Personality and You, do you think you/re unique? What defines a unique you?

"When you look into the mirror, upon the reflection of yourself, have you ever wondered what others see you underneath the guise of your appearance?"

"Have you ever thought yourself to be unique?"

"What about your friends, your colleagues, what do they see in you?"


Hi folks, questions above crossed my mind a few times before. Some of you have raised these questions to yourself before I am sure. Last night, a friend of mine texted me saying about a personality test website. A curious mind is a worthy companion to one who seeks wisdom and enlightenment. Wo! I know right, big words! I may not be the one who seek after wisdom, but circumstances sparked the kindle of my curiosity. And this article is to help you, the reader understand better about your own personality and those of others and their behaviors.

So, when I looked into the mirror, I saw myself: a mildly-dark skinned guy with black hair. My appearance and image are the ones that other human see. But underneath it, who am I really? What defines me as a person? A few minutes after the questions were raised, there I was scouring through the almighty world wide web finding about personality. I found many amazing and wonderful things about personality, history of its emergence and scientific and/or psychological theories. I am not doing a lecture on them, hell no. I am here to share what I find so that kindred spirits like myself, can quickly grasp the skinny of it. (Note: For those who wishes to explore deeper, the links, references and recommendations are at the bottom of the post.)

Here I go. To me, personality is a combined cluster of my behavior, way of thinking, attitude and last but not least the fuel of mind called emotions. A certain person's personality at a given time (E.g. when he's 30 years old) is a result and end product of events, circumstances and situations he faced/overcame throughout the early years.

When assessing one's personality, four things are looked at:
1. The way he/she tends to interact with others: is he/she out-going or stay reserved?,
2. His/her way of executing things: reliance on logic or a believer of instincts and/or intuition,
3. Preference/choice of someone over Feeling and Thinking,
4. Mode of understanding things/situation: Perception or Passing Judgement

I have gone through a few sources for a couple of personality tests. Most of the tests are based on mind-engaging Multiple Choice Questionnaires, and according to the set of answer which the participant chose, the end result will show his/her personality. Here is the link, for those who want to try it out for themselves.

After finding out what personality that I have, I wanted to know more. What are my weaknesses? Which personality type is the most compatible to mine? Is my girlfriend or spouse compatible with me? Questions came in waves after waves. So, as I dug deeper, I found this very interesting piece of work done by a brilliant mind.



Enneagram figure of Personality. It's a diagram made up of a circle and intersecting arrows which shows the correlation between Nine different major stereotypical personalities. As explained in above photo, researches also documented that one can act/behave similar to other personality traits, depending on themselves feeling stressed or secured. So, what are the nine different types and respective traits? Find out below;

After going through the mentioned tests and the enneagram, I now know the basics of why I am behaving in a certain way when I'm stressed and likewise when I'm feeling very comfortable and secured. Moreover, this is helping me in trying to understand the personalities and their basic behaviors of my loved ones, friends and colleagues better. Hopefully, if you find this helpful or informative to you, please share and leave comments below if you have any suggestions.

P.S: Dear reader, which one are you? If you are a girl and have Challenger personality, I think I know your Passion. *wink*

Credits:

http://occupycorporatism.com/neurogeneticists-use-personality-genes-to-further-eugenics-agenda/

http://www.npr.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality