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Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type By Isabel Briggs Myers ( Davies-Black Publishing )
Release Date: 1995-05-25
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Product Description
The classic work on the 16 major personality types as identified in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
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 Specific Applications Only ( willyl )
This book is more specifically targeted than most of others in the field. I have been a devotee of this concept and have found it quite useful. It was used at my federal workplace highly effectively. This is largely a brief summry of the main ideas of the system and their application across occupational fields. Of interest mainly personnel or human relations staff. Other books do it better for the general audience.
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 Great
Recieved item on time, right when we were told it would arrive. Book in very good condition.
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 Flawed ( md50043 )
This book is based on the MBTI system and please understand that this system has serious flaws. The only effective system to personality typing is used by Rod Novichkov in his book How to Find Yourself and Your Best Match Socionics. Eventhough the book sounds like a matchmaking book it is infact written with the purpose of explaining the different personality types and goes further to explain morphology and intertype relationships between people. Read Socionics and inspire your professors to look at this type theory before you seek answers from MBTI; you will be impressed.
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A user manual for the human mind
In this book, Isabel Myers explains, in clear language and a gentle, lyrical voice, the personality type theory to which she devoted the second half of her life. Her aim in developing the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator was simple: to help "normal everyday people with normal everyday problems."
Though some of the concepts it contains are complex, this book is certainly accessible to a lay audience. Myers was not an academician, and she doesn't write like one. Her prose is lovely and full of imagery (she was a fiction writer, after all). It's a book to be savored, not skimmed.
The main advantage of this book over the others is that it presents Myers's theory unfiltered. It's not an interpretation; it's the real deal. Myers focuses much attention on the role of psychological functions, a topic that David Keirsey doesn't address in "Please Understand Me II." Psychological functions are a key component of the MBTI.
While this book doesn't contain an assessment for determining individual personality type, it does contain tables comparing the two orientations for each of the four preferences. Readers ought to be able to gain at least some idea of what type they fall into.
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good book, explains the personalities
good book which explains the personality types, but "What Type Am I?" is a better book; this book focuses on percentages of each personality in each occupation but not as much on the characteristics of each personality type.
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