Duncan Sabien likes at least two games: punch bug (as long as he is the one doing the punching) and Magic: the Gathering. He has a whole theory of personality types based on colours of magic in M:tG (red, green, white, blue, and black) and got his partner the therapist into it. The four humours are old and unscientific see:
Personalities, organizations, goals, and means can all be thought of in terms of the Magic colors they typify, allowing you to draw interesting connections, make surprisingly useful predictions, identify deficits and growth areas, and increase empathy. I claim that the Magic system, which was designed to be resonant and trope-y and archetypal, does a lot of the same good work that naming things does, and is a richer intuition pump than other popular wrong-but-usefuls like Enneagram or MBTI or chakras or the integral theory colors.
Backlinks show a number of rationalists and one TTRPG designer being excited about it.
Sneerers are having fun riffing on this theory, so lets create a thread for that. https://homosabiens.substack.com/p/the-mtg-color-wheel?open=false#%C2%A7ub
I will begin with the fact that he posted it on Medium in twenty-frigging-eighteen and was offended that they eventually moved it to their "paying members only" section. Who in 2018 could have expected that a 'free' service would shut down or make the experience worse when it ran out of other people's money?
He also makes sure you know that the game designer, who also designed RoboRally, has a PhD. Try to explain Hume to them and they stone you, but invent a CCG which lets a corporation take all your lunch and newspaper-route money and they respect credentials.
I'm sorry, in what world is green the colour of tradition? And it's honestly absurd that these anti-green colours are supposedly about growth (and green isn't?). Forget about knowing about people, I doubt this dude understands even M:tG
Edit: I suppose I could see an argument that green is more about preservation and against exploitation (black), but tradition has such human connotations to it that it seems like it'd be better to describe white
Edit 2 now that I've properly skimmed the article
As someone who spent my teen years doing an absurd number of online personality quizzes, I've had a lot of fun mapping my my various friends as a silly game. But "silly game" is the key phrase there. The way that this dude and his ilk are doing things, they're trying to come up with an ironclad system that they can package people into. What fools.
Oh wait, no, this guy can't be a fool, because he's partly blue, right, and therefore is very clever. Clearly I am the silly one
It's the colour of tradition because it doesn't spend all it waking moments thinking of ways to not die, try to keep up