I went quiet last week and I owe you a quick explanation for that. Last Friday was my last day in my corporate job. Twenty-plus years in pharma market research, and nine with my most recent company/team. I am only 52 but decided to take the big jump into the unknown. The unknown, while a bit scary, is where the best things happen, right? [No seriously...right????] It was a lot more emotional than I expected, which is a very un-ESTJ thing to admit. (My Te would like me to tell you it was a smooth and well-executed transition. My Si would like me to tell you I cried more than once....which I did...many times) But I'm back now, and I am excited to have the time now to really focus on this community. No more carving time out in the early morning or late evening or even between meetings time. Actual time. So before I build out what the next few months look like here, I want to know what you actually want more of. What threads do you want to pull on? What's sitting unresolved for you from what we've covered so far?

I'm currently completing my MBTI certification, and part of the process is taking a structured assessment to identify your best-fit personality preference. Mine came back ESTJ — and my first reaction was genuine surprise. I'd always tested closer to ISTJ using informal online tests, and I like to re-energize in ways that sometimes read as more introverted than I actually am. But here's what the certification process makes clear: personality preferences aren't a single fixed room you live in. They're more like a 16-room house. You have a favorite room — the one that feels most natural, most effortless — but you move through all of them. The confusion usually comes from mistaking the rooms you visit often for the room you actually live in. For me, I was spending a lot of time in the introvert room. Enough that I mistook it for home base. Once I understood that, my color analysis history clicked into place. ESTJ preference means I process decisions through external structure and logic. I want the framework laid out. I want to know why a determination was reached, not just what it is. I want to be able to interrogate the reasoning — and I want that interrogation to be welcomed, not treated as a sign that I'm a difficult client. In a lot of color analysis contexts, it wasn't. Asking too many questions was implicitly discouraged. The answer was the answer. Trust the process. For an ESTJ, that's not reassurance. That's a closed door. And here's what's interesting: I handled that frustration the way someone who'd been living in the introvert room would. I didn't push back (much). I just kept researching, kept looking for the answer on my own. Turns out that's also very on-brand for a TJ — if the structure isn't given to you, you build it yourself. And eventually, that's exactly what I did. I had to reverse-engineer the reasoning, layer in the personality context, and create a framework I could actually use. That's not a client problem. That's a delivery problem. This plays out differently depending on type:

If you found this group, you're probably someone who is curious about what makes you tick. Maybe you've gone deep on personality frameworks. Maybe you just took your first MBTI test last week and want to know more. Maybe you landed here from a completely different direction and something about this intersection — personality and color — caught your attention. All of that is the right reason to be here. This group exists at an intersection most people haven't explored yet: how your personality type shapes the way you process, implement, and make decisions with information. Including — eventually — how you absorb and apply something like personal color analysis. But we're not starting there. We're starting with you. Whether you've taken every personality assessment available or you're just beginning to explore what makes you tick — you belong here. Whether you've never thought about color analysis a day in your life or you've had three analyses with three different results — you belong here too. What connects everyone in this group is simple: you're curious. And you're open to learning something that might change how you see yourself. I'm Virginia, founder of The Style Typology. I'm a research-driven analyst who studies the intersection of personality type and how people implement structured systems — color analysis being one of the most fascinating and frustrating examples of where that goes right and wrong. I built this group to learn alongside you, share what the research shows, and explore what happens when we stop treating personality type as a label and start treating it as a tool. To kick us off — introduce yourself below. Share whatever you know across any of these: MBTI (e.g. INTJ, ENFP) Enneagram (e.g. Type 5, Type 2w3) Big Five / OCEAN (e.g. high O, low C) Any others you follow — Human Design, DiSC, CliftonStrengths, Kolbe, anything Don't know all of them? Share what you do know. Don't know any yet? Say that too — it's a perfectly valid starting point.