Character and Personality Type, Discovering Your Uniqueness for Career and Relationship Success - Softcover

Dario Nardi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0966462467 ISBN 13: 9780966462463

Publisher: Telos Publications, 2000

Synopsis

Part of the Understanding Yourself and OthersTM Series

Character and Personality Type will change the way you look at personality type and development.

Contains Dr. Nardi's long awaited 64 character biographies-4 for each type with illustrations-gives you a new look at the differences within personality type.

This book provides the user with . . .

* a brief overview of temperament
* an introduction to Dr. Nardi's Life-Themes
* an interactive process to help individuals discover differences within their same type.
* worksheets to help individuals better understand themselves and others.
* 64 Character Biographies with Cartoon Illustrations
* a snapshot for each type pattern
* appendices for a brief overview of the Essential Qualities of the 16 Type Patterns.
* frequently asked questions with answers.
* notes for the facilitator using the MBTI, MBTI Step II, and the Strong Interest Inventory (SII).

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Dario Nardi, Ph.D.
Dario teaches at University of California, Los Angeles, where is a founding member of the Human Complex Systems degree program and winner of UCLA's Distinguished Teaching award. He is the author and co-author of numerous titles including The 16 Personality Types: Descriptions for Self-Discovery and Neuroscience of Personality: Brain Savvy Insights For All Types of People. He has been working with type and temperament since 1992. Dario received his degree in Systems Science from State University of New York at Binghamton's Watson School of Engineering.

From the Back Cover

"There is a vitality,
a life-force,
an energy,
a quickening that
is translated
through you
into action, and
because there is
only one of you
in all of time,
this expression
is unique and if
you block it, it
will never exist
through any
medium and will
be lost . . .
the world will
not have it."
-Agnes De Mille

Just as there are many kinds of trees and soils for growth, so too are there many meanings of character--personality, life-themes and stories, and morals and ethics.

Like a tree, there is more to us than our external appearance. On the outside, a tree's bark gives the tree a sense of character, weathering the seasons of life. But there is more to the tree than its bark. On the inside, the tree's genetic blueprint gives the tree its potential and its instrinsic character. In the larger picture, the tree plays a role and serves a purpose within the larger system. The interplay between its intrinsic nature and role and purpose in its environment shows in the tree's bark. The bark is our uniqueness.

The self-discovery and personal self-leadership process outlined in this book is not about just making a one-time decision on a career, or "fixing" a current relationship. This book is designed to give you tools and some important organizing principles so that you can generate and maintain a life that offers sufficient choices, resources, and flexibility for you to respond to demands and opportunities over a lifetime.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

From section Discovering Your Uniqueness

The Roots of Character

Character has many meanings, and a broad philosophical perspective of character asks us to believe that we all make decisions and try to develop in the best way we can, given our inherent nature, life background, current resources and future potential. Sometimes this process seems difficult and possibly painful. More often, given a push in the right direction, small day-to-day decisions about how we lead our lives amplify into lasting effects. In this sense, character becomes a particular pattern of characteristic choices and changes as opposed to a simple linear scale or static set of either/or options.

Edition details

• Publisher: Telos Publications
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0966462467
• ISBN 13: 9780966462463
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 76