustain that over time and be rewarded by it. There might be some other things in my job that would make it more satisfying for me. It doesn't mean that it was a big failure, but it would not be efficient because it might not get right at it. So it might not cause the result. You're trying to get efficient and effective kind of go along together.