| | At work today, one of the girls pulled out a personality test--not the crazy online kind. The test listed 40 statements, and if the statement was true of you, then you wrote down the letter associated with that statement.
Of the four of us who took the test, I wrote down the most letters. The others wrote down around 12 or so; I wrote down 21. My answers were as follows:
C=3
S=4
M=6
P=8
Some of the questions really had me laughing:
-Do you often spend a whole day doing nothing?
-Are you often tired?
-Do you like to sleep a lot?
In the end, I found that the results really matched up with my personality. The test lists me as primarily phlegmatic, with some melancholy thrown in. After reading over the strengths/weaknesses and thinking over experiences from the past, I found it quite accurate.
Understanding my personality temperament really helped me understand myself a lot better. It clarified why I act or react the way I do. Some of my frustrations became more understandable.
Phlegmatic Strengths:
Calm, easygoing, dependable, conservative, efficient, practical, diplomatic, dry sense of humor
Phlegmatic Weaknesses:
Indecisive, fearful, stingy, spectator, self-protective, unmotivated
The personality test also provided a chart that showed how the different personality types reacted together. For example, if you are phlegmatic and your friend is Sanguine, you probably find your friend too loud and too emotional, while your friend probably thinks that you are too calm and uninvolved.
After going over the test together, some of the office dynamics became much clearer. One girl has been rather frustrated with the way another person works, but now she understands that it is the result of his personality and hers clashing. Although that doesn’t change anything, understanding the differences made it easier for her to cope with.
But all this talk about personalities got me thinking about something else. If Jesus was a man, then wouldn’t he have a personality type? If so, what personality type do you think he had?
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| | Posted 12/4/2007 10:59 PM - 63 Views - 2 eProps - 1 Comment
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