KNOW YOUR PERSONALITY
Understand the personality of others
A comprehensive description and explanation of personality is given in
A Guide to Everyone’s Personality: An introduction to the Davies Personality Profile by Michael Davies
- Achieves that which many consider impossible – a coherent and comprehensive description and explanation of virtually everyone’s personality
- Meets the needs of everyone who wants to understand fully their own and other people’s personality
- Supplies essential knowledge for making decisions which depend upon an individual’s personality, whether in, for example, personal life, government, business or education
- Provides the framework for any organisation to identify the diverse individuals who are necessary to make any team effective
Pages: 498
ISBN: 978-0-9562047-2-1
Price: £14.99, Publication date: 31 October 2024
Available to order from good book retailers
"Many of us have been puzzled by our own and other people's ‘oddness’."
1 The oddness of people
‘All the world’s odd, except you and me. And frankly, even you’re a little bit odd.’ [Adapted from Robert Owen 1771–1858]
Many of us have been puzzled by our own and other people's ‘oddness’.
The solution to the puzzle of ‘oddness’ is to be found in A Guide to Everyone’s Personality: An introduction to the Davies Personality Profile. It really is a guide to almost everyone’s personality, because everyone is described and explained by:
1. Their own unique combination of characteristics
2. Characteristics which have a clear, distinct, common-sense meaning
In this book, a straightforward system, the Davies personality profile, is used for describing practically everyone's personality. This system meets a great, universal and unsatisfied personal and organisational need.
"Humankind has the diverse personalities of reasoning, social, nomadic, tool-using, omnivorous hunter-gatherers ..."
2 The key idea
This breakthrough in understanding is based upon a straightforward, if initially surprising thought, which is:
Humankind has the diverse personalities of reasoning, social, nomadic, tool-using, omnivorous hunter-gatherers who were adapted to ongoing, abrupt, dramatic environmental variability.
In other words, each of us has one of the almost limitless diverse personalities of reasoning, social, nomadic, tool-using, omnivorous hunter-gatherers who were adapted to ongoing, abrupt, dramatic environmental variability!
This explanation is derived from a new approach to human deliberate behaviour which is called hunter-gatherer environmental variability theory.
"...correlates...increasing brain size and behavioural complexity with ever more environmental, mainly climatic, variability"
3 Hunter-gatherer environmental variability theory
Hunter-gatherer environmental variability theory is supported by two independent lines of research which began during the 1990s:
1. Archaeologists and others have discovered evidence which correlates during millions of years hominin increasing brain size and behavioural complexity with ever more environmental, mainly climatic, variability. [See the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History website, human evolution research, climate and human evolution, https://humanorigins.si.edu/research/climate-and-human-evolution.]
2. Michael Davies has demonstrated in detail that humankind has the individual, social and societal deliberate behaviour patterns of hunter-gatherers adapted to ongoing, abrupt, dramatic environmental variability.
If, later, you would like to explore these ideas further, remember to visit our website, https://www.socialsciencesunified.uk, where these ideas are explained more fully.
"... humankind has the deliberate behaviour patterns of a hunter-gatherer who is adapted to intense environmental, mainly climatic, variability."
4 The explanation of personality
The explanation of personality is based upon the theory that humankind has the deliberate behaviour patterns of a hunter-gatherer who is adapted to intense environmental, mainly climatic, variability.
On the basis of these ideas, the explanation of personality is constructed from a clear-sighted analysis of the characteristics of our personality.
There are, in fact, three principal groupings of our personality characteristics, which are the:
- Five dispositions
- Five dimensions
- Seven social roles
The content and meaning of all these concepts are fully explained in A Guide to Everyone’s Personality: An introduction to the Davies Personality Profile.
These seventeen characteristics are then listed and evaluated on a standard form, the Davies personality profile.
