Credit must be given to the book, personality plus. Personality plus talks about four key personality types. These are the natural personalities that a person is born with, and the person will inherit it through his whole life. Florence littauer shows how to determine what type of temperament you fall into. The story of my life was in its final editing stages at that time and littauer inserted a tribute to her late husband in the final chapter of the book. Florences book personality plus is the culmination of 25 years of her and freds seminar speaking, personality counseling, and dayby.
Learn to understand others by understanding yourself four type of temperaments popular sanguine perfect melancholy powerful choleric peaceful phlegmatic lets have fun with popular sanguine appealing personality. Someone with a pure choleric temperament is usually a goaloriented person. Over the last few weeks, graham has been discussing the different personality types as categorised by florence littauer, in her book personality plus. Lets do a quick test you have 5 mins to do both pages of this test. With this quiz you can find out what personality type you are.
Melancholy mona, sanguine sam, choleric colin and phlegmatic phil. About the author florence littauer is the bestselling author of silver boxes, personality plus for couples, personality plus for parents, and several other books. Personality plus is the tool you need to change your life, and the lives of those you care about, for the better. In personality plus, florence littauer gives you valuable insight for appreciating your oneofakind, godgiven personality. Also books by tim lahaye on the temperaments, although his emphasis on christianity can be a little heavy going at times. He made some of us to be feetto move, administer, to accomplish, like powerful choleric. Most formulations include the possibility of mixtures of the types. Included in the broad category of self help are personality books. One of the first books i saw him read was personality plus by florence. Rather, i am providing a nice summation of the book, personality plus, by florence littauer.
The little things you forget the big four temperaments. Personality plus is one of the most enlightening books that i have ever read. I first read littauers book when i was a 19 year old boy who had come. However, lahayes material is well worth the read, especially on temperament blends. How to understand others by understanding yourself. Why you need this book this interesting book provides keys to understanding those around you. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Buy understand your temperament a guide to the four temperaments choleric, sanguine, phlegmatic, melancholic by childs, gilbert isbn. These people always know what they want and move toward their goals. Career fits for all personalities the choice driven life. The post below explains strengths of each temperament. Self help books have become a huge part of my life since christmas 2015, when i had a serious mental crash and put myself through a rigorous get better program.
The popular author of numerous books, including the bestselling personality plus, florence littauer has taught leadership seminars for twentyfive years and is the president of class. If you see that a customer in a store asks questions and even corrects the replies then he is probably a bright representative of choleric. The personality plus system allows for extensions by mixing profiles, such as describing someone as a choleric sanguine, rather than just choleric. Fullcolor, selfexplanatory worksheets, and a personality profile. Choleric extrovert this temperament is identified as the most powerful and destructive of the temperaments. All features of the paper profile with instant scoring and unlimited use. Florence littauer in her book, personality plus, has laid out a wonderful framework for understanding yourself first in a quest to figure out what motivates the other guy. The choleric melancholy is more detail oriented and sensitive than the other choleric combinations. She includes a personality profile test that reveals how your.
Any such system has to make generalisations, trying to find a balance between accurate portrayals and a usable number of types. The choleric at work goal oriented sees the whole picture organizes well seeks practical solutions moves quickly to action delegates work insists on production makes the goal stimulates activity thrives on opposition the choleric. Four temperaments is a protopsychological theory that suggests that there are four fundamental personality types, sanguine pleasureseeking and sociable, choleric ambitious and leaderlike. Florence littauer is the bestselling author of silver boxes, personality plus for couples, personality plus for parents, and several other books. They are sanguine, choleric, melancholy and phlegmatic. Excerpts from personality plus by florence littauer god made each one of us different, so we could function in our own roles. Popular sanguine, powerful choleric, perfect melancholy, or peaceful phlegmatic. For 25 years, florence littauers bestselling personality plus has been required reading for employees. Florence littauer there are 4 key personality types discussed in the book. Florence littauer is a christian selfhelp author and public speaker.
This is a great book and absolutely a must read for those who are interested in learning temperaments. Examine our own strengths and weaknesses and learn how to. Littauer is best known for her series of books based upon the personality plus. Powerful cholerics are considered to be leader and commander types, being dominant, strong, decisive, and occasionally arrogant. Are you a sanguine, choleric, melancholy and phlegmatic. Broken down into only four personality types sanguine, choleric, melancholy, and phlegmatic the author explains and examines each in. Four temperaments is a protopsychological theory that suggests that there are four fundamental personality types, sanguine pleasureseeking and sociable, choleric ambitious and leaderlike, melancholic analytical and thoughtful, and phlegmatic relaxed and quiet. I took the information from florence littauers personality plus. Personality plus by florence littauer and the spiritcontrolled temperament by tim lahaye. Personality plus is the culmination of twentyfive years of seminar speaking, personality counseling, and daybyday observation of peoples temperaments. I picked up personality plus at the store because it sounded fun and interesting. Personality plus this tool is based upon four basic personality pro.
Printable pdf version of this study there are reasons for everything we do as human beings, though it is often difficult for us to. The 4 different personalities and how to spot them. Ive seen charts galore that correlate the various personality systems with each other, and while i do see patterns im all about patterns, whoever translated david keirseys four temperaments derived from the myersbriggs into the classic four temperaments melancholic, phlegmatic, sanguine, choleric. Ideal careers for phlegmatic personality types should be related to. This combination naturally likes developing a strategy to accomplish a goal. It is not unreasonable to state that the worlds greatest feared dictators and diabolical criminals were perhaps choleric. If youre new to studying the 4 temperaments, check out personality plus by florence littauer and her many other wonderful books. The choleric personality type is associated with testosterone, and although every temperamental makeup is represented by members of both genders, most choleric people are men. I believe these books will help accept yourself and your personality. Correlating the four temperaments with myersbriggs meet. The four temperaments were originally proposed by hippocrates the father of medical science 350 years before the birth of christ, to explain differences in personalities, based on the predominant bodily fluidhence the rather unappealing names. Personality testing software cd for all windows platforms. Youll learn how to accept and enjoy the traits that make each of us so different. How to understand others by understanding yourself by.
They started with themselves and their children first. In her book, personality plus, florence littauer makes an interesting observation about personalities and temperaments. Littauer describes them as popular sanguine, powerful choleric. The nook book ebook of the personality plus by florence littauer at barnes. One of the first books i saw him read was personality plus by florence littauer. Today graham and mike are exploring the powerful choleric. She speaks internationally at seminars and retreats and is the president of class speakers, inc. Personality plus is the tool you need to change your life and the lives of those who care about, for the better. They tend to be good leaders because they are driven to get things done, however they might offend some people along the way. This book will provide a quick psychology lesson in easy, enjoyable terms so that we may. Its almost impossible to imagine a sad or indifferent choleric. The conceit of it is that there are four basic temperaments. I have read this book several times and i never cease to enjoy reading it.
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