Temperament
Temperament versus character?
What, we might ask, is this thing called "temperament," and what relation does it have to character and personality? There are two sides to personality, one of which is temperament and the other character. Temperament is a configuration of inclinations....more
Sorting Things Out
Upon arriving at Hogwarts school for wizards, and before sitting down to the welcoming banquet, Harry Potter and all the other first year students (in J.K. Rowling's marvelous series of Harry Potter novels) are asked to take part in the serious and scary business of the Sorting Ceremony....more
Temperament in Leading
Churchill and Gandhi! Churchill, the VIRTUOSO of political maneuvering; Gandhi, the SAGE of diplomatic benevolence. The former wheeling and dealing in unending political skirmishes, the latter in sympathetic bridging of relationships torn asunder. The tactician and the diplomat, diametric....more
Work
Knowing your temperament helps in your search for a career or job, but it only serves as a guide, rather than giving you any fixed answer. Think of temperament as analogous to "culture" in terms of influence. If you are of certain culture, then you will tend to feel most comfortable in your culture...more
Presidential Temperament
The year 1912 was a presidential election year, and former President Theodore Roosevelt was again campaigning for the nation's highest office. By the evening of October 14 his campaign had carried him to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he was to deliver a speech in the city's public auditorium....more
Talent
Premiering on September 8, 1966, spanning five television series, spinning off nine movies--and still going strong--Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek has proven to be one of the most popular and durable sagas in entertainment history. The reasons for this success are many, but two stand out here....more
Mating and Temperament
All sorts of factors enter into our choosing a mate. Where we live plays a large role in determining the people we meet; likewise our age, race, religion, and educational level influence our range of romantic contacts. For some, there are obligations of social class to satisfy, family expectations to consider...more
Dating and Mating
For the last several years, four single, successful young women have been meeting each week in various restaurants and bars in New York City to talk over their love life. The four are great friends, and over lunch or cocktails they compare notes on their dates and prospects, on their turn-ons and turn-offs....more
Mirror of Fiction
In Greek legend, a brash young sculptor named Pygmalion found the women of Cyprus so impossibly flawed that he resolved to carve a statue of his ideal woman, embodying every feminine grace and virtue. For months he labored with all his prodigious skill (and also with a strange compulsion), rounding ....more
Parenting and Temperament
The Pygmalion Project, almost unavoidable in mating, is perhaps even more of a temptation in parenting. Most parents believe quite sincerely that their responsibility is to raise their children, to take an active part in guiding them, or perhaps in steering them, on their way to becoming mature adults....more
Parent and Child
Since Disneyland opened its gates in California in 1955, it has enchanted millions of children and their parents. Disneyland calls itself the "magic kingdom" and some of the magic must surely come from the park's basic four part layout....more
Essays
Drugged Obedience in the School by David Keirsey. Compares drugging mischievous children with cocaine-like narcotics, especially Ritalin, to the abuse it -- lose-it method of teaching self-control to children.
Abuse it -- Lose it by David Keirsey. Applications of logical consequences and the abuse it--lose it method for teaching self-control to mischievous children who are all too often stigmatized as cases of "attention deficit disorder"; or "hyperactivity" and then drugged into obedience.
Too much Dope for too much Play and too little Work
by David Keirsey
The Great A.D.D HOAX
by David Kiersey
The Evil Practice of Narcothearapy for Attention Deficit
by David Kiersey
Children the Challenge
by David Kiersey
How To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
by David Kiersey
