Official Workbook: Read People like a Book

Recognizing people's "inner child" is another way to understand their deepest motives.

According to Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, the shadow consists of everything in ourselves that we'd rather not look at. They are the parts of ourselves that we conceal from both others and ourselves. Humans have a hard time seeing their flaws because of emotions like fear, panic, rage, and arrogance.

Learning about someone else's shadow might be as simple as seeing how it affects your own. If you take offense instead of laughing it off when someone labels you "dumb," then there must be some secret part of you that doesn't want to feel inferior.

Yes, that includes the parts that we cannot visibly see, their shadow, or what is known as their "dark side."

you'll be better able to accept their actions as a rational and consistent reflection of who they are as a person.

figure out why people act the way they do, we have to look at their motivations

ave to look at their motivations.

figure out why people act the way they do, we have to look at their motivations.

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These characteristics include your openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism