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# Was That Really Me?: How Everyday Stress Brings Out Our Hidden Personality

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Review: Can Change Your Life - This is truly insightful analysis based on solid research. Quenk (Berkeley) fine-tunes the MBTI to show that it's not just a system of rigid dualistic pigeonholes (as it is dismissed by some cynics), that the 16 combinations are tendencies and people's types change over life as they expand their repertoire to respond more flexibly to various situations. I especially like the way she explains the inferior function and the difference between that and the Jungian idea of the shadow, as well as the way she describes each dominant type by way of contrast with its opposite, which often appears in caricature form when one is "in the grip" of one's inferior function. Quite honestly one of the most fascinating and enlightening things I've ever read. The author stresses multiple times that she is writing a purely informative study and not a self-help book -- and she adheres to this vision, providing readers with neither advice on "curing" their inferior personality functions nor excuses on which to blame their actions while in "the grip" of this state. Nevertheless, she opens a world of communication through introducing these terms. If you or a loved one, then, suffer from that inscrutable, two-faced abomination known as human personality, you ought to read this book. It has the potential to change lives.
Review: great mbti resource, especially for types under stress - A helpful and insightful book, especially if you have an ENTJ friend who's "In the Grip." Now if I could just get him to find the book after I loaned it to him everything would be roses. Seriously though, this is a great resource for folks interested in mbti and should help answer any questions as to why certain types act certain ways and what usually triggers stress for those individual types.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #1,344,762 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #295 in Popular Psychology Testing & Measurement #1,124 in Popular Psychology Personality Study #25,961 in Personal Transformation Self-Help |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (124) |
| Dimensions  | 6.05 x 1.1 x 9.1 inches |
| Edition  | Revised ed. |
| ISBN-10  | 0891061703 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0891061700 |
| Item Weight  | 1.25 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 228 pages |
| Publication date  | August 13, 2002 |
| Publisher  | Nicholas Brealey |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Can Change Your Life
*by C***Y on March 28, 2016*

This is truly insightful analysis based on solid research. Quenk (Berkeley) fine-tunes the MBTI to show that it's not just a system of rigid dualistic pigeonholes (as it is dismissed by some cynics), that the 16 combinations are tendencies and people's types change over life as they expand their repertoire to respond more flexibly to various situations. I especially like the way she explains the inferior function and the difference between that and the Jungian idea of the shadow, as well as the way she describes each dominant type by way of contrast with its opposite, which often appears in caricature form when one is "in the grip" of one's inferior function. Quite honestly one of the most fascinating and enlightening things I've ever read. The author stresses multiple times that she is writing a purely informative study and not a self-help book -- and she adheres to this vision, providing readers with neither advice on "curing" their inferior personality functions nor excuses on which to blame their actions while in "the grip" of this state. Nevertheless, she opens a world of communication through introducing these terms. If you or a loved one, then, suffer from that inscrutable, two-faced abomination known as human personality, you ought to read this book. It has the potential to change lives.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ great mbti resource, especially for types under stress
*by S***L on July 24, 2015*

A helpful and insightful book, especially if you have an ENTJ friend who's "In the Grip." Now if I could just get him to find the book after I loaned it to him everything would be roses. Seriously though, this is a great resource for folks interested in mbti and should help answer any questions as to why certain types act certain ways and what usually triggers stress for those individual types.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The only resource on this subject?
*by I***V on August 7, 2016*

There are things I wish the author had covered that she didn't - but since this is virtually the only book ever published on this subject (that I know of), how much complaining can one do? This is a great resource that I would recommend to all but the most well-behaved in Jungian Typology. Nevertheless, I'd love to see a future edition cover the role of the third function in responding to stress. Like I said though, you just can't be too critical of a book that is the only of its kind.

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