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"What Color Is Your Personality?" by Carol Ritberger (2009)
, 4 Oct 2014
The book is easy to read and makes good points about the relation between your personality traits and characteristics and your health issues. The book also points out that there is a direct relation between thoughts, emotions, how the brain transmits orders to the body, and how the body reacts to those orders if your thoughts and emotions are negative.
There is a test to figure out which colour personality type you are. I did not find the test very helpful or scientific, or at least well explained. According to the test I am a colour with which I do not share anything regarding personal characteristics, social behaviour or health problems. On the contrary, the descriptions of each colour type, behaviour and related health issues are very good, and you will easily identify with them.
Once
we have the data, what we do with it? We want to know more about
ourselves to improve ourselves, right? Ritberger gives examples on how
she deals with some of her clients' issues, so I was expecting her to
share some of her practical knowledge with the reader. Unfortunately,
she stops writing when the book was getting interesting. Questions that
came to my mind were, among others: How do we compensate or correct our
negative personality type characteristics? Does our colour type attracts
more people of other colour types? What happens if our personality is
50% two colours? Why there aren't blue colours in this classification?
Should we mingle more with some colour types for our personality to
shine more and have a more balanced life?
The book is easy to read and very entertaining. Although psychologically and medically backed, there is a lack of academic notes and references (which I expect from a Ph.D. writer), which make the text a bit of... fluff. Most importantly, you will learn little about yourself. You will learn which colour personality type you are, and say yes to many of the characteristics attached to it... in the same way you recognise yourself in a good description of, say, your Chinese horoscope.
I think the book (Kindle edition at least) should be half price in Amazon. Nine dollars for so much fluff makes me colour purple, purple out of annoyance.
The book is easy to read and very entertaining. Although psychologically and medically backed, there is a lack of academic notes and references (which I expect from a Ph.D. writer), which make the text a bit of... fluff. Most importantly, you will learn little about yourself. You will learn which colour personality type you are, and say yes to many of the characteristics attached to it... in the same way you recognise yourself in a good description of, say, your Chinese horoscope.
I think the book (Kindle edition at least) should be half price in Amazon. Nine dollars for so much fluff makes me colour purple, purple out of annoyance.
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