I received this book as part of a Goodreads giveaway. “’Personal intelligence,’ as I mean it here, is shorthand for an intelligence about personality.”This is an interesting book. Building on previous work by Goldman and others, Mayer further develops the concept to focus on individual personality awareness and awareness and intelligence about motivations.“The theory of personal intelligence I employ suggests that there are several areas of reasoning that are key to understanding personality. Th...

It introduced some interesting ideas, but I don't fully understand why the author sees a need to introduce them in the context of a new theory as opposed to just including them as a part of emotional intelligence.

Goodreads win. Will read and review once received.I will admit going into this book I wasn't expecting to enjoy this book, but by the end of the book I found myself to really enjoy it. This was a very detailed and informative read. I usually don't read books like this, but I was happy to have given this book a try. This is a book for people who have an interest in the human mind and psychology. This was a great read and I hope it gets the attention it deserves.

الكتاب ممتع ومفيد للغاية. فهو عامر بالمعلومات عن الشخصيات الإنسانية يدعمها البحوث التجريبة وعلاقتها بالحياة الواقعية والعلاقات بين الناس.

It was interesting book but felt the information was definitely at the micro-level instead of macro-level. I recommend it those who are really interested to learn more about personality/emotional intelligence from the micro-level. If not, then I would recommend Emotional Intelligence 2.0.

I personally think this book is worth more than 3 stars...quite informing, particularly for those who are interested in human mind and psychology. The reason that it score 2 point something might be because the author focused too much on making his statement convincing...actually I'm completely willing to believe him and I imagine many of the reader shared the feelings in the process of reading it. But he kind of missed something -- that we readers expect to learn some know-how or what-to-do in

Thoroughly informative in practical detail. :)

It inspires me to know what my original personality is....

This is clearly intended for a lay audience but is quite academic in style. The chapters are fairly long and pretty dense with information. I think the points he makes would have been easier to follow if he had started out each chapter with a summary of what he intended to discuss, then separated main points under subheadings, and closed with a recap. Instead, he starts and just goes until the end. There are a couple of places where graphics might have been helpful. He also mentions some of the

Personal Intelligence offers some real gems, such as the observation that statistical methods may have led us to inaccurately discount the role of personality in human behavior. Mayer points out that although statistical averages are useful for predicting overall performance, they are next to useless to predict behavior in a single event. Thus, studies that looked at correlation between personality and performance on a single test of honesty may have vastly underestimated the importance of a per...

Storytellers need to know personality.

If you interest in personal physchology this is a welcoming book to understand why this topic is important for ordinary people like most of us.İt is written by an expert language where i felt it is done on purpose to distinguish from popular science books.All links and references made me feel bored in many ways.As a summary i recommend the book before diving deep to Hogan's literature.

Personal Intelligence: The Power of Personality and How It Shapes Our LivesI won Personal Intelligence in a GoodReads Giveaway. I received an handsome hardback with a matted jacket cover of traditional professional design, and 268 pages of light, easy-to-read serifed font including 60 pages of reference notes and indexes.Personal Intelligence by John D. Mayer is an introduction of a concept of intelligence engaged in the understanding of personality. John D Mayer, the co-developer of the theory

Mayer used the academic writing style, which wasn't easy for me to read. I like writings with a storyline or a clear objective that I can relate to. This book is descriptive and scientific, especially in the beginning. The insights are interesting but difficult for me to digest and relate to my own life. However, the chapter on Personal Intelligence in Adulthood was particularly relevant to me. It was helpful to know the statistics of others like me - how they felt in this part of their life jou...

Full disclosure: I won a copy of this book in a Goodreads First Reads giveaway.In Personal Intelligence: The Power of Personality and How it Shapes Our Lives psychologist and researcher, John Mayer expands his theory of emotional intelligence to a introduce a new theory which he calls personal intelligence. The basic premise is that people who are more attuned to reading other people are more successful in life. Also, closely related to that skill is the ability to "know thy self" which allows t...

Educational.Very good tool for people who wanted to be adaptable and useful to understand other people.

i won a copy of this book in a goodreads first reads giveaway.it took me a while to get through this book. i found the author's anecdotal style interesting, but biased. his writing style was too personal for me to take this seriously.i completely understand his point about statistical data not taking behavior into account, however, he should have provided anonymous case studies instead of personal accounts. the majority of his support read like a biography.there's a reason therapists don't treat...

I'd like to have given this book three stars because the subject matter -- how we understand people, and the wide range of psychological experiments that have been done to find answers -- is inherently interesting, but Mayer is such a prosaic writer that I just couldn't bring myself to do it.He should thank his lucky stars that former New York Times writer Daniel Goleman was the first to lay out Mayer's ideas in his best-seller, Emotional Intelligence. Mayer and his colleagues have now developed...

I kept reminding myself what this book was about. It seemed undecided about whether to focus on practical information, studies, or just hearing itself talk. It had a lot of data, but I'm honestly not sure what I read. It could have easily gone a direction of encouraging or motivating the reader, but it didn't quite do that at all. It ended abruptly. Not recommended.

The basic concept of this book, the result of John Mayer's work as a psychologist and researcher, is fairly straightforward to state. You know that (controversial, but unsuppressibly real) thing called IQ? The idea that some people's brains are just better at certain kinds of logical tasks? Mayer thinks that there is something analogous, but orthogonal (that is, being good at one does not make you necessarily good or bad at the other), which is about your ability to understand people.Stated simp...