The first time I heard the word TEMPERAMENT was when I found a book titles "why you act the way you do " by Tim Lahaye, I didn't read it completely , but I found an interesting chart , that explains different personalities and I hurriedly found mine. I was 16years old then.
One of the major knowledge I got from this book is how to understand different temperament and how temperament affects our personality and relationships with others.
We all have unique and special temperaments, there's no reason to try changing or adapting to a different temperament, your temperament is you personality as a person. It explains why you behave or act the way you do.
There are four major types of temperament and these includes ,melancholic, choleric,sanguine , and plegmatic and these temperaments have their strength and weaknesses.
Getting to find your category among the various temperaments will give you a clear understanding about yourself and the way an explanation to your behavior and lifestyle.
When I got to know about the various types of temperaments, I was finding it difficult to pick one, and that's because I found my personality in two different temperaments and they include, sanguine and melancholy, therefore I was meant to believe my temperament is sanguine - melancholy.
I'm a blend of the sanguine and melancholy, because I possess different traits from both temperaments
A typical melancholic person is a very sensitive to feelings and emotions, extremely emotional and a deep thinker.
Individuals that possess melancholy traits can be loyal to friendship, honest in any situation .
And a typical sanguine person has a lively and active attitude towards everyone, very good at expressive and enjoy hanging out with friends and having them around too.
After studying the chart I realized I possess melancholic trait and also possesses sanguine traits .
Nothing close to a plegmatic or choleric person.
They are quite opposite, but I possess both.
Getting to know you temperament will really enhance and trigger your interest to grow and improve yourself, because you now have a knowledge about your weekness, strength and yourself.
The knowledge of your weakness will only make you want to be a better person and not live up to the expectations.
And it gives a sense of self awareness.
And it will also make you understand the differences between you, your friends, team mates and colleagues . It will also help you categorize your team mates and choose your peers.
Knowing my temperament have really taught me alot myself , it has made me embrace my personality and traits and use them positively, if there's something I seem to dislike about my temperament is the trait of melancholic trait of always having deep feelings, be it sadness , joy, love and many other feelings, it makes me feel like I overreact and have zero control over my emotions.
I'm learning to control and handle my emotions.
I like everything about sanguine, I wish I had all the traits it takes to be a sanguine.
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