Our list of some of the best Myers Briggs books & series in recent years. Get inspired by one or more of the following books.
- Essentials Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Assessment (2009)
- Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence (1998)
- Personality Hacker: Harness the Power of Your Personality Type to Transform Your Work, Relationships, and Life (2018)
- Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type (1995)
- Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament Types (1984)
- Type Talk: The 16 Personality Types That Determine How We Live, Love, and Work (1989)
- Reading People: How Seeing the World through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything (2017)
- The 16 Personality Types: Profiles, Theory, & Type Development (2017)
- The Personality Testing (2019)
- Your Secret Self: Understand Yourself and Others Using the Myers-Briggs Personality Test (2016)
- What Type Am I? Discover Who You Really Are (1998)
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.
Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence (1998)
Rev. ed. of: Please understand me. 3rd ed. c1978.
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.
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.
Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament Types (1984)
Does your spouse’s need to alphabetically organize books on the shelves puzzle you? Do your boss’s tsunami-like moods leave you exasperated? Do your child’s constant questions make you batty? If you’ve ever wanted to change your mate, your coworkers, or a family member, then “Put down your chisel,” advise David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates in this book of personality types. We are different for a reason, and that reason is probably more good than bad.
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.
Reading People: How Seeing the World through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything (2017)
If the viral Buzzfeed-style personality quizzes are any indication, we are collectively obsessed with the idea of defining and knowing ourselves and our unique place in the world.
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. Unfortunately, many personality books provide only a superficial understanding of the types.
The Personality Testing (2019)
*A Spectator Best Book of 2018* The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is the most popular personality test in the world. It is used regularly by Fortune 500 companies, universities, hospitals, churches, and the military. Its language of personality types–extraversion and introversion, sensing and intuiting, thinking and feeling, judging and perceiving–has inspired television shows, online dating platforms, and Buzzfeed quizzes.
Your Secret Self: Understand Yourself and Others Using the Myers-Briggs Personality Test (2016)
Take this modern version of the Myers-Briggs personality test and find out which of the sixteen types fits you best.
What Type Am I? Discover Who You Really Are (1998)
These are just a few of the questions about yourself that you can answer with What Type Am I? Based on the classic personality test taken by millions annually, this book will help you to assess your individual preferences in four basic areas: how you relate to the world, take in information, make decisions, and manage your life. Now a family therapist explains this fascinating system in a way that is entertaining and easy to absorb.
Best Myers Briggs Books That You Need
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Myers-Briggs
Author(s): Virginia Loh-Hagan
ID: 3527032, Publisher: 45th Parallel Press, Year: 2020, Size: 9 Mb, Format: epub
The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing
Author(s): Merve Emre
ID: 2265475, Publisher: Doubleday, Year: 2018, Size: 9 Mb, Format: epub
What’s Your Type?: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing
Author(s): Merve Emre
ID: 2272728, Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, Year: 2018, Size: 698 Kb, Format: epub
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