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THE SECRET TO YOUR BEHAVIOR
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DISCOVER WHOM YOU ARE
WHAT TEMPERAMENT DO YOU POSSESS
When I was in high school, there was a pair of identical twins
in my class. We could hardly tell them apart They tested out
identically on their IQ scores (128). But that is where the
similarities stopped. One was personable; the other withdrew
frompeople. One loved sports, history, and literature; the other
preferred math, physics, and language. Interesting to me was
the fact that their grade-point averages were almost identical at
the end of their four years in high school. Yet they did not get
the same grades in most subjects. What made the difference
between these young men? Their temperaments!
Temperament influences everything you do—from sleep
habits to study habits to eating style to the way you get along
with other people. Humanly speaking, there is no other
influence in your life more powerful than your temperament or
combination of temperaments. That is why it is so essential to
know your temperament and to be able to analyze other
people’s temperaments, not to condemn them, but so you can
maximize your potential and enable themto maximize theirs.
Sit with me in the counseling room and you will see what I
mean. The sanguine talks about the weather, friends, and a
hundred things before facing the real problem. The choleric
gets right to the point He (or she) wants you to straighten out
his partner so he can have a good home life. The melancholy
sighs deeply as he sits down with depression, self-pity, and
unhappiness etched on his face. The phlegmatic rarely gets
around to making an appointment, and when she does it takes
most of the first half hour just to prime her conversational
pump.
These people are not the temperament they are because they
do these things. Rather, they act the way they do because of
their temperaments. Some of our acts are subtle, like tastes influenced by our temperament...preferences, while others involve outlooks and attitudes or
even styles of thinking. There is hardly a function in life that is
not influenced by temperament Thus, you had better determine
your temperament and consistently direct it into the best life￾style for you and your family. Otherwise your temperament will
subconsciously direct you.
TEMPERAMENT AND EATING
HABITS
I can almost judge a man’s temperament by his eating habits.
Sanguines eat everything in sight—and usually look it In a
restaurant they so enjoy talking that they almost never look at
a menu until the waitress arrives. Cholerics—stereotyped
eaters—seldom vary their menu from one day to the next and
when it arrives, they bolt it down in big chunks, often talking
while chewing their food. Melancholies are very picky eaters. It
takes them forever to make up their minds about what to order,
but once it arrives they savor every bite. Phlegmatics are the
most deliberate eaters of all and are invariably the last ones
through eating. That is the main reason they rarely gain weight
(All weight specialists warn obese patients to eat slowly, for it
takes twenty minutes for food passing into the mouth to shut
off hunger pangs.)
TEMPERAMENT OF DRIVING SKILL
Sanguines are erratic drivers. Sometimes they speed, then for
Sanguines are erratic drivers. Sometimes they speed, then for
no apparent reason lose interest in driving fast and slow down.
They are so people-oriented that they want to look you in the
face when talking, even while driving.
Cholerics are daring speed demons who dart in and out of
traffic constantly. They always try to get more accomplished in
a given period of time than is humanly possible and attempt to
make up time by driving furiously between appointments.
Melancholy motorists never leave home without preparing
for the trip well in advance. They study the map and know the
best route from A to Z. Of all the temperaments, they are the
most likely to keep a complete log of their driving history,
including gas and oil consumption and car repairs. Legalists by
nature, they rarely speed.
Phil Phlegmatic is the slowest driver of all. The last one to
leave an intersection, he rarely changes lanes and is an
indecisive danger when joining the flow of freeway traffic from
an entrance ramp. He is a pokey “Sunday driver” seven days a
week. He gets few tickets and rarely has accidents, but he can
be a road hazard.
TEMPERAMENT AND THE WAY YOU
SHOP
Sanguines are not price conscious, but select for visual
satisfaction. They are drawn by colorful packaging and
advertising In the grocery store, theirs is the most overloaded
cart.
Cholerics, particularly men, are not fond of shopping. They
only go to the store when they need something and want to
purchase it and get out Like sanguines, they usually overbuy
purchase it and get out Like sanguines, they usually overbuy
but not quite as much.
Melancholies are deliberate and decisive shoppers who
compare prices and quality quite carefully. They run their
hands over the item, try it on two or three times, leave the store
a time or two, and if it isn’t sold by the time they return, they
buy it They create traffic jams waiting to make up their mind. In
the grocery store they know where everything is and save all
the coupons fromevery manufacturer.
Phlegmatics, particularly women, enjoy shopping. They take
longer, shop slower, and are probably more frugal than any
other type. They are almost as indecisive as the melancholy.
They have to shop more frequently than any other type
because they don’t get enough on the first trip.
TEMPERAMENT AND YARD
CARE
As incredible as it may seem, you can almost decipher a
person’s temperament by the way he does the yard work
around his home. Sparky Sanguine gets up early Saturday
morning to fix his yard. With great gusto he lines up all his
tools (he has every gadget known to man because he totally
lacks sales resistance) and prepares to cut, trim, shear, and
prune. However, within thirty minutes he is chatting joyfully
with a neighbor. Before the day is over, he orders his son to
“put my tools away” and decides to fix the yard next week.
Sparky is clearly one of the world’s great procrastinators.
Rocky Choleric hates yard work, and therefore when he doesit at all it is with a vengeance. He works at a frenzied pace in
order to get the job done, and neatness is not his hallmark. One
can usually spot the choleric’s yard while driving through the
neighborhood. Just look for miniature hedges and dwarf trees.
Martin Melancholy has a natural aptitude for growing things
and usually maintains the best yard in the neighborhood. He is
the one who talks to and babies his plants, and on almost any
weekend we will find him on hands and knees, “manicuring”
his lawns and hedges.
The phlegmatic’s lawn usually suggests that its owner is still
in the house late on a Saturday morning, sipping his third cup
of coffee—because he is. Capable of superior lawn care, Phil
will scrupulously attend to “the old plantation,” however,
because his desire to rest is overcome by his drive to do the
accepted thing.
TEMPERAMENT AND STUDY
HABITS
Melancholies are usually good students who enjoy learning.
They have inquisitive minds and if taught to read well will have
a ferocious appetite for books. They are blessed with keen
retentive minds that enable them to remember a multitude of
details. As a rule they are good spellers because they take
mental pictures of each word. Although they have messy files
and a desk top that is impossible to organize, they have an
amazing concentration regardless of the mess, interruptions, or
noise going on around them.
Phlegmatics can be good students if their procrastination
doesn’t catch up with them. They need a series of short-term
assignments rather than long-term projects. They work best
under pressure, though they claim they don’t like it They have
orderly minds capable of analysis and deductions. They are
prone to get their news more from TV than magazines and
newspapers. They have good memories and can be intelligent
people if somehow motivated to learn.
Cholerics are clever as a rule but not brilliant They like the
people-oriented subjects such as history, geography, literature,
and psychology. They may not be good spellers, because they
skim over things so quickly. They are adept at speed-reading
and have curious minds. They constantly ask “Why?”
Cholerics love charts, diagrams, and graphs; they like to know
where everything fits in the main scheme of things. They may
have a difficult time concentrating on anything that reminds
them of other goals or projects that get their minds off on a
tangent and then may have a difficult time getting back to the
subject at hand.
Sanguines, unless endowed with a high IQ, are not usually
good students. They can be if they are motivated, because
they are often bright enough, but they are very restless and
undisciplined. They have a short interest span and anything
can be a distraction, from a bird flying overhead to a picture on
the wall These people have incredible potential but usually
squander it because they don’t discipline themselves.
Concentration for long periods of time is difficult for them.
HANDWRITING AND YOUR
TEMPERAMENTI am not an authority on handwriting, but I have observed that
temperament and handwriting analysis are very similar. Our
penmanship usually follows our temperament Everything a
sanguine does is expressive and flamboyant, and he writes that
way. The choleric usually has poor handwriting. Everything he
does is fast; consequently, he does not take time to write
legibly. The phlegmatic usually has small but neat handwriting.
Melancholies have the most unpredictable handwriting of all.
They are extremely complexpeople and usually write that way.
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
AND TEMPERAMENT
Thinking skills and communication skills are not based solely
on the brain. They also involve temperament. Sanguines are
intuitive speakers. They are overly expressive and use
exaggeration freely. Cholerics are extroverted enough to speak
freely, but usually are more deliberate than sanguines. They are
debaters and arguers; no one can be more biting or sarcastic.
Melancholies never start talking until they have thought out
precisely what they want to say. They don’t like to interrupt
others, but once they get started they go on until they have
unloaded their entire message. Phlegmatics are quiet about
everything and seldom enter into debates or thrust themselves
into conversations. They will respond to questions with wit
and good humor, but rarely volunteer anything unless asked.
Peter was told, “Your speech betrays you” (Matt 26:73).
That is often true of your temperament; your speech patterns
are a giveaway of your temperament.
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