Quick Timeline

Hey, I am Olimpia. 🙂 I could not figure out what to do to feel better about myself and my life. My personal growth started when I discovered Personality Theory and Personal Self-Development techniques.

• In 2013 I discovered personality type theory, first MBTI, then Enneagram, then Socionics.
• In 2015/2016 I started two blogs on personality types, one about my typings of celebs/characters (V.I.P Personality Typology), one about the theory here.
• In that time I talked with people and types from all over the world through Google+ Hangout, including Tom Condon and Katherine Fauvre.

Find my typings of celebrities and fictional characters here..

• In 2019 I decided to start my official Type•volution YouTube channel and share what I have learned in terms of actual personal growth (with personality type theory).

Watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel here.

The Story of Type•volution

When I first discovered personality type theory, I felt deeply unfulfilled in my life and I wasn’t sure why. My life seemed fine on the surface and I was mostly following the path that people told me to go down on. But it made me deeply unhappy. I was driven by the desire to change my negative outlook, my troubling feelings, my loneliness, and the lack of satisfaction. I wanted to figure out my true needs, my purpose, and which kind of people would be most compatible with me. 

In the process I tested out different compatibility theories, bought books on the types and read about the career advice. And I read as much as possible about personality types online. Some theories I discarded because they made no sense, some advice I realized was not the best suited to my actual personality. 

My main findings were:

• A big part of my unhappiness stemmed from not fulfilling my instinctual needs, harming them, and prioritizing them wrong
• Another aspect was trying to act like or become other Jungian personalities, rather than accepting mine for what it is and searching for a purpose that suits it
• Last but not least, focusing too much on personality types that weren’t compatible (enough) with mine on a cognitive level, which in turn perpetuated that negative cycle of trying to be a different personality to appease them or match with them, just to be exhausted or disillusioned by the end

When I got to a point of being knowledgeable enough, I shared my insights with others. Eventually, someone actually paid me around 600 euros for my advice. I was quite surprised – I had not asked for any payment – but that was the sign for me I should keep going. For a while I had merely been sharing my thoughts for free because I was obsessed with the subject, I never thought about actually making a career or business out of it. But that seemed like the most logical next step, so I created Type•volution. 

The name “Type•volution“ comes from personality type and my focus on personal evolution. Throughout my journey, I realized that personal growth had been the real answer to my issues, and a big part of that growth had come from properly utilizing personality type theory. Honestly I was rather annoyed by people using personality type theory as an excuse for why their “life sucked“ or why they could never be happy, or on the flip side using it just as an identity with no desire to actually do something with the advice. 

So Type•volution was supposed to be the alternative to those subpar methods of using personality type. I believe that every personality type is valuable and fulfills a specific Purpose (Role) in this world, so the reason why your “life sucks” is not your actual personality, but rather what you do with it. Of course it can be difficult to meet your personality’s needs when you don’t know them or when you try to meet them in destructive ways, so my advice was supposed to help with that. Also most compatibility theories online were based on wrongly applied theory and to some extent fictional, they neither made sense nor did they hold up in reality (during my testing). Focusing on personality types that better suit or complement me was another crucial aspect to my development, hence I share my recommendations on that as well.

Overall, my aim is to help others overcome their own personal darkness and in turn “evolve“/ grow and find fulfillment in life based on their personality types. Because that is exactly what I did and it greatly improved my quality of life.

To be entirely transparent, Type•volution is still a tiny business – I am the only one working on it and for it, and I do work another job to support myself. (In order to keep my private and corporate lives separate from this online space, I use the alias “Olimpia”.) But I believe in sharing with you all my findings on personality types and self-development, because it all had such a profound effect on my life. And if that means working extra, so be it. Certainly it would help a lot if you spread the word, because then I will be able to dedicate much more of my time and energy to the cause. 🙂

At last, there is certainly a unique issue I encountered whilst studying personality type theory: so many different takes on the same subject are out there. It can be hard to move through the thicket of all those contradicting theories and ideas. If you are confused by it or have been wading through a sea of opposing information for a while, I would encourage you to focus on one main philosophy for a while and actually test it, to see if it holds up to reality. Obviously I would encourage you to pick my philosophy and test it for a while, but you can do it with others as well (just not all at the same time). It is the same method I applied to figure out what was real and true, I focused on one main theory for a while until I was sure it was wrong or right. So I invite you to do this with Type•volution, give it some undivided time to see if it will work for you. To do so, it is best to focus on my content and sign up to work with me, so we can evolve your personality together. 😀 

What Type•volution Stands For

Evolution

• Always evolve and improve your personal self, lifestyle, and mindset. Or in other words: personal growth. If necessary, your old self needs to die, so your improved self can emerge.
  • In terms of Enneagram type, it’s about overcoming negative thoughts and habits that you are predisposed to, and thereby climbing up the “Health Levels“.
  • In terms of instincts, it’s about realizing what you truly need, findings ways to meet those needs, and thereby optimizing the total range of every instinct in the light side.
  • In terms of Jungian type, it’s about discovering and accepting yourself, and being the best version of your personality type, in order words being on the “Light side“ of your stronger functions. 
  • In general, you need to give up on your bad habits and beliefs that hold you back, and instead adopt better habits and beliefs that help you.

Purpose

• You need to find and follow your purpose, based on your personality type (see “Purpose Role“), your background, your skills, and where/when you are. Your purpose will benefit both yourself and others. You need to believe in yourself and your purpose once you have found it.

Self-Fulfillment

• You also need to fulfill your instinctual needs (usually by utilizing your strengths) and follow what’s best for you and your well-being, otherwise you’ll never be content. This can include focusing on people who are closer to the “light side“ and who have more compatible personality types (usually related to instincts and Quadra).

Self-Acceptance

• No matter how much you want to grow, improve, or do better, at the end you also need to accept yourself and your personality type. There is no point in trying to be a different personality type. Jungian growth is not about trying to improve or use weak functions, but rather about maximizing your stronger functions for everyone’s benefit. For that, it also helps to be around people with more compatible personality types, as mentioned above.

Light Side

• All of the above needs to be done from a “light side“ perspective, with “light side“ actions and behavior. It is possible to accomplish a lot and to fulfill your needs with “dark“ behavior, but ultimately that will lead to your ruin and make the world a worse place. Negative feelings are okay, as long as you see them as (temporary) warning signs and be inspired by them so that you change your life for the better.

My Motivation

• I believe that Typevolution, aka Personality Type Evolution/Growth, is my purpose and my primary way of elevating/“evolving“ other people or the world to the “light side“, myself included. 
• I believe that every personality type has a “Purpose Role“, so whenever I support people following their own and finding personal fulfillment, I feel like I am helping out humanity at a fundamental level.
• It saddens me whenever I see people giving up on themselves or suffering internally, even if on the external they seem happy or successful. Because ultimately, I believe none of that is necessary and can be remedied.
• Whenever I see people gaining more insight, being appreciative, sharing their victories, and growing over time, it makes me happier and my life more worthwhile.