" Do What You Are, Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type " (Sphere, 2007)
I tell you, it does not come out alive. You can not survive the dangerous spiral in which you adventure begins this book.
start thinking that you are true I like your work, that perhaps you are focusing all of your potential '. Begin to do some research on Google with the word "self-assessment."
List of results in Italian: a few.
Many books will tell you that if you passed the door-you are doomed and you should invest seriously in the professional care of your garden. Then, pubblicita'di society ' driven by people who, being in the situation described above, have opened consulting services to not be trapped in the care of your garden always referred to above.
List of results in English-speaking world.
must be selective and then part of the bible of self-assessment:
"Do What You Are: Discovering Your Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type by Paul D. Tieger (Sphere, 2007).
The beginning and 'simple, quick introduction to the model runs' to Jungian psychological types and the subsequent evolution of the theory Myers Briggs, which is based on the first.
We are ready to take the test that will tell us 'who we are and what kind of work and' tailor-made for us.
The test 'immediate, read a series of actions and choose those with whom we identify most. Depending on the choices made there will be 'given a code that will indicate' our psychological, simple is not it?
Perhaps too much.
Our profile will be 'given by the combination of four indices chosen from among four pairs of opposites, on the theory of Jung, the split personality of human beings.
The first index is EI (Extroversion - Introversion) and shows whether the individual is an extrovert or an introvert.
The extrovert is facing to the outside world and framed his perception on people and things, the introvert is mainly oriented towards the internal world and project the perception and feedback on ideas.
Index SN (Sensing - Intuition) aims to highlight the preference between two opposite ways of perceiving, rely on the sensations through the five senses, or intuition, based on the unconscious.
index TF (Thinking - Feeling) is intended to indicate a preference between the two opposite ways of judging: based on thought, which defines the true and false, or the feeling that diversifies between what is valuable and what does not.
index JP (Judgement - Perception) is intended to highlight whether the individual in dealing with the external environment relies basically on trial (J) or perception (P).
So far so good, you did the test, you have your code, and armed with your new keys per entrare nel mondo oscuro della vostra personalita’ arrivate ai capitoli dove vi descrivono, sulla base del codice di appartenenza, chi siete, come vi comportate e soprattutto che lavoro dovreste fare.
Una luce si irradia dal libro illuminando il vostro viso trasfigurato dallo stupore: “ecco perche’ odio partecipare a quelle sessioni di brainstorming! Sono tagliato per le attivita’ di analisi, di ricerca, di coordinamento e di vendita al cliente!”.
Avete capito tutto, e’ ora di dare una svolta e di seguire la strada che questo libro vi ha annunciato.
Passano i giorni, siete more and more 'aware of you and begin to classify people based on the assumptions you make on their profile, their psychological and how it interacts with your own.
Pero ', you will instill doubt, not' this book and the title "Do What You Are" are too steeped in the positivist American culture? It 's not that maybe the problem is not' so to understand what I wanted to do great (maybe I always knew) but that the Italian labor market and 'suffocating? It 's not that I can overnight become what they want by simply placing your finger on the list of possible occupations that test results showed me? (Of course they are all rhetorical questions).
And then another doubt very Italian (there 's always a small Italo Svevo dormant in all of us), what it' possible that my personality ', so' varied, so 'different depending situations, that my uncertainty is translated into a behavioral profile cut with an ax?
E 'the beginning of the end, looking for clarity, I had the almost-certainty that it has reached, and it' instilled the doubt, end up more 'confused than before.
take up the book, repeat the test and check on a dictionary of all English words (the book 'in English ... It' s not that I was wrong in interpreting some questions? Damn this English ...)
The test results are more 'confused, the code is not' more 'unique, found to belong to a new psychological profile, working jobs that are suggested are sometimes different, if not totally opposite to those in the previous test ... The siren of panic began to flash red.
Return on Amazon's site, where you had bought the book, look at the suggestions, what, other customers like you also purchased after reading "Do What You Are" here then you think, the answer is 'them', in that book that others have bought understand more 'and find the light.
Armed with the will 'iron and large credit card receipts have, in a few days, the essentials "Beside Ourselves", "Please Understand Me," "What Color is Your Parachute" and why' no, a nice classic like "The Pathfinder" by Nicholas Lore.
Sirs, stop, resume contact with reality '.
Why 'read:
"Do What You Are' is a book that is important but it must be taken with the right distances, you will be 'an overview of psychological types and its applications in the world of exploration and career choice. It makes you realize how different we are and how much are the others will help you 'also to be sensitive to differences in behavior and therefore better understand the other, boss or employee that is.
If taken as a game will challenge you ' thinking about job opportunities that you had not ever considered leveraging your skills behavioral cross.
Pero ', where does the book, start your real work is to understand whether you are in a binary, if you are going and where' where you wanted to go or not.
This book serves to raise his head slightly, to speculate on possible horizons, to consider different professions' cause it 's never too late to decide what to do by and large, though this is not' the America-and you have passed the door, the garden can 'wait.
"Do What You Are, Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type" (Sphere, 2007)
