Creative you : using your personality type to thrive

Creative you Using your personality type to thrive

David B. Goldstein, 1965-

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Subjects
Personality and creative ability.
Creative ability.
Personality and occupation.
Typology (Psychology)
Published
New York : Hillsboro, Oregon : Atria Paperback 2013.
Language
English
Main Author
David B. Goldstein, 1965- (-)
Other Authors
Otto Kroeger (-)
Edition
First Atria Paperback/Beyond Words trade paperback edition
Physical Description
xxviii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-291).
ISBN
9781582703657
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Meeting Your Creative Self
  • 1. Casting Light on Creativity
  • Common Myths About Creativity
  • 2. What's Your Creative Type?
  • The Four Questions of the Personality indicator
  • 3. Creative Profiles of the Eight Preferences
  • Extraversion (E) or Introversion (I)-Your Energy Flow
  • Sensing (S) or Intuition (N)-The Complete Picture or Big Picture
  • Thinking (T) or Feeling (F)-Decision Making with Your Head or Your Heart
  • Judging (J) or Perceiving (P)-Your Public Face
  • 4. The Four Temperaments of Creativity
  • Intuitive Feelers (NF)-Poetic and Personal
  • Intuitive Thinkers (NT)-Experimental and Complex
  • Sensing Judgers (SJ)-Realistic and Traditional
  • Sensing Perceivers (SP)-Dramatic and Flexible
  • Other Pairs of Preferences (NJ, ES, IN, EF, IS, FP, TJ, NP, IF, IP, EN, EJ, EP, IJ)
  • Part II. The Sixteen Creative Types
  • 5. Your Creative Type: Finding Your Glass Slipper
  • The Organizer (ISTJ)-Introverted, Sensing, Thinking, Judging
  • The Facilitator (ISFJ)-Introverted, Sensing, Feeling, Judging
  • The Visionary (INTJ)-Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Judging
  • The Inspirer (INFJ)-Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Judging
  • The Crafter (ISTP)-Introverted, Sensing, Thinking, Perceiving
  • The Dreamer (ISFP)-Introverted, Sensing, Feeling, Perceiving
  • The Idea Mill (INTP)-Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Perceiving
  • The Muser (INFP)-Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Perceiving
  • The Realist (ESTJ)-Extraverted, Sensing, Thinking, Judging
  • The Teacher (ESFJ)-Extraverted, Sensing, Feeling, Judging
  • The Commander (ENTJ)-Extraverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Judging
  • The Persuader (ENFJ)-Extraverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Judging
  • The Adventurer (ESTP)-Extraverted, Sensing, Thinking, Perceiving
  • The Entertainer (ESFP)-Extraverted, Sensing, Feeling, Perceiving
  • The Brainstormer (ENTP)-Extraverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Perceiving
  • The Socializer (ENFP)-Extraverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Perceiving
  • Part III. Cultivating Courageous Creativity
  • 6. Using Your Creative Type for Maximum Effect
  • 7. Collaboration
  • 8. How to Interpret What Critics Say
  • 9. Art in Yourself: More Creative Outlets
  • 10. Using Your Creative Type to Succeed in Work
  • 11. Jung at Art: Encouraging Children to Stay Creative
  • 12. Accounting for Audience Taste and Your Appreciation
  • 13. The Creative Spirit
  • 14. Courageous Creativity
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Selected Bibliography
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

In this practical, if lopsided, guide to harnessing and implementing one's creativity, Myers-Briggs Personality Type experts Goldstein and Kroeger give readers insights into how to use their Myers-Briggs personality traits to bring creativity to their work, passions, and hobbies. Starting with an expansive definition of creativity that makes room for everyone from da Vinci to the bus driver threading through traffic, the authors spend the first two thirds of the book breaking down the four Myers-Briggs dyads (Extraversion or Introversion, Sensing or Intuition, Thinking or Feeling, and Judging or Perceiving), explaining how they combine to form a discreet creative "type," and helping readers determine their own individual types. (Helpfully, the duo includes detailed profiles for each of the 16 possibilities.) The final third of the book is more practical, though scattered, with chapters featuring thought exercises and more abstract advice on how to productively interact with other Myers-Briggs types, especially when that interaction involves collaboration or criticism. The effectiveness of the book depends a great deal on a reader's investment in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) test, though anyone stuck in a mental rut will appreciate Goldstein and Kroeger's eclectic and provocative guidance. Agent: Linda Konner, Linda Konner Literary Agency. (July 2) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Review by Library Journal Review

The authors, both certified in the use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment, assert that everyone is creative; the secret is to identify one's personal approach to creativity. Goldstein and Kroeger provide profiles of the 16 MBTI personalities (e.g., the realist, the dreamer, the muser, etc.) and describe how each type can find outlets for their creativity as well as learn to express it in the workplace. They cite well-known figures such as Vincent van Gogh, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Claude Monet to demonstrate their theories. VERDICT Those who find creativity a foreign concept are encouraged here to explore its possibilities a little more. (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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