• ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
    9·
    14 hours ago

    Thomas Lennart Joakim Erikson is a Swedish author. He is known for his self-help book series Surrounded By, more specifically his book, Surrounded by Idiots, in which he categorizes the personalities of people in colors based on the DISC assessment.

    A DISC assessment is a pseudoscientific personality testing tool based on psychologist William Moulton Marston’s DISC emotional and behavioural theory, first published in 1928.

    • qaz@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      3·
      8 hours ago

      in which he categorizes the personalities of people in colors based on the DISC assessment.

      Sounds a lot like the “Belbin Roles” corporate astrology I’ve had to hear about

    • ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      6·
      14 hours ago

      I’ve seen the cover in bookstores. I got the impression that even if the title was hyperbolic and baity, even if he did genuinely think he was smarter than everyone else, even if I thought so, the title makes him (and you if you read it) seem like an asshole.

      Granted, even if you take the nicest possible book that can bear this title, I wouldn’t know what it should actually be called to sell well. The self help section is almost certainly 99% drivel, and I’m okay with walking past it almost every time, but every so often I wish there was some good stuff in there.