Neuroscience of Personality: Brain Savvy Insights for All Types of People [2011, PDF/EPUB, ENG]

by Dario Nardi

(197 ratings)
Book cover
Inside your brain are many keys to what make you and others tick. Imagine peering into the minds of your clients, friends, and loved-ones. Now you can! Award-winning UCLA professor and author Dario Nardi brings to life a feast of useful insights drawn from his brain research lab. He will lead you on a journey of self-discovery, chapter by chapter, that is grounded in first-hand scientific knowledge of the brain. This is a practical guide. Learn how to target 'in flow' and 'low-threshold' activities that engage people creatively and improve their work-flow and learning. Identify people's struggles and stress areas, including 'high-threshold' activities for which a person may avoid or do poorly. You will also enjoy a bird's eye view that summarizes many key aspects of the brain all in one place, in everyday language with case studies, work spaces, and visual maps. New to personality type? This book introduces the basics of the 16 Myers-Briggs types, four temperaments, and eight Jungian cognitive processes. Worksheets guide readers to locate their best-fit personality type code. Fans of Carl Jung's work and the Myers-Briggs personality types will be pleased to learn there is strong neurological validity in the brain for eight distinct cognitive processes and sixteen types. Amaze people with cool insights and implications for how people operate! You may even learn which part of your head to point to and say, 'This is where I'm thinking right now.'.
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Book details


  • Author : Dario Nardi
  • Publisher : Radiance House; 1.0 edition
  • Published : 08-10-2011
  • Language : English
  • Pages : 200
  • ISBN-10 : 0979868475
  • ISBN-13 : 978-0979868474
  • Reader Reviews : 197 (4.5)

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About the Author


Dario Nardi


Dario Nardi, Ph.D. is an author, speaker, and instructor in diverse areas. He taught computing and anthropology at University of California (Los Angeles) from 1998-2012. While there, he won UCLA's Copenhaver Award for Innovative Use of Technology in 2005 and UCLA's Distinguished Teacher of the year in 2011. His books focus on personality, neuroscience, and practices for well-being. He is also the creator of the Personality Types app for iPhone and several game books. Since 2007, Dario has conducted hands-on brain research, utilizing insights of real-time EEG technology. He regularly keynotes international conferences and facilitates workshops teaching professionals the art and science of the brain.

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Reader Reviews

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B. Kelly
Interesting Read if you work with MBTI
Reviewed in the United States on 03-21-2023
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..
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Alexander Gianturco
Real science makes this the most useful Jung / MBTI / Typology book on the market today.
Reviewed in the United States on 01-13-2018
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.
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Kelly
Great Way of Seeing YOUR Potential
Reviewed in the United States on 07-17-2015
Basically, this book, along with other assessments and studies from Myers-Briggs, Carl Jung, etc. views
personality as a science and shows functioning of how personality works with the mind.

If you have taken the MBTI Personality Assessment (I recommend a professional environment,
such as therapy or taking a school course in personality or psychology), it is actually quite helpful
in looking after what your strengths are.

This book is a way of looking at your personality and how it works with the mind. Different angles,
such as, 'what is Extraverted Sensing? How does a mainly functioning extraverted sensor have
the mind work? When does it work best? What personalities mainly work for this function?
What are good questions to ask an extraverted sensor?' and not just for
extraverted sensing, but the other main cognitive functions and
personality types.

If you have taken the test, a 4-letter combination along the lines of INTP may look
familiar and there is a way you can further look into how it can help.
Not only would reading the results you originally received help,
but so can looking through the book
AND realizing your potential for what you are capable of doing.

Yes, it does have a few pictures; fascinating pictures that ideally show
how a personality type would standardly function in the brain.
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