Pair Of Fools Podcast

Caren and Doug talk over our culture's obsession with personality profiles and the instruments to construct them, ranging from "What is Your Hogwart's House?" to Myers-Briggs and Big Five Factors. We also touch on StrengthsFinder, Gretchen Rubin's Four Temperaments, and the Five Love Languages. What drives our fascination with these, at the personal and institutional levels? What are they good at identifying and what do they distort? More important, is the whole enterprise misguided? Walker Percy's Lost in the Cosmos provides the (delayed) epigraph.