Sleep in or work out?
What to wear, read, watch, and do today?
The fascinating thing about decisions is they’re all yours.
Because personality, that one-of-a-kind youness, informs every decision you make.
Understand What Makes You Unique
So how can you better understand your personality to make better choices?
First, a primer on personality.
When a group of traits forms a cluster, a personality throw in results.
Types are the broad, differentiated category results that are measured by personality assessments.
We recognize these types by their preferences, actions, styleall starting with temperament, experience, personality traits.
Can you recognize yourself?
If you’ve ever taken a personality test, you may have puzzled over your results.
Perhaps the test indicated you were an introvert, when you always thought of yourself as an extrovert.
The key to understanding personality is understanding that personality is very context-specific.
You’re noteitheran introvertoran extrovert.
Everyone is both, to a certain degree.
You just lean one way or another depending upon the situation.
Thus, it’s very important to test personality in different contexts.
It’s actually about how people recharge and derive energy.
How Your Brain Makes Decisions
Decision-making is multiply-determined, meaning many forces are at work simultaneously.
Some of us make decisions to uphold a particular internal standard, ethic or value.
Others make decisions to reduce anxiety or to enhance self-esteem and/or the potential for closeness or distance from others.
Personality assessments offer a process of self-discovery with very useful applications.
The more you know about yourself, the more your options, choices and perspectives increase exponentially!
Let’s look at productivity circumstances for example.
Some people tend to under-function on their own because working on an interactive team spurs their creative thinking.
That could be guidance, structure, space, autonomy, connection, humorall depending on understanding personality.
What are the major themes and patterns?
Knowingsomething about yourself and your preferencescan help.
Do you thrive in a lively and interactive environment, or is that distracting and unproductive for you?
Knowing about key traits and how they influence your personality can help make critical life decisions.
you’re free to drill down further into your personality by taking a personality assessment.
Ask yourself what you learned in the process, and look at the results.
Do they sync with how you are approaching your work, social time and relationships?
With more detailed information on your personality, you could begin to set goals and live life more fully.
Personality comes with us, so to speak, as we move through our day.
Understanding your personality can help you make better choices and stress less over the decisions that you make.
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