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Summary: A very worthwhile read
Review: I found Please Understand Me to be very basic and not possessing the depth of the original Gifts Differing book. Please Understand Me II is a phenominal book. It provides much more in-depth coverage and insights than Please Understand Me. It contains a great deal of new and useful information on the application of MBTI to relationships and provides an outstanding conceptual framework for understanding the strengths and weaknesses of each type. If you're already familiar with MBTI - this is a "don't miss" book!! As a consultant and manager of people, I've found the insights in the book to be invaluable.
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Summary: the ULTIMATE theory of personality
Review: I wish that I could give Please Understand Me II much more than five stars in this forum because such a rating does not do justice to this astouding work. Vastly superior to the excellent first version, II expands upon the ongoing research into temperament psychology with the most cogent and cohesive structure that I've seen in any book in the field. In short, IT ROCKS!!! Keirsey's volume has given me invaluable insight into the workings of the people around me that most people take a lifetime to achieve. My friends and relatives are utterly sick of hearing me talk about this book, but I just can't keep myself from applying the things that I've learned from the book to everyday life. As for claims that the book is hard to understand, if you can pass 11th grade English you shouldn't have any trouble with PUMII.
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Summary: Even Better than the Original
Review: Some people will tell you that PUMII is not as good as the original. Don't believe it! In this new edition, Keirsey wisely elaborates on the important distinctions between his theory and Jungian "elementalism." He also distinguishes important terms that are interchangeable in everyday speech (e.g., the SP's "excitement" vs. the NF's "enthusiasm"). His new book is considerably thicker than the earlier one, but it's worth it: complex ideas require space for clarification. Judgments of this kind are subjective, of course, but I also found Keirsey's description of my particular temperament to be more accurate in the sequel.
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Summary: A very thought provoking book
Review: The book did exactly what I had hoped. It opened a dialogue. No book is going to be able to show you a perfect match for your "temperament," but this was really close. It helps me understand why I do the things I do. I especially like "Different Drummer."
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Summary: Not as easy to read as the prequel
Review: Please Understand Me II covers much of the information found in the original Please Understand Me. However, the style has changed and the concepts conveyed in a more academic fashion. Keirsey admits to being an NT and it shows. He assumes understanding which means the message fails to be clear. Perhaps Ms Bates (co author book 1) was the correction to this problem.However, if you have read book one, the bulk of the book has been already understood. You are then left to consider his thoughts on temperament and the Strategic, Diplomatic, Logistic and Tactical methods of operation of the type NT,NF,SJ and SP. From my perspective this can be parahprased in a fraction of the verbage offered by Keirsey. Finally, the acid test is that I still find myself reaching for book one when I want to refer to a person's type. In fact I came on here today to order another book 1 as they are becoming hard to find.
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Summary: Complex, and Hard to Read
Review: I found the new version of Please Understand Me to be hard to read, written in a very academic language. What made this book very easy to understand was a companion title I purchased called Understanding Yourself and Others, An Introduction to Temperament, by Linda V. Berens, Ph.D.. This book simplified the ideas in Please Understand Me II, but did not lose the richness of the concepts. I recommend purchasing it with Please Understand Me II, it is only $4.95.
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Summary: Sequels are never as good as the original...
Review: David Keirsey's original Please Understand Me was probably the culprit which built up the high expectation I had had for Please Understand Me II. While I find the original book extremely enlightening, the "sequel" is unfortunately disappointing. I can only attribute the deterioration in quality to Keirsey's focusing on two traits out of the original four from Myers-Briggs in an attempt to explain categorical temperaments. Unfortunately, in my opinion, this approach strips the MBTI of its relatively versatile coverage of the elements that constitute personhood and robs the four fundamental temperaments as portrayed by Keirsay of dimension. Having said that, it is still an interesting book to read but I cannot help questioning its practical value.
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Summary: Fascinatingly accurate with intensely advanced insights.
Review: As a 12th year sociologist currently employed at UCLA, I was startled by the depth of this book's insightful observations and theories. Never have I seen all my years' research compounded into one volume and analyzed in such advanced extrapolation. As I read I no longer felt like a weathered university professor, but rather like a high school student enthralled by his first sociology lesson. All my previous theories were challenged as I saw every minutest detail of my research reconfigured like the pieces of a puzzle. Facts that had for years appeared completely unrelated were congealing into one great entity of enlightenment which is Keirsey's theory. The author explores the deepest reaches of the human spirit, while the vitality of the soul permeates each page of his research. I wholeheartedly bestow my professional endorsement on this newest development of Keirsey.
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Summary: Not as good as the first
Review: After reading the first "Please Understand Me," I was eager to delve into the expanded 'sequel.' While the new information is useful, in my personal observations the additions are not as accurate as the original material. Once again the author fails to address borderline scores (which may account for some of the inaccuracies I've observed). Neverthess this is still a book worth reading.
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Summary: A wonderful, informative, clearly written book!
Review: One of my favorite parts of this book is where the author puts personality theory in a context going back to the Greeks and Romans and particulary how it fits in with the theories of behavioral psychologists from this century. I bought the original version in 1991 and found this update excellent and a very useful adjunct to my reference library.
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