About this title: Although we may not admit it to anyone else, all of us know there are areas in our personalities that need improvement. In this new edition of the bestselling book, Littauer examines the strengths and weaknesses of the four temperaments that comprise personality and shows how our personalities are made up of God-ordained, unique blends of all four ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780800751869ISBN:0800751868
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. A former library book with the usual identifiers. -, Trade PaperBack, Very Good / read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Revell
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780800754457ISBN:080075445X
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Previous owners name inscribed inside front. -, Trade PaperBack, Very Good / read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Revell
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780800754457ISBN:080075445X
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Previous owners name inscribed inside front. -, Trade PaperBack, Very Good / read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780800751869ISBN:0800751868
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Very good clean trade paperback. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company
ISBN-13:9780800751869ISBN:0800751868
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Description: Good. Purchasing this DVD supports the North Central Regional Library. Thriftbooks and NCRL have partnered to help raise additional funds for the library system. Library ID found on DVD and case. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company
ISBN-13:9780800751869ISBN:0800751868
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Revell
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780800754457ISBN:080075445X
Description: Good. Standard used condition. May have light reading or storage wear. All orders processed within 2 business days. Ships from Foxboro MA. read more
"I thought this book was pretty gimmicky. The conceit of it is that there are four basic "temperaments": Popular Sanguine, Peaceful Phlegmatic, Powerful Choleric, and Perfect Melancholy. The idea is that you can identify your own tendencies and those of the people you interact with, and adapt suitably. For example, Popular Sanguines are fun, talkative, outgoing, have great ideas & get fired up about them, but they are flaky, self-centered, & lack organization & follow through. So maybe they could lead the meeting and get everyone excited, but then delegate so that others will get the details properly taken care of. Perfect Melancholies are introverted and analytical, organized, easily depressed, and pessimistic. Powerful Cholerics are extroverted optimistic "doers" who make good leaders, but can be controlling, bossy, and stubborn, & don't have much use for friends. Peaceful Phlegmatics are easy-going, happy, relaxed, but unexciting, resistant to change, & can seem wishy-washy or lazy because they are laid-back. My first "problem" with this book is the test one can take to identify their type. There were forty rows of words, four across, and you must selct which one of each row of four best applies to you. The thing that I found weird was that each set of four words had nothing necessarily in common other than starting with the same letter, which to me seems like an odd contrivance. For example, instead of deciding where you are on a continuum, like "shy, reserved, outgoing, or bold" you must decide if you are: persistent, playful, persuasive, or peaceful refreshing, reserved, respectful, or resourceful orderly, obliging, outspoken, or optimistic impatient, insecure, indecisive, or interrupts worrier, withdrawn, workaholic, or wants credit
I think that you can get a murky idea at best, as several or none of the words from each row might fit you. Then on top of that, you can end up with a fairly even distribution between two or more types, so you are, say, a sanguine with choleric tendencies, or whatever. So basically, it comes down to: There are all different types of people out there who think and behave differently, have differnt strengths & weaknesses, get along well or not well with certain other personalities or situations, and respond well to different types of communication & behavior. Gee thanks! I never knew that different people are, um, different from one another. The take-away from this book, I guess, is to pay attention to yourself & others, and try to play to your own & one another's strengths, and try to mitigate weaknesses. Which is good advice, of course. But although there are some good (if seemingly overstated) examples, it is not rocket science, or really, any kind of science."
"I like learning about people personality and that's why I read this book. But still. I hop from one page to another like... Well, you know. But it helps."
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