Grandiosity
Need for excessive admiration
Lack of empathy
Exploitative behavior
Sense of entitlement
These cannot be measured by counting shapes.
🧠Real assessments use structured interviews and validated tools like:
The Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI)
The Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI)
And even then, only trained professionals should interpret results.
🧠Why Did This Viral Hoax Spread?
Because it plays on two powerful human tendencies:
Curiosity: We love learning about ourselves
Social sharing: People post their answers to prove they’re “not narcissists”
But turning a brain teaser into a personality test is misleading — even when meant as a joke.
🎯 Fun Ways This Puzzle Can Be Useful
While it won’t diagnose anything, it can help:
âś… Brain warm-up
Great for students or before creative work
âś… Mindfulness exercise
Focus on details without judgment
âś… Team-building game
Compare observations and discuss perception differences
âś… Teaching tool
For kids learning geometry or spatial reasoning
🧩 Try it with friends — and skip the fake psychology.
Final Thoughts
You don’t need to worry if you only saw 9 squares.
But you should smile at how much fun our brains have with a simple grid.
So next time you’re scrolling past a viral “personality test”…
