Neuroscience of Personality: Brain Savvy Insights for All Types of People

I love this book. I've used the MBTI for years in PreMarital Counseling, Marriage Counseling and Career Counseling that I do as a Pastor. It's interesting to learn about the neuroscience and brain studies Dr. Nardi has done and tied it into MBTI types. It helped me see why I used to score ENFJ on the MBTI and more recently ESFJ. My job requires I use a slightly different mix of cognitive functions that map to adjoining areas of brain functioning. Very interesting read and practical to understanding human thinking and personality energies and preferences.

Neuroscience of Personality is one of the most useful books about psychology that I've ever owned, and is one of the few that I refer back to several times a month - my copy, bought more than a year ago, has a litany of scribbles in the margins as well as colored sticky tabs erupting from it. Despite an intimidating title, Dario Nardi has written a book for all levels of knowledge; the book is not only easily understood, but it helps you understand others better.Neuroscience of Personality brings the scientific method to bear on the work begun by Carl Jung in Psychological Types, and I consider Nardi's descriptions of the eight Jungian functions and their basis in EEG-derived data to be an essential companion to what Jung began. If you have both books, I highly recommend reading each chapter that Jung wrote about each function, and then reading what the data Nardi collected suggest about these methods of cognition - for me, it was illuminating.There are a lot of books out there about MBTI and personality theory. This is best one I've found, because it is based on data, not self-reporting. Nardi spends time explaining how he acquired the data used in the book so you as a reader can understand the advantages and the limitations of EEG-based research; he does not write as if he as found Every Answer (tm), but suggests a future path of inquiry and presents the reader with many useful takeaways of what he's encountered thus far.

The book is a well written, practical, report. The author, an award winning UCLA professor, shows clearly that it is plausible that there is an correlation between Myers-Briggs personality and activity in certain regions of the brain. You don't have to be an expert to understand the book from beginning to end. The correlation has been found in lab experiments.The reader can find out his/her own personalty type and understand which brainprocesses and -regions are most probably favorite. The author suggests that by understanding the neuroscience of personality, we can improve education, work and relationships.The book is not an final overview, but as the author states: this is version 1.0. For me, as a lecturer, it is a welcome guide to help to understand the different ways of learning and how I can motivate and stimulate students to learn. The book is inspiring and great fun to read, because the author succeeded well in translating a longterm academic (pilot)study into a very accessible practicle guide.

The information in this book focuses on a study done by Dario Nardi that lends to a fun and interesting melding of personality typology and brain activity, and while the information is great, it doesn't go very deep into any of the implications regarding the actual Neuroscience of Personality. It's a fantastic and fun overview, but I do hope more thorough research and studies are done on this subject.

This book is a must get. Dario takes a very complex book and makes it digestible for anyone. Doesn’t matter if you don’t know anything about neuroscience. Dario takes you through the process just like INTJs are known to do. After reading this book pick up his next book the Magic Diamond. It’s a process to master yourself.

Valuable insights into how typology is mapped in the brain

This book is friendly to readers of all levels. Whether you are new to personality typing or familiar with Jung and Myers-Briggs, this book offers a basic foundation to personality typing and introduces new studies using EEG and brain mapping techniques to combine personality theory with neuroscience. Best of all, the book speaks to the reader and how this information can be applied in a helpful manner for personal development. If you are looking to learn more about personality type, basic neuroscience with an emphasis on psychology, or just general self study and improvement, this is the book for you.Perhaps my favorite part is the integrity and utility of the research is very clear. The book fully documents how the information was gathered, addresses practical limitations to the study, and explains exactly how the data can be of use. The language is concise emphasizing quality and content. The goals, practical applications, and scope of the material covered are immediately made clear to the reader, so there is no need to filter through pseudo-intellectual garbage, an all-too common offense in many psychology books.