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Title: People Patterns: A Modern Guide to the Four Temperaments by Stephen Montgomery ISBN: 1-885705-03-4 Publisher: Intj Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: "Please Understand Me II" for dummies
Comment: If you've read-and understood-David Keirsey's Please Understand Me II-then don't buy this book. Don't even think about buying this book. Go read Keirsey's. If you tried to read Please Understand Me II, and couldn't understand it, then read this book.
The author uses the same descriptions-often the same phrases- and really doesn't add much to Keirsey's book at all. It is just a simpler version. If Keirsey isn't getting a cut from this book, it's probably the most blatant copyright violation in the world. (And if you are getting a cut, Mr. Keirsey-then please don't leave reviews and fail to mention that fact. It's misleading).
This book is simplistic and brief. It's the USA Today version of a NY Times article. It's the movie version of a literary classic. It's the cliff notes of Keirsey's book. And, in this reviewer's opinion, it's not worth buying.
Rating: 5
Summary: Highly recommended introduction to personality types
Comment: People Patterns by Stephen Montgomery is a great introduction to David Keirsey's complex temperment theory. The approach is both fun and informative. You take a short test to determine your personality type (rational, idealist, guardian, or artisan) and then you can learn all about how your type and other types behave in different life situations, such as relationships and career. He gives some good career suggestions for each type. The really fun part is Montgomery's use of characters from popular novels and films to illustrate the different types. I particularly liked the Harry Potter references. One of his important points is that each personality type has their own unique talents and ways of approaching life, and it's a losing battle to try to change others to fit your blueprint. Try the test on your friends and family; it's fun and will change the way you look at others and yourself. Highly recommended!
Rating: 5
Summary: MODERN AND ACCURATE
Comment: Montgomery focusies on a MATRIX OF TEMPERAMENT, saying that people either make a habit of DOING WHAT'S RIGHT or DOING WHAT WORKS. Further, he says, people either make a habit of SAYING WHAT'S ACTUAL or SAYING WHAT'S POSSIBLE. This focus on the basic dimensions of temperament enables the reader to understand the numerous and bewildering differences in people's habits of working, mating, and parenting.
Montgomery does something else for the reader, which is to give current examples of the doings and sayings of all sorts of noted individuals in many walks of life, and in the new millennium to boot. Also he is accurate and eloquent in depicting mating of differing temperaments, and the parenting by differing temperaments of children of differing temperaments.
Very modern, very accurate. Hurray for Montgomery!
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Title: Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence by David Keirsey ISBN: 1885705026 Publisher: Prometheus Nemesis Book Co Inc Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The 16 Personality Types, Descriptions for Self-Discovery by Linda V. Berens, Dario Nardi ISBN: 0966462475 Publisher: Telos Pubns Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: The Art of Speed Reading People : How To Size People Up and Speak Their Language by Paul D. Tieger, Barbara Barron-Tieger ISBN: 0316845183 Publisher: Little, Brown Pub. Date: 25 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Portraits of Temperament by David Keirsey ISBN: 0960695419 Publisher: Prometheus Nemesis Book Co Inc Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Survival Games Personalities Play by Eve Delunas ISBN: 0931104351 Publisher: Sunflower Ink Pub. Date: 01 December, 1992 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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