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PERSONALITY
Posted by Renddy Rose Rodriguez
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2/10/2009 10:52:00 PM
What is Personality?
Totality of an individual's behavioral and emotional characteristics. Personality embraces a person's moods, attitudes, opinions, motivations, and style of thinking, perceiving, speaking, and acting. It is part of what makes each individual distinct.
Vocabulary
What a person says and does is the result of his or her personality. The following are words that are typically used to describe various personalities.
curious / day-dreamer / intuitive / intellectual / narrow-minded / sensitive / self-confident / meticulous / sentimental / passive / compassionate / original / domineering / proud / organized / stable / impulsive / adventurous / practical / easy-going / creative / perfectionist / self-indulgent / passionate / studious / analytical / artistic / up-tight / gracious / lazy / diplomatic / lovable / grouchy / temperamental / persistent / fair / fun-loving / laid-back / affectionate / coy / daring / weird / moody / rebellious / selfish / bossy / cautious / absent-minded
Discussion:
What are some characteristics of your personality?
Describe your own personality. How do others think of your personality? Do you agree with them or not?
What makes you happy?
What are some things that make you angry?
Are you happy with your personality?
Would you like to be different?
Are you a determined person? Are you a stubborn person?
Are you shy? In which occasions are you shy?
Do you consider yourself selfish? Why?
Is your personality suited to your job?
In what way has your personality changed? Why has it changed??
If you could change any aspect of your personality, what would it be?
Quotes:
• "It's beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart."
• I knew that I had come face to face with someone whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself." – Oscar Wilde
• Personality has the power to open many doors, but character must keep them open"
• An individual's self-concept is the core of his personality. It affects every aspect of human behavior: the ability to learn, the capacity to grow and change. A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success in life." – Dr. Joyce Brother
• Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant." –Charles A. Cerami
• Humility is no substitute for a good personality." – Fran Lebowitz
Totality of an individual's behavioral and emotional characteristics. Personality embraces a person's moods, attitudes, opinions, motivations, and style of thinking, perceiving, speaking, and acting. It is part of what makes each individual distinct.
Vocabulary
What a person says and does is the result of his or her personality. The following are words that are typically used to describe various personalities.
curious / day-dreamer / intuitive / intellectual / narrow-minded / sensitive / self-confident / meticulous / sentimental / passive / compassionate / original / domineering / proud / organized / stable / impulsive / adventurous / practical / easy-going / creative / perfectionist / self-indulgent / passionate / studious / analytical / artistic / up-tight / gracious / lazy / diplomatic / lovable / grouchy / temperamental / persistent / fair / fun-loving / laid-back / affectionate / coy / daring / weird / moody / rebellious / selfish / bossy / cautious / absent-minded
Discussion:
What are some characteristics of your personality?
Describe your own personality. How do others think of your personality? Do you agree with them or not?
What makes you happy?
What are some things that make you angry?
Are you happy with your personality?
Would you like to be different?
Are you a determined person? Are you a stubborn person?
Are you shy? In which occasions are you shy?
Do you consider yourself selfish? Why?
Is your personality suited to your job?
In what way has your personality changed? Why has it changed??
If you could change any aspect of your personality, what would it be?
Quotes:
• "It's beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart."
• I knew that I had come face to face with someone whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself." – Oscar Wilde
• Personality has the power to open many doors, but character must keep them open"
• An individual's self-concept is the core of his personality. It affects every aspect of human behavior: the ability to learn, the capacity to grow and change. A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success in life." – Dr. Joyce Brother
• Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant." –Charles A. Cerami
• Humility is no substitute for a good personality." – Fran Lebowitz