An in-depth exploration of the human personality. Questions such as: Are our first impressions of other people's personalities accurate? Are creative individuals maladjusted? Are our personality traits, as William James put it, "set like plaster" by the age of thirty? Are some individuals genetically hard-wired for happiness? And which is the more viable path toward human flourishing, the pursuit of happiness or the happiness of pursuit? Little helps us see ourselves, and other selves, as somewhat less perplexing and definitely more intriguing. Brian Little is currently at Cambridge University, where he is a distinguished scholar and director of the Social Ecology Research Group in the department of psychology. Previously, he taught at McGill, Oxford and Harvard Universities. Dividing his time between Canada and the U.K., Little is also a distinguished research professor emeritus at Carleton University in Ottawa.