David Keirsey, author of Please Understand Me, admitted skepticism to Don Lowry's introduction of the True Colors caracter cards to represent each of the basic personality types, and how the True Colors Live Show changed his mind about the True Colors methodology.

1. From the office of David Keirsey, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus
California State University
Fullerton, CA 92634
Donald Lowry, Director
Dear Don,
I must congratulate you on your success in producing a topical stage play that does
not do injustice to a most complex and therefore difficult topic. You may recall that
when you first essayed to put the temperaments on stage I evinced some skepticism
and cautioned you to avoid mere cartoons of the temperament types. I believed at the
time cartoons of the types would be misleading and that the consequence would be
that the theory of temperaments would be subjected to ridicule. You persisted. I stand
corrected.
It was your choice of humor as the vehicle for the caricatures that saved the day,
indeed, made the day. The play is fun. People can identify with the characters. They
can see themselves on stage and they can laugh at themselves and consequently cease
to take themselves so seriously. Of course a few skits cannot possibly inform the
viewer on the depth and complexity of temperament theory. But informing cannot
have been the intent of the play. Its function rather is to intrigue the viewer with two
ideas: that people are fundamentally different and that these differences are good. It
may well be that many, given this witty introduction to the study of human
differences, will take up the study.
I not only congratulate you, but I thank you for your achievement in advancing the
public's awareness of the theory of temperaments and the National Association for
Psychological Type.
Sincerely,