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8 Keys to Self-Leadership: From Awareness to Action
8 Keys to Self-Leadership shows you how to honor your natural talents and to stretch yourself into new areas while keeping that sense of learning and wonder you had as a child. In this book, you will be guided through the doors of self-awareness and shown how to unlock the eight ways to find greater satisfaction in all that you do. If you are familiar with Dr. Carl Jung's framework of 8 psychological functions or the 16 Myers-Briggs types, you will find familiar material, though this book takes a developmental approach. Each chapter takes you through one of eight ways we metabolize experiences, including a quiz, in-depth explanation, and two-dozen exercises to explore and develop the benefits of that psychological function in yourself. Everything is based upon extensive research, discussions with multiple experts, and practical experience with clients. This book is a great tool to use on your own or with clients for coaching and skills and leadership development.
208 pages, Paperback
First published October 4, 2005
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June 20, 2016
This is an extremely dense book, packed with insight into, and exercises for, the various psychological functions. It has taken me about a year to even begin to understand how to apply the relevant exercises in this book, but it's all very clearly written by someone who knows what he's talking about.
I found it easiest to get started by trying some of the exercises that correspond to my primary & secondary psychological functions. When I recommended a couple of the exercises to a friend (choosing them based on his own primary function), he quickly asked for more and said he really enjoyed the practice. So I think those first two functions as a natural source of strength will have general appeal when used as a taste of how the concept works.
With that said, Nardi's advice to work further down the stack has been an amazing discovery for me. It has helped me reach higher ground, where I am using more of my gifts and experiencing more "a-ha" moments. For example, as an aux-Te getting deeper into Ti, I have started to realize why I found so much worth in creating my own frameworks from time to time the past, and definitely wondering why I didn't recognize the value of it as a general practice at the time and apply it more widely to my life. Ti really makes Te seem so boring sometimes, and I now understand how I have access to it and gifts in its use.
Nardi works in academia; hence, the writing is at least semi-academic, and it is aimed a bit higher (it seems) than the beginner texts I've read; these two aspects may limit the book's usefulness to casual readers or those new to Jungian psychology.
The end matter also has some very insightful notes on e.g. stretching your personality or trying to mold yourself a certain way.
Overall it's a rewarding read if you see the benefits of going deep into the topic. I do, and so my copy has sticky notes all over the place, including a sticky note on the opening of the chapter corresponding to each function (Ni / Ne / Te / Ti, etc.).
I found it easiest to get started by trying some of the exercises that correspond to my primary & secondary psychological functions. When I recommended a couple of the exercises to a friend (choosing them based on his own primary function), he quickly asked for more and said he really enjoyed the practice. So I think those first two functions as a natural source of strength will have general appeal when used as a taste of how the concept works.
With that said, Nardi's advice to work further down the stack has been an amazing discovery for me. It has helped me reach higher ground, where I am using more of my gifts and experiencing more "a-ha" moments. For example, as an aux-Te getting deeper into Ti, I have started to realize why I found so much worth in creating my own frameworks from time to time the past, and definitely wondering why I didn't recognize the value of it as a general practice at the time and apply it more widely to my life. Ti really makes Te seem so boring sometimes, and I now understand how I have access to it and gifts in its use.
Nardi works in academia; hence, the writing is at least semi-academic, and it is aimed a bit higher (it seems) than the beginner texts I've read; these two aspects may limit the book's usefulness to casual readers or those new to Jungian psychology.
The end matter also has some very insightful notes on e.g. stretching your personality or trying to mold yourself a certain way.
Overall it's a rewarding read if you see the benefits of going deep into the topic. I do, and so my copy has sticky notes all over the place, including a sticky note on the opening of the chapter corresponding to each function (Ni / Ne / Te / Ti, etc.).
August 9, 2020
It's a thin book, but the content is so dense, that, after having forced myself all the way through, it feels like I need a long while to recover.
I am likely going to go back and look at the specific chapters in detail to start trying to apply the exercises.
I am likely going to go back and look at the specific chapters in detail to start trying to apply the exercises.
February 6, 2017
Ignore the cheesy title, this is a great book and the next step if you already know the basics of jung/ MBTI. The book gives you exercises for developing your personality, and it has introductory, basic and advance levels of each of the 8 cognitive functions.
9/10.
9/10.
July 13, 2016
After reading Dr. Nardi's 'Neuroscience of Personality: Brain Savvy Insights for All Types of People,' I purchased '8 Keys of Self-Leadership: From Awareness to Action.' I find Dr. Nardi's writing style and contexts resonate with my learning process. As and ENFP, in order to better develop less preferred cognitive processes, I put into practice many of the the developmental action exercises.
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