Otto Kroeger

Though I eventually lost most of my interest in personality typing, this was an important book for me. It helped me realize that my kind of character was a good and useful one, that I was not a failed version of some better type of person. Before this book, mostly all I had heard about personality was that only extraverted people were valuable or normal. I'm an introvert and an abstract thinker, whatever that means, and this is a good thing for me and for the world.

I could analyze myself show more using the Myers-Briggs system, but never felt comfortable trying to figure out types for people I knew.

Personality is too complicated to encompass in a four-letter-code, but each letter code by itself tells something interesting, if limited, about people.

This is a typical book about personality types, but one of the better ones. I read way too many similar books and articles before I realized I already knew enough about this subject. show less

Interesting...I have read other books about this typing process, but this one, instead of testing to see where you are, used the description of each type and each combination to help you pick out who you are and who others are. It helped me understand my spouse much better than I had.

Watered down, but practical guide to Jungian MBTI personality types.

Fun anecdotes. Not really necessary if you already have a thorough understanding of type.