HOW DIFFERENT ARE WE

What do think is personality?

Write down three words to describe your personality and keep them a secret, bring that paper to our next lesson.

Where does personality come from?

TAKE THE FOLLOWING TEST AND KEEP THE ANSWERS IN YOUR NOTES

1. Favourite world: What do you prefer?

E. Go out, action oriented, seeks a lot of knowledge, frequent interaction and gets energy from spending time with people.

I. Reflective, thought oriented, seeks depth of knowledge, substantial interaction and gets energy from spending time alone.

2. Information: How do you take in information and what do you normally pay attention to? Do you prefer to focus on the basic information you take in or do you prefer to interpret and add meaning? 

S. Live in the present, uses five senses for practical and real solutions, memory recall is rich in detail, improvises from past experiences, comfortable with clear and concrete information.

N. – Live in the future, look beyond the five senses for imagination and new solutions, memory recall emphasizes patterns and contexts (bigger picture), improvises from theoretical understanding, comfortable with unclear and fuzzy information.

3. Decisions: How do you make decisions and form judgments? When making decisions, do you prefer to first look at logic and consistency or first look at the people and special circumstances?

T– Instinctively search for facts and logic, naturally drawn to accomplishing tasks, able to provide objective analysis, accepts conflict as natural.

F – Instinctively look at personal feelings and empathy, naturally sensitive to people’s needs and reactions, able to seek consensus, unsettled by conflict structure.

4. In dealing with the outside world, do you prefer to get things decided or do you prefer to stay open to new information and options?

J – Plan details in advance, focus on task-related action, keeps ahead of deadlines; naturally use standard procedures and organization to manage life.

P – Comfortable without details to act, likes to multi-task and have variety, tolerant to deadlines and time pressure, naturally avoid commitments which interfere with flexibility and freedom.