The Dewey Color System: Choose Your Colors, Change Your Life

by Dewey Sadka

Get Ready to Discover Your True Colors

What motivates you? What’s your favorite color? Believe it or not, these two questions are inherently linked. And using the groundbreaking, fun, and remarkably accurate personality test in this book, you’ll learn to fine-tune your career goals, improve your communication skills, and deepen your relationships with romantic partners, friends, family members, and coworkers—all based on your color choices.

Just flip to the color chart and pick your colors—from primaries like red and blue to variations like magenta and indigo. Then turn to the sections in the book that describe your energy type. Each color is identified with certain personality traits, and whether you like or dislike a certain hue, you’ll soon increase your self-awareness, sharpen your decision-making and problem-solving skills, gain insight into your personal relationships, romance, and career . . . and have loads of fun!

The Dewey Color System™ can be used as a practical lifestyle tool to help

• Get in touch with your true self—likes and dislikes, areas for self-improvement, passions and powers
• Understand how you relate to your partner, your parents, your siblings, and your children—as well as your boss and coworkers
• Choose a wardrobe, shop for your home, and select colors that project the real you

Join the more than 70 million people who have taken a simplified version of this test on the Web and choose your colors. It will change your life!

Genres: Psychology, Self Help

256 pages, Paperback

First published February 24, 2004

Reviews

[Puneet · Rating 3 out of 5]

At first I didn’t believe it but the more I read it the more It made sense as it started to connect to my real life.

[Douglas Lord · Rating 1 out of 5]

Sadka presents his color preference-based personality evaluation tool as seen on iVillage.com. Claiming that established systems like Myers-Briggs only scratch the surface, he uses two groups of three colors each to define nine basic types (e.g., Blue and Purple: The Thinkers). Behind Sadka's considerable hubris lie valid points: "Life is not about being someone; it's about being yourself." Yet for all its entertainment and information value (there's even a section for color-blind readers), this book is no substitute for more serious works; analyses of color combinations feel light at eight to ten pages each. Perhaps inevitably, snake oil surfaces: if the method doesn't work, you should "choose your colors again. Could it be that you are avoiding your basic self?" Pass. Tom Maddron's
Living Your Colors: Practical Wisdom for Life, Love, Work, and Play is more worthwhile. Copyright Library Journal.

[Sandy Meadows · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love any book that wants to tell me who I am based on a series of questions that I answer. This one is based solely on the colors I like and a lot of the traits were close enough to make it plausible. We never completely fit into the boxes that other people have created. I had family members take the color quiz and it turned into a fun party game. Want to learn about the inner workings of your family's minds? This is a fun way to do it. Read the descriptions of their personality types out loud and watch them laugh/squirm/smile wryly at the traits that they think are most like them. A quick, easy, fun read.

[Theresa · Rating 3 out of 5]

I breezed through this book in an hour or two. I thought it was a pretty neat way to see how colors show parts of your personality, your desires, the way you work with people, etc. Most of the things I read about myself were true, though there were some statements/descriptions of myself that I didn't quite agree with. However, I think it would be very fun to see how my friends work out with this and how we interact as a result of it. Kind of like an astrology quiz, but a bit more detailed than just the moment of your birth.

[Abby · Rating 4 out of 5]

A pretty darn accurate description of my personality based on choosing my favorite and least favorite colors. I read through the book in one short sitting yesterday, but will revisit it again soon and many more times in the future. The best part of this book is the fact that it gives your answers based on who you really are and not on who you think you are or who you think you should be.

[Sandra · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a similar type of book using colors to understand people's personality code. This one uses more of a variety of color wheel teachings, but there are some clearly similarities in the book.

Worth reading if you are interested in understanding how others think---and learning to communicate so that others will listen.

[Maryn · Rating 1 out of 5]

This has been on my wishlist at Paperbackswap.com forever and I finally got it - I was so excited! Unfortunately, reading it wasn't particularly insightful or substantive...can I have my time back, please?

[Amanda · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a fun magazine questionnaire!!! I'm a thinker according to the book. Read within 10 minutes.

[Lori · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was amazingly revealing about how color and personality go together. Bully for you Mr. Sadka. :)

[Iroquois · Rating 3 out of 5]

cool little book...very amusing.