Book Review by Jack Falt
Another characteristic of Barons books is that they have lots of simple line drawing cartoons to illustrate the various points being described. There are some cartoons in this booklet but they are not as prolific as they are in her other books.
The book begins with a brief history of temperament. Then there is a short questionnaire readers can take to help them determine their own temperaments. Rather than the rank ordering used by Personality Dimensions®, there are 20 questions to rate for each temperament.
A chapter is devoted to each of the four temperaments: Security Seekers (Gold - SJ), Experience Seekers ( Orange - SP), Knowledge Seekers (Green - NT), and Ideal Seekers (Blue - NF). The chapters describe each temperament in general terms and then in terms of relationships, communication styles, as parents, as children and teens, careers, leisure, what’s hard about being each temperament, peeves, what others admire, what others find challenging, things the temperament would never dream of doing, how to get along with each temperament, practical suggestions for each temperament in terms of personal growth and self-development, relationships, and a short list of famous people having that temperament.
This book is an excellent book to be recommended to temperament workshop participants as a followup. I would also recommend it to temperament facilitators as it will help round out your overall understanding of each temperament.