Otto Kroeger

Though I eventually lost most of my interest in personality typing, this was an important book for me. It helped me realize that my kind of character was a good and useful one, that I was not a failed version of some better type of person. Before this book, mostly all I had heard about personality was that only extraverted people were valuable or normal. I'm an introvert and an abstract thinker, whatever that means, and this is a good thing for me and for the world.

I could analyze myself using the Myers-Briggs system, but never felt comfortable trying to figure out types for people I knew.

Personality is too complicated to encompass in a four-letter-code, but each letter code by itself tells something interesting, if limited, about people.… (altro)