Exploring Your Personality and Major

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Exploring Your Personalityand Major

• Chapter 6

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Keys to SuccessFind Your Passion
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The secret of success is making your vocation
your vacation.

• Mark Twain

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How do you know when you have found your passion?

• When Time Flies

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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
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Personality Assessments

• Do What You Are
• The material in the textbook

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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

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Based on the theory of Carl JungA Swiss
Psychologist, 1875-1961
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We are all born with a personality type.
If you understand your type, you can understand
yourself and others.
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There are no good or bad personality types,
just differences.
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The personality assessment identifies your
preferences.
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There are advantages and disadvantages of each
type.
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Focus on your gifts and talents.
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How to take the assessment

• Think positively.
• Answer honestly.
• There are no right or wrong answers.
• There are no good or bad personality traitsonly
  differences that make us unique.

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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

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Administering 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.

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Administering the DWYA

• The test does not measure
• Intelligence
• Psychological or emotional health

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Administering 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

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Personality Types

• Introvert - I
• INtuitive - N
• Feeling - F
• Perceptive -P

• Extravert - E
• Sensing - S
• Thinking - T
• Judging - J

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Begin Self-Assessment
How we interact with the world and where we place
our energy E_____________________________
____________________________I
Extraversion Introversion
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Self-Assessment
The kind of information we naturally notice and
remember S______________________________________
__________________N Sensing

Intuition
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Self-Assessment
How we make decisions T_______________________
_________________________________F Thinking

Feeling
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Self-Assessment
Whether we prefer to live in a more structured
or spontaneous way J_________________________
_________________________________P Judging

Perceiving
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Personality Types

• Introvert - I

• Extravert - E

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EXTROVERT
MANY FRIENDS
TALKING
EASY TO KNOW
ACTION
SOCIAL
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A Disadvantage Speak and then Think
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INTROVERT
HARD TO GET TO KNOW
QUIET
INTENSE
REFLECTIVE
IN DEPTH RELATIONSHIPS
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Disadvantage Think, and then Speak.
MAY NOT GET AROUND TO SPEAKING AT ALL
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Extroverts 75 of peopleIntroverts 25
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Use the Textbook to Check your Preferences

• Introvert or Extravert?

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Even though there are 16 personality types, we
are all unique because we are varying degrees of
each type.
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Where do you fit on the scale? Introvert or
Extrovert?
EX.I EX.I E..
.X..I
Look at your book and your test results and think
about this question. Write your results on the
Summarize Your Results in your text.
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Exercise Talkers and Listeners
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Free Write 5 Minutes

• Choose one
• I am an introvert
• I am an extravert
• I am a combination introvert/extravert

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Personality Types

• Introvert - I
• INtuitive - N

• Extravert - E
• Sensing - S

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SENSING TYPE
USES SENSES
WHAT CAN I SEE, HEAR, FEEL TASTE, TOUCH?
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SENSING
FACTS
SPECIFIC
DOWN TO EARTH
IN ORDER
PRACTICAL
HARD WORKING
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INTUITIVE
THE FUTURE
CONCEPTS
HEAD IN THE CLOUDS
INSPIRATION
INGENUITY
FANTASY
CREATIVE THINKER
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Use the Textbook to Check your Preferences

• Sensing or Intuitive?

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Where do you fit?
Sensing or Intuitive?
SX.N SX..N SX.
.N
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ActivityWrite about this apple
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Personality Exercise

• Write about the picture for 5 minutes

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By Ian Jackson
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Free Write 5 Minutes

• Choose 1
• I am a sensing type
• I am an intuitive type
• I am a combination sensing/intuitive type

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Personality Types

• Introvert - I
• INtuitive - N
• Feeling - F

• Extravert - E
• Sensing - S
• Thinking - T

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THINKING
FIRMNESS
LOGICAL
JUSTICE
OBJECTIVE
POLICY
LAWS
CLARITY
DETACHED
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FEELING
HARMONY
HUMANE
FAIR HEARTED
SOCIAL VALUES
INVOLVED
PERSUADE
CIRCUMSTANCES
SUBJECTIVE
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60 Of women are feeling types.
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60 Of men are thinking types.
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Use the Textbook to Check your Preferences

• Thinking or Feeling?

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Do you prefer Thinking or Feeling?
T.X.F TX..F TX
..F
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Exercise Thinking or Feeling
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Free Write 5 Minutes

• Choose one
• I am a thinking type
• I am a feeling type
• I am a combination thinking/feeling type

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Personality Types

• Introvert - I
• INtuitive - N
• Feeling - F
• Perceptive -P

• Extravert - E
• Sensing - S
• Thinking - T
• Judging - J

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Judging means planned and organized.
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JUDGING
CONTROL
FIXED
PLANNED
CLOSURE
DEFINITE
ORDERLY
STRUCTURE
ORGANIZED
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Perceptive meansspontaneous.
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PERCEPTIVE
WAIT AND SEE
GO WITH THE FLOW
TENTATIVE
FLEXIBLE
ADAPT
PENDING
SPONTANEOUS
WHAT DEADLINE?
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Judging vs. Perceptive
Greatest source of interpersonal conflict
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Use the Textbook to Check your Preferences

• Judging or Perceptive?

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Judging or Perceptive?
JX.P JX.P JX
..P
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Exercise Judging or Perceptive?
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Free Write 5 Minutes

• Choose one
• I am a judging type
• I am a perceptive type
• I am a combination judging/perceptive type

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Personality and Time Management

• How do you manage your time?
• Judging type
• Perceptive type

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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

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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.

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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

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Other Factors in Choosing a Major

• If you have several careers that match your
  personality type, consider
• Career outlook
• Salary
• Working conditions
• Lifestyle