• ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
    9·
    21 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
      4·
      16 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

    • pmk@piefed.caEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      It’s not scientific, but on some level it makes the point that different people have different goals and motivations. If we assume that everyone has the same goal as we do, then we can become frustrated and think they are stupid for doing things wrong. I think that’s the main point of the book, not as a universal categorization of humans into behaviour groups.

    • ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      6·
      21 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.