A bad personality assessment system has only a handful of categories. There are few useful ways to break the world’s population up into a dozen or so buckets.
Few doesn’t mean none. Masculine and feminine is a handy one with only two options.
But that’s an exception.
A useless system would break people into eight billion categories. At that point, they’re not categories – they’re names.
So how about this for a middle ground:
There are 336 ways you can be charming.
Well, there’s more, but it’s not bad as an approximation.
Here’s how I got there:
There are eight categories covered in Flavours of Charisma.
Everyone has around three of them. They’re different and they work together in different ways.
Some folks have more, some have fewer, but three is a reasonable guess.
That gives you 336 different combinations (8 x 7 x 6 = 336).
That’s plenty of ways you can uniquely express yourself.
And you can up that number nice and exponentially by adding new flavours to your arsenal.
Each new flavour makes you even more special.
That’s nothing to sneeze at.
But at the same time, that doesn’t mean anything. Having a super special signature sauce doesn’t matter on its own merits. What counts is what that does for you.
Luckily for my long-suffering keyboard, I don’t need to list the benefits of more, greater, flexible charisma. You already know them.
All that’s left to learn is what that means for you: