good book, explains the personalities

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	• Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type Isabel Briggs Myers Davies-Black Publishing, 1995 - 248 pages average customer review:based on 14 reviews view larger image
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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.

Specific Applications Only

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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Recieved item on time, right when we were told it would arrive. Book in very good condition.

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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The classic work on the 16 major personality types as identified in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.

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