Does your spouse's need to alphabetically organize books on the shelves puzzle you? Do your boss's tsunami-like moods leave you exasperated? Do your child's constant questions make you batty? If you've ever wanted to change your mate, your coworkers, or a family member, then "Put down your chisel," advise David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates in this book of personality types. We are different for a reason, and that reason is probably more good than bad. Keirsey and Bates believe that not only is it impossible to truly change others (which they call embarking on a "Pygmalion project"), it's much more important to understand and affirm differences. Sounds easier than it is, you might say. Well, this book is a guide for putting an end to the Pygmalion projects in your life and starting on the path to acceptance.

Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament Types

Keirsey, David

Bates, Marilyn

Parenting & Relationships

Prometheus Nemesis Book Company

The first part of Dr. Stephen Montgomery's quartet on love and coercion among the types focuses on the Artisans (SP) playful and charming way in relations with Guardian (SJ), Rational (NT), Idealist (NF) partners. Begin by completing Keirsey's personality test, then read about the Artisan mating game, how they delight and dismay their loved ones, as presented in the pages of D.H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and eight other authors. More importantly learn more about Keirsey's concept of the Pygmalion Project, how we are manipulated by them in return. If you've ever been in love with an Artisan (or ever been fooled by one), The Pygmalion Project will prove fascinating reading.

The Pygmalion Project, Vol. I: The Artisans (Love & Coercion Among the Types)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Montgomery MD, Stephen

Psychology & Counseling

The second part of Dr. Stephen Montgomery's quartet on love and coercion among the types focuses on the Guardians (SJ) uniquely responsible style of caring for others. Montgomery has selected characters from works of Jane Austen, Sinclair Lewis, Virginia Woolf, and half a dozen other authors to bring to life the Guardian's parental way in love and marriage, and to illustrate their earnest style of interpersonal manipulation, what Keirsey calls the Pygmalion Project. The book examines Guardians both as instigators and as victims of marital games with the Rationals (NT), the Idealists (NF) and particularly with the childlike Artisans (SP). If you have a Guardian spouse (or even a Guardian parent), this book will help you understand and appreciate them.

Pygmalion Project: Love & Coercion Among the Types, Vol. 2: The Guardian

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Twenty of the American Presidents were Guardians, fourteen were Artisans, eight were Rationalists, and none were Idealists. Half of them did what was sanctioned by law, the rest did what would get the job done, with or without legal authority. Their inborn temperament and acquired methods for getting results pre-determined their results before, during, and after their presidency. The authors say temperament dominates circumstances in determining presidential behaviour, in war and peace, in prosperity and depression, in domestic and foreign politics.

Presidential Temperament the Unfolding of Character in the Forty Presidents of the United States

Biographies & Memoirs

Choiniere, Ray

Keirsey, David W

Leaders & Notable People

The third part of Dr. Stephen Montgomery's quartet on love and coercion among the types focuses on the Idealists (NF) intense, highly intuitive, temperament. Learn how the Idealists search for ideal love, longing to find the perfect "soul mate" with whom they can share their inner lives. Montgomery has selected characters in the pages of D.H. Lawrence, Leo Tolstoy, Charlotte Bronte, E.M. Forester, and several other authors. More significantly, read about the Idealist's special gift for what Professor Keirsey calls the Pygmalion Project, that need in all of us to sculpt our loved ones into copies of ourselves.

The Pygmalion Project (Vol. III : The Idealist) (Love & Coercion Among the Types)

This book is a reworking of Brains and Careers, slimmed down, and the Four Roles emphasized even more. This will be the last word on normal human action by Dr. Keirsey. This the final culmination of his study of human behavior, having used his 89 years of life experience in discerning differing preferences of individuals on their inborn natures and to act on those preferences in light of the surrounding circumstances.

Personology

Self-Help

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