Daddy, Please Understand Me

INTRODUCTION

Daddy, Please Understand Me: Temperament  /Elements

 

If a man does not keep pace with his companions,

Perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Let him step to the music which he hears,

However measured or far away.
—Henry David Thoreau

It is my endeavor to make the book user-friendly so that Daddy, Please Understand Me helps people find their temperament and personality style. Portraits of temperament and character types are simple and accurate. The book’s essential message: that members of families and institutions are OK, even though they are fundamentally different from each other, and that they would all do well to appreciate their differences and give up trying to change others into copies of themselves.

Now: Daddy, Please Understand Me  

For the past twelve years I have continued to investigate personality differences -- to refine the  theory of the four temperaments and to define the facets of character that distinguish one from another. My findings form the basis of Daddy, Please Understand Me. One major theme in the book is how the temperaments differ in the intelligent roles they are most likely to develop. Each of us,  has four kinds of intelligence -- tactical, diplomatic,  logistical and strategic -- though only one of the four, interests us far more than the others, and thus gets far more practice than the rest. Like four suits in a hand of cards, we each have a long suit and a short suit in what interests us and what we do well, and fortunate indeed are those whose work matches their skills.

In the book you find Four- Temperament Sorter, a new short questionnaire that identifies one's basic temperament and then ranks one's second, third, and fourth choices. Share this new sorter with friends and family, and get set for a lively and fascinating discussion of temperament/ personal styles.

In astrology we know four elements, Fire, Air, Water and earth. Air rules the signs, Gemini, Libra and Aquarius; Fire rules, Aries, Leo and Sagittarius, Water rules,Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces; Earth rules, Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn. Thus each element has three signs. These three signs belonging to a particular element are the three shades of the particular element, enabling us to understand the finer traits and variants. By having command on elements/ tattwa the ‘Tattwavetta’ becomes most powerful and can manipulate fate to advantage if he can’t change fate.

These elements are known as Humours or personality types or function types or psychology types. To be an expert astrologer one must read theology, psychology, logic, physics, chemistry, biology and botany etc to decipher the symbolism used in Astrology.