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Please
Understand Me II
by David W. Keirsey, Stephen
Montgomery
- From the Back Cover
Phenomenon: Keirsey and Bates's Please Understand Me,
first published in 1978, sold nearly 2 million copies in
its first 20 years, becoming a perennial best seller all
over the world. Advertised only by word of mouth, the
book became a favorite training and counseling guide in
many institutions -- government, church, business -- and
colleges across the nation adopted it as an auxiliary
text in a dozen different departments. Why? Perhaps it
was the user-friendly way that Please Understand Me
helped people find their personality style. Perhaps it
was the simple accuracy of Keirsey's portraits of
temperament and character types. Or perhaps it was the
book's essential message: that members of families and
institutions are OK, even though they are fundamentally
different from each other, and that they would all do
well to appreciate their differences and give up trying
to change others into copies of themselves. Now:
Please Understand Me II
For the past twenty years Keirsey has continued to
investigate personality differences -- to refine his
theory of the four temperaments and to define the facets
of character that distinguish one from another. His
findings form the basis of Please Understand Me II, an
updated and greatly expanded edition of the book, far
more comprehensive and coherent than the original, and
yet with much of the same easy accessibility. One major
addition is Keirsey's view of how the temperaments differ
in the intelligent roles they are most likely to develop.
Each of us, he says, has four kinds of intelligence --
tactical, logistical, diplomatic, strategic -- though one
of the four interests us far more than the others, and
thus gets far more practice than the rest. Like four
suits in a hand of cards, we each have a long suit and a
short suit in what interests us and what we do well, and
fortunate indeed are those whose work matches their
skills. As in the original book, Please Understand Me II
begins with The Keirsey Temperament Sorter, the most used
personality inventory in the world. But also included is
The Keirsey Four-Types Sorter, a new short questionnaire
that identifies one's basic temperament and then ranks
one's second, third, and fourth choices. Share this new
sorter with friends and family, and get set for a lively
and fascinating discussion of personal styles.
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