Monday, 19 May 2014

Know Yourself (Cont..)

Your Personality

Your personality is the set of characteristics that don’t change during your life but can develop in healthy and positive directions. Your personality characteristics also indicate what things you will find come naturally to you. There are many different kinds of personality typologies and assessments, such as the Myers-Briggs model of 16 personality types and the Enneagram model of 9 personality types. These personality models can offer clues to the things you prefer to do in your life, which are invariably the things you are good at and where your natural strengths lie. Here are some of those models.

Humours

The word “humour” originally meant “moisture” or “fluid”. The Ancient Greeks believed that the human body was madeup of four kinds of fluid or humour: blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. When these were in equal proportion, the body was healthy; when out of balance, ill.The four humours came to be associated with four personality types:

1. blood = sanguine (quick, enthusiastic and changeable)
2. phlegm = phlegmatic (slow, calm, lazy)
3. yellow bile = choleric (excitable, proud, quick to react)
4. black bile = melancholic (pessimistic, sad, slow to react)

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