Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Working on launching Typexperience - online library of personality type video's

I'm launching a video sharing community (think youtube) for people interested in personality type theories (think myers-briggs, keirsey, disc, enneagram..etc).

http://www.typexperience.com

Someone asked what the mission was...(my response below)

The ultimate goal is to create a public library with real videos of real people. I think when you're first learning about personality type theory it can be more efficient to watch 20 videos of a specific type and start learning their patterns then to guess on 1 person or even a few. The smaller sample doesn't necessarily cover the differentiation within the types and can lead to stereotyping. By having this library with different people--gender, culture, generation, and possibly even context--we can see the entire spectrum of the type.

Because there are so many people mistyped out there there is the argument that some people might be presenting a type in the incorrect way. This is where the community aspect comes in. People can vote, comment--or even post response videos. Hopefully it generates dialogue about the different personality type's behavior and increases learning among a large group of viewers (the world).