Know Your Own Personality [antikvár]

INTRODUCTIONThe ancient Greek philosophers had a word for it: 'Know yourself.' This is good advice. Because of our limited knowledge, it is difficult to make rational choices in education (What should I study?), in choosing a job (What occupation or profession should I go into?), in love (What sort of woman/man would I be happy with in marriage?), or indeed whenever we have to make some important decision about our future. Professional psychologists see over and over again people who make the wrong choices, although it is quite obvious to the outsider that the choice is indeed very wrong; only too often this wrong choice is caused by erroneous self-perceptions, that is, a failure of the person concerned to 'know himself. As Robert Burns expressed it so much more clearly:O wad some Pow'r the g^ftie gie usTo see ourselves as others see us IIt wad frae mony a blunder free us.And foolish notion.It is the point of this book to help readers to see themselves as others see them, in a more objective light; whether this will free them from 'mony a blunder' and protect them from 'foolish notions', we cannot of course guarantee. This book takes its place beside Know Your Ovm IQ and Check Your Own IQ, both of which tried to do the same thing for the reader's intellectual abilities; but here we shall be concerned with personality rather than with intelligence. As in those other books, a short introduction will be given in which the concepts used are explained, the method of construction of the tests is outlined, and interpretation of the results is indicated. In fact, the tests are self-explanatory and the scoring will also be found quite