Personalities
It is very important to
understand that different people have different personality types. But the most
common method (Myers-Briggs), was devised by two female INFPs, and thus is not
adequate for people like me today. 1. It was completely binary. 2. It refused
to make any value judgments. 3. It was very limited in scope.
It seems the point of all
personality tests is to define how people think, act, and interact;
specifically to make broad predictions based on a few traits/distinctions. I find
it easier to spend less time on complicated tests required to focus in on a few
'fundamental' traits with (supposedly) broad application, and more time on
asking simple questions about a wide variety of points. You cover more ground,
more simply. For example, what personality test's primary types predict whether
you are likely to hold a grudge or take offense? But it's an important
question, so I just ask it. Obviously my test only works on people who know
themselves, or at least are trying to do so. But I don't see that as a problem.
Big five:
These are
the most fundamental personality traits, simplified down to two opposing tendencies.
They should be obvious to anyone who has lived with you for a day with them in
mind.
Openness to experience
- Inventive/curious
- Consistent/cautious
Conscientiousness
- Efficient/organized
- Easy-going/careless
Extraversion
- Outgoing/energetic
- Solitary/reserved
Agreeableness
- Friendly/compassionate
- Cold/unkind
Neuroticism
- Sensitive/nervous
- Secure/confident
Love language:
What makes you feel most loved?
- Quality time
- Acts of service
- Physical touch
- Words of affirmation
- Gifts
Enneagram:
Natural role
- Reformer
- Helper
- Achiever
- Individualist
- Investigator
- Loyalist
- Enthusiast
- Challenger
- Peacemaker
Temptation/personal sin you're blind to
- Resentment/criticism
- Manipulation/flattery
- Driving oneself too hard/vanity
- Melancholy/fantasizing
- Idealization/stinginess
- Worrying/indecision-doubt-need for reassurance
- Anticipation/thinking fulfillment is elsewhere
- Vengeance/belief in one's self-sufficiency
- Avoiding conflicts and self-assertion/indolence
Basic desire/Basic fear
- Integrity/Corruption
- Feeling loved/Feeling unloved
- Feeling valued/Feeling worthless
- Being uniquely oneself/Being insignificant or without identity
- Mastery/Helplessness or incompetence
- Guidance or support/Being without this
- Satisfaction/Being trapped in pain and loss
- Self-sufficiency/Being harmed or violated
- Wholeness/Loss or separation
Virtue you over-value in yourself/Vice you over-despise in others
- Peaceableness/Anger
- Humility/Pride
- Truthfulness or authenticity/Deceit
- Equanimity/Envy
- Independence/Avarice
- Courage/Fear
- Sobriety/Gluttony
- Innocence/Lust
- Action/Sloth
[Most of the facets below are a continuum, and it is
permissible to say you are between or display aspects of two of the names I
have used.]
People focus
How you
prefer to interact with others/how do you appear to others.
Personability
- Reclusive
- Shy
- Companionable
- Outgoing
- Bubbly
Extraversion (one's propensity for frequency and duration of other's society)
- Quiet
- Sociable
- Party-hardy
Desire for intimacy
- Intimate conversation with one or two others
- Variety and distraction of larger groups
Submissiveness
- Rebellious
- Objective
- People follower
- Clown
Obsequiousness
[Does this have to do with how people act or how they think?]
- Cynic (everything is wrong)
- Faultfinder (looks for faults)
- Lackey (true to person or cause)
- Sycophant (tries to please everyone)
Selfishness/God-focus
- Incurvatus in se (care most about what you think about yourself)
- Horizontal (care most about what others think of you)
- Vertical (care most about what God thinks of you)
Default mode of interacting with the world
- Active life
- Contemplative life
Modus operandi
[I did not
think it necessary to add 'visionary' until I met one. They almost bring the
list a full circle back to doer, as they do not analyze what they do, but
assume that their dreams are so great they must come true.]
- Envisioning
- Thinking
- Feeling
- Talking
- Experimenting
- Doing
Point-of-reference
[This might be a simplified version of the modus operandi.]
- Facts
- Ideas
How you learn
- Visual
- Aural
- Read
- Write
- Kinesthetic (physical/hands-on)
- Social vs solitary
How you plan
[Might not
apply to those who don't plan.]
- Pragmatist (this is what works so do it)
- Realist (this is the way it is so deal with it)
- Idealist (this is how it ought to be so oops)
Do you think out loud?
- Verbal processor
- Internal processor
Sanguinity
[Optimists have a cynical tendency to label people as
pessimists. In my usage of the terms they are quite close together.]
- Negativist
- Pessimist
- Optimist
- Pollyanna
Legalism
- Pharisee (sets up laws for others but does not follow them oneself)
- Legalist (likes having known and agreed-on laws)
- Liberal (dislikes laws)
- Amoralist (defies laws)
Temporal focus
- Past
- Present
- Future
Spacial focus
- Details first
- Big picture first
Order
[Not
directly related to cleanliness.]
- Neat (organization is obvious to you and others)
- Ordered (organization is obvious to you)
- Cluttered (looks unordered to others)
- Dump (there is no order)
Decisiveness
- Likes planning
- Likes decisions made by others
- Likes open ends (alternatives)
- Likes uncertainty
- Hates possibilities becoming actualities
Adaptability
[Something about how well you adapt to different
personalities or changing circumstances.]
[Something about holding a grudge/taking
offense/forgiving easily/not noticing wrongs – humility?]
[When you talking about doing something, is it because you
want others to do it, you want encouragement to do it, you wish you could do
it, or because you've already done it in all but fact?]
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