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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
This was a great introduction for personality frameworks and was a really useful overview of a lot of different models, some of which I was familiar with and others that I hadn't even heard of before. I would definitely recommend it to anyone interested in personality but not sure where to start as it introduced the material in a way that was easy for non-experts to understand. The author also provided plenty of examples of resources to look into if you are interested in reading more about any of the models and theories she discussed.
While there was nothing wrong with the narrator, I would not recommend the audiobook as the text does get pretty "technical". A good portion of each chapter involves the narrator describing all the categories within each personality model and it can be hard to keep all of the variations straight. I'm a visual person and this is the kind of book I would want to have in-hand so I could flip back and forth between pages whenever I needed clarification.
While there was nothing wrong with the narrator, I would not recommend the audiobook as the text does get pretty "technical". A good portion of each chapter involves the narrator describing all the categories within each personality model and it can be hard to keep all of the variations straight. I'm a visual person and this is the kind of book I would want to have in-hand so I could flip back and forth between pages whenever I needed clarification.
informative
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3.5. It wasn't entirely sure what this was going in. Knowing it was from the woman behind "Modern Mrs Darcy," I honestly thought the title was a play on words, and at some point it was actually going to talk about actual reading; I was wrong. This is essentially a lit summary about personality types. I listened to the audiobook, and would not recommend it. I suspect I would have enjoyed it a lot more reading the physical book.
A basic run through of many personality tests and how they're useful and necessary for understanding ourselves and others and participating in healthy relationships. I think my lack of enjoyment was more because of the depth of prior knowledge rather than lack of it being written well, but I think it was full of good and necessary reminders, as well as a couple new revelations based on old ideas.
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I am part of the launch team for Reading People, and I just need to say that I loved this book! While Anne has cultivated a digital presence as Modern Mrs. Darcy and host of the What Should I Read Next? podcast, this book focused more on personality psychology, while still connecting to beloved books and characters as she discusses the different frameworks. Each chapter focused on a different personality framework, which was nice to have all of these tools discussed in one place, so you could see them in relation to each other. I have long been fascinated by personality psychology and love learning more about myself and those I love and work with through these tools, so I was already interested in the subject. The way Anne describes each framework makes it easy to understand, and I felt she was able to provide a new way of looking at some of the frameworks, while writing like a conversation with a dear friend. This book was really enjoyable!
When I was in high school, our church had a girl's group ... maybe it was Sunday School or part of youth group? Our leader presented the four personality types based on a book by Tim LaHaye (Spirit Controlled Temperaments). From that I discovered two things: 1. I was perfectly normal and not the only one like me and 2. I was an introvert and a "phlegmatic". Ever since then I've been fascinated with anything to do with personality typing.
Anne Bogel's book tells us about all sorts of personality typings and profiles. She sets out to enable us to use these profiles to help us see what changes need to be made, why those changes are necessary, and how to carry them out. She also helps us see how some things just aren't going to change (you can't change that you're an introvert), but also which things can change (you can acquire skills to help you feel more comfortable at a party). Understanding personalities also helps us understand the people around us.
Mrs. Vogel takes a look at the following: introverts and extroverts, highly sensitive people, the five love languages, Keirsey's temperaments, the Myers-Briggs type indicator as well as MBTI cognitive functions, the Clifton strength-finder, and the enneagram. She gives great explanations of all, but this book is an introduction, not a text-book, but if you really want to know more in-depth she also gives a lot of resources in her bibliography.
I personally found the book helpful in two ways. By using the MBTI cognitive functions, I finally nailed down which MBTI I am. I also found the enneagram very helpful. My first reaction to the enneagram was to be annoyed because it seems negative. But when I read her explanation of how it reveals our motivations and focuses on the brokenness of those human motivations, it made more sense. It really helps to know what struggles and flaws you need to deal with (and if you've been confessing the same sin over and over, that probably will help you identify your enneagram type!). It helps us deal with our junk by exposing our junk.
I'm looking forward to exploring some of these typing methods in greater detail and doing some heart-searching by using the enneagram as a tool.
Anne Bogel's book tells us about all sorts of personality typings and profiles. She sets out to enable us to use these profiles to help us see what changes need to be made, why those changes are necessary, and how to carry them out. She also helps us see how some things just aren't going to change (you can't change that you're an introvert), but also which things can change (you can acquire skills to help you feel more comfortable at a party). Understanding personalities also helps us understand the people around us.
Mrs. Vogel takes a look at the following: introverts and extroverts, highly sensitive people, the five love languages, Keirsey's temperaments, the Myers-Briggs type indicator as well as MBTI cognitive functions, the Clifton strength-finder, and the enneagram. She gives great explanations of all, but this book is an introduction, not a text-book, but if you really want to know more in-depth she also gives a lot of resources in her bibliography.
I personally found the book helpful in two ways. By using the MBTI cognitive functions, I finally nailed down which MBTI I am. I also found the enneagram very helpful. My first reaction to the enneagram was to be annoyed because it seems negative. But when I read her explanation of how it reveals our motivations and focuses on the brokenness of those human motivations, it made more sense. It really helps to know what struggles and flaws you need to deal with (and if you've been confessing the same sin over and over, that probably will help you identify your enneagram type!). It helps us deal with our junk by exposing our junk.
I'm looking forward to exploring some of these typing methods in greater detail and doing some heart-searching by using the enneagram as a tool.
4.5 stars....loved it! Anne's writing is engaging, and though I devoured this in one sitting, I know I'll be going back again and again. It's a perfect intro into lots of different personality typing systems, which is something I've looked at before. Like many, I've done MBTI and StrengthsFinder in the past. However, I learned new terminology here (hello, Enneagram) and am now feeling inspired to dig back in to the study of personality. Thanks, Anne!
funny
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reflective
medium-paced
As someone who is fascinated with personality types, namely Myers-Briggs, so many facets of this book were fun to read, explore, and analyze. The expansion of the cognitive functions of MBTI was the missing puzzle piece that explained so much more to me. The chapter on the strengthsFinder 2.0 test aroused interest and a desire to actually take the $20 test. 😄 I took one star off for the mostly black-and-white approach to all of these groupings.. Bogel just presents them all as if she takes gospel-truth stock in them all, which for a secular book would make some sense but from a “Christian perspective“ was just a little bit off to me. But that’s just my personal take. I find value in these things, but not as absolutes.