Why is it that we are always trying to sort people by personality type?

If we are all so unique, why is it that we are always trying to sort people by personality type? From the beginning of time, man has been putting people into categories by analyzing their similarities and differences; and the number and variety of classifications of personality types is impressive to say the least.
The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates believed that human emotions were caused by fluids in the body, which he called ‘humours’. According to him these humours were responsible for the health and personality of an individual. He divided them into four categories: choleric, sanguine, melancholic and phlegmatic. This theory achieved great success and dominated western thinking for over two thousand years until the 1700s, when physicians made a new theory. Despite the decline in popularity of the theory of fluids, a large number of modern-day experts believe in the idea of four types of personality. In fact, to a large extent, only the names given to the categories have changed.
Nowadays, the sanguines are known as extroverts but they actually retain much of the same characteristics described by Hippocrates. They are outgoing and energetic and love to party, but are not punctual, can be messy or disorganized, and prone to carelessness.
Another modern-day category that many psychologists use is the analytical type, or what some of us refer to...

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