What I Just Read

This extremely useful book helps readers understand themselves, understand their foundational personality traits, and understand their natural default behaviors. Unlike a lot of psychology literature, it is written in (very) plain and direct language, and there are insights on nearly every page for any reader interested in deepening his self-knowledge. You'll come away from this book with several new mental models for understanding your mind and emotions. Essentially, this book teaches emotional self-sovereignty, and it belongs alongside The Sovereign Individual , Deep Response and How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World  as an important work of individual empowerment. A few thoughts about the material and ideas inside. The author's central idea is that there are three basic foundational personality types: dependent, controlling, and competitive. We are all built from our childhood of some combination of the three, and knowing our "type" gives us crucial information a...