Color Your Future: Using the Character Code to Enhance Your Life [Paperback] by Taylor Ph.D. Hartman (Author) Paperback: 176 pages Publisher: Scribner (June 20, 2000) Language: English ISBN-10: 0684865718 ISBN-13: 978-0684865713 Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.4 x 8.4 inches Develop your character -- and powerfully improve the quality of your life In The Color Code, Taylor Hartman defined the characteristics of the four basic personality types and assigned a color to each. In this exciting sequel, he builds on his groundbreaking research, showing you how to use your color profile as a guide to cultivating a full and balanced character. The essence of character is the ability to enhance not only our own lives, but the lives of others as well. Here, Dr. Hartman gives you the tools you need to unlock your true potential, including engaging case histories, clearly articulated principles, and step-by-step exercises for: Recognizing your innate -- and developed -- strengths Identifying your core motivations Communicating more effectively Focusing your commitments Discovering the importance of character "stretching" Presented with refreshing style and candid professionalism, this revolutionary guide provides tremendous counsel for identifying and embracing an enhanced life.From Publishers WeeklyFollowing the success of The Color Code, in which psychologist and business coach Hartman popularized the use of color to characterize personality types (e.g., "red" people seek power; "blues" crave intimacy), the author has revised and retitled this companion volume, which he originally self-published in 1991 as The Character Code. However, fans of his initial pop-psychology blueprint for getting along with others may be disappointed with the meager fare here. Though brief, the book meanders and suffers from poor writing. It is most engaging when explaining the nuances of color typing, though it assumes some familiarity with the basic types. Hartman's aim is to bring readers who know their "color" to a higher plane of "psycho-social-spiritual health," and to encourage readers to become "charactered"Ain other words, to assume the strengths of the other personality types. For example, the fun-loving "yellow" might benefit from learning the expressive power of the "blue." His steps to becoming "charactered" include learning to value oneself, to have "clean" motives, to focus one's commitments and to serve others. Unfortunately, the wisdom and validity of his thinking is obscured by an occasionally preachy tone and odd case histories. Self-improvement seekers would do better to look to Stephen Covey or others for more lucid writing, or to buy The Color Code for fun. (June) Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Library JournalSubstantially revised from its original self-published edition, this sequel to the best-selling The Color Code helps readers improve character.Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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