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Discover Your Personality Type: Top Tools and Books for Understanding Yourself and Others

By 25 August 2024No Comments

Explore essential tools and insightful books that help you uncover your personality type and understand others on a deeper level


The Highly Sensitive Person

Elaine N. Aron

The first book that helps readers to identify their highly sensitive traits and to make the most of it.

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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking

Susan Cain

A Positive Approach To Raising Happy, Healthy and Mature Teenagers. 

Susan Cain argues ( watch her TedTalk https://youtu.be/c0KYU2j0TM4?feature=shared ) that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so. She charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal throughout the twentieth century and explores how deeply it has come to permeate our culture.

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Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament Types

David Keirsey

It’s a well-written and efficient way to understand one of the 20th Century’s leading personality inventories.

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Sixteen Personality Types at work in organisations

Jenny Rogers

This best-selling book is suitable for individuals seeking to understand their Myers Briggs. It also contains further information on understanding ‘type dynamics’.

Where to take the MBTI test?

MBTI provides a foundation and a toolkit, not a set of rules ultimately, each person is a unique individual who will grow and develop in their own way and will need the support of their family in this journey. Only 10 minutes to get an accurate description of who you are and why you do things the way you do. Here’s the test.

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Gifts Differing

Isabel Briggs Myers with Peter B. Myers

Understanding Personality Type The original book behind the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) test

This book distinguishes four categories of personality styles and shows how these qualities determine the way you perceive the world and come to conclusions about what you’ve seen.

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What Each Myers Briggs Type is Like As a Parent

Everyone has their own unique parenting style, and even the best parent is not perfect. Here is how each type might behave as a parent.


Leadership and Self-Deception

Arbinger Institute

Leadership and Self-Deception shows how the problems that typically prevent superior performance in organisations and cause conflicts in our personal lives are the result of a little-known problem called self-deception.

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Sources

When the Parents Change – Paul Dix
Parenting and Teenagers – Positive Discipline
Brainstorm – Dr. Dan Siegel
The Power of Habit – Charles Duhigg
The Conscious Parent
The Anatomy of Peace

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