Personality Plus: How to Understand Others by Understanding Yourself

This book has been the most helpful in my current season of life. It is an easy read, straightforward, packed with deep knowledge of each personality, directing each reader towards a new understanding of who we are, why we are the way we are and How to manage all our traits, good and bad. Definitely recommend to add to your reading list.

A friendly book, the kind of book that we go through thinking of people we wish we could have them read it so that it may help them discover and learn what we are learning upon the flipping of each page! This is the best description that can be given to Personality Plus, “A life changer”, it will give you so much insight on who you are, what are your strengths, how you can invest in them, what are your weakness and how you can conquer them. Not only this, but it is a manual of people that will help you understand, cope with, appreciate and tolerate different temperaments. On the first pages you will have a small test that you must do in order to identify your major temperament, the book identifies four major personalities (temperaments). The majority will have a high percentage on one specific trait and the rest will be distributed on the other three, as no one is 100% of one. After doing the test you will start reading about the four temperaments, what they are, what differentiates them and their major traits. When the part in relation to my personality came up, I felt like I was reading about me, felt I was looking in the mirror and smiling to myself. Reading about my trait has been crucial in showing me where I have done well when during the years, I have been trying to work on improving and dealing with my strength and weaknesses, and where I can still do more to improve and how. I am positive this will be a vital tool in the hands of those who have not yet started to work on themselves. For those who need to understand who and what they are, what are their major strengths and weaknesses, and if they need to improve, then where and how. Personality plus will make many individuals; couples and families understand each other and blend to live if not happily at least in peace and harmony. It is a manual to be referred to constantly and this is what I plan to do.

Such a helpful book to understand the relationship between you and anyone. Gives you more understanding for those “difficult” traits in others. Highly recommend!

Love the book. This was a reorder for me

This is truly my absolute most favorite book. I can't begin to tell you how many times I've read it myself or gifted it to friends. It is written in a lighthearted and entertaining way that makes it enjoyable to read at night before going to bed. Mrs. Littauer divides the personalities into 4 groups and has a fantastic way of communicating their traits, strengths, and weaknesses. It basically delivers the same message as the Myers-Briggs but without all the complicated E, S, T, I, etc. It provides wonderful insight into your own personality traits and is wonderful at helping you see how and why other people do what they do and say what they say. For example, I am a strong 'melancholy' personality type and like to have things right and in order (even if it's my own sense of order). I literally laughed out loud when she gave an example of her husband, also a melancholy, instructing her on how to put the toilet paper on correctly. She didn't know it could be incorrect. I do the exact same thing, even in public places or other people's homes. I figure if they don't notice it's not on incorrectly, then they won't notice or care that I've corrected it. Hysterical. Also have a friend who can come across as a bit brusk or aggressive. This booked helped both of us see that her desire to get things accomplished can sometimes come across wrong. It's great it helping you tailor your message to the personality type of the recipient. You'll find yourself 'personality typing' all of your friends, etc. It helps explain a lot of the communication problems between people. This book is truly absolutely fantastic! Also, highly recommend 5 Love Languages to go along with it.

In this wonderful book you will get a great insight into your personality. The author breaks down personality types into four groups: Popular Sanguine, Perfect Melancholy, Powerful Choleric, and Peaceful Phlegmatic. Wow! That's a mouthful isn't it? Don't let those titles scare you off, this book is easy to understand and has a lot of insight. Inside you are able to take a simple test that will help you to find out which group you belong to. That was a lot of fun and I shared this with numerous people, we did it as a group. It was amazing how acurate it turned out to be with each person. The author explains each personalities strengths, and weaknesses, tells what type of a parent they are, and how they are as a friend. It was amazing how acurate our results turned out. But it doesn't stop there. Our author takes you further and helps you to know ways to better understand each personality type, work with them, and be productive one with another. The information also helps you to understand yourself. This is a great book, easy to read, understand, and just down right enjoyable. I highly recommend it. What type are you? Find out inside this outstanding read. I Loved this book...it was educational and a really fun read.

The theory that this book presents has simply changed and improved the quality of my life. I am an avid reader, but have never written a review about any book before. I am writting one for this book because I would like to let everyone who reads this know how it has helped me. I now know what my strengths truely are, and where I can grow. As an employer I know where to place people based on their strengths. I now know how to help others based on their needs. For every one in my life, I can understand them better, forgive them more, and empower them appropriatly. I recommend reading this book, and starting a journey of observing how the people around you and those you meet daily fit in the temperaments. The principles of this theory are now a part of my life, and I have shared them with countless people, everyone I work with, and all those I care about who are willing to listen. Most find it very helpful and many have become avid believers in its effectveness like myself. Even though I absolutely love the theory and highly recommend this book I would like to point out one weaknesss this book has: Temperament combinations which are very distinct are not fully explained and described, however, you can read about them in other sources. Also, you should not start by focusing on understanding the combination temperatments. This should happen after a few months of observation of the basic four temperaments in the people around you. Thanks to the Australian pastor Peter Rehme, the author of several books himself, for introducing me to this book in the early part of 2008.

Purchased as part of a training for my workplace. Came in great shape and worth the read.