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Exploring Your Personality and Major
Chapter 2
Keys to Success:Find Your Passion
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
Mark Twain
How do you know when you have found your passion?
When Time Flies
Success is not the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Anonymous
Personality Assessments
Do What You Are The material in the textbook
Based on the theory of Carl Jung
A Swiss Psychologist, 1875-1961
We are all born with a personality type.
If you understand your type,you can understand yourselfand others.
There are no good or badpersonality types, just differences.
The personality assessment identifies your preferences.
Demonstration: What is your preference?
There are advantages and disadvantages of each type.
Focus on your gifts and talents.
How to take the assessment:
Think positively. Answer honestly. There are no right or wrong
answers. There are no good or bad
personality traits—only differences that make us unique.
Personality Assessment
Helps you understand your personality type
Identifies your preferences Provides useful ideas for selecting your
career and major Helps you identify your gifts and talents Helps you to understand differences in
others
Taking the DWYA
Find a time when you are not tired or rushed.
There are no right or wrong answers. Each type has their own unique gifts
and talents.
Taking the DWYA
The test does not measure: Intelligence Psychological or emotional health
Taking the DWYA Answer the questions honestly to get the best
results. Answer the questions how you usually are
when you are not stressed. Do not answer the questions:
How you want to be How you have to be at home, work or
school How others want you to be
Personality Types
� Extravert - E� Sensing - S� Thinking - T
� Judging - J
� Introvert - I
� INtuitive - N
� Feeling - F
� Perceptive -P
Begin Self-Assessment
How we interact with the world and where we place our energy
E_____________________________|____________________________I Extraversion Introversion
What careers would match the preferences of the extravert? Introvert?
Self-Assessment
The kind of information we naturally notice and remember
S_____________________________|___________________________N Sensing Intuition
What careers would match the preferences of the sensing type? Intuitive type?
Self-Assessment
How we make decisions
T_____________________________|___________________________F Thinking Feeling
What careers match the preferences of the thinking type? Feeling type?
Self-Assessment
Whether we prefer to live in a more structured or spontaneous way
J_____________________________|_____________________________P Judging Perceiving
What careers match the preferences of the judging type?The perceptive type?
Personality Types
� Extravert - E � Introvert - I
EXTROVERT
TALKING
ACTION
SOCIAL
MANY FRIENDS
EASY TOKNOW
A Disadvantage: Speak and then Think
INTROVERT
QUIET
REFLECTIVEINTENSE
HARD TOGET TO KNOW
IN DEPTHRELATIONSHIPS
Disadvantage: Think, and then Speak.
MAY NOT GET AROUND TOSPEAKING AT ALL
Extroverts 75% of people
Introverts 25%
Use the Textbook to Check your Preferences
Introvert or Extravert?
Even though there are 16 personality types, we are all
unique because we are varyingdegrees of each type.
Where do you fit on the scale?Introvert or Extrovert?
E…X……………………………….IE………………X………………….IE……………………………...…X..I
Look at your book and your test resultsand think about this question. Write yourresults on the “Summarize Your Results” in your text.
Exercise: Talkers and Listeners
Free Write 5 Minutes
Choose one: I am an introvert I am an extravert I am a combination introvert/extravert
Personality Types
� Extravert - E� Sensing - S
� Introvert - I
� INtuitive - N
SENSING TYPE
WHAT CAN I SEE, HEAR, FEELTASTE, TOUCH?
USES SENSES
SENSING
DOWN TOEARTH
PRACTICALHARD WORKING
FACTS
SPECIFIC
IN ORDER
INTUITIVE
CREATIVE THINKER
CONCEPTSTHE FUTURE
HEAD INTHE CLOUDS
INSPIRATION
FANTASY
INGENUITY
Use the Textbook to Check your Preferences
Sensing or Intuitive?
Where do you fit?
S…X…………………………….NS………………X………………..NS…………………………X….….N
Sensing or Intuitive?
Activity:
Write about this apple:
Personality Exercise
Write about the picture for 5 minutes
By Ian Jackson
Free Write 5 Minutes
Choose 1: I am a sensing type I am an intuitive type I am a combination sensing/intuitive
type
Personality Types
� Extravert - E� Sensing - S� Thinking - T
� Introvert - I
� INtuitive - N
� Feeling - F
THINKING
LOGICAL
OBJECTIVE
CLARITY
FIRMNESS
JUSTICE
POLICY
LAWS
DETACHED
FEELING
SUBJECTIVE
HUMANE
HARMONY
SOCIALVALUES
INVOLVED
FAIR HEARTED
CIRCUMSTANCES
PERSUADE
60% Of women are feeling types.
60% Of men are thinking types.
Use the Textbook to Check your Preferences
Thinking or Feeling?
Do you prefer Thinking or Feeling?
T.…X…………………….………FT……………X………………..…FT………………………………X..F
Exercise: Thinking or Feeling
Free Write 5 Minutes:
Choose one: I am a thinking type I am a feeling type I am a combination thinking/feeling
type
Personality Types
� Extravert - E� Sensing - S� Thinking - T
� Judging - J
� Introvert - I
� INtuitive - N
� Feeling - F
� Perceptive -P
Judging means planned and organized.
JUDGING
PLANNED
ORDERLY
ORGANIZED
CONTROL
FIXED
CLOSURE
STRUCTURE
DEFINITE
Perceptive meansspontaneous.
PERCEPTIVEGO WITHTHE FLOW
SPONTANEOUS
WAIT ANDSEE
FLEXIBLE ADAPT
TENTATIVE
WHAT DEADLINE?
PENDING
Judging vs. Perceptive
Greatest source of interpersonal conflict
Use the Textbook to Check your Preferences
Judging or Perceptive?
Judging or Perceptive?
J…X……………………………….PJ………………X………………….PJ………………………………X…..P
Exercise: Judging or Perceptive?
Exercise: Where do you stand?
I can play anytime I have to finish my work before I play.
Free Write 5 Minutes
Choose one: I am a judging type. I am a perceptive type. I am a combination judging/perceptive
type.
Personality and Preferred Work Environment
Extraverts prefer environments that provide opportunity for social interaction.
Introverts like quiet for concentration.
Personality and Preferred Work Environment
Sensing types like a standard way of doing things and establishing a routine.
Intuitive types like change and finding new ways of doing work.
Personality and Preferred Work Environment
Thinking types are objective and rational and treat others fairly.
Feeling types value harmony and the support of co-workers. They know their values and apply them consistently.
Personality and Preferred Work Environment
Judging types like a work environment that is structured, settled and organized.
Perceptive types are comfortable in handling the unplanned or unexpected.
Personality and Decision Making
The introvert thinks up ideas and reflects on the problem before deciding.
The extravert acts as the communicator in the decision making process.
Personality and Decision Making
The intuitive type develops theories and uses intuition to come up with ingenious solutions to the problem.
The sensing type applies personal experience to the problem and comes up with solutions that are practical and realistic.
Personality and Decision Making
The thinking type uses cause and effect and applies logic to solving problems.
The feeling type considers human values and motives (whether they are logical or not) in the decision making process.
Personality and Decision Making
Judging steps go through the steps in the decision making process and make decisions quickly.
Perceptive types like to look at all the possibilities before making a decision. They do not want to make a quick decision.
What is your personal communication style?
Extrovert
Social types Start conversations easily Energized by talking to people Find it easy to start a conversation or
ask someone for a date In conflict situations, they talk louder
and faster
Introvert Rehearse what they are going to say before
they say it Need quiet for concentration Enjoy peace and quiet Often labeled as “quiet” or “shy” Find it difficult to start a conversation or ask
someone for a date Withdraw from conflict situations to think it
over
To improve communication, extroverts need to:
Pause to give the introvert time to think Avoid monopolizing the conversation
To improve communication, introverts need to:
Make an effort to communicate
Sensing Types
Are practical and realistic Like communication that is exact and
step by step Want concrete answers Like to get to the point Will describe a date in terms of actual
experience
Intuitive Types
They look at possibilities and relationships
They are often ingenious and creative They start imagining what the date will
be like before it even happens Talk about dreams, visions, beliefs and
creative ideas
Sensing and Intuitive Types
Sensing types need intuitive types to bring up new possibilities, deal with changes and understand different perspectives.
Intuitive types need sensing types to deal with facts and details.
Feeling Types
Prefer to avoid disagreements to preserve peace and harmony
In a conflict situation, they take things personally
Thinking Types
Are logical, detached and objective In a conflict situation, they use logical
arguments to prove that they are right
Feeling and Thinking Types
Feeling types need thinking types to analyze, organize, follow policy and weigh the evidence.
Thinking types need feeling types to understand how others feel and to establish harmony in the family and business environments.
Judging Types
They need events to be structured and organized in order to relax
They make decisions quickly and do not like to change them
They schedule and plan the dates When traveling, they make a list and
pack carefully
Perceptive Types They prefer the environment to be
flexible and spontaneous They like to keep their options open They provide the fun and find it easier to
relax They often feel controlled by judging
types When traveling, they are open to new
ideas and pack their suitcases at the last minute
Judging and perceptive types need each other.
Judging types need perceptive types to relax and have fun.
Perceptive types need judging types to be more organized and productive.
Exercise: Communication Scenarios
Personality and Time Management How do you manage
your time? Judging type Perceptive type
Judging Types
Naturally good at time management Use time management techniques to
meet deadlines Relax once the work is done If there are many projects, may find it
difficult to relax and enjoy recreation May need to work on stress
management
Perceptive Types
Prefer to be spontaneous rather than organized
May have difficulty meeting deadlines Work at many projects at once Take the time to relax and enjoy recreation Need to work on organization and meeting
deadlines to be successful in college.
Personality and Money
Judging types good at financial planning
Perceptive types can adapt to change and tolerate risk
Feeling types often attracted to low paying jobs that serve others
Other Factors in Choosing a Major If you have several careers that match
your personality type, consider: Career outlook Salary Working conditions Lifestyle