Although we’ve found that our Brain Type Assessment is accurate for the majority of people, it is a tool that helps increase self-awareness, rather than a scientific measurement. As a result, there will always be a few people that don’t get the right Brain Type result. This could happen because you took the test on an off day, or while you were distracted. You could also receive an inaccurate result if you aren’t able to untangle other mental processes you use from your Brain Type, since Brain Type is just one small piece of who you are.

If you would like to take an assessment that can help you differentiate between Brain Type and other processes you use, we recommend taking the EVO Elements Assessment. Because the Elements Assessment is helping pinpoint your core driving force, as well as your Compasses, Brain Types, and Crafts, we consider it to be even more accurate than the BTA alone.

Although your BTA result could change if you take the assessment over and over and base your answers on how you feel in a given moment, this is not indicative of a true preference switch.

Brain Type only represents one small part of who you are, and although humans are dynamic and will undoubtedly grow and change, Brain Type is a preference akin to being left or right handed. It’s unlikely that your Brain Type preference will ever actually change, although as you get older, you might use your Secondary Brain Type more regularly, in conjunction with your Primary Brain Type.

For this reason, we don’t recommend taking the BTA over and over as a way to determine the accuracy of your results. 

If you want an even better chance of finding out what your Brain Type really is, we recommend taking the full EVO Elements Assessment.

First off, please remember that 1. We all use a little bit of each Brain Type process to some degree, and 2. Brain Type does not even begin to describe every single aspect of people. The processes we refer to are only a small piece of what makes you who you are– a unique individual with your own talents, experiences, insights, and gifts.

During our years of preliminary research, we have found that people’s Primary Brain Type always corresponds with a specific Secondary Brain Type, because of the natural flow and balance of each Brain Type process. This is what we have observed:

Primary Oracles are always Secondary Explorers
Primary Explorers are always Secondary Oracles
Primary Architects are always Secondary Alchemists
Primary Alchemists are always Secondary Architects

We know this, because of two simple principles:
1) As humans, we are all able to process information in our minds, and deal with information in the world around us.
2) We all have the capacity to have ideas and understanding of abstract thought, as well as the capacity for understanding concrete, practical information.

The Primary and Secondary Brain Type describe this holistic balance of our preferences.

As a reminder:
Architects lead with a concrete internal process
Explorers lead with a concrete external process
Oracles lead with an abstract internal process
Alchemists lead with an abstract external process

A person can’t function as an Oracle with a secondary Alchemist (for example) because we all need to have some degree of balance between the abstract and the concrete.

For example, if you were 100% abstract (Alchemist + Oracle), you wouldn’t have a healthy way to process concrete information in the real world—you’d be some sort of equivalent of a brain in a jar on a shelf. 😛

On the flip side, you can’t be 100% concrete (Architect + Explorer), because no human exists solely in their 5-senses concrete experiences— that would be like some sort of robot who isn’t able to handle even the simplest abstract thought or idea (for example, reading this page would be impossible!).

In addition, everyone deals with processing information out in the world (we are all able to communicate and affect change on other people and the world around us in a variety of ways), as well as processing information internally (we’re all capable of thought and reflection in our own minds). This means we must have some preference for dealing with information externally and internally. As you can see, Primary and Secondary Brain Types explain this balance.

Some of us use our Primary and Secondary Brain Types fairly often (you could say with a 60%/40% kind of split), while others mostly focus on their Primary almost exclusively (more like 80%/20%). When you take all of these factors into account, hopefully you’ll find that understanding the relationship between Primary and Secondary Brain Types is relatively easy.

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We’re continually adding new information about Brain Type Theory and how it relates to your growth and EVOlution!

No, EVO Elements, Crafts, Compasses, and Brain Types aren’t based on any other assessment or system.

EVO Type started with a deep understanding of the patterns of human processing Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung observed in his work. This is the main foundation of our Brain Type framework.

Beckett Hanan (the creator of the Brain Type Assessment) and the rest of our team have spent years researching, testing, and applying Jung’s theories through coaching and interviewing thousands of people. This includes over 20 distinct variations of our assessment, hundreds of hours of 1-on-1 work, and over 100,000 test takers!

From this, we have created our unique language for describing how people’s brains work. Although a couple of other assessments use Jung’s work for their theories, the foundation of how we approach Jung’s work and how we have evolved it into this dynamic system is unique to Brain Type Theory.

Technically, everyone uses some aspects of all four Brain Types. But since Brain Type focuses on the one we prefer to use most of the time, we generally focus on your top Brain Type, and to a lesser degree, your secondary Brain Type.

Think about the fact most people use both hands to type, and probably most fingers (on a keyboard at least). But when you go to grab a pen to sign your name, you probably prefer to use one hand and a certain arrangement of fingers that makes it comfortable for you to hold that pen.

Why? It’s not because you never use the other hand, it’s just that you have come to prefer a certain hand.

Brain Type exists to help you figure out your top Brain Type preference. Some people have stronger preferences, and some are more in the middle and switch back and forth between their Brain Types more often (just like someone are more ambidextrous than others). But in our experience, everyone has a consistent preference.

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Otherwise, we recommend reading the results of the Brain Types if you’re not sure your result from the BTA fits you. We also recommend connecting with others in the EVO Collective Facebook group to see if you identify with other people of a particular type. 🙂

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