📊 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.

What made you keep going with color analysis or personality typing past the first result? Most people don't stop at one. There's a first season, a first type, a first "that's me" moment and then something pulls you back in. Another system, another analyst, another framework. For me it's because each one adds a data point. No single system gives you the complete picture, but layer enough of them and something starts to come into focus. That's what hooked me, not the first answer, but the way each answer made the next one more useful. Where are you in that process? Just starting, deep in it, or somewhere in the middle trying to make sense of what you've already collected?

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: