Introduction: A historical perspective…
There are academic books in the library's of many cultures that
explain the origins of "personality characteristics". Volumes of documentation
validate the power of learning how to use "personality traits" to communicate
better with others. As far back as 400 b.c., Hypocrites laid down the foundation of this
science. Then around 1923 Carl Jung's book "Psychological Type" was translated
into English. Later, Katherine C. Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers, who had
been studying differences in people for years, then developed the popular Briggs-Myers
Type Indicator (MBTI) techniques… which are still used around the world to test
personality types today. They suggest that the mixture of different individual traits is
really quite orderly… and I agree. Then David Keirsey, in his publication, "
please understand me", further refined the MBTI test into four personality types.
Most recently David Klaybor, in this book "Personality Types,
4 Secrets To Solid Relationships", put all the powerful personality trait information
into an easy-to-understand format everyone can use within days of receiving the
publication to communicate more effectively with others. Most personality trait experts
agree, that human beings think about things in four distinct ways… everybody has four
separate ways of :
