Elizabeth Puttick Ph.D - 7 personality types : discover your true role in achieving success and happiness

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Copyright 2009 by Elizabeth Puttick

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2009922680

ISBN: 978-1-4019-2456-0
12 11 10 09 4 3 2 1
1st edition, August 2009

Printed in the United States of America

For Robin, with all my love

From the Editor: To our North American readers, please note that for the most part, we have maintained the British style of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and syntax of the original text in order to preser ve the editorial intent of the author, who hails from the United Kingdom.

Contents

For over 30 years I have worked as a clinical social worker and a psychologist as well as a trainer and educator of management in the corporate world and public sector. I have taught graduate students in counselling programs, including theories of personality. Acquainted with all the main personality typologies, I have never found a map to understanding human behaviour as powerful as the Michael Teaching, a philosophy I have professionally referred to as PersonnessenceTM. In my opinion it is hands-down the most comprehensive and insightful description of human nature and human behaviour that I have ever come across. For this reason I have adopted it as my main approach for understanding and assisting people from all over the world and all walks of life, with exceptionally favourable and often extraordinary results.

I have found through my work with thousands of people that by understanding the personality types (Roles), my clients have been able to shift into more appropriate work situations, understand their own natural inclinations better, take advantage of their talents, and stop judging themselves for not being able to do what others do better. When people stop comparing themselves and concentrate on what they do best, they find greater happiness and satisfaction.

The Roles are part of an incredibly rich, comprehensive and multi-dimensional philosophy of life. Yet they are central to the system, so it makes sense to have an entire book devoted to them. Knowing about the seven Roles can be such a key to understanding your life that this knowledge can by itself unlock the secrets to help you meet your full potential.

Elizabeth Puttick has studied and practised methods of self-development, including this system, for many years and worked successfully in the business and media worlds. She has had the opportunity, as I have, to test and apply it practically in life and work. She successfully gets to the core of this system and so is able to communicate it to a much wider audience. Fortunately, this will allow countless people who have not heard of it before to enjoy the benefits of this powerful body of knowledge. Elizabeth has interviewed many examples of each Role and presents directly from their own experience what it is like to be a Warrior, a Priest, a Server, or an Artisan.

Not only will you find this book fascinating and highly informative, but it will also lead you to a greater understanding of why you do the things you do, what your potential is and why there are certain things you find difficult. In this way you will be led to greater self-acceptance and love for what it is to be a human being, the goal of this wonderful teaching.

Is it important or useful to know yourself and understand others? Millions of people get along without self-knowledge, like drivers in a city where there are no maps or street names, finding their way by chance and instinct. Some seem to manage well, but most just get by or get lost. Does it matter if you are on a life path that you chose when you were younger, less wise and less experienced, or that was chosen for you by someone else, a parent or teacher? It is quite likely that these elders gave you an identity as well, which you either accepted and strove to live up to or wasted energy in rejecting and rebelling against. You may now be suspecting or discovering that these early choices do not fulfill your deepest needs, maybe because you dont know who you truly are. If that is the case, then this book can help you.

The secret of success, happiness and wisdom lies in self-knowledge. Only when you know yourself can you know what you really want in life. Out of this understanding arise insight and confidence, leading to effective action: a clear vision of the best way to achieve fulfillment. Even if it is not possible to change your outer circumstances for the foreseeable future, self-knowledge is useful in allowing you to see yourself as others see you and understand others as intimately as yourself. It will save you a lot of time and suffering by helping you make choices that are better suited to your personality and talents. It will lead you not only to self-discovery but eventually to self-mastery.