Truth About You

by Arthur F. Miller Jr.

Helps individuals recognize their unique motivations and God-given gifts and shows how to use such knowledge to make careers, marriage, and parenthood fulfilling experiences

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

Reviews

[John G.]

Really enjoyed this book when it stuck to career and motivation, the author slips into a Christian themed sermon towards the end, but still, this is one of the better books I've found concerning this subject and I agree with his basic assertion that we're all hard wired from early on to follow and respond to a motivational pattern and to follow is to bliss and to go against it is hell. This book is worth reading and holding onto!

[Bruce]

Background for System for Identifying Motivated Abilities (SIMA), the tool used by Antioch for a survey to identify the motivational structure of an individual's personality. Assumes each person has a unique set of motivations at birth. Understanding motivations useful for job and ministry choices. I found it useful to answer the question, “Why do you want this job?” Chap eight maps out for different dimensions of motivation: central motivation, motivated abilities, recurring subject matter, motivational circumstances, and operating relationships. Each dimension has a cloud of qualitative descriptors that turn up in interviews. Claims this pattern is better than personality analysis like Myers-Briggs. The theological assumptions behind it suggest a better fit for creational theology. Myers-Briggs comes from Jungian psychology.

[Emily]

I think I would have liked this more if I hadn't read a newer and more informative version of the same book only about six months ago.