Coping With Labels

Are you Type A or Type B? (Justice for Type C !)
Maybe the label you’ve given yourself feels grounding (and that’s okay!). Maybe it’s limiting – something you’ve been trying to shake off..? Or maybe you’ve turned a label into a sort of playbook, a personality shorthand we were never really meant to rely on.
This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson dive into self‑imposed labels – dissecting the logic (and smoky origin story) of Myers‑Briggs, comparing their own Enneagram results as they unpack the universal urge to categorise ourselves, and investigating whether you can ever truly shake off a label once it’s been culturally assigned… sometimes en masse (Raygun made peace with hers two years post-Olympics – and you probably would too with Sammy Sex in your corner).

TikTok’s Obsessed With “Type A” and “Type B” Personality Types - Here’s Why by Keyaira Boone, Cosmopolitan

The Carl Jung Quote You’ll Love Based on Your Myers-Briggs Personality by Susan Storm, Psychology Junkee

Mindfulness by Dr Ellen Langer

Thank You For Smoking: How Big Tobacco Created the ‘Type A’ Personality Myth

Uncertainty-identity theory Hogg, M.A, in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Vol. 39

Schema Theory in Psychology by Charlotte Nickerson, Simply 

Personality Isn’t Permanent by Benjamin Hardy

All I Ever Wanted Was To Be Hot by Lucinda Froomes Price

The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson

Untold: Raygun Breaking Badly, Netflix

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