Are You a Type C Personality? Pay Attention to Your Marriage
Personality typing may be as old as the human race itself.
Okay, earliest humans may not have examined their peers this way since they were likely too worried about getting eaten by lions and tigers to think of such things.
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But, we do know that around 371 to 287 BC, the Greeks and Romans recognized four personality types: melancholic, choleric, sanguine, and phlegmatic. Melancholics tended toward black moods and deep reflection; cholerics were goal-orientated and analytic; sanguine people were sociable and impulsive; and phlegmatics were unassuming and intuitive.
Today, social scientists have developed more elaborate tools to assess people. Their instruments include—but aren’t limited to—the Myers-Briggs Personality Test (perhaps the most complex typing system, with 16 types), and the Temperament and Character Inventory (which has four temperaments and three characteristics).
These models are interesting and can provide a framework for understanding human behavior. They can also be used to help predict behavior and even correct behavior.
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What’s Your Personality Type?
Most of us have heard of Type A and Type B personalities, and I’m guessing we all know lots of people who fit the stereotypes. At their best, Type A folks are successful in their careers, they are great planners, and they get things done. At their worst, they can be driven, uptight, competitive and even cut-throat. A’s like to be the star and to rise above others (in reality or just in their own mind).
Their counterpart, the Type B personality, tends to be more laid back, easy-going, and yielding. They let things roll off their back and they go with the flow fairly easily. They are not driven by a need to be successful and not motivated to get things accomplished. Instead, B’s make good teammates because they care very much about other people’s feelings and needs.
Personality Test: Your Pinky Finger Length Reveals Your Hidden Personality Traits
Pinky Finger Personality Test: What is the length of your little finger? Is the little finger shorter than the ring finger? Is the little finger longer than the ring finger? Did you know the length of your little finger reveals your personality traits? What does your pinky finger say about your personality?
Well, just as your forehead shape, sleeping position, nose shape, sitting positing, the way you make your fist, etc can reveal your hidden personality traits, similarly, your pinky finger reveals your true personality traits, strengths, weaknesses, nature, mindset, and behaviour style.
Personality Test: Your Thumbs Reveal Your True Personality
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How to be a good listener – and how to know when you’re doing it right
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- Empathy is one of the most misunderstood listening skills.
- Empathy is what we feel when we are trying to understand the world from the perspective of another person.
- The key is to try and see the world through the frame of reference of the person who is speaking.
- You will find that you are less likely to misunderstand, less likely to rush in with advice, and more likely to connect on a deeper level.
Being a good listener means having empathy. But empathy is one of the most misunderstood listening skills.
Empathy is what we feel when we are trying to understand the world from the perspective of another person.
One of the common misconceptions about empathy is that you need to have lived through what the other person has experienced to understand them.
Simply having the same experiences as another person is not enough to understand them. Two people can face the same challenges or difficulties, but respond in completely different ways. Your experiences are unique to you and no one else can know how you feel, even if they have been wearing your shoes. The only way to understand how someone feels is to listen to them, without assuming that they feel the same as you did in that situation.
This article is part of Quarter Life, a series about issues affecting those of us in our twenties and thirties. From the challenges of beginning a career and taking care of our mental health, to the excitement of starting a family, adopting a pet or just making friends as an adult. The articles in this series explore the questions and bring answers as we navigate this turbulent period of life.
So, let’s think about empathy in a different way.
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Your unique perception of the world
Imagine that every baby is born holding a wooden frame that contains a pane of glass. Whenever they look at anything in the world, they do so through this glass.
The glass is not completely clear when they receive it. It is slightly warped and discoloured, and these are the marks of their genetics and biology. This means that everyone has a different piece of glass through which to see the world. And this glass becomes more marked as each of us moves through our lives. Every experience – good and bad – changes the glass. It warps, scratches and smudges. Parts of it may be stained in different colours like church windows. And so our view of the world changes as the glass changes over time.