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Surrounded by Idiots

Thomas Erikson

  • 304 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 2014
  • 10 editions
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1 About this book

Surrounded by Idiots is a 2014 book on communication by the Swedish author Thomas Erikson. It sorts people into four behavior types, each given a color: dominant, decisive Reds; sociable, enthusiastic Yellows; calm, loyal Greens; and analytical, detail-minded Blues. Erikson describes how each type communicates, what its strengths and weaknesses are and where the types tend to clash, and explains how to adjust your own style to be understood by the others, at work and at home. The four colors are based on the DISC assessment.

  • Sociology
  • Communication
  • Communication, social aspects

2 What to expect

A practical guide to why some people are hard to talk to, built on four color-coded behavior types: Red, Yellow, Green and Blue. Each type gets a portrait of its strengths and blind spots, with advice on adapting your own style at work and at home. The model is deliberately simple and easy to apply; it comes from the DISC assessment, a popular tool that is not established science.

Good for readers who want: understanding colleagues, communication at work, and a simple model of personality.

3 About Thomas Erikson

Born 1965

Thomas Lennart Joakim Erikson (born 19 September 1965) is a Swedish author. He is known for his self-help book series Surrounded By, more specifically his book, Surrounded by Idiots, in which he categorizes the personalities of people in colors based on the pseudoscientific DISC assessment.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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