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?

The four-letter Myers-Briggs type is not the destination. It is a decoder ring. What is it decoding? Your cognitive function stack. The letters exist to reveal which functions you prefer, in which order, and how they are oriented. The stack is where the actual substance lives. The last letter tells you which function is extroverted. J types extrovert their judging function. P types extrovert their perceiving function. The first letter tells you which function is preferred. Extroverts lead with the function they extrovert. Introverts lead with the function they introvert. Take ENTP and INTJ. Both NT types. Same temperament group. In practice, they are running almost opposite cognitive sequences. The ENTP leads with Extroverted Intuition. The driver question: what possibilities am I not seeing yet, and where could this go? The co-pilot is Introverted Thinking. The second question: does this actually hold together on its own terms? The INTJ leads with Introverted Intuition. The driver question: what is the pattern beneath all of this, and where is it heading? The co-pilot is Extroverted Thinking. The second question: does this work, and can it be made to work better? Same two middle letters. Completely different direction of energy. Completely different criteria for trust. If you know your current best-fit type and want me to map out your cognitive function stack, drop it below.

A little peak behind the scenes....' As of May 25, I'm officially MBTI Step I and Step II certified through The Myers-Briggs Company. For those of you who have been following the work here, this probably isn't surprising. The connection between personality preference and color implementation has been central to this framework from the beginning. The certification puts formal structure behind what was already built into the methodology. (Turns out it's useful to have the credential match the obsession.) The piece I want to make sure is always clear: personality type doesn't determine your color season. It shapes how you receive, process, and apply the results. That's a meaningful distinction, and it's the one this whole lab is built around. Next up: Personality Hacker Profiler Training in November, which deepens the applied type profiling side of the work. The framework is expanding.

A question came up in conversation recently that is a perfect topic for this group. The argument, roughly: certain personality types will struggle to wear their correct color result, even if the determination is objectively right for their coloring. An INTP who is a Bright Spring will resist it because bright and warm reads as drawing attention, and drawing attention is not the goal. The flip side also came up: an extroverted, expressive type stuck with a muted, cool result may find it just as hard to embrace. It's a genuinely interesting claim. Where do you land on it? Also — we have some new members who joined this week. Welcome to everyone who just found their way here. Drop your type and color result in the data thread (https://www.skool.com/the-color-typology-lab-7535/personality-type-color-season-building-the-data-set?p=4adeff77) if you haven't already, and jump in wherever something catches your attention.

📊 UPDATE: You can now add your entry directly to the live tracker at mbti-color-season.netlify.app — just scroll down to the entry form. The dataset and charts update in real time! ________________________________________________________________________________ Many of you have already shared your type and season somewhere in the group (the welcome thread, comments, DMs). I'm asking you to drop it here again so I can have it all in one place and start looking at patterns. 👩‍🎓🔍 What I hope to explore, to start, is whether type correlates with anything measurable on the color side (or vice versa). I'll share patterns back with the group as the data set builds and use what comes in to shape the next round of research questions. If you have a pattern you're curious about, drop it in the comments. This is a collective effort. 🧪 The grid starts here. In the future, I will tag new members here so they can continue to add to the data. Drop your information below using this format: MBTI type | color season | any contested or alternate results Example: ESTJ | Dark Autumn | also tested as Deep Winter 👇 If you only have one of the two, drop what you know. Partial data still counts.