How a Personality Test Revealed My True Self and Helped Me Thrive

And why it may help you too

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Have you ever felt completely disconnected from yourself, like you don’t really know who you are?

Almost as if your body — the thing constantly running around, scurrying from place to place and striving to accomplish one task after another — wasn’t really you?

For many years now, I’ve noticed feelings like these operating in my life.

At one point, the feelings of disconnect and meaninglessness became too great to ignore any longer. The questions I was really longing for an answer to began to surface, demanding my attention.

I reached a point where I could no longer just go from task to task or place to place, trying to find where I belonged in this world and how I could contribute, without knowing anything about myself.

There was a time when I truly felt like I didn’t know much about the most important things, like, for starters, who I am as a person, what my personality is and how it factors into the equation, and what my values are. (Those are certainly not the only facets you can use to discover more about yourself, as I later found out; but they are crucial pieces to the puzzle of “you.”)