Personality Development- Part 1

PERSONALITY What is Personality? Personality is made by patterns of thoughts, feelings and behavior that make a person unique. We should be calm, confident and rely on our abilities. If we are confident, we have key of doors of opportunities. “If you van believe it, you can achieve it” Start believing on yourself, acting on that belief and you will start building self confidence in your life. Types of Personality: Personalities can be called as “humors”. Chart Character Humor Irritable Choleric Depressed Melancholic Optimistic Sanguine Calm Phlegmatic Classification based on nature: Well adjusted or resilient person: adaptable, flexible and resourceful Over controlling: upright and difficult to deal with Under controlled: impulsive Identification of different types of personalities: By personality test: Advantage: No experience is required Disadvantage: Less reliable Analytical test: Advantages: Flexible and can be used during conversation Disadvantages: Require analytical abilities and reliability is directly proportional to experience. Visual identification: Advantages: Instant identification and no need of personal involvement Disadvantage: Requires great deal of experience and training Behavior analysis: Advantages: Quite reliable and suitable for beginners Disadvantage: Good knowledge of subject to be identified is required How to groom personality? Build confidence on you first. And for this follow these measures: Make a list of your strong points Choose things from above list that you want to improve even more Exude confidence, even if you don’t feel like it Look at yourself in different way than you are used to doing Make decisions depending on what is correct and what is incorrect. Be clear about what you want. Have a sense of purpose. With a target to aim for, you will know what will serve you best. STOP and ASK yourself questions. Write down the answers and be clear. Be open to possibilities for yourself. Select one area of your life where you are unsatisfied and choose something new, something more from yourself Do different things and do things differently. Some more points to be kept in mind are: Speak less and listen more. Attract people by your good work. Win by work, not by fight. Be brave and then start doing your work. Plan yourself and manage the time for doing good work.