Reading People

How Seeing the World Through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything

By: Anne Bogel

Narrated by: Anne Bogel

If the viral Buzzfeed-style personality quizzes are any indication, we are collectively obsessed with the idea of defining and knowing ourselves and our unique place in the world. But what we're finding is this: knowing which Harry Potter character you are is easy, but actually knowing yourself isn't as simple as just checking a few boxes on an online quiz.

For listeners who long to dig deeper into what makes them uniquely them (and why that matters), popular blogger Anne Bogel has done the hard part - collecting, exploring, and explaining the most popular personality frameworks, such as Myers-Briggs, StrengthsFinder, Enneagram, and others. She explains to listeners the life-changing insights that can be gained from each and shares specific, practical real-life applications across all facets of life, including love and marriage, productivity, parenting, the workplace, and spiritual life. In her friendly, relatable style, Bogel shares engaging personal stories that show firsthand how understanding personality can revolutionize the way we live, love, work, and pray.

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great overview of tools

I love a book with a good story, so this was ot of my norm. I liked the ideas presented about different diagnostic tools I could utilize to find out more about myself. It was very interesting.

Good first half, Heavy second half

I listened on the audible platform. I really like this book till chapter 5-6. It was a good balance of learning about others and your self. After that it was a MBTI rabbit hole. More of an instruction manual than an enjoyable book relating to others. Then it became a Enneagram rabbit hole. With any research you compare yourself, it did have times when it felt like her written therapy/discovery.

Great read!

Great read!
Must be better with actual physical book to follow the types of personalities.

Good primer on personality frameworks

The book summarizes concepts from other books ("5 Love Languages" by Gary Chapman, "Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type" by Myers-Briggs, "StrengthsFinder 2.0" by Tom Rath, and "Mindset" by Carol Dweck). Although it doesn't contain new information, it is an excellent introduction to many common personality frameworks. Insights into personalities help us to understand and accept ourselves and others. The author compares a personality assessment to a map -- it shows where locations are and how to navigate to them. We should appreciate each location for its uniqueness and qualities (not think about how it could have been better if changes were made). The book explains common concepts like extroverts/introverts. The telling sign is whether they feel energized or drained after a party. Many people mistakenly believe individuals who are enjoying themselves at a party are extroverts and individuals who are engrossed in a book are introverts.

There is a section about highly sensitive people (HSP) -- a term I wasn't familiar with. HSPs represent about 10 to 15 percent. They are highly sensitive to stimuli, like crowded places, loud noises, violent movies, and too many activities. This explains why some toddlers are frightened by fireworks while others are amazed by them. There is also a section on the Enneagram, which dates back to the fourth century and originally based on the nine vices (anger, pride, vanity, sadness, envy, avarice, gluttony, lust, and laziness). The Enneagram is used to discover our central weaknesses and to adjust our behaviors to fix our emotional health (replacing habitual bad reactions).

Print Form

i believe it would be better to read in print form simple because there is so much info and it would be easier to go back and review in print