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Reading People: How Seeing the World Through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything
Anne Bogel
3.78 AVERAGE
595 reviews for:
Reading People: How Seeing the World Through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything
Anne Bogel
3.78 AVERAGE
3.5 - an interesting read, especially if you are interested in the various personality types!
Topic: A summary of different personality frameworks
Who it may interest: Those who want to understand themselves and others better.
Helpfulness: I have been a bit fascinated by personality’s the past couple years. But I can fall into the trap of thinking if I’m the same type as someone else we are the same. Yes and no. I love how this book puts them all together showing how complex the human is. It’s not just saying I’m an introvert or a 9 on the enneagram, etc, it’s taking all of them into account showing none of us are exactly the same. We may share one type but not another. This helped open my eyes (even more) to the fact that I simply can’t compare…funny the Bible has already told me that
Who it may interest: Those who want to understand themselves and others better.
Helpfulness: I have been a bit fascinated by personality’s the past couple years. But I can fall into the trap of thinking if I’m the same type as someone else we are the same. Yes and no. I love how this book puts them all together showing how complex the human is. It’s not just saying I’m an introvert or a 9 on the enneagram, etc, it’s taking all of them into account showing none of us are exactly the same. We may share one type but not another. This helped open my eyes (even more) to the fact that I simply can’t compare…funny the Bible has already told me that
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Reading People is an informative introduction to personality typing. I am familiar with Anne Bogrl’s “voice” which enhanced my enjoyment of this book. I imagine re-visiting it often and seeking some of the recommended reference materials.
Reading People was one of my most anticipated reads of the year. I had this pre-ordered months before it came out!
Reading people walks through the most common personality frameworks. Anne Bogel gives a summary of how each framework was created, the different personalities under each framework, and how different personalities work together. Most of these personality frameworks were familiar to me from school and work, but there were a few new ones as well. This book is by no means an all inclusive guide to all of these personalities, but it acts as a starting point to learn the basics of the frameworks.
Anne Bogel does a great job of describing how typing yourself isn't putting yourself in a cage, but it allows you to see what lens you use to see the world. She has some great stories about personality differences that had me laughing, because I'd seen those same situations so many times in my own life.
Everyone who wants to better understand and appreciate the ways that people are different should read this book!
Reading people walks through the most common personality frameworks. Anne Bogel gives a summary of how each framework was created, the different personalities under each framework, and how different personalities work together. Most of these personality frameworks were familiar to me from school and work, but there were a few new ones as well. This book is by no means an all inclusive guide to all of these personalities, but it acts as a starting point to learn the basics of the frameworks.
Anne Bogel does a great job of describing how typing yourself isn't putting yourself in a cage, but it allows you to see what lens you use to see the world. She has some great stories about personality differences that had me laughing, because I'd seen those same situations so many times in my own life.
Everyone who wants to better understand and appreciate the ways that people are different should read this book!
I am a longtime reader of Modern Mrs. Darcy and was able to be on the launch team for this book. The overarching theme of the book is that learning more about our personalities and the personalities of those we loves lets us get outside the narrow box of the way we view ourselves and to get a bigger picture of who we are and why we do the things that we do.
The book is organized into chapters that focus on many different types of personality assessments, from the Myers Briggs (MBTI) to the Enneagram. Each chapter gives a broad overview of the personality assessment and refers the reader to resources so that they can take the different assessments and learn about themselves. Bogel emphasizes the fact that it can be very hard to identify aspects of your personality because often when taking self assessments we answer based on who we wish we were rather than our actual lifelong character traits, and I have to agree with this completely!
I like how she gives a good overview of so many different types of personality assessments and how she wrote about her personal experience with each assessment. I feel the weakness of the book is that it does not include any actual personality assessments in it (because of course they are all copyrighted). To really get the full experience the reader has to go outside the book to the internet or to other books to actually take the personality assessments. To get the full benefit of the book I feel the reader would either need to already be very familiar with the different personality frameworks or would need to read each chapter, take the personality test online, and refer back to the chapter again.
I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in personality, especially those who already have an idea of what type they are on the MBTI, Enneagram, etc. I am a personality junkie and was familiar with almost all of the assessments covered in the book, but I learned new things and enjoyed the way Bogel related the different personality assessments to her own life.
The book is organized into chapters that focus on many different types of personality assessments, from the Myers Briggs (MBTI) to the Enneagram. Each chapter gives a broad overview of the personality assessment and refers the reader to resources so that they can take the different assessments and learn about themselves. Bogel emphasizes the fact that it can be very hard to identify aspects of your personality because often when taking self assessments we answer based on who we wish we were rather than our actual lifelong character traits, and I have to agree with this completely!
I like how she gives a good overview of so many different types of personality assessments and how she wrote about her personal experience with each assessment. I feel the weakness of the book is that it does not include any actual personality assessments in it (because of course they are all copyrighted). To really get the full experience the reader has to go outside the book to the internet or to other books to actually take the personality assessments. To get the full benefit of the book I feel the reader would either need to already be very familiar with the different personality frameworks or would need to read each chapter, take the personality test online, and refer back to the chapter again.
I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in personality, especially those who already have an idea of what type they are on the MBTI, Enneagram, etc. I am a personality junkie and was familiar with almost all of the assessments covered in the book, but I learned new things and enjoyed the way Bogel related the different personality assessments to her own life.
As a counselor and personality junkie I was really intrigued by this short form guide to major personality assessments l. I was not disappointed! I’ve been a longtime fan of Anne Bogel and this book was another delight!
informative
slow-paced
2.5 stars
I found some of her thoughts and ideas interesting, but the book was overall repetitive, with every chapter basically saying the same thing - "if we understand personality better, we can understand ourselves and others better." I was hoping for more from this book than information and thoughts about personality tests too.
I found some of her thoughts and ideas interesting, but the book was overall repetitive, with every chapter basically saying the same thing - "if we understand personality better, we can understand ourselves and others better." I was hoping for more from this book than information and thoughts about personality tests too.
*I listened to the audiobook; this one would have been better to read on paper.