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Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type
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Product Description
The classic work on the 16 major personality types as identified in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #20610 in Books
- Published on: 1995-05-25
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 248 pages
Customer Reviews
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.
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.
An asset to have
Gifts Differing is an excellent book resource for people who want a further understanding of the Meyers Briggs Type Preferences. I suggest this book for someone who has at least basic knowledge of MBTI. I actually gave this as a gift. For anyone interested/involved in MBTI, this is a book one should have.
