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Color Your Color Your FutureFuture

Color Your Color Your FutureFuture

Why study Personality/Temperament

Styles?

• Realize there are other ways of thinking, believing, acting and feeling

• Understand others

• Accept and tolerate others

• Respect others

• Celebrate others

• Live and work well with others

Although, during this presentation, we may seem to be experts in personality/temperament styles, however,…we are only facilitators!

Disclaimer

• Orange Artisan/Adventurer

• Gold Guardian/Defender

• Blue Idealist/Counselor

• Green Rational/Scientist

Orange

Gold

Blue

Green

Temperament’s True Colors

True Colors

• Before we explore these personality colors in more detail…

• Let’s take the True Colors Test!• This is a very limited six question test

– To get a better idea of your color, you might want to take the Keirsey Temperament Sorter

True Colors• What is your primary color?• How close is your secondary color?• What about the name of your color

seems most like you?

ArtisanAdventurer

GuardianDefender

IdealistCounselor

RationalScientist

Orange: Artisan/Adventurer

• Represents energy, potency, power, and strength.

• Has the meaning of desire for adventure and all forms of appetite and craving.

• Feels the will to achieve results, to win, to be successful.

• Desires all things that offer intense living and full experience.

• Generates an impulse toward active doing: Sport struggle competition enterprising productivity

• Is the present

• Active• Spontaneous• Carefree• Great Negotiator• Curious• Resourceful• Likes chaos• Multitasker• Great Joker

Orange: Artisan/Adventurer at school

•Fidgety•Disorderly•Not serious•Scattered•Cluttered•Uncontrollable

Test? What test? I forgot!! I had a game last night!

Rules? Forget the rules! Let’s try it…It’ll be fun!

• Distribution in Population-12-33%• Goals in Life: Fun and Adventure• Likes: Action, Sensation, Fun, Competition • Dislikes: Inaction, being bored, being pinned down, detail,

formality• What others might dislike about Oranges:

– Can be oblivious to over-all patterns that are apparent to others– They may seek to stimulate competition that others find

burdensome• Contributions:

– Speedy Troubleshooting– Learn (and sometimes forget) quickly– Ability to negotiate, “angle” a deal– Great in situations that allow physical action, jokes, short-term,

high impact activities

Orange: (Artisan/Adventurer)

Famous Artisan/Adventurers

Art/Entertainment/Sports/Journalism/Literature• Elvis Presley• Elizabeth Taylor • “Magic" Johnson • Madonna• Hugh Hefner• Johnny Carson • Barbra Streisand • Clint Eastwood• Michael Jordan

Science/Education/Humanities/Philosophy/Religion• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Politics/Government/Military• Franklin D. Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt • Winston Churchill • George S. Patton • Erwin Rommel • Nikita Khrushchev • Boris Yeltzin

Business/Industry/Finance• John Paul Getty (ESTP) • Donald Trump • Charles Lindbergh (ISTP)

• Party Animal• Warrior• Mountain

Man• Craftsman• Wild Woman• Joker• Performer

Orange: Artisan/AdventurerPossible Occupations

Gold: Guardian/Defender• The cornerstone• Represents a need to be responsible, to fulfill

duties and obligations, to organize and structure our life and that of others.

• Values being practical and sensible. They believe that people should earn their way in life through work and service to others.

• Reflects a need to belong through carrying a share of the load in all areas of living.

• Represents stability, maintenance of the culture and the organization, efficiency, and dependability.

• Embraces the concepts of home and family with fierce loyalty and faithfulness.

• Organized• Rule follower• Efficient• Orderly• Good Planner• Goal Oriented• Decisive• Dependable

Gold: Guardian/Defender at School

•Rigid•System Bound•Perfect•Predictable•Practical

Test: Just tell me exactly what I need to know…

Rules: We must follow the rules, they exist to keep order, to maintain safety and to ensure quality.

Gold: Guardian/Defender •Distribution in Population-33-50%•Goals in Life: Security, Acceptance, Authority•Likes: Structure, Rules, Organization, fulfilling expectations, details, perfection •Dislikes: Change, cavalier or careless people, people who flout the rules, rowdy people•What others might dislike about Golds:

•Can be interested in establishing order in a way that offends others•The Gold way of action may seem too restrictive to others

•Contributions: •Protector of status quo, tradition•Good at finding fault with new ideas, methods•Ability to eliminate “bugs” when developing something new

Gold: Guardian/DefenderPossible Occupations

•Guard•Banker•FBI Agent•Accountant•Pharmacist•Dentist

Famous Guardian/Defenders

Art/Entertainment/Sports/Journalism/Literature• Ed Sullivan• Kareem Abul-Jabbar • Barbara Walters • Dan Rather • Mike Wallace

Science/Education/Humanities/Philosophy/Religion• Brigham Young • Thomas Hobbes • Mother Teresa

Politics/Government/Military

• George Washington• Woodrow Wilson • Harry S. Truman• Jimmy Carter • Gerald Ford• George Bush• Queen Elizabeth II • Queen Victoria• General Colin Powell • Sandra Day O'Connor

Business/Industry/Finance• Sam Walton• Ray Kroc • John D. Rockefeller• J C Penny • F W Woolworth• William K Kellogg • Charles Post • J. P. Morgan

Blue: Idealist/Counselor• Represents calm; physiological tranquility and

psychological contentment.• Values balance and harmony. • Prefers life free from tension... They are settled,

united, and secure.• Represents loyalty and a sense of belonging• Vulnerable, when friends are involved.• Corresponds to depth in feeling and a relaxed

sensitivity. • Characterized by empathy, aesthetic

experiences, and reflective awareness.

• Creative• Idealistic• Works for the Cause• Empathetic• Caretaker• Trusting• Harmonious

Blue: Idealist/Counselor at

school•Emotional•Naïve•Easily duped•Too nice•Talks too much•Ignores policy•Instigator for the cause

Test: This test question seems a little harsh! I hope no-one is offended!

Rules: We will follow the rules as long as no person nor animal is hurt. If the rule causes hurt, we will organize a movement to change the rule!

Blue: Idealist/Counselor • Distribution in Population-12-25%• Goals in Life: Harmony, Good emotions, Using intuition,

Know self better• Likes: Feelings, harmony between people, spirituality and

imagination, interaction with others • Dislikes: Strife and discord, those who value rules or ideas

more than people, insensitivity to other’s feelings, or plight, competition

• What others might dislike about Blues: – Can be overly sensitive or concerned about other’s feelings– May seem flaky and governed too much by feelings

• Contributions: – Especially aware of accepting-attending behavior and note it’s

presence or absence more keenly than others– Instrumental in creating more harmonious relations in the

workplace and in boosting morale

Blue: Idealist/Counselor

Possible Occupations • Poet• Actor• Musician• Counselor• Teacher• Prophet• Peace Corps

Famous Idealist/Counselors

Arts/Entertainment/Sports/Journalism/Literature• Jane Fonda • Shirley MacLaine• Emily Dickenson • Oliver Stone

Business/Industry/Finance • none

Politics/Government/Military• Mohandas Gandhi • Eleanor Roosevelt• Vladimir Lenin • Mikhail Gorbachev• Thomas Paine• Alexander Hamilton • Molly Brown "The Unsinkable“

Science/Education/Humanities/Philosophy/Religion• Lord Alfred Russel Wallace • Albert Schweitzer• Carl Rogers• Soren Kierkegaard • Plato

Green: Rational/Scientist• Expresses itself psychologically as human will in operation: as

persistence and determination.

• An expression of firmness and consistency.

• Strength can lead to a resistance to change if it is not proven that the change will work or is warranted.

• Values their intellect and capabilities above all else.

• Characteristics seek to increase the certainty of their own values through being assertive and requiring differences from others in intellectual areas.

• Depend upon information rather than feelings to create a sense of well-being.

• Expresses the grounding of theory and data in its practical applications and creative constructs.

• Intellectual• Creative • Visionary• Unique• Rational• Critical Thinker• Calm

Green: Rational/Scientist at School

•Nerdy•Eccentric•Devalues relationships•Controlled•Methodical•Requires more information

Test: This test requires nothing more than memorization! Ask me to think…to solve…to prove!

Rules: I generally walk to the beat of my own drum. I never follow rules blindly. Prove to me that it is a good rule. If you can’t, then we seek to abolish it and write a new one!

Green: Rational/Scientist• Distribution in Population-10-13%• Goals in Life: Understand everything, Question

everything, Have novel insights, Independence• Likes: Thinking, reasoning, Inquiry and questioning

everything, Logic, the “Big Picture” • Dislikes: Routine, Following illogical instructions or

traditions• What others might dislike about Greens:

– Irritate others by frequently seeing interesting ideas or directions of development uninteresting to others

– Can become locked into a search for the ultimate perfect answer

• Contributions: – Solitary thinkers who scrutinize and question everything in a

hope to build a better idea, organization, mechanism– Brave, lonely long-distance thinkers who ponder everything

and seek complete understanding and answers

Green: Rational/ScientistPossible Occupations

• Scientist• Computer genius• Inventor• Scholar• Mathematician• Engineer

Famous Rational/Scientists

Arts/Entertainment/Sports/Journalism/Literature• Steve Allen • William F. Buckley • Walt Disney • Mark Twain

Science/Education/Humanities/

Philosophy/Religion• Albert Einstein• Charles Darwin • Friedrich Nietzsche• Marie Curie• Booker T. Washington• Aristotle

Politics/Government/Military• Thomas Jefferson• Abraham Lincoln • Dwight D. Eisenhower• Douglas MacArthur• Peter the Great• Margaret Thatcher

Business/Industry/Finance• Bill Gates • Steve Jobs• Buckminster Fuller• Thomas Edison• Steve Wozniak • George Soros

The Shadow and Bright Side

Guardian’s Shadow Guardian’s Bright Side

Rigid and ControllingDull or boringSystem Bound

Stable and DependableProvides SecurityEfficient, Organized

 

Artisan’s Shadow Artisan’s Bright SideIrresponsible or FlakyUnpredictableNot SeriousNot interested in Ideas

Fun loving and LivelySpontaneous and FlexibleCarefreeHands on

The Shadow and Bright Side

Rational’s Shadow Rational’s Bright Side

ArrogantRuthless or HeartlessDon’t care about peopleIntellectual snob

Usually rightTough mindedPowerful and efficientHas deep knowledge, inventor

 

Idealist’s Shadow Idealist’s Bright Side

Overly emotionalMushy or NaïveBleeding Heart

WarmCompassionateRomantic and Idealistic

Is the glass half empty or half full?• Orange: Are we going to worry about

glasses all day? I’ve got a softball game!

• Gold: Do I have the answer to this question? No one told me we’d be asked this question…Will it be on the test?

• Blue: Hmmm, I don’t know…What do you think? Maybe we should ask the others. By the way, that is a lovely glass. Did your mother give it to you?

Is the glass half empty or half full?

Green: Well, due to the irregular shape of the glass, a guess based on a visual cue would be inaccurate. Hmmm, why don’t you do this:

Make a mark on the glass (make sure you mark the bottom of the meniscus),

then pour the contents into another, bigger glass.Then fill it back up to the mark from the faucet.Now add the original contents back in. If the water overflows the lip, the glass was more

than half full. If the water doesn’t come up to the top, the glass was more than half empty.

References• Keirsey, D, and Bates, M. (1984). Please

Understand Me. Gnosology Books, Ltd ISBN 0-9606954-0-0

• David Keirsey’s website:Temperament: Different Drums, Different Drummers http://keirsey.com/

• William Kirby, Lynn Kirby, Larry Riggs’ website True Colors http://www.uwsp.edu/education/wkirby/pluralis/colors.htm

• Don Lowry’s True Colors website http://www.truecolors.org/true_colors_story.html