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Personality Profile
Understanding your personality type helps you know how you lead, communicate, and contribute within your county assembly. Select the one word per row that most applies to you — hover any word to see its definition.
SanguineCholericMelancholyPhlegmatic
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Sanguine
Popular
Choleric
Powerful
Melancholy
Perfect
Phlegmatic
Peaceful
Strengths — rows 1 to 20
1
Full of life, lively use of hand, arm, and face gestures.
Takes on new, daring enterprises with a determination to master them.
Likes to examine the parts for their logical and proper relationships.
Easily fits and is comfortable in any situation.
2
Full of fun and good humor.
Convinces through logic and fact rather than charm or power.
Sees one project through to completion before starting another.
Seems undisturbed and tranquil; retreats from any form of strife.
3
Sees being with others as an opportunity to be cute and entertaining.
Determined to have his or her own way.
Willingly gives up personal being for the sake of meeting the needs of others.
Easily accepts any point of view with little need to assert opinion.
4
Can win you over to anything through the sheer charm of his personality.
Turns every situation into a contest and always plays to win.
Having regard for the needs and feelings of others.
Has emotional feelings but rarely displays them.
5
Renews and stimulates or makes others feel good.
Able to act quickly and effectively in virtually all situations.
Treats others with deference, honor, and esteem.
Self restraint in expression of emotion or enthusiasm.
6
Full of life and excitement.
An independent person who can fully rely on own capabilities, judgment, and resources.
Intensively cares about others and what happens.
A person who easily accepts any circumstance or situation.
7
Urges or compels others to go along, join, or invest through the charm of his own personality.
Knows it will turn out right if he is in charge.
Prefers to work out a detailed arrangement beforehand for the accomplishment of a project or goal.
Unmoved by delay; remains calm and tolerant.
8
Prefers all of life to be impulsive, unpremeditated activity.
Confident, rarely hesitates or wavers.
Makes and lives according to a daily plan; dislikes his plan to be interrupted.
Quiet; doesn't easily instigate a conversation.
9
Sunny disposition who convinces himself and others that everything will turn out right.
Speaks frankly and without reserve.
A person who has a methodical, systematic arrangement of things.
Accommodating; one who is quick to do it another's way.
10
Sparkling sense of humor that can make virtually any story into a hilarious event.
A commanding personality whom others would hesitate to take a stand against.
Consistently reliable, steadfast, loyal, and devoted sometimes beyond reason.
A responder rather than an initiator; seldom starts a conversation.
11
A person who is upbeat and fun to be with.
Willing to take risks; fearless, bold.
Does everything in proper order with a clear memory of all the things that happened.
Deals with people tactfully, sensitively, and patiently.
12
Consistently in good spirits and promoting happiness in others.
Self-assured and certain of own ability and success.
Interests involve both intellectual and artistic pursuits such as theatre, symphony, and ballet.
Stays emotionally on an even keel, responding as one might expect.
13
Encourages others to work, join, or be involved and makes the whole thing fun.
Self-sufficient, self-supporting, self-confident; seems to have little need of help.
Visualizes things in their perfect form and has a need to measure up to that standard.
A person who never says or causes anything unpleasant or objectionable.
14
Openly expresses emotion, especially affection; doesn't hesitate to touch others while speaking.
A person with quick, conclusive, judgment-making ability.
Intense and often introspective with a distaste for surface conversation and pursuits.
Exhibits dry wit; usually humorous one-liners which can be sarcastic in nature.
15
Loves a party and can't wait to meet everyone in the room; never meets a stranger.
Driven by a need to be productive; is a leader whom others follow.
Participates in or has a deep appreciation for music; is committed to music as an artform.
Consistently finds himself in the role of reconciling differences in order to avoid conflict.
16
Constantly talking, generally telling funny stories and entertaining everyone around.
Holds on firmly, stubbornly, and won't let go until the goal is accomplished.
A considerate person who remembers special occasions and is quick to make a kind gesture.
Easily accepts the thoughts and ways of others without the need to disagree or change them.
17
Full of life, vigorous, energetic.
A natural born director; driven to be in charge; often finds it difficult to believe others can do the job.
Faithful to a person, ideal, or job; sometimes beyond reason.
Always seems willing to hear what you have to say.
18
Precious, adorable, center of attention.
Commands leadership and expects people to follow.
Organizes life, tasks, and problem solving by making lists, forms, or graphs.
Easily satisfied with what he has; rarely envious.
19
Life of the party and therefore much desired as a party guest.
Must constantly be working or achieving; often finds it very difficult to rest.
Places high standards on himself and often on others; desires that everything be in proper order at all times.
Easy going, easy to be around, easy to talk with.
20
A bubbly, lively personality, full of energy.
Fearless, daring, forward, unafraid of risk.
Consistently desires to conduct himself within the realm of what he feels is proper.
Stable, middle of the road personality; not subject to sharp highs or lows.
Weaknesses — rows 21 to 40
21
Showy, flashy, comes on strong, too loud.
Commanding, domineering, sometimes overbearing in adult relationships.
Shrinks from getting attention, resulting from self-consciousness.
A person who shows little facial expression or emotion.
22
A person whose lack of order permeates most every area of his life.
Finds it difficult to relate to the problems or hurts of others.
One who has difficulty releasing or forgiving a hurt or injustice done to them.
Tends to not get excited, often feeling it won't work anyway.
23
Retells stories and incidents to entertain without realizing he has already told the story several times.
Strives, works against, or hesitates to accept any other way but his own.
Often holds ill feelings as a result of real or imagined offenses.
Unwilling or struggles against getting involved, especially when complex.
24
Lack of memory which is usually tied to a lack of discipline and not bothering to mentally record things that aren't fun.
Straightforward, outspoken; doesn't mind telling you exactly what he thinks.
Insistent over petty matters or details; calling for great attention to trivial details.
Often experiences feelings of deep concern, apprehension, or anxiousness.
25
A person who is more of a talker than a listener; starts speaking without even realizing someone else is already speaking.
A person who finds it difficult to endure irritation or wait for others.
One who is apprehensive or lacks confidence.
The person who finds it difficult to make any decision at all.
26
May be ecstatic one moment and down the next; willing to help but then disappears.
Finds it difficult to verbally or physically demonstrate tenderness openly.
A person whose intensity and demand for perfection can push others away.
Has no desire to listen or become interested in clubs, groups, activities, or other people's lives.
27
Has no consistent way of doing things.
Insists on having his own way.
A person whose standards are set so high that it is difficult to ever satisfy them.
Slow to get moving and hard to get involved.
28
Allows others (including children) to do as they please in order to keep from being disliked.
One with great self-esteem who sees himself as always right and the best person for the job.
While hoping for the best, this person generally sees the down side of a situation first.
A middle-of-the-road personality without highs or lows, and showing little, if any, emotion.
29
One who has a childlike flash-in-the-pan temper that expresses itself in tantrum style.
Incites arguments generally because he is certain he is right no matter what the situation may be.
Easily feels estranged from others often because of insecurity or fear that others don't really enjoy his company.
Not a goal-setter with little desire to be one.
30
Simple and child-like perspective, lacking sophistication or comprehension of what the deeper levels of life are really about.
Full of confidence, fortitude, and sheer guts, often in a negative sense.
One whose attitude is seldom positive and is often able to see only the down or dark side of each situation.
Easy-going, unconcerned, indifferent.
31
Thrives on the credit or approval of others. As an entertainer this person feeds on the applause.
An aggressive goal-setter who must be constantly productive; feels very guilty when resting.
A person who pulls back to himself and needs a great deal of alone or isolation time.
Consistently feels uncertain, troubled, or anxious.
32
An entertaining, compulsive talker who finds it difficult to listen.
Sometimes expresses himself in a somewhat offensive and inconsiderate way.
Overly introspective and easily offended when misunderstood.
Shrinks from difficult situations.
33
Lacks ability to ever get life in order.
Compulsively takes control of situations and/or people; usually telling others what to do.
A person who feels down much of the time.
Characterized by uncertainty and lack of confidence that it will ever work out.
34
Erratic, contradictory, with actions and emotions not based on logic.
Appears unable to withstand or accept another's attitudes, point of view, or way of doing things.
A person whose thoughts and interest are directed inward; lives within himself.
A person to whom most things don't matter one way or the other.
35
Living in a state of disorder; unable to find things.
Influences or manages shrewdly or deviously for his own advantage; will get his way somehow.
Doesn't get very high emotionally, but easily slips into low lows when feeling unappreciated.
Will talk quietly under the breath when pushed; doesn't bother to speak clearly.
36
Needs to be the center of attention; wants to be watched.
Determined to exert his own will; not easily persuaded, obstinate.
Disbelieving; questioning the motive behind the words.
Doesn't often act or think quickly; too much of a bother.
37
A person whose laugh or voice can be heard above others in the room.
Doesn't hesitate to let you know that he is right or is in control.
Requires a lot of private time and tends to avoid other people.
Evaluates work or activity in terms of how much energy it will take.
38
Lacks the power of concentration or attention; flighty.
Has a demanding impatience-based anger and a short fuse.
Tends to suspect or distrust others or ideas.
Slow to get started; needs push to be motivated.
39
Likes constant new activity because it isn't fun to do the same things all the time.
May act hastily, without thinking things through, generally because of impatience.
Knowingly or otherwise holds a grudge and punishes the offender.
Unwilling or struggles against getting involved.
40
A child-like, short attention span that needs a lot of change and variety to keep from getting bored.
Shrewd; one who can always find a way to get to the desired end.
Constantly evaluating and making judgments; frequently thinking or expressing negative reactions.
Will often relax his position, even when right, in order to avoid conflict.
Based on the Personality Profile by Fred Littauer, adapted from Personality Plus (Fleming H. Revell Publishers). Word definitions adapted from Personality Patterns by Lana Bateman. Reprinted by permission.