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    What’s Next?
    What’s Next?
    What’s Next?
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    What’s Next?

    By Leonard Restall PhD

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    PublisherXlibris NZ
    Release dateDec 30, 2019
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    Leonard Restall PhD

    The author has gained three University degrees including a PhD seems to have it made for him, or is brilliant, lucky, or have lived in a time or place where achievements were easy to obtain. This is far from the truth and the following account of his life up to the present time should be an encouragement for you particularly if you do not have a record of success. I was born in London, having good and loving parents and lived most of my childhood in Essex, an eastern part of London. My schooling, or lack of it, during World War II was completed under conditions in which very little learning was accomplished, most of us wondered and were more concerned as to whether we would be alive at the end of the day. In 1946 I joined the RAF (Royal Air Force) as a trainee to become a Physical Training Instructor, eventually to be retained as a staff instructor on the training school. It was there that my learning desire took root and is still with me his day, at the age of 91.

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      What’s Next? - Leonard Restall PhD

      Copyright © 2020 by Leonard Restall, PhD.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Getty Images.

      Rev. date: 12/30/2019

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      CONTENTS

      Acknowledgements

      Notes

      Introduction

      Chapter 1     As a man thinks, so is he. Proverbs 23:7

      Chapter 2     Aims, Goals, or Objectives

      Chapter 3     Discover Your Individuality Type ‘You are unique….’

      Chapter 4     Attitude and Thinking

      Chapter 5     Motivation—that which causes you to start or stop something or keep on doing it.

      Chapter 6     Getting Started

      Chapter 7     The Way Ahead Is Clear . . . What’s Next?

      References

      About the Author

      Acknowledgements

      The completion of this book has been made possible by the encouragement of many people, including my late wife, Rita, and from research done by others which have been acknowledged throughout this book.

      The inspiration to write this book as a companion to my previous one, In Pursuit of Success: Overcoming Underachievement, came about from a challenge made to me by a reporter. He was so surprised at my achievements: gaining a PhD at seventy years of age and publishing my first book at eighty-seven years. He said to me, ‘What’s next?’ as if it would be natural for me to go on further.

      I then considered some answers to the question, for it is unlikely that one could stop where one is and not lose ground as knowledge increases at such a fast rate. This same quandary could apply to anyone, but where does one start? This book endeavours to show ways to answer this dilemma and gain further success.

      I acknowledge the knowledge and inspiration gained from Professor John Malone of Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, and Professors Alan Webster, James Chapman, and Don McAlpine from Massey University, New Zealand. Wishing you much success as you answer your own question: what’s next?

      Notes

      Characteristics of Individual Types

      What Are You Like?

      Now that you have found out your type and also the characteristics of your type, the next stage is to find out something about your attitude and the way you think, which will help you in deciding what’s next. You may find that you do not always think or act like someone else because you may have a different personality or individuality. This is one of the advantages of finding out your ‘type’.

      There are sixteen individual types contained within the Myers-Briggs type inventory, and these are given in this section together with some of the distinguishing characteristics found in the sixteen types.3 You may find that even with two people of identical type, there may be slight differences, which do not affect the type description but may show out in slight differences in characteristics between individuals.

      For example, there are two people with the same type description but with differences in scores shown within the four scales. They may be identified as being the same type but not quite the same in personality characteristics.1,3

      Consider the case of one person scoring 3 for introvert and 2 for extrovert, indicating an introvert type. Another person with 4 for introvert and 1 for extrovert would also be identified as an introvert type, but the slight difference in strength within this dimension could be a reason for differences. The first of these two persons will generally show out less for introversion characteristics than the

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