Type Talk: The 16 Personality Types That Determine How We Live, Love, and Work (1988) by Otto Kroeger and Janet Thuesen

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Best intro to Type

Knowing where to begin the journey of understanding Type can be a bit challenging. After all, there is no โ€œrightโ€ way to look at personality, and many of us in the community have been introduced through many different doors.

Type Talk was one of the first 3 books related to MBTI that I finished, and still to this day I reference it before a session with my clients. In addition to being a fabulous reference for the practitioner such as myself, it is highly accessible to the newbie just breaking into the MBTI world. The background of personality and the history of its progression eases the reader into the Type world, and truly cannot be missed when discussing landmark personality books.

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On par with David Keirseyโ€™s Please Understand Me, Type Talk gives a highly thorough and differentiated explanation of the dichotomies. When I say differentiated, I mean that the reader will clearly be able to delineate what the difference between a Sensor (S) and an iNtuitive (N) is based on the descriptions.

Expands understanding of Keirsey Temperaments

Type Talk takes what David Kiersey created with the 4 Temperaments and expands them into many different manifestations we see in day-to-day life. Literally, Type Talk is filled with examples of Temperament in regards to fashion, parenting, management, self-management, decision making, dating/romance, career success, etc. 

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As you become more aware of the Temperaments, you start to notice patterns. You will say, โ€œThat guy dresses like an NT…her speaking style is very SP…she expresses her feelings in a very NF way.โ€ This is not labeling or discriminatory. This is noticing a pattern and applying a framework to it. In addition to helping you empathize and understand others to a deeper degree, this pattern recognition becomes a very fun game that helps you sharpen your typing skills.

Getting a solid benchmark understanding of temperaments is the way I personally started to cement the Types in my head. As I have mentioned previously in videos, articles, and interviews, there is no way to possibly memorize how ALL the 16 types act, speak, or react to things; especially at the beginning of understanding Type. Breaking them down by temperament is the place to start that helps encapsulate their essence.

Sex Differences in Type

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Type Talk takes a very compassionate view of the differences between gender and Type. The reality is the reality, no matter how much we rally against it in the modern age. This book recognized the reality, along with the unfairness of gender differences in Type, back in 1988 (before it was cool).

An ESTJ female is going to be received much differently than an ESTJ male, particularly in a corporate environment. According to Type Talk, the desired โ€œfemininityโ€ that most corporations look for, is not usually present with the ESTJ female. You tend to see a much more โ€œmasculineโ€ and driven person who clashes with the prejudiced view of what a female โ€œshould be.โ€

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The ENTJ female will likely experience the same kind of pushback, both from her male and female counterparts. Certainly, there will be a level of intimidation that is felt by colleagues of the ENTJ and ESTJ female, but to deny this reality is to assign blame on things that arenโ€™t actually real. Meaning, your standard sniping remarks at sexual frustration, chip on the shoulder, daddy issues, etc.

Consider the other dynamic which would be the INFP male. The INFP male typically does not exude the standard aggressiveness that is expected of a male in Western society. To counter this, INFP males may overcompensate and attempt to exude hyper-masculinity as a means of fitting in with their male counterparts. Understanding this phenomenon in both yourself and others can help cut to the core of problems that may arise at work or in your personal life.

Concept of Typewatching

Typewatching is the practice of Typing people in your world as you start to notice patterns, as Iโ€™ve mentioned previously. You do not need to send them an assessment to know they are an ISFP. Especially with people you live or work with, observational and anecdotal data are more than enough to get a precise Typing of someone.

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As with anything we start to do on a daily basis, you get really good at Typing people, and much faster. This doesnโ€™t mean you get more accurate per se, but that you hone in on patterns of activity that you can quickly latch onto when making Typing decisions.

My Rating

Type Talk deserves a 90/100. Itโ€™s nearly the perfect book to intro Type to the world, and it genuinely takes a broad approach to the subject. Though it does not cover the cognitive functions — and it doesnโ€™t need to– there is hardly a topic that isnโ€™t touched on throughout. 

Albeit written in 1988, it has stood the test of time, much like the field of personality and MBTI. 

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Introverted iNtuition and the Conspiracy Theorist

Reality Does Not Exist

Carl Jung and Intuition

First, letโ€™s start out with what Carl Jung said about Introverted iNtuition.

“The peculiar nature of introverted intuition, when given the priority, also produces a peculiar type of man, viz. the mystical dreamer and seer on the one hand, or the fantastical crank and artist on the other.”

In modern terms, this is either the person who predicts the future with an uncanny insight, or the tinfoil-hat-wearing lunatic that has predicted the end of the world every year since 1999. The line is very thin, and in most cases they are the same person until a prediction comes true. Only then are they a โ€œgenius.โ€

Intuition vs Sensation

Itโ€™s best to include what the opposite of Intuition looks like to get a reference point. Sensation and Intuition are both perceiving functions, meaning that they collect information like a sponge in either an active or passive way. 

Sensors generally focus on the details as they exist in the physical or concrete realm. What it is, how it smells, the color, the texture, etc. These are descriptions of objects or events in their most overt form.

What is a Texture?

Intuitives generally focus on the meaning or theme of an object or event. What it means, what it says about humanity, what implications it yields, what the forces behind the event are, etc. These are intuitive leaps, as they say, into the essence of the object.

Though S and N both perceive the same thing, their conclusions couldnโ€™t be more dissimilar.

Cognitive Functions and MBTI

Understanding the Myers Briggs Type Indicator: The 8 Cognitive Functions

Introverted Intuition is one of the 8 cognitive functions within the MBTI model, and arguably it is the most fascinating to discuss. It is denoted as โ€œNiโ€ within the Type community, and I will write it as such for the remainder of this article.

Ni has been described in many colorful ways, and here are some of my favorites:

  • Abstract conceptualization
  • Non-linear thinking
  • Patterns within patterns
  • Dot connecting
  • Seeing the future
  • Uncanny insight

Also, do yourself a huge favor and check out one of my favorite Youtube MBTI celebs, Love Who, as he describes how the INTJ in particular manifests as a conspiracy theorist.

When you think about the list of bullet points above, you can easily see how these can be viewed with positive outcomes. But the negatives are much juicier!!

  • Abstract conceptualization
    • Not grounded in a reality that others can easily follow.
  • Non-linear thinking
    • Cannot get their point across, bouncing around from concept to concept, grasping at connections that arenโ€™t there or are too far-fetched.
  • Patterns within patterns
    • Can become unhinged with discussions of conspiracy pyramids, Illuminati, Reptilians, New World Order, etc.
  • Dot connecting
    • Connecting dots that shouldnโ€™t be connected.
  • Seeing the future
    • Apocalypse, dystopian nightmare, negative outcomes, dark clouds on the horizon.
  • Uncanny insight
    • Others view you as creepy and suspiciousโ€ฆโ€How did you know thatโ€ฆโ€ but not in a good way.

Describing Introverted Intuition (Ni)

Now you just have to articulate it!

The way I like to describe it to others is having thousands of random data points (your experience, news articles, social media, things you see in public, things people say, facial expression, etc.) that you are accessing to merge into a single idea or theme. 

The brain of the Introverted iNtuitive (Ni) is trying to make sense of the world by connecting seemingly unrelated events together. Itโ€™s trying to distill down the world into its essential element or โ€œtruth.โ€

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Makes sense

I am reminded of a very random quote from an obscure Rodney Dangerfield movie called Back to School. In it, a young Robert Downey Jr. does not want to go to his collegeโ€™s football game because football is a โ€œcrypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.โ€ Say what now?! Thatโ€™s something an unhinged intuitive would say! To come to that conclusion takes many leaps in logic and possibility to arrive where he did. Also, if you were to ask how he came to that analysis? 

โ€œIโ€™m not entirely sure,โ€ would be the answer.

Conspiracy Theorist

I have seen the documents!

Itโ€™s easy to see how this style of perception can lead one down the road to crankery and tinfoil-hatism. The common theme of Ni users is that they feel like an alien in a human’s body, and the use of Ni is the reason why. Itโ€™s really no wonder that Carl Jung himself (an INFJ) went insane at the end of his life. 

However, we have to admire those throughout history who changed the world through the use of their Ni:

  • Elon Musk
  • Nikola Tesla
  • Issac Newton
  • Ayn Rand
  • Friedrich Nietszche
  • Karl Marx
  • Mark Zuckerberg
  • Stephen Hawking
  • Vladimir Lenin
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…to just name a few!

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Book Review: Please Understand Me by David Keirsey (1978)

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Please Understand Me Book Review

David Keirsey has sold over 4 million copies of his book in the last 30 years. Please Understand Me remains, to this day, as the book that best defines each of the 16 personality types.

Temperaments

Keirseyโ€™s major contribution to personality type was his classification of the 16 types into 4 distinct Temperaments. They are:

NT: Intuitive + Thinking

NF: Intuitive + Feeling

SP: Sensing + Perceiving

SJ: Sensing + Judging

Along with those combinations, he also named each temperament using an archetype. For example, NTs are the Rationals; NFs are the Idealists, SPs are the Artisans, and SJs are the Guardians. This helps us to generally understand the mindset and structure of the types in a way that just listing the 2 letters would never allow.

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Temperaments are not new to Myers Briggs. However, the Keirsey model and the official MBTI model (called โ€œFunction Pairsโ€) are slightly different. The official MBTI model lists the temperaments in a different combination, instead opting for: NT, NF, SF, ST. This is a more straightforward approach to creating the temperaments, as it simply combines the 2 middle functions.

Keirsey opted to approach things differently. Instead of simply adding the 2nd and 3rd letters together in a uniform manner, for the Sensor types, he added the 2nd and 4th letters together. 

When I discuss Temperaments, I am working from the Keirsey model.

Take the Keirsey Temperament Sorter here (its 70 questions).

The 16 types

The descriptions that are given in Please Understand Me are some of the most precise and wonderfully elegant writings that I have come across in studying Typology. 

Here are a couple of examples:

โ€œHere is the herald, the spirited bearer of tidings. But underneath this effervescent enthusiasm is a person fiercely dedicated to โ€œmeaningโ€ in life. (page 74, the ENFP)

โ€œINFPโ€™s seek unity in their lives, unity of body and mind, emotions and intellect. They often have a subtle tragic motif running throughout their lives, but others seldom detect this inner minor key.โ€ (page 176, the INFP)

โ€œInefficiency is especially rejected by ENTJs, and repetition of errors causes them to become impatient. For the ENTJ, there must always be a reason for doing anything, and peopleโ€™s feelings usually are not sufficient reason. (page 178, ENTJ)

โ€œINTJs need only to have a vague, intuitive impression of the unexpressed logic of a system to continue surely on their way. Things need only seem logical; this is entirely sufficient.โ€ (page 181, the INTJ)

There are many more examples, but do yourself a favor and discover them in full when you buy this book after you finish this article.

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How to Use in your Daily Life

As professional typologists or enthusiasts, something that naturally happens is trying to Type people in your daily life. I imagine itโ€™s just like studying psychology–now youโ€™re diagnosing everyoneโ€™s mental illnesses. What the temperaments allow you to do, instead of trying to memorize all 16 types, is to only think of 4 possible temperaments as a starting point. 

It is much easier to start typing someone and think. โ€œHe sounds like an NF Type,โ€ than it is to try and decipher an INFJ from an ENFP. 

My Rating and Recommendation

I can solidly make the recommendation to read Please Understand Me as the 1st or 2nd book you read when starting your typological journey. I give this book a 95/100. It can benefit anybody for any application in their life. It does not take an expert nor someone with a psych background to enjoy the description of E vs. I; NT vs. NF; or INFJ vs. ESFP. It is probably one of the rare MBTI books that can be enjoyed across the entire spectrum of personality types.

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Book Review: Gifts Differing by Isabel Briggs Myers. (1980)

There are plenty of good places to start learning about MBTI. I am often asked what books to read to begin, so I am starting a series of book reviews related to typology and MBTI.

Book review on Gifts Differing

Carl Gustav Jung

I would actually NOT start with Carl Jung (CGJ) and Psychological Types, as it is dense, esoteric, and better reserved for the 3rd or 4th book after a more simple framework has been established. I think reading his book as your first foray into Typology might turn you away from it altogether. Even though in most cases we should always start at the beginning, this is a special circumstance where it will not serve you well.

Carl Gustav Jung

Where to Start

I recommend starting with Gifts Differing, by Isabel Briggs Myers. It is essentially the Bible for the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). This book had been in the making for decades before it was finally released in the 80s. Isabel and her mother Katherine, had been developing an assessment that could take the incomplete theories of CGJ and make them into a digestible format that could be taken by anybody across the world. Carl had never truly ventured outside of his clinical practice to apply Type to the world, so this mother-daughter pair made it happen!

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Gifts Differing by Isabel Myers

Book Overview

Gifts Differing, by Isabel Briggs Myers, is surprisingly technical; it contains lots of graphs, charts, and standard deviation analysis of all kinds of things such as Type and academic pursuit, Type and IQ, Type and romance, Type and career, Type and learning styles, etc. For those who need more than anecdotal evidence to be convinced, this book is shockingly dense with longitudinal studies to support the reality of Type.

The book also covers some more complicated parts of MBTI like cognitive functions, which is the true beauty of MBTI. Along with this, is how the types develop over a lifetime, another major differentiator of MBTI vs. other assessments. As all Typologists resoundingly agree, we canโ€™t talk about personality type unless we talk about development. 

The prose is quite remarkable and is only rivaled by the great David Kiersey who wrote Please Understand Me. Because, think about it–you can only use so many words to simply describe somebody (direct, quiet, shy, outgoing, gregarious etc.); it’s when you start using allegories and poetic nuances that you truly dig down into the depths of each type. Gifts Differing contains this language. After all, Isabel Myers was an INFP, so she gets right to the heart of each type. Her connection to each Type is thoroughly apparent throughout this book.

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Please Understand Me by David Keirsey

Book Rating

I give this book an 85/100. It definitely cannot be missed when studying MBTI! I consider it essential reading for a baseline understanding of MBTI, and how Isabel and Katherine began to form their assessment over many years. Itโ€™s a healthy combination of anecdotal and statistical information that will appeal to all โ€œtypesโ€ of personality enthusiasts. 

For more reading list suggestions, look forward to some of my future blog posts.ย 

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Interview with Lindsay Johnson

I had the supreme honor to interview Lindsay Johnson, CEO and co-founder of Snugg.me and host of the wildly popular Youtube channel known as LiJo.

For those who donโ€™t have time for the whole interview, the TL:DR version is below.

Why Did She Create Snugg.me?

Snugg.me is a platform that allows YouTube influencers to engage more effectively with their audiences. The problem Lindsay quickly found was that there was not a single platform that could integrate all the tools needed to be truly effective. Snugg integrates payment, video, and scheduling in one platform, which reduces the friction involved with 3rd party calendars, installing Zoom, and getting paid. Snugg is able to accomplish these objectives all in one place. To book Lindsay for the show, I actually used the platform myself. Pretty seamless!  

Advice for NT Females at Work

Generally speaking, the NT female struggles in corporate America, not because of their competence, but because their qualities are more masculine (eg. assertiveness, bluntness, drive, etc). I asked her if she had ever encountered this in the workplace, and Lindsay said she was lucky to have managers with Te (Extraverted Thinking), so they respected her straightforwardness and direct manner in meetings and with projects. 

She suspects that negative interactions or miscommunications were likely with those who possessed Fi (Introverted feeling) and Ti (Introverted Thinking). As with most NT (Rationals) types, she was not good with the pleasantries of the workplace (โ€˜Good Morningโ€ in emails; โ€œWhat did you do this weekend?โ€). Her direct manner of responding in one line and hitting โ€œSendโ€ had to be consciously bred out of her. In Type development for the NTโ€™s, being more tactful is a great place to start!

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Emotional Intelligence vs. MBTI

There is a growing movement that advocates Emotional Intelligence as the best indicator for employment and career success. According to Lindsay, Typology is still a better holistic approach to assessing candidates rather than what they score on an Emotional Intelligence test. Scoring โ€œwellโ€ on Emotional intelligence doesnโ€™t mean you are done developing as a person. 

Jung, and many of his modern day predecessors (Nardi, Beebe, Berens, etc.) advocate for a lifelong development model based on cognitive functions, archetypes, and self-actualization. THAT is where the beauty of MBTI truly separates itself from the others, in that it has a path that is actionable for every Type. Unfortunately, that is not part of the modern day MBTI messaging, thus many people feel underwhelmed after going through a workshop.The corporate MBTI model is much different than the Jungian model- this is the main crux of the divide amongst Typologists. 

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John Beebe model of all 8 Jungian functions

When working with me, my clients experience the deepest dive possible into their personality, covering all facets of the tool to an extent that might, at first, seem overwhelming. My development model starts with a 5-week course that works macro-to-micro. What that means is we look at your Type from 10,000 feet and then gradually zoom into about 2 ft. Throughout the sessions, I provide actionable tasks to develop parts of your personality that we agree are โ€œlackingโ€ or are โ€œblind spots.โ€

Creating Good Content

Lindsay discovered the key to creating great content lies in engaging her Fe function (AGAIN!).  She asked herself, โ€œWhat do others actually want to see?โ€ and โ€œ How do I make it entertaining?โ€ Most of us in the MBTI community are familiar with the great Frank James, who hilariously acts out each of the 16 types in various life scenarios. He is the inspiration for my own channel, even though he is a lowly INFJ. Love you Frank!!

Its your boy, Frank James

Lindsay, however, felt she could not give each of the Types justice by themselves. She felt there is simply too much to personalize to truly do each of the types correctly. So, she pivoted to something she DID know very well, and that is the 8 cognitive functions. Lindsay found that she could teach her audience, in a funny way, how each of the 8 cognitive functions work, and how one would realistically see them presented in life. Her trajectory in this regard has been remarkable to someone who watches all her videos.  

Thinking (T) Problems

Thinking types, for all their analytical and objective abilities, are often sorely out of touch with the emotional spectrum and what is generally well-received in society. When it comes to humor and timing, sometimes Tโ€™s donโ€™t read the room all so well. As Lindsay points out, a logically funny joke, may not be well-suited during certain environments. As T types grow into their true Self, they learn to incorporate their F side for more harmonious interactions. 

Timing Jokes

Best MBTI Team

If Lindsay could pick 4 Types for a project–any project–what would they be? She says INTJ, ISTP, ENFJ, and ENTP. Interestingly, the ENFJ was specifically chosen to, once again, bring the human element to the team. That dastardly Fe function rears its head again! When you look at companies making massive strides today, Lindsay believes the Extraverted Feeling function is the reason why.

Where to Find Lindsay

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Interview with Professor Dario Nardi, PhD

World renowned neuroscience expert and personality consultant Dario Nardi, joined me to discuss his new book and many other topics around MBTI. As a fellow INTJ, Dario and I got along very well.

His Latest Book

The Magic Diamond is Dr. Nardiโ€™s newest book. It is a combination of the last 10 years of research proceeding the release of his magnum opus, The Neuroscience of Personality. Dario has been a student in the Jungian tradition for 30 years, and The Magic Diamond is an amalgamation of all that wisdom. The concept of the Magic diamond is one of integration that, over your lifetime, combines your best and worst cognitive functions into a fully realized Self.

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The Magic Diamond by Dario Nardi

Career Impact on People’s Brains

An intriguing revelation from Darioโ€™s research is the extent to which a person’s occupation impacts brain function and activity. Workplace stressors and pressures to engage a part of your personality that is not your true nature, can STILL affect results on an EEG machine. As MBTI practitioners, this fact should compel us to spend more time with our clients to truly get to the bottom of our clientโ€™s true nature.

CT and Brain Imaging; My Brain Lab Session with Dario Nardi โ€“ Cognitive  Typology
Each part of the brain labeled by module and activity

Personality Hacker 

In the interview, Personality Hacker was mentioned briefly. Dario has done an exclusive 12-week course through their paid membership page. Also, Personality Hacker created what I would consider the best model for understanding the top 4 cognitive functions, which is known as the Car Model.

Personality Development Tools: The Car Model โ€” Personality Type and  Personal Growth | Personality Hacker

I would also recommend their podcast which covers every conceivable aspect of MBTI you could possibly imagine.

Brains are Different by Culture 

Interesting enough, and hardly ever talked about, is the fact that culturally, brains develop differently and have distinct patterns and energies. Did you also know that brain scans show up completely differently with left-handed and right-handed people?

Ethical Standards within MBTI Community 

The Type community has always maintained that you never tell someone what their Type is. โ€œYou are an ENTJ; You are an ISFP,โ€ are huge No-Nos in the professional Typology community. The client is always the final arbiter of their Type. Dario makes it clear that itโ€™s not our job as analysts to tell people their Type, but to have the client discover their most likely patterns and tendencies themselves.

MBTI in Relation to DiSC and Five Factor Model 

Dario makes an outstanding case for the superiority of MBTI over other assessments such as Five Factor Model and DiSC due to their lack of a โ€œdevelopment path.โ€ MBTI, and the underlying theory of Jung, looks at personality through the lens of developing yourself over your lifetime. When you push aside the corporate MBTI model, you discover a huge gulf of knowledge around developing your personality that is sadly lacking in other personality assessments.

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DiSC model

Type Gives us a Lens to See Through 

We donโ€™t often seek to examine how we look at ourselves and others. If we do, we donโ€™t have a way to define the method or framework. โ€œThe unexamined life is not worth livingโ€ is a great starting point, but what tool will we use to examine our life? MBTI is the tool to do just that. Unique as we all are, there are repeatable and demonstrable traits that we all exhibit within a certain personality Type. Having a shared language and model to work within, then gives us a way to start implementing the many type development plans that exist within MBTI.

Jung vs Modern-Day Type Literature

Being a true scholar of Jung, Dario was quick to point out that the current Type literature that exists deviates from Jung in one specific way: it’s overly positive. If you read Psychological Types, the descriptions of the 8 cognitive functions are essentially 80% good and 20% bad. Jung was mostly concerned about how these functions could manifest in a negative way, and being cautious about overstating the positive. In todayโ€™s modern MBTI literature, the opposite is expressed: โ€œMost people are generally psychologically healthy, so hereโ€™s one line at the bottom of the page that describes a potential way things could go wrong with your Type.โ€

Biography of Carl Jung: Founder of Analytical Psychology
Carl Gustav Jung

Using Type with Newbies 

Dario says that he does not roll out the cognitive functions model to newbies right away when introducing Type. This is generally in line with the corporate MBTI methodology. Personally, understanding the cognitive functions took me an entire 2 years of self-study before it solidified in my head. It is best to nail down an understanding of the dichotomies first, before diving deeper into the โ€œfunction stack.โ€

360 Assessment 

I have made this same point in my presentations to clients– if you get a result from the MBTI assessment that you arenโ€™t quite sure about, go and ask your mom, spouse, colleague or confidant if the results match. Likely, they will be able to instantly say yay/nay to the result. The paradox of psychology is that it’s tough to use your own brain to evaluate itself– let someone else objectively evaluate the assessment results.

Neuroscience of Personality 2.0 

Dario is working on a 2nd book that is compiling even more data than his 2011 best seller. After almost 10 more years of data has been collected, the time has come to expound and expand on his previous work. Though this book will be โ€œless Type oriented than some Typologists would like,โ€ he assures us that it will have plenty of Type in it! 

Please check out the links below and find a way to connect with Dr. Nardi. 

Books

The Magic Diamond

Neuroscience of Personality

8 Keys to Self-Leadership

Best links to Find Dario

www.RadianceHouse.com

www.DarioNardi.com 

www.facebook.com/dnardi/notes. (people can find various articles by Dario here) www.linkedin.com/in/dnardi22 

Neurosciences et Typologie – Confรฉrence de Dario Nardi, PhD (in English)


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