What That Psychometric Test Doesn’t Say About You

Most psychometric tests are absolute nonsense. So, you're a Blue? An INTP? A Challenger?

So what.

What do you do with that information? How does it actually help you?

A tool is meant to facilitate progress, but only if you apply it to some material. And if it doesn't do the job, use a different tool.

Focus on the job to be done

When I work with people on their strengths, values, skills or whatever else, we spend most of our time applying the data to real world examples. Otherwise, what's the point?

The work we do is often to make better sense of situational challenges. If you can navigate those with ease — both in your head and out — you have less daily stress, better sleep, and easier progress toward your bigger goals.

Knowing your top strengths doesn’t directly help with that. Apply those strengths to situations that matter does.

Don't be dazzled by the colors, acronyms, or labels

I like to keep it simple. I avoid tools that have fancy labels or weird abstractions (let’s put all the possible results into color categories!) or complicated frameworks. All of this takes us away from what matters.

Want to work on strengths? Try my worksheet for applying them to the real situations you face

What about values? Don’t pick them from a list, try this method instead

Anything else? Let’s talk about what’s actually happening. No wacky tools, I promise.