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Gifts Differing is a book about human
personality -- its richness, its diversity, its role in
affecting career, marriage, and the meaning of life itself.
It was written by a woman for whom the observation, study,
and measurement of personality were consuming passions for
more than half a century.
The conceptual framework by which Isabel
Myers has organized her sensitive and optimistic observations
is the typology of Carl Jung, slightly modified and elaborated
by Myers and her mother, Katharine C. Briggs. Jung's theory,
once mastered, provides a beautiful structure for understanding
both similarities and differences among human beings.
Isabel Briggs Myers became recognized
as a giant in the field of personality measurement for her
creation of the most widely used personality inventory in
history -- the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.®
She graduated from Swarthmore College in 1919 and began
her career as a writer, publishing a prize-winning mystery
novel in 1929. She completed Gifts Differing just
several months before her death in 1980.
Peter Myers, Ph.D., is staff director
at the National Academy of Science. He continues active
involvement in the development and application of personality
type.
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