Chapter 14

The Keirsey Temperament Sorter

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How many of you are you familiar with the Myers-Briggs inventory?  Well, the Keirsey Temperament Sorter is a simplified Myers-Briggs.  They are both based on Jung's psychological types. 

Below is a map on which you can plot where your strength is.  This is not wrong or right, itÕs just where your preferences are.

Allow me to tell you a story about two participants in the seminar discussed in an earlier chapter. Two members of the industrial company were at each otherÕs throats. They happened to be brothers and the sons of the boss, the company owner.  So he didnÕt know what to do with them, which is why he insisted on all company personnel coming to the seminar.  Well, when the brothers took the Keirsey sorter inventory, they found out that they were opposite types! They thought and felt and behaved differently. One brother was a thinker, the other a feeling type. They made decisions differently and could not appreciate the other's point of view. However, just their being able to see this difference in preference on the above maps and because they were both well intended, they understood at once why they had conflict. This motivated them to look for a common language that they both could understand. The stress of the company went away overnight.  That one insight was worth the whole seminar to them.