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The 16 Personality Types: Descriptions for Self-Discovery Paperback – July 18, 1999

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The 16 Personality Types, Descriptions for Self-Discovery is an invaluable tool for users of the MBTI and related instruments. These descriptions present a living systems approach to describing the 16 types. Dr. Berens and Dr. Nardi have captured the essence of the 16 type patterns and crafted descriptions to be used to by individuals to clarify their best-fit type. This booklet provides the user with . . . * an interactive process to help individuals clarify their own best-fit type. * worksheets to help individuals better understand themselves and others. * a brief description of the themes for each type pattern * a snapshot for each type pattern * a full page Portrait for each type pattern--written in third person * a full page Self-Portrait-the long awaited Self-Discovery Descriptions - written in 1st Person * appendices for a brief overview of temperament, interaction styles, and type dynamics and development. From the Back Cover "Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power." - Lao Tzu Like trees in a forest, we are ever changing . . .yet staying the same . . .weathering the seasons of life. Coming to understand who we are is like looking into a lake. Sometimes the lake is so clear the reflection is nearly perfect, and we can't tell what is "real" and what is reflected. Other times, as in life, the lake is choppy. We only see a resemblance of ourselves, or we recognize nothing at all. Self-reflection can help us know ourselves, but may lead us in circles. Likewise, personality tests aren't always accurate. They are, like the choppy lake, subject to the winds of change, often reflecting our basic pattern but sometimes misleading us. Friends, family, and co-workers can give us valuable feedback but see us through their own lenses--sometimes, only giving us clues. Only by integrating all of these methods can we find our best-fit personality type pattern. The Sixteen Personality Types, Descriptions for Self-Discovery engages you in a self-discovery process using multiple forms of feedback. This process of uncovering and revealing requires your active participation. This book is designed to help you actively participate in your own self-discovery process. Accurate identification of our best-fit personality type pattern is the first step in mastering ourselves. Without it, we can delude ourselves. With it, we can find true insight, wisdom, security and freedom.
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Customers find the book very insightful, informative, and excellent for giving the salient points for each personality type. They also describe it as easy to read, understand, and follow with an elegant, easy-to-follow visual presentation. Readers mention the guide is user-friendly.

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James Walter Stitley Jr.
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I have most of the books probably published on the Myers Briggs Persoanlity Types and explanations. But, the book by Linda Berens, while each type is covered in a short space and not as in depth as many, did an excellent job of giving the salient points for each type. It is probably the best organized book on the 16 types, and the best general description and discussion of each. I found it an easy read and for people new to this process, the very best overview I have read. It is an excellent book to recommend to 'beginners' in unstanding the "Types", and the reader can go to other books for more in depth discussions if they choose. But, this book is the best one for new readers in the subject. It is now one of my favorites on Types and I have already recommended it to several people. Jim Stitley 8/9/2005
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melanie
5.0 out of 5 stars Have revisited this book again and again over almost 20 years
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I’ve read dozens of books on MBTI and this is by far the best. I first read this book almost 20 years ago and have referred to it countless times since and bought copies frequently for friends who want to learn more about type. In particular, the first person points of view on each type are an excellent way to really understand each personality. I’ll often hear friends and colleagues of each type say the exact sentences from the descriptions of their type without knowing it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely overview with personalized insight
Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2013
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This book condenses Myers-Briggs and Jung theory in 52 pages with elegant, easy to follow visual presentation and charts for self analysis. Included is both information on the needs and drives behind a personality type and also how they handle interpersonal relationships. One of the most memorable sections is where individuals of each type talk about their own personal experiences and identify as that type.

For those interested in personality type that either want a reference book or an overview plus a little extra, this is an excellent piece.
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Marilyn Mills LPC
3.0 out of 5 stars Good enough.
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Reads a little narrowly but my clients all seem to identify well with the material. Many good books dealing with the MBTI available. I would make this the 10th I would buy if I were researching subject.
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Thomas W. Rider
5.0 out of 5 stars Great reference for those who want to know
Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2013
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I use this in a class on personality and my students love it. Easy to read and understand, it generates lots of discussion.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Solid.
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David A. Baer
4.0 out of 5 stars not shooting at the moon
Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2006
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The classification of temperament is as at least two millenia old. Some of this effort falls decidely in the the half-baked side of the pan. Yet much of it is decidely helpful in understanding 'the way we are wired' and 'the way we process things', to use two very modern metaphors of personality typing.

Maybe you've never thought of it like that.

Linda Berens and Dario Nardi want you to think again, and to discover yourself in the profiles they've developed and invited you to try on. Their paradigm is the well-known Myers-Briggs assignment of four letters to a temperament, each of them a choice between two options. If you run the math, you'll quickly discover that there are sixteen possibilities, thus the title of this book. (Full disclosure: I'm an INTJ, so I'm really enjoying systematically reporting on this book, gentle reader.)

Berens and Nardi have made this guide user friendly and it is not necessary to have taken the Myers-Briggs 'test' in order to use it. In my opinion, the reader will greatly benefit from having done so. There are so many 'hooks' that one finds to hang one's temperament on in just about any prose description, that I find the M-B system is almost necessary in order to inject some element of objectivity into the process.

The great value of Berens' and Nardi's work is their trademarked (yes) two-word description of each of the sixteen types (INTJ: 'Conceptualizer Director') *and* the one-page 'Self-Portrait: What's it like to be you?'.

The latter is distilled from interviews with individuals belonging to each personality type. I have checked this against a number of friends in the presence of family and peers and found an extraordinary degree of confirmation that this is how the typed individuals actually feel about the world and their selves in it.

This book could serve as good introduction to the modern practice of temperament/personality classification. I also find it helpful in a business/organization context, where mutual understanding (without the touchy-feely excesses that lead so predictably to the gag reflex) is often essential to accomplishing shared goals and avoiding hallway assassinations.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Un libro excepcional sobre personalidad / An outstanding book about personality
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Habiendo leído y estudiado numerosos libros de personalidad, incluidos libros de MBTI, pienso que este trabajo de Dario Nardi presenta un enfoque muy científico y sólido. Vale tanto para la persona que tiene conocimientos previos como para la que no. Me ha gustado especialmente su descripción de los 16 tipos de personalidad desde el punto de vista de un observador externo así como la percepción de uno mismo desde dentro. También es muy enriquecedor el cuadro de resumen de las 16 distintas tipologías porque ayuda realmente a compararlas y discernir entre ellas.
En definitiva, creo que Dario Nardi ha condensado en poco espacio el resultado de un estudio académico profundo sobre el tema de la personalidad. He llegado a él sabiendo que es un investigador riguroso que abre nuevos caminos en el estudio de la personalidad y estoy muy agradecido por lo que he aprendido gracias a él.
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Having read and studied a variety of personality books, including MBTI manuals, I think that this work by Dario Nardi presents a very scientific and solid approach to the field. It is useful both for the reader who has previous knowledge on personality typing as well as for the one who is new to the topic. I especially liked his explanation of how others perceive the different personalities from the outside and how one experiences it from within. The summary table of the 16 different typologies is also very enriching, it really helps to compare and discern between them.
In short, I believe that Dario Nardi has condensed in this book the result of a deep academic study on the subject of personality. I have known Dario thanks to his generous spread of his research, opening new paths in the study of personality and I am very grateful for what I have learned from him.
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Michele Taylor
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 31, 2012
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A brilliant summary of the 16 MBTI personality types. This is somehow more personal and informal than the sketches found in some of the other publications. It feels more 'F' than the 'T' feel to many of the others. I would thoroughly recommend this to supplement other MBTI profile info.
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