The Color Test that matches a personality type to a color.
Introverts v. extroverts.
Another one that shows how different people see the world and remember it using different parts of their brain and senses (audio, visual, kinetic).
The Five Love Languages that point out what you and those around you will most appreciate and how you feel the most loved.
I was recently introduced to another one that is based on children and starts with some basic descriptions of four types of children that can be described in four ways:
- Animated, fun, bright, light-hearted, and friendly
- Tender, gentle, kind, and thoughtful
- Strong, active, persistent, and energetic
- Thorough, efficient, responsible and analytical.
Even the school houses from Harry Potter (Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, Slytherin, and Gryffindor) has almost become a personality analysis.
I don't think I have ever read a self-help book and probably never will but things like the stuff above I find fascinating. They aren't really self-help books more of a self-awareness books.
In one of my classes we talk about different theories quite a bit and which ones we prefer to adhere to. One of the arguments my Professor, Stephen Yanchar, makes, is that critical flexibility should be used, meaning that you don't have to choose just one theory, but you should also not just use all of them all at once. Instead think through what each theory implies and see how they can work together. One of my previous theory teachers would also talk about how theories are tools we can add to our tool boxes and we can use different tools for different situations.
For my conclusions I will just say this: I am a person observer (some people talk about people watching and that can be interesting but I prefer observing the people I know better than those I don't) and I like to use all the tools in my tool box to understand people.
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