Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type [NOOK Book]

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Every year over 2.5 million people take the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator(R) assessment, the most widely-used personality measure in history. Gifts Differing describes the ground-breaking insights embodied in the MBTI(R) inventory and explains its many practical applications. Distinguishing four categories of personality preferences--Extraversion-Introversion, Sensing-Intuition, Thinking-Feeling, and Judging-Perceiving--this book details how different combinations of these qualities determine the way we perceive ...
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Every year over 2.5 million people take the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator(R) assessment, the most widely-used personality measure in history. Gifts Differing describes the ground-breaking insights embodied in the MBTI(R) inventory and explains its many practical applications. Distinguishing four categories of personality preferences--Extraversion-Introversion, Sensing-Intuition, Thinking-Feeling, and Judging-Perceiving--this book details how different combinations of these qualities determine the way we perceive the world and how we respond to and interact with it. Type tables show how type preferences correlate with occupational interests, and clear descriptions of the sixteen types illustrate how the different functions interact.

Describing the 16 major personality types identified in the work of Briggs and Myers, this landmark book shows the profound effects--on marriage, learning and career satisfaction--of a person's style of perception and judgment. The late Isabel Briggs Myers co-authored the most widely used personality inventory in history, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780891063001
  • Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
  • Publication date: 5/3/1995
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 131,842
  • File size: 4 MB

Table of Contents

Contents
Preface xi
Publisher's Note xvii

Part I Theory
Chapter 1 An Orderly Reason for Personality Differences 1
Chapter 2 Extensions of Jung's Theory 17

Part II Effects of the Preferences on Personality
Chapter 3 Type Tables for Comparison and Discovery 27
Chapter 4 Effect of the EI Preference 53
Chapter 5 Effect of the SN Preference 57
Chapter 6 Effect of the TF Preference 65
Chapter 7 Effect of the JP Preference 69
Chapter 8 Extraverted and Introverted Forms of the Processes Compared 77
Chapter 9 Descriptions of the Sixteen Types 83

Part III Practical Implications of Type
Chapter 10 Use of the Opposites 115
Chapter 11 Type and Marriage 123
Chapter 12 Type and Early Learning 131
Chapter 13 Learning Styles 139
Chapter 14 Type and Occupation 149

Part IV Dynamics of Type Development
Chapter 15 Type and the Task of Growing Up 167
Chapter 16 Good Type Development 173
Chapter 17 Obstacles to Type Development 181
Chapter 18 Motivation for Type Development in Children 185
Chapter 19 Going On From Wherever You Are 191

Endnotes 203
References 205
About Isabel Briggs Myers 207
Full-Size Type Table 212
Index 215

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  • Posted February 1, 2011

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    If viewed as supplemental to understanding the personalities around you, not as a fixed slate of conformity, "Gift Differing" is extremely interesting and insightful. It is based on the theories of Carl Jung, yet more humanized in many respects, it could be read to improve understanding of his theories also. Overall, if you are interested in gaining insight into other(possible0modes of thought, the book is great. I found it useful for finding new character traits in Novels as well.

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