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The Magic Diamond: Jung's 8 Paths for Self-Coaching
Who are you really? That is, how do you operate? And what is your best route to up your level in life?
A century ago, the famous Swiss psychiatrist Dr. C.G. Jung described eight ways people function. Like right versus left handedness, we develop preferences—our gifts.
But what’s next? First, we can nurture our gifts. We can also deal with our shadowy blind-spots and chart a path that continually completes the pattern of who we are. Jung predicted how the brain works: We start largely undifferentiated and grow with biases, then conflicts and crises arise inevitably, and we can retreat from those opportunities or we can choose to reinvent ourselves. What is your choice?
Based on the work of C.G. Jung’s 8 Psychological Types, with over thirty pages of quotations and analysis.
• Starts with a brain-based introduction to 8 cognitive processes.
• Takes you to the next level, focusing on development.
• Explores the problem of one-sidedness, “tension of opposites”, and the Transcendent function.
• For each process, features a 30-page coaching packet based on 14 years of hands-on neuroscience of 350+ people from all walks of life.
• Presents over 40 case studies and over 200 personalized tips for you to develop keener perception and wiser judgment.
• Puts personality within a social context.
• Includes two chapters of activities for teams and coaches.
• Introduces The Magic Diamond, a powerful new metaphor to chart your path to personal and professional growth.
Award-winning instructor and world-renowned personality and neuroscience researcher, Dario Nardi, brings Jung’s incredible work into the 21st century. His other books include: Neuroscience of Personality, 8 Keys to Self-Leadership, Jung on Yoga, and 16 Personality Types.
A century ago, the famous Swiss psychiatrist Dr. C.G. Jung described eight ways people function. Like right versus left handedness, we develop preferences—our gifts.
But what’s next? First, we can nurture our gifts. We can also deal with our shadowy blind-spots and chart a path that continually completes the pattern of who we are. Jung predicted how the brain works: We start largely undifferentiated and grow with biases, then conflicts and crises arise inevitably, and we can retreat from those opportunities or we can choose to reinvent ourselves. What is your choice?
Based on the work of C.G. Jung’s 8 Psychological Types, with over thirty pages of quotations and analysis.
• Starts with a brain-based introduction to 8 cognitive processes.
• Takes you to the next level, focusing on development.
• Explores the problem of one-sidedness, “tension of opposites”, and the Transcendent function.
• For each process, features a 30-page coaching packet based on 14 years of hands-on neuroscience of 350+ people from all walks of life.
• Presents over 40 case studies and over 200 personalized tips for you to develop keener perception and wiser judgment.
• Puts personality within a social context.
• Includes two chapters of activities for teams and coaches.
• Introduces The Magic Diamond, a powerful new metaphor to chart your path to personal and professional growth.
Award-winning instructor and world-renowned personality and neuroscience researcher, Dario Nardi, brings Jung’s incredible work into the 21st century. His other books include: Neuroscience of Personality, 8 Keys to Self-Leadership, Jung on Yoga, and 16 Personality Types.
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432 pages, Paperback
First published September 3, 2020
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October 8, 2020
tl;dr: This is a very good book for anyone interested in MBTI who would like to begin exploring Jungian typology and is interested in transcending their type to become better integrated. However, beware of exceptionally poor editing in the first edition.
Dario Nardi's Magic Diamond is a great look at Jungian Typology and actually includes the transcendent function - something that many people who are into MBTI rarely know about. Not only is this book true to Jung and a great introduction to Jungian concepts (tension of opposites, for example), it's obviously well researched, well organised, and depicts types true to the original theory (which I prefer to MBTI).
Why the 2 stars then? The edition I read, from the website, had terrible grammar mistakes that appeared at least every other page if not more often, and I believe this book to be overpriced at $24 (kindle edition) considering these mistakes. Also, I'm not quite certain that the "case studies" provided were actual case studies and, instead, were simply examples of made up people to illustrate the points. The way it read, it seemed like Nardi was simply making up examples. I don't have any problem with that, but with Nardi's history with meaningful scientific inaccuracies, I'd much rather it be explained that these are examples rather than using psychological jargoon inaccurately. It's way too much of a discredit to the actual science included to have other areas of psychodynamics mislabeled.
Also, I'm a very critical reader. If a book gets 3 stars, it's because I liked it. This book would be a solid 3 stars if it went through a rigorous editing session and was republished at half the price. It would be 3.5 if it were combed through and re-written to be more accurate to science, dishing the misuse of psychodynamic terms.
Dario Nardi's Magic Diamond is a great look at Jungian Typology and actually includes the transcendent function - something that many people who are into MBTI rarely know about. Not only is this book true to Jung and a great introduction to Jungian concepts (tension of opposites, for example), it's obviously well researched, well organised, and depicts types true to the original theory (which I prefer to MBTI).
Why the 2 stars then? The edition I read, from the website, had terrible grammar mistakes that appeared at least every other page if not more often, and I believe this book to be overpriced at $24 (kindle edition) considering these mistakes. Also, I'm not quite certain that the "case studies" provided were actual case studies and, instead, were simply examples of made up people to illustrate the points. The way it read, it seemed like Nardi was simply making up examples. I don't have any problem with that, but with Nardi's history with meaningful scientific inaccuracies, I'd much rather it be explained that these are examples rather than using psychological jargoon inaccurately. It's way too much of a discredit to the actual science included to have other areas of psychodynamics mislabeled.
Also, I'm a very critical reader. If a book gets 3 stars, it's because I liked it. This book would be a solid 3 stars if it went through a rigorous editing session and was republished at half the price. It would be 3.5 if it were combed through and re-written to be more accurate to science, dishing the misuse of psychodynamic terms.
October 8, 2022
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