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.

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

The Big Five, the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator, and the Keirsey Temperaments

Their acts may serve as windows into their intentions and, ultimately, their personalities.

You have to be aware of what fuels their fire. Why do they do this? Why do they do that?

Humans do things for different reasons.

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

Their acts may serve as windows into their intentions and, ultimately, their personalities.

People work harder to avoid pain than they do to experience pleasure.