Dewey Color System: Embrace Hue You Are

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Summary: Dewey Color System
Review: After reading this book, I feel I have a clearer understanding of me as a person using my color preferences. The extensive research and specific descriptions the author uses validates my thoughts about how I see myself as an individual, better understand my interpersonal relationships, and has opened vistas of exploring opportunities to use out-of-the-box problem solving and decision making strategies on a daily basis. This book is well written, easy to understand, and is a ready resource to inspire and motivate every reader!

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Summary: Incredible how it's always right....
Review: As soon as I got this book I had all my friends and family members take the color test! It's truly amazing; all I did was pick which colors I liked best, and it gave me useful, insightful profiles that not only described me, but described me in that creepy "Wow, feels like I would've written that about myself" kind of way. The whole color concept is so innovative. Not only that, but the book takes into consideration why color preferences may change, and that some of us will like two colors in a category equally, or overall like or dislike a category.

To give an idea of how the book works, I should probably just give a quick layout of my own color results. I'm a Yellow-Orange-Black. There's a chart that tells you how common your particular combination is. Color is very important to me personally, and there were times I almost felt two colors were equally my favorites (yellow and blue, orange and purple, black and white.) But I was always able to select my top favorite and, lo and behold, the profiles that mixed them in different combinations sounded just like me. Furthermore, the book went into detail about what traits you possess based on your LEAST favorite colors (also extremely accurate, if not more so), and how well two colors will likely get along or benefit one another. Yes, there were times when I felt descriptions of colors I had not selected fit me very well, but in the end, I can't say there's a color in this book I hate, so that's bound to be the case sometimes. Yet the colors I did choose--and those that my friends chose as well--seemed to be the ones that best defined our personalities.

Even more fun than the primary and secondary color selections are the Intermediates...followed by the Achromatics and the various shades. My Intermediate favorites were very definite, lime-green and red-orange, and were probably some of my favorite colors in the entire book. They ended up describing me perfectly (as well as my least favorites in that category.) Then came my favorite shades (apricot, mint green, apple red, dark purple, ruby, and almond to name the top ones.) Appealing colors names abound, obviously. The pages resemble paint swatches at a home improvement store. The book contains all manner of advice on how to decorate, dress, etc., to reach your maximum ideal potential and contentment (somewhat like feng shui based on color, balancing hues and tones and saturations.) Record your friends' choices in the charts! Pur your favorites in order and see whether you're dark or light, thought or action oriented! Take the light-hearted little quizzes on what certain color people are like! This book thought of everything.

And there's a brilliantly colored page full of bright pictures on page 241...such eye candy. I heartily recommend the Dewey Color System--not the decimal system, the color system! Best of all, gain a sense of peace and understanding with the Dewey Color Oath: I will trust in my ability to keep my own energy, and will respect others by allowing them to go the way they want to go. (Good advice.)

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Summary: I read it all the way through.
Review: It was an interesting concept in the beginning. Half way way through I was forcing myself to finish reading before I expressed an opinion to myself. When I finished, I thought whew! I'm glad I'm finished with that. Now on to the companion color coordinator. That was boring. I think the books were put together quite well. I didn't develop any new insights to myself or the rest of the world. And I won't be using the system to decorate. I think I'll stick to the established rules and adapt them to my taste. A lot of what was said was the same for each color but with different wording. I caught on to that early. But it was fun to read if you don't take it seriously.

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Summary: Hello! A "Luscher Color Test" Rip Off
Review: The Dewey Color System added a nice dimension to my life.

I bought and remodeled some property to expand our massage therapy business. One therapist wanted a deep blue therapy room with an underwater mural. Another therapist wanted a bright yellow room. "Yikes," I thought, but I'd asked about their favorite colors after reading Dewey's book and decided to use exactly what each therapist wanted. Because the name of the business is Emerald Aegis, lighter and darker emerald were used in the waiting room and halls. Our clients love the place. One day, small quantities of the deep blue and the bright yellow were mixed. To my delight, the result was emerald green.

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Summary: This book has made a difference in my life & relationships!
Review: The Dewey Color System has added a whole new element to how I look at life. Since reading it, I have gained an interest in the power I find in my strengths and weaknesses. I like to look at blue the most and found that the description on page 43 was dead-on!!!

I have had the most fun with it while reading with family, friends and especially my boyfriend. We have gotten so close as a result of studying our color choices and discussing what they mean.

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Summary: This book has made a difference in my life & relationships!
Review: The Dewey Color System: Embrace Hue You Are is the first color oriented self-awareness guide book to utilize sixty colors in identifying personality traits. With the simple approach of picking favorite and least favorite shades of color, Dewey Sadka's system provides insights into who a person is, how they relate to others, make decisions, solve problems, and approach the world. The use of color preferences bypasses the limitations of language relied on in traditional but imprecise questionnaires. Sadka also discusses how color preferences can help guide men and women in the course of their everyday life. A highly recommended resource for anyone decorating (or re-decorating) their home or office, The Dewey Color System is both fun and informative self-discovery tool. Also highly recommended is Dewey Sadka's companion guidebook, The Dewey Color Coordinator (0967120713, ...).

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Summary: You have got to be kidding me.
Review: What a wonderful book! The pretty colors should attract even skeptics to give it a try! Seeking to understand true personality without the ambiguities and complexities of words, the ingenious Dewey Color System does it using color preferences! Just choose the colors you prefer to look at, it's simple! Your profile will come up and miraculously match your true nature. (Revealing! Rivitting!) Being a Blue-Purple-Black, I'm the "Pioneer" type. My mom, a Red-Green-White, is called a "Practical Wizard." But your primary, secondary, and achromatic colors are only the beginning. There are the intermediates (lime green, red orange, indigo, magenta, teal, & gold, to put them in the order I chose them); and the many many shades, representing various aspects of your Self, including my personal choices of mint green, ocean blue, apple red, cranberry, apricot, ruby, charcoal, and almond (mentioning them to give potential buyers an idea of what the book is like and what sort of colors you'll come across.) So get on the path to self-discovery, self-awareness, self-improvement, more productive relationships, careers, and friendships, better clothes and home decor, feng shui, nirvana, and all that related good stuff! Learn more about the Dewey Color System and buy this extremely detailed, amusing, colorful book. It gets my seal of approval.

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Summary: Hello! A "Luscher Color Test" Rip Off
Review: Why hasn't Dewey been cited for plaguarism? Sure, Dewey's a lot more 'pop psych', but not so much as even a nod in Dr. Luscher's direction! Shame on you, Dewey. How long did you think it would take before anyone noticed? Just how much 'research' did you do, Dew? One book isn't enough for a bibliography...