Who Are You?: 101 Ways of Seeing Yourself

by Malcolm Godwin

* What does the shape of your head and your hands tell about your personality?
* Are you left-brain or right-brain dominant? Yin or yang?
* What is your spiritual tendency?
* Are you sanguine, melancholic, choleric, or phlegmatic?
* Which is your most essential element--wood, fire, earth, metal, or water?
* Are you a sensualist, romantic, or courtesan?
Created by a renowned artist/illustrator, this beautiful and practical book contains one hundred and one intriguing, easy to follow, and often amusing devices that will help readers determine their abilities, personality type, psychological strategies, and deeper potential. As fun to use as it is profound in its revelations, Who Are You? is drawn from ancient teachings and contemporary findings. The "tests" it contains are divided into four sections--the body, the emotions, the intellect, and the spirit. The result is one hundred and one separate identity mirrors that work together to give readers a comprehensive self-portrait that is both revealing and informative.

Genres: Self Help, Nonfiction, Psychology, Reference, Philosophy, Personal Development

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[James Madsen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm a big believer in seeing anything from as many different perspectives as possible, in order to minimize blind-men-and-the-elephant kind of thinking. This book is a great example. Even the perspectives that I personally find less applicable or, for example, too New Agey (there are a few of those, but also plenty of more scientifically validated viewpoints) are useful in showing me the ways that human psychology and sociology *can* be interpreted. Also, this book is easy to read and visually stunning, with very effective color diagrams and drawings. I'm not sure whether better to say that the visual elements reinforce the text or vice versa; in reality, they interact to create a synergism that is greater than the sum of its parts. Don't be deluded into thinking that this is just an attractive coffee-table book (even in the paperback edition)--it's much more than that. Highly recommended.

[Gerda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Knyga kurią paskaitinėdavau kartas nuo karto jau keletą metų. Smagus būdas pažinti save naudojantis įvairiausiais testais. Sužinosite ir kokia deivė esate ir kokia smegenų dalis veikliausia. Savęs tikrai neatrasite, nemanau, kad ir pažinsite, bet galėsite neturėdami ką veikti ar susėdę kartu su draugais vien dėl smagumo paskaitinėti, pasiaiškinti ar vidinė kurtizanė pas jus stipri. Abstrakti, glausta ir išsami knyga. Rekomenduočiau tiems, kam patinka atlikti įvairius testus.

[Marsha · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you are looking for an easy and quick book to read, this is NOT the for you.

I however appreciated the multiple quizzes ,puzzles, and pictures this book had. This book has a lot of knowledge and information about how to figure out who you are in terms of your thought process ,values, work ethics, and so much more. If you are willing to really sit down and do all of the activities the book offers , it will be rewarding and insightful for you.

The only reason I gave it a four is that I found some of the spiritual information confusing in the last chapter. In addition, the book’s information on the Chinese Zodiac is inaccurate. Calculating what sign you are isn’t necessarily by the year you were born, it is in fact based off of when Chinese New Years is for that year. However this mainly is for people who have birthdays in January and sometimes February. If the book had mentioned that it wouldn’t have bothered me as much. Other than that though, the book is great.

[MizzSandie · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book wasn't for me, I didn't really discover myself or learned much new through this book, because I was already familiar with many if the topics and I already knew the answers to many of the questionnaires and tests.
It was a visually stimulating book though, with many pretty and intriguing pictures throughout and I think that was what drew me to it in the first place.

However, if you are new on the path of self discovery and curious about the many roads to take, you might find this book much more interesting than I did.

[Shellie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun book chocked full of self-assessment quizzes from everything to what your body type or hand size says about you,right brain vs.left brain,and enneagrams to chakras, religious beliefs and sensuality scales. I would only call one or two of them helpful or scientific (some of them I would even equate to magazine "does he love me?" quizzes), but an interesting and awesomely illustrated way to pass the time.

[Kim · Rating 4 out of 5]

I got through the first part of the book, doing the exercises and stuff. And I found out (not surprisingly) that I completely fit the descriptions of each of the things I figured out I "am." Kind of enlightening in a way, but also kind of disappointing. I wanted to find out some new stuff about me. I guess I'll keep going.

[Hollie Rose · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was an interesting and sometimes insightful book to keep nearby for occasional reading/thinking with morning coffee. Sometimes I'd put it aside for a month or two and I'd consider abandoning it, but then I'd open it to read a page or 4 and decide to keep it.

[Claire · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fun book on various different personality-defining systems, summarized in a few pages with fun pictures. This is a book I would have really enjoyed in my teen years, a time when my friends and I were doing every quiz we could get our hands on both for entertainment and our continuing quest to learn about ourselves.

As an adult, and a graduate of psychology, I prefer more scientific tests (psychometrics) or at least something with a little more depth. At the very least, I had fun with it in the beginning but eventually had to give in to precious real estate space in my library and donate the book. Hopefully, someone else is really enjoying it.

[Kristine · Rating 4 out of 5]

You don't need to actually "believe" in some of the more obscure personality categorization systems to enjoy the fact that they exist. The activities/questions in the book are fun to think about, and I think it's all put together in a way that doesn't make it seem like any method of "seeing yourself" is more valid or more true than any other, nor does it claim to help you in any way, nor is it purely an object look at cultural perspectives on identity. Pretty cool.

[Maggie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great fun, working your way through 101 ways of seeing yourself. Includes 4 sections - Body Types, Feeling Types, Thinking types and Spiritual Types. The 'tests' for want of a better word include left vs right brain, archetype work, Chinese medicine, male vs female, analytical vs spatial vs verbal vs emotional, enneagrams, sun signs, and many many quick easy self tests to determine who you are. Is great fun, and can be helpful too.

[Nancy · Rating 5 out of 5]

a roundup of "typologies" going back to the "humours" (choleric, melancholic, etc.) to the ectomorph/mesomorph/endomorph physical types, to chinese categories, western and eastern astrology, etc. etc. oddly enough, he includes other derivatives of Jung's ideas, but not the myers-briggs, my all-time favorite personality typology. really fun.
another book I had always been curious about and glad to get thru local interlibrary loan.

[K. · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book. I think I bought it for Kallie and ended up reading it and doing all the assessments too. If you are curious about understanding people, personality types, metaphysical connections, pagan "stuff." A fun book to take on a trip or read during the summer. Also fun to do with another person.

[Tara · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is amusing on a rainy afternoon. There are all kinds of little tests and questions to find out if your are left or right brained, whether you are a skeptic or a doomed romantic, and what relgion your prefer, if any at all, and many others. Just for fun, don't stress out or anything...

I find it difficult, testing your own self. How do I know if I got it right?

[Nancy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is so amazing – it gives a two-page description and self assessment of personality types classified under the following types: Body types, Feeling types, Thinking types and Spiritual types. My copy is well-thumbed and packed with stickies. I use it as a workbook.

[LemontreeLime · Rating 2 out of 5]

not a very comfortable book to handle or attempt to read. its choppy and scattered and when you do find something that interests you, there's never enough information about it to satisfy.

[Deborah Clemons · Rating 4 out of 5]

An addictive book containing multiples tools that can be used to analyze your personality. This book draws from psychology, astrology, history and more.

[Carol · Rating 2 out of 5]

I thought this was a book of "cool quizzes" my students and I might take to know ourselves better--way too much work and explanation.

[Carly Johnson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun book in discovering your personality and character traits.

[Debra Beckman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lots of fun for a long trip, with self tests. Great for conversations.

[Desiree · Rating 5 out of 5]

wonderful. Well, that's what I wrote about this after I first saw it... I don't know what I was so giddy about looking back at it though.

[Vanessa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting read. Easy to follow. It demonstrates the many ways we have tried to connect our physical being with our mental being. There are no right answers, just ways of being.

[Émilie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute book of quizzes, some different ones than the usual 'self discovery' books, but still not my fav.

[Blaz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting, somewhat insightful, most enjoyed the section about different children types.. as author said: Don't take it too seriously.

[Teri Temme · Rating 5 out of 5]

101 tests. My kind of book :)

[Marita Terese · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nice survey.

[Ashley]

I did not like these tests. Thought they'd be fun but they weren't.

[Ambrose Miles · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book for those who want to know way too much about themselves.

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