Personality Profiles Review

Personality types are favorite topic of many people. Knowing about them and applying this knowledge in every-day life is a sign of successful person. I’ll do a review for you about this, why it is important, what are the benefits and I’ll give you basic description of four main personality types.

What’s in it for me?

This question is present in our subconscious every time we are making a decision on anything. So why should we bother learning this personality stuff? The answer lies in a word relationships.

The greatest benefit of knowing personality types is increasing quality of our relationships. It’s because by knowing what our personality profile is, we start to understand ourselves better and then we can understand others better. We are able to adjust our behavior to the “needs” of other person’s personality. This greatly increases the quality of relationship and also makes it easier to make new relationships.

“If I understand you and you understand me, isn’t that enough reason for relationship between us to be better?” – Robert A.Rohm

“D” – choleric

This type is open and task-oriented. Dominant characteristics are:

Dominating    Demanding    Direct
Determined    Decisive        Do-er
Director         Dogmatic      Dreamer
Diligent          Dynamic        Defiant

The basic necessity of “D” is getting results. They like deciding, to solve problems and achieve their goals.

“I” – sanguine

This type is open and people-oriented. Dominant characteristics are:

                      Inspiring       Influencing         Inducing
                      Impressive    Interesting         Impressionable
      (love to be)Important      Interchangeable Interested in people
                     Imaginative    Impulsive           Illogical

The basic necessity of “I” is having fun. They like meeting with others, so that together everyone can enjoy it.

“S” – phlegmatic

This type is closed and people-oriented. Dominant characteristics are:

Supportive    Steady        Stable
Secure          Serving       Sweet
Submissive    Shy            Status-quo
Sentimental    Same         Sucker   

The basic necessity of “S” is peace and harmony. They want to keep acceptable method to be sure that others will comfortably manage everything.

“C” – melancholic

This type is closed and task-oriented. Dominant characteristics are:

Cautious       Competent      Cognitive
Careful         Calculating       Critical thinking
Compliance  Conscientious  Correct
Conformist   Consistent        Cold

The basic necessities of “C” are quality answers, value, being correct. They are looking for facts and operate by methods to meet exact principles

Final notice

What I write above is basic description/list of dominant qualities of each personality type. That doesn’t mean that you can put a person into one of 4 types. Each person is a mixture of these 4 personality types and in most cases one or two of them are dominant in person’s personality profile.