Unlock the Secrets of Your Temperament Type Do you love surprises and the unexpected? Are you a stickler for accuracy and details? Are you curious and innovative with a rich imagination? Do you like relating through mental challenges, or games of chess and bridge? Are you good at conflict resolution? Top-selling author and educator Renee Baron asks you these questions and many more, while presenting a fun and accessible explanation of the oldest theory of personality types. Are you: *A Security Seeker, valuing traditions and customs, and marked by the need to be responsible and dependable? *An Experience Seeker, valuing freedom, action, and excitement, and known for spontaneity and trusting impulses? *A Knowledge Seeker, valuing the power of the mind, and striving to understand the world? *An Ideal Seeker, valuing authenticity, using insight and emotional sensitivity to help others and find true intimacy? With quizzes and colorful examples, this book will give you insights into the special talents and challenges of each type. Whether you're just discovering this system, as well as those who use the Enneagram and Myers-Briggs, this fun and practical book will entertain, instruct, and inspire.
Like Renee Baron, I came to the study of temperaments through the Enneagram and then through the Myers-Briggs system. For my purposes as a college professor, I find Temperament studies to be far more helpful than the other two systems. A number of excellent books exist on the temperaments, such as Keirsey's, Linda Beren's, and the True Colors books, but Renee Baron's book is the best I've studied. It is simple enough for beginners and detailed enough for professions. Ms Baron's categories include childhood patterns, relationship patterns and occupational patterns, each discussed with depth and thoroughness. Overall, this is the best book on the subject.
We Can Get Along
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
Temperaments have been a favorite study of mine. Ms. Renee Baron's "The Four Temperaments" is a book I would highly recomment to anyone new or experienced with the topic of temperaments because she goes right to the core of what you're more or less looking for without including all the New Age junk science, such as attempting to corelate temperaments and astrology. I've always identified myself as phlegmatic or an Ideal Seeker, the term Ms. Baron uses. And wonder upon wonder, she amazes me at the insightful, time tested truths of the temperaments as, line by line, I exclaim, "That's me!" "That's how I relate!" "That's how I feel, I am!" This has become my favorite for giving to friends as well. Its simple, fun, accurate and less complicated than a full fledge, complicate study of the make up of the temperaments, providing thoughtful information and workable advice on how best we, people of one temperament or another can get along, be supportive of and nonjudgmental towards other human beings ... of another or similar temperament. This has been the most eye awakening study of my life. Ms. Baron, had I known it then, would have saved me lots of time and trouble searching for needles in haystacks.
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