Color Your Future: Using the Character Code to Enhance Your Life [Paperback]

Taylor Ph.D. Hartman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 20, 2000

Develop your character -- and powerfully improve the quality of your life

In The Color Code, Taylor Hartman defined the characteristics of the four basic personality types and assigned a color to each. In this exciting sequel, he builds on his groundbreaking research, showing you how to use your color profile as a guide to cultivating a full and balanced character.

The essence of character is the ability to enhance not only our own lives, but the lives of others as well. Here, Dr. Hartman gives you the tools you need to unlock your true potential, including engaging case histories, clearly articulated principles, and step-by-step exercises for:

• Recognizing your innate -- and developed -- strengths
• Identifying your core motivations
• Communicating more effectively
• Focusing your commitments
• Discovering the importance of character "stretching"

Presented with refreshing style and candid professionalism, this revolutionary guide provides tremendous counsel for identifying and embracing an enhanced life.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Following the success of The Color Code, in which psychologist and business coach Hartman popularized the use of color to characterize personality types (e.g., "red" people seek power; "blues" crave intimacy), the author has revised and retitled this companion volume, which he originally self-published in 1991 as The Character Code. However, fans of his initial pop-psychology blueprint for getting along with others may be disappointed with the meager fare here. Though brief, the book meanders and suffers from poor writing. It is most engaging when explaining the nuances of color typing, though it assumes some familiarity with the basic types. Hartman's aim is to bring readers who know their "color" to a higher plane of "psycho-social-spiritual health," and to encourage readers to become "charactered"Ain other words, to assume the strengths of the other personality types. For example, the fun-loving "yellow" might benefit from learning the expressive power of the "blue." His steps to becoming "charactered" include learning to value oneself, to have "clean" motives, to focus one's commitments and to serve others. Unfortunately, the wisdom and validity of his thinking is obscured by an occasionally preachy tone and odd case histories. Self-improvement seekers would do better to look to Stephen Covey or others for more lucid writing, or to buy The Color Code for fun. (June)
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal

Substantially revised from its original self-published edition, this sequel to the best-selling The Color Code helps readers improve character.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Scribner (June 20, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0684865718
• ISBN-13: 978-0684865713
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #167,087 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing! See yourslef and others more correctly!, April 3, 2006

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Nathan Reagan (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Color Your Future: Using the Color Code to Strenghthen Your Character (Hardcover)

The book is awesome! I noticed a very bitter review written above and was so shocked I decided to write my own! (First let me state I do not know Hartman and I am not writing this review because of any connection to him! I am writing this because this book is amazing and I hope everyone looking into this book reads it! So to the bitter person who wrote the review above I say this; What is the cause of your obvious bitter disdain for Dr. Hartman?)

Dr Hartman's identifications of the base personality types is right on target! He very accurately identifies the root motivations and needs of the 4 different personality types helping the reader immediately gain a deeper understanding of human behavior. I love this book so much I have given away 2 copies and have boughten his second book, "Color Your Future." (Another extremely insightful book!) I promise if you get this book you will not regret it!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book answers a lot of questions., December 11, 2000

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"nnix" (Middletown, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Color Your Future: Using the Color Code to Strenghthen Your Character (Hardcover)

You should really read this book if you have been unhappy with your "lot" in life or are just plain unhappy with yourself. It answers a lot of questions and is like taking a look in the mirror. It may seem simplistic to break down the human personality into four color groups, but if you read through the book and spend some time on the tables, you will find your core personality. Then things will become much more clear. One whole chapter is spent on valuing oneself and its relevance to your whole being and to self-actualization. Dr. Hartman describes how doing what you love to do is part of valuing yourself. It asks that you not give up what you love, which is exactly what I had been doing. I found the book to be easy to follow and very logical and sensible. I've read through it once, but am going to keep it on hand to keep reminding me that there is hope.

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tired of the same old self help psychobable?, October 21, 1999

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Paul Newman (Franklin, TN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Color Your Future: Using the Color Code to Strenghthen Your Character (Hardcover)

Then read this book by Dr. Taylor Hartman. After reading his first two books on "The Color Code" and "The Character Code", this is the obvious follow up book on how to use the strengths and weaknesses of each personality "color" type presented by Dr. Hartman to understand your own inherent strengths and weaknesses. This book helps you examine your motives for doing the things you do and determining if they are "clean" motive or "dirty" motives. This is a recipe book for developing good character and is a must read for all parents and their teenage children as well. Dr.Hartman takes up where Dr. Laura leaves off by showing us how to become a more charactered human being instead of just telling us we should become one!