There are countless Mbti courses, tutorials, articles available online, but for some, having a book is still a necessity to learn. This is an up-to-date list of recommended books.
- Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type (1995)
- Neuroscience of Personality: Brain Savvy Insights for All Types of People (2011)
- TEAM-BUILDING and INTERACTION. Practicing Personality Types in Corporate Context: MBTI activities (Practicing MBTI TYPES in CORPORATE CONTEXT) (2018)
- Personality Hacker: Harness the Power of Your Personality Type to Transform Your Work, Relationships, and Life (2018)
- Type Talk at Work (Revised): How the 16 Personality Types Determine Your Success on the Job (2002)
- Type Talk: The 16 Personality Types That Determine How We Live, Love, and Work (1989)
- My True Type: Clarifying Your Personality Type, Preferences & Functions (2017)
- Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence (1998)
- The 16 Personality Types: Profiles, Theory, & Type Development (2017)
- Essentials Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Assessment (2009)
- INFJ 101: How to Understand Your INFJ Personality and Thrive as the Rarest MBTI Personality Type (2017)
Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type (1995)
THE BELOVED CLASSIC FOR UNDERSTANDING PERSONALITY TYPE.Like a thumbprint, personality type provides an instant snapshot of a person’s uniqueness. Drawing on concepts originated by Carl Jung, this book distinguishes four categories of personality styles and shows how these qualities determine the way you perceive the world and come to conclusions about what you’ve seen. It then explains what they mean for your success in school, at a job, in a career and in your personal relationships.
Neuroscience of Personality: Brain Savvy Insights for All Types of People (2011)
Inside your brain are many keys to what make you and others tick. Imagine peering into the minds of your clients, friends, and loved-ones. Now you can! Award-winning UCLA professor and author Dario Nardi brings to life a feast of useful insights drawn from his brain research lab. He will lead you on a journey of self-discovery, chapter by chapter, that is grounded in first-hand scientific knowledge of the brain. This is a practical guide.
TEAM-BUILDING and INTERACTION. Practicing Personality Types in Corporate Context: MBTI activities (Practicing MBTI TYPES in CORPORATE CONTEXT) (2018)
20+ NEW USER-PROVEN EXERCISES for MBTI TEAM-BUILDING CORPORATE assessments and consultations. TOTAL KIT for the MBTI training with a special thematic selection of 20 exercises, developed for Types and dichotomies work out for teams development. You get all you need: activities on MBTI dichotomies, get-to-know, icebreakers, warm-ups, and sum-up exercises.
Personality Hacker: Harness the Power of Your Personality Type to Transform Your Work, Relationships, and Life (2018)
Delve into this interactive guidebook to hack your mind and uncover your core identity. Get past superficial markers of identity and discover the full makings of your personality type.
Type Talk at Work (Revised): How the 16 Personality Types Determine Your Success on the Job (2002)
What’s Your Type at Work? Are you one of those organized people who always complete your projects before they are due? Or do you put off getting the job done until the very last possible moment? Is your boss someone who readily lets you know how you are doing? Or does she always leave you unsure of precisely where you stand?
Type Talk: The 16 Personality Types That Determine How We Live, Love, and Work (1989)
What’s your type? Would you rather . . . . . . celebrate with the whole crowd or just a few friends? . . . focus on the facts or get an overall impression? . . . go with what “seems logical” or what “feels fair”? . . . keep to a schedule or keep your options open? How you answer these questions is the very beginning of understanding who you are and how you relate to those around you, by using a new and exciting method called Typewatching.
My True Type: Clarifying Your Personality Type, Preferences & Functions (2017)
It is hard to overstate the value and importance of knowing who you are. After all, who you understand yourself to be, your sense of self and identity, influences everything; it is the compass we use to navigate life. Your personality type is an integral part of who you are.
Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence (1998)
Rev. ed. of: Please understand me. 3rd ed. c1978.
The 16 Personality Types: Profiles, Theory, & Type Development (2017)
In order to know what we should do and how we should live, we must first know who we are. This compels us to understand ourselves and to clarify our identity. This “search for self” is also what leads many of us to personality typology. We sense that understanding our type (e.g., INFJ) might give us insight into ourselves, as well as the role we might play in the larger theater of life.
Essentials Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Assessment (2009)
In order to use the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) appropriately and effectively, professionals need an authoritative source of advice and guidance on how to administer, score, and interpret this test. Written by Naomi Quenk—who coauthored the 1998 revision of the MBTI Manual and the MBTI Step II Manual—Essentials of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Assessment, Second Edition is that source.
INFJ 101: How to Understand Your INFJ Personality and Thrive as the Rarest MBTI Personality Type (2017)
“INFJ 101: How To Understand Your INFJ Personality and Thrive As The Rarest MBTI Personality Type” aims to awaken those of this rare personality type to their unique way of being.
Best Mbti Books Reviewed & Ranked
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How to Slay Dragons and Understand People: MBTI & Personal Growth for Gamers
Author(s): Sherman, Matt
ID: 2802929, Publisher: , Year: 2016, Size: 526 Kb, Format: epub
From Stuckness to Growth: Enneagram Coaching (Enneagram, Mbti & Anthony Robbins-Cloe Madanes Hnp): How to Read Your Coachees and Transform Their Lives
Author(s): Yechezkel &. Ruth Madanes; Cloe Madanes
ID: 2288588, Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, Year: 2012, Size: 1 Mb, Format: azw3
From Stuckness to Growth: Enneagram Coaching (Enneagram, MBTI & Anthony Robbins-Cloe Madanes HNP): How to read your coachees and transform their lives
Author(s): Yechezkel Madanes, Ruth Madanes
ID: 2664147, Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Year: 2012, Size: 1 Mb, Format: epub
Please note that this booklist is not final. Some books are really chart-busters according to Los Angeles Times, others are drafted by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant books you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.