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Here are some self-reflective questions to help you discover your best-fit temperament pattern. If you are familiar with other models of personality, please set aside any ideas about them you may have.
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There are 17 questions. Please read all of each question.
If you are unsure or torn between two options, consider:
- what you could not live without
- what others might say of you
- what was true for you as a child
- how you might compare to someone you know
- if one option covers another
Like all self-reflective experiences, this is meant as a tool
to help you think about your core needs and values.
Starting:
1. What do you want most from this experiences?
Cover what is practical and do what is expected.
Jump in and challenge myself to use this stuff now.
Have some meaningful insights for personal growth.
Discover and master new knowledge and concepts.
Learning/School:
2. How do you prefer to learn new material?
activities to put it to use and learn by doing
discussion and interaction to make it my own
lecture and questioning to understand the logic
structured practice to apply it and improve
3. What kind of feedback do you prefer when learning?
highly personalized
from an expert's viewpoint
corrective to get it right
immediate to keep going
Career/Workplace:
4. What kind of working environment do you like most?
expressive and personal
innovative and intellectual
organized and secure
stimulating and varied
5. What best describes what you'd find enjoyable in a career?
producing results and performing
administering and providing service
designing systems and mapping out strategies
guiding people and promoting ideas
Interacting with Others:
6. You are more comfortable with...
conjecture, conceptualizing, envisioning, and figurative expressions.
firsthand experiences, practical ideas, and descriptions of actual events or situations.
7. You often...
want to independently choose actions for expedience.
check in with norms, roles and values.
8. You often notice...
how things are organized or sequenced.
what is motivating someone.
Leadership/Community:
9. How do you lead best?
giving inspiration
giving cautions
developing strategies
taking action
10. What you like to promote in general?
opportunities now
personal growth
predictable structure
systemic efficiency
Core Values:
11. You feel best about yourself when you have...
variety
self-mastery
a unique identity
security
12. You feel best about yourself when you have...
knowledge and competence
freedom to act immediately
group membership with responsibilities
meaning and life purpose
Reflecting:
13. What was your experience of answering these questions?
I wanted it to go faster
I didn't always know what was expected of me
I wondered about the underlying concepts compared to what I know
I discovered something meaningful about myself
Please read and rate each of the four thematic descriptions below
on a scale from "Not at all" like you to "exact match". Read and rate
each one as a whole.
Theme 1:
Want the freedom to choose the next act. Seek
to have impact, to get results. Want to be graceful, bold, and
impressive. Generally are excited and optimistic. Are absorbed
in the action of the moment. Are oriented toward the present.
Seek adventure and stimulation. Hunger for spontaneity. Trust
impulses, luck, and their ability to solve any problem they
run into. Think in terms of variation. Have the ability to notice
and describe rich detail, constantly seeking relevant information.
Like freedom to move, festivities, and games. Are natural negotiators.
Seize opportunities. Are gifted tacticians, deciding the best
move to make in the moment, the expedient action to take. Are
frequently drawn to all kinds of work that requires variation
on a theme.
14. How well does this description fit you?
Not at all
Exact match
Theme 2:
Want to fit in, to have membership. Hunger for responsibility,
accountability, and predictability. Tend to be generous, to serve
and to do their duty. Establish and maintain institutions and
standard operating procedures. Tend to protect and preserve, to
stand guard and warn. Look to the past and tradition. Foster enculturation
with ceremonies and rules. Trust contracts and authority. Want
security and stability. Think in terms of what is conventional,
comparisons, associations, and discrete elements. Generally are
serious and concerned, fatalistic. Are skilled at ensuring that
things, information, and people are in the right place, in the
right amounts, in the right quality, at the right time. Frequently
gravitate toward business and commerce.
15. How well does this description fit you?
Not at all
Exact match
Theme 3:
Want knowledge and to be competent, to achieve. Seek to understand
how the world and things in it work. Are theory oriented. See
everything as conditional and relative. Are oriented to the infinite.
Trust logic and reason. Want to have a rationale for everything.
Are skeptical. Think in terms of differences, delineating categories,
definitions, structures, and functions. Hunger for precision,
especially in thought and language. Are skilled at long-range
planning, inventing, designing, and defining. Generally are calm.
Foster individualism. Frequently gravitate toward technology and
the sciences. Well suited for engineering and devising strategy,
whether in the social or physical sciences.
16. How well does this description fit you?
Not at all
Exact match
Theme 4:
Want to be authentic, benevolent and empathic. Search for identity,
meaning and significance. Are relationship oriented, particularly
valuing meaningful relationships. Are romantic and idealistic,
wanting to make the world a better place. Look to the future.
Trust their intuition, imagination, impressions. Focus on developing
potential, fostering and facilitating growth through coaching,
teaching, counseling, communicating. Generally are enthusiastic.
Think in terms of integration and similarities and look for universals.
Are gifted in the use of metaphors to bridge different perspectives.
Are diplomatic. Frequently are drawn to work that inspires and
develops people and relationships.
17. How well does this description fit you?
Not at all
Exact match
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Copyright 2005, Dario Nardi. With Thanks to Linda V. Berens and TRI.
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