What Color is Your Brain?: A Fun and Fascinating Approach to Understanding Yourself and Others / Edition 1

by Sheila N. Glazov

Overview

Why do you zig while others zag? What makes you seem unique or peculiar to some people, yet similar or comforting to others? The differences are in our personalities and how they shade our perception and affect the way we work, live, and interact. Discovering and understanding our own strengths and idiosyncrasies while adapting to others can be an overwhelming task. In response to this common frustration, What Color Is Your Brain? A Fun and Fascinating Approach to Understanding Yourself and Others explains the similarities and differences that impact our thoughts and actions. Rather than offer an excuse for people's behavior, this book helps to explain why our perspectives differ from or relate to the viewpoints of others. Enjoyable, insightful, and easy-to-read, What Color Is Your Brain? is a guide to exploring who we are, why others see us the way they do, and how the four "brain colors" or personality types play a role in our everyday lives. Sheila Glazov has created colorful personality profiles that simplify the complex nature of our traits and talents. With its entertaining anecdotes, innovative perspectives, and resonating concepts, What Color Is Your Brain? is a fun and fascinating book that promotes both self-awareness and acceptance of others. Written for readers of all ages, genders, and backgrounds, this book is intended to facilitate effective communication and cooperation while minimizing frustration in numerous aspects of our everyday lives-at work and home, in dating and marital relationships, with team projects, among family members and friends, and within a mixture of other interpersonal connections. What Color Is Your Brain? offers the essential pieces of the puzzle that is human interaction, teaching us how to recognize and appreciate a spectrum of personality types. With the help of this dynamic book, discovering your own brain color and learning to adapt to others is bound to be a no-brainer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781556428074
Publisher:	SLACK, Incorporated
Publication date:	08/01/2007
Edition description:	First
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	184,939
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Sheila Glazov is an award-winning author, professional speaker, educator, and consultant on the subjects of personality types, creativity, and self-esteem. She has appeared on CNN, NBC, ABC, FOX, LIFETIME, and WGN TV. She has been interviewed on radio stations nationwide and featured in The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, and Chicago Sun-Times. Sheila is the creator of the What Color is Your Brain?™ Workshop and the author of the children’s book Princess Shayna’s Invisible Visible Gift. She has lectured in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and South America, and has conducted her workshops with clients such as the Motorola, Sears, CB Richard Ellis, Pulte Homes, Quill Corporation, the American Academy of Pediatrics, Washoe Health System, the Society of Women Engineers, the Women’s Leadership Initiative, Clemson University, the Chicago Public Schools, and the Community Association Institute. Encouraging adults and children to recognize and respect the best in themselves and others is the essence of Sheila’s books and workshops. Sheila earned her Bachelor of Science degree in education from Ohio State University and a degree in Creative Leadership from Disney University, and she is a graduate of the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, the Creative Problem Solving Institute, and the McNellis Creative Planning Institute. She has taught third grade and high school ESL. Sheila has been an adjunct faculty member of William Rainey Harper College and a guest instructor at DePaul, Penn State, Northwood, and Roosevelt Universities. Today’s Chicago Woman newspaper selected her as one of “100 Women Making a Difference” for her entrepreneurial achievements in the field of creativity. Sheila has been a member of the National Speakers Association, the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, the Governor’s Commission on the Status of Women in Illinois, Women In Management, the American Association of University Women, and a board member of many community organizations.

Table of Contents

Contents 

Dedication
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction

Section I: Brain Color Concepts
Chapter 1: The “No Right or Wrong Answer” Brain Color Quiz
Chapter 2: Recognize Your Strengths and Perspectives 
Chapter 3: Appreciate Our Differences 
Chapter 4: Understanding Your Color Combinations 
Chapter 5: How Other Colors See You
Chapter 6: Thrive in Ideal Conditions
Section I: Brain Color Concepts Summary

Section II: Personal Brain Color Connections
Chapter 7: Your Romantic Relationships
Chapter 8: Your Relationships With Co-Workers
Chapter 9: Your Relationships With Family Members and Friends
Chapter 10: Your Relationships With Children
Section II: Brain Color Connections Summary

Section III: Brain Color Communication
Chapter 11: Speak Fluent Brain Color
Chapter 12: Connect With Others and Build Rapport
Chapter 13: No-Brainer Conflict Resolution
Chapter 14: You Can Change Your Brain Color
Chapter 15: Effective Decision Making
Chapter 16: Celebrate Hassle-Free Holidays
Chapter 17: Helpful Clues and Quotes
Section III: Brain Color Communication Summary 

Chapter 18: Epilogue 

Bibliography 
Index
An Interview With the Author

Editorial Reviews

Whether you are on a mission to determine your personal or professional Brain Color, Sheila Glazov’s stellar WCIYB can help you paint your brain picture. I highly recommend this book as an enlightening, fun-filled guide to learning more about yourself and others.”

—Aida J. Sapp, PhD, APRN, BC, LMFT [Personally a Blue Brainer; Professionally a combination of a Yellow, Green, and Blue Brainer] Associate Professor, College of Nursing The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, Belton, Texas

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