Personality

Two Ways of Looking at Life
Learned Optimism : How to Change Your Mind and Your Life (Vintage)
by Martin E. Seligman, Ph.D.
The optimists and the pessimists: I have been studying them for the past twenty-five years. The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything they do.

The Blank Slate, the Noble Savage, and the Ghost in the Machine

In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits-a doctrine held by many

Misperceptions, Part 2
Symbols And Deception, And The Social Murder of Identity
by Vahik Ovanessian, Ph.D.
Before talking about the profoundness of Marx's discovery and explication of this distinction in human labor, it must be noted that Marx considers this abstract labor as determining the exchange value of commodities.

Misperceptions
Symbols And Deception, And The Social Murder of Identity
by Vahik Ovanessian, Ph.D.
Nothing is more amazing than a dream. The ornate intimations of a dream are as inscrutable as they are self-revealing. They are unfathomable because the images in our dreams represent something other than the images themselves.

Introduction
Symbols And Deception, And The Social Murder of Identity
by Vahik Ovanessian, Ph.D.
This book is about the fascinating phenomenon of misperception of reality and how this leads to loss of identity. Our habit of understanding the world via generic meanings associated with the symbolic appearance of everything around us subtly seduces our

Assessing Your Colors
Living Your Colors: Practical Wisdom for Life, Love, Work and Play
by Tom Maddron
The key to your secret self is just an easy quiz away. Take the Color Test to identify your dominant color and open the door to amazing new insights about how you handle work, family, and romance. Based on a synergistic combination of ancient wisdom

Identifying Your Personality Type
The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types
by Don Richard Riso, Russ Hudson
The Enneagram (pronounced ANY-a-gram) is a geometric figure that maps out the nine fundamental personality types of human nature and their complex interrelationships. It is a development of modern psychology that has roots in spiritual wisdom from many

What Do I Really Want For My Children?
The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness: Five Steps to Help Kids Create and Sustain Lifelong Joy
by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D.
Think of your children. Bring their faces to your mind. Then ask yourself, 'What do I really want for them in their lives?' Don't assume you know. Before you spend another day as a parent (or as a teacher or a coach or anyone else involved with children)

The Seventh Sense
The Sociopath Next Door: The Ruthless Versus the Rest of Us
by Martha Stout, Ph.D.
This morning, Joe, a thirty-year-old attorney, is running five minutes late for an extremely important meeting that, with or without him, will start promptly at eight o'clock. He needs to keep up a good impression with the more senior members of his firm

Preface
The Highly Sensitive Person
by Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D.
Having a sensitive nervous system is normal, a basically neutral trait. You probably inherited it. It occurs in about 15-20 percent of the population. It means you are aware of subtleties in your surroundings, a great advantage in many situations.

Getting to Know Your Sensitivity
The Highly Sensitive Person's Workbook
by Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D.
With the tasks in this chapter, you will become better acquainted with your sensitive self and some of the basic skills HSPs need, like how to speak up in defense of your sensitivity and how to understand your role in your world.

Are You an HSP? Temperament, Love, and Sensitivity
The Highly Sensitive Person in Love: Understanding and Managing Relationships When the World Overwhelms You
by Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D.
I fall in love so damn hard. I feel like an alien sometimes. Everyone else seems to be in a relationship. But what they call love just doesn't appeal to me. Investments, cars, sports, getting ahead at work-I don't say it, but I've zero interest in those

Thinker or Feeler: A Matter of Principles or Values
The Art of Speed Reading People: How To Size People Up and Speak Their Language
by Paul D. Tieger, Barbara Barron-Tieger
While Sensing and Intuition describe the different ways people take in information, Thinking and Feeling describe the very different ways people make decisions, or come to conclusions. Clearly, each of us has the ability to make a decision based on logic

The Principles of Personality Type
The Art of Speed Reading People: How To Size People Up and Speak Their Language
by Paul D. Tieger, Barbara Barron-Tieger
People come in all shapes and sizes, and, certainly, every person is unique. But you'll probably agree that some people are much more alike than others. And behavior that may seem random is, in fact, quite understandable and often even predictable

The Research
Just Your Type : Create the Relationship You've Always Wanted Using the Secrets of Personality Type
by Paul D. Tieger, Barbara Barron-Tieger
Practically everyone who has any experience with Personality Type finds it immediately applicable to their personal relationships. Whether we're presenting workshops on team building or effective parenting or training career professionals

The Gender Myth, The World of Personality Type
Just Your Type : Create the Relationship You've Always Wanted Using the Secrets of Personality Type
by Paul D. Tieger, Barbara Barron-Tieger
There's no denying that those who espouse the viewpoint that gender is an inevitable barrier to good communication have struck a chord with millions of people who are frustrated with the way they deal with their partners.

“You Say Tomato, I Say Tomahto”
Just Your Type : Create the Relationship You've Always Wanted Using the Secrets of Personality Type
by Paul D. Tieger, Barbara Barron-Tieger
Susan and Jeff thought they were perfect for each other. They met in college, enjoyed some of the same interests, came from similar backgrounds, and married after both had had time to establish their careers.

A Professional Point of View - The Psychology of Selves, Part 2
by Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone
When you are ready to talk to a specific self, simply ask your client to move to another space in the room. The client, or subject, then changes position or seats or simply moves his/her chair. The original position of the client's chair is taken

A Professional Point of View - The Psychology of Selves
by Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone
In the article Embracing All Our Selves, we speak of the Psychology of Selves, the theoretical framework for our work. We discuss the development and the importance of the selves which we view as the smallest units or the building blocks of the psyche

Love, American Idol Style
by Lisa Daily
Does the American Idol judge we like the most hold some clue as to the kind of people we're most attracted to? I asked around, and the favorite judge VS. potential mate answers were surprisingly accurate. Below is the Love Life Idol-ometer