A famous philosopher once said, “It’s a great loss to know almost everybody that matters while alive only to find out that you never knew yourself when you’re gone.”
Who you are (in terms of your strengths and weaknesses) influences how you think, decide, behave and act in stressful times.
You can precisely know your strengths and weaknesses by knowing your personality type and the influence of your culture, religion, education and learning (formal or informal) and senses on it.
Your personality type drives a lot about you.
For simplicity sake, I’ll be limiting this to the choleric, sanguine, phlegmatic and melancholic personality typing. For your personality profiling/typing, refer to the various online assessment tools for help.
The CHOLERIC are the bold, determined, practical, intelligent, visionary, quick-decision takers, now-conscious with time (work more with present facts or evidence), proactive, optimistic and generally motivated by challenge and results.
They however often have struggles with insensitivity, domineering, impatience, arguments, carelessness, overwork, self-will, hot-temperedness and being sarcastic.
The blend of their strengths and struggles puts them at a risk of hyper-stress.
The SANGUINE are the optimistic, friendly, articulate and talkative, compassionate, entertaining, outgoing, persuasive, enthusiastic, future-conscious with time (work more with possible results), collaborate well in a team and are mainly motivated by recognition and approval. They however mostly have struggles with restlessness, unstable emotions, being flighty (constantly changing plans), lustful or boastful, prejudging (easily jumps to conclusion), rudeness, disorderliness, being weak-willed and talkative.
They rarely step out of eustress.
The PHLEGMATIC are relaxed, friendly, peace-loving, diplomatic and team players, good listeners, dependable and loyal, humorous, value relationships, value clean environment and now-conscious in time (work more with present evidence).
However, they struggle with introverted nature (can be shy), indecision, indifference, over-tolerance and over-submissiveness, un-enterprising and unmotivated spirit and deadlines due to slow nature.
They could easily step into hypo-stress.
The MELANCHOLIC are perfectionists, intellectual, inquisitive, analytical, creative, self-disciplined, industrious, sensitive, consistent, facts-based decision-takers, good listener with respect to task or systems details and accommodating in dispute, no-nonsense, motivated by being right and past-conscious in time (use past occurrence or statistics to slowly work out the present).
They however struggle with self-centeredness, volatile moods, pessimism, faults-finding, being touchy and revengeful and over-carefulness.
They could easily step out of eustress into hyper-stress.
NB:
Any strength could turn to a weakness and vice versa based on the prevailing conditions.
You could blend more than one of the personality types either by design or by default and you can be whoever you want to be regardless of your personality type if you work towards it.
All the personality types could step into the much dreaded distress or burn-out if a healthy stress level is not kept.
To be continued tomorrow.
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