"There is something about the wish to put everything in neat little boxes so that we can manipulate them and make them serve our purposes, " says American author Annie Murphy Paul.

“这就好比把所有的东西都塞进整齐划一的小盒子里，便于我们使用，适应我们的需求。” 美国作家安妮•墨菲•保罗如是说。

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Annie Murphy Paul, author of The Cult of Personality: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves (Free Press, 2004).

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