Reflection On My Personality

A key to succeeding in the workforce is being able to understand different personalities, and learning to working with them in any environment. Being able to learn about others personalities helps one build successful relationships with others. Learning about one self-typed personality will also assist with self-understanding and self- awareness. Taking a Jungian 16- Type Personality test online, a 64 question test, I was able to determine my personality type to be ENTJ, and my temperament being NT. Results from this test revealed a general description of my personality trait, and how my personality trait interacts in social, relationship and career situations. The website also discusses the strengths and weaknesses of my ENTJ personality, as well as how my personality interacts with the other 15 personality traits. In this paper I will discuss my ENTJ personality trait in detail, as well as the effects it will have on my future career.

The purpose of this paper is to explore personality theories and the impact and effect they have on people throughout their life. People have many different personalities and come from many different cultures, but fundamentally we have some of the same basic needs. So, what are people influenced by? Is it social experiences, developmental problems, or needs and anxiety that that spiral into neurosis? Personality theories vary and the complexity of the information can be difficult to understand such as genetic dispositions, environmental forces, unconscious thoughts, and motivations. Personality shapes who and what we are to some extent and theories on personality help us to understand one another. Whether it is problem solving,

Personality is the set of emotional qualities, ways of behaving, etc., that makes a person different from the next. There are theories and assessments that can be looked upon to assess personality traits of people. Some of which include The Big-Five Horney’s Neurotic Trends, Jungian Psychological Types, and The Dark Triad, and all of which are used to describe the way a person is. The purpose of this paper was for me to be able to interpret results from all of these assessments, and to be able to judge the results based on my life experiences.

In my first course at Walden University, Dr. Beebe asked for the reasons I am pursuing my advanced degree and gave her reasons why she did hers. It was part of our discussion board topic of igniting your passion to drive the work that we do. Her reason was similar to mine but I was caught off guard because until yesterday I was not ready to accept that I was doing this degree for me. It felt wrong that I was doing something for me because the world has so much issues and I am here dedicating a large part of my life and finances to do something for myself. After some reflection I was ready to accept it and embrace it without the feeling of guilt.

In the past year I have produced three different pieces of writing with different purposes and intended for different audiences, but they all share a common theme of family ties. The first piece of writing was a creative piece centred on fixing family bonds and bringing the family closer together. The creative piece was intended to entertain a more adult audience and was based around a real life even that happened when I was younger. The next piece was an exposition arguing the point of technology creating a divide between adult and child, it was made to inform and persuade the audience on my point of view, I chose this piece as it seemed a good topic to debate and related to the theme of family. The final piece was a magazine article, this piece was made to inform the audience of which holiday destinations are best for families and there is to do in the suggested towns or cities. In that the magazine piece was created for a target audience of parents with younger children. This piece is heavily linked to my creative piece as the knowledge I gained to create that piece was acquired through my travels as a kid and was based around what places I enjoyed most as a kid.

Growing up, I was never good at writing and struggled with it. In eighth grade, we had to write a paper on our superhero and I wrote about my mom. I saw everyone wrote two or three pages while I wrote one. I felt a bit weird about that and I knew it was not a good paper. Prior to sophomore year of high school, we had to read a book called Jane Eyre. I did not like reading and read only half the book and just looked up summaries online. I had Miss Figueroa for an English teacher that year, and I was so scared and nervous because she was a difficult teacher. We discussed the book, and then we wrote a rough draft essay about it. In October, we had to take a P.O.W. Exam on this book, which had three essay topics to choose from. I remember my rough draft was the same exact topic as the one on the exam, and I thought this is going to be easy. A few weeks later we got our results back, and it required a three to pass and I got lower than that. I made mistakes on grammar, my paragraphs were not consistent, and my introduction and thesis were not being well- written. This made me so sad because I could not graduate high school without passing this exam. We had to write in-class essay on novels we read and essays at home. I remember struggling to come up with topics to write about and forming ideas. It took me so long to finish these essays, and they were never well written. I was never good with timed essay tests as I felt like I was being rushed and had no time to check my work or

My inferior function becomes apparent when I have to use extraverted sensing to see the world as it is in the present time rather than planning or thinking about the future. For example, when I plan to achieve a goal, I struggle to balance my ideas and reality.

Prior to this year I did not think of history beyond being another academic subject on my “must do” list. The exercises you put us through made its importance to success, especially in business, evident. My summer travel reading list of (put the 2 I gave you) was chosen to start to learn more on how to recognize what effects change in business and economies. It became readily apparent I am woefully undereducated. Looking to swim in knowledge, now I have a litany of history, politics, philosophy, and business books to read.

Throughout my life, I have turned to the Bible for guidance and understanding. My mother encouraged me to be involved with the church. Two previous experiences that impacted my life included learning that no age limit applies to God’s kingdom, and my future is planned.

When thinking of being an effective teacher who understands his or her students, it is very important for the teachers to understand themselves first. It is important for a teacher to understand the way that he or she learns because it gives them more knowledge and understanding of given situations. If a teacher wants the entire classroom to do well, it is important to remember what Kubiszyn & Borich (2016) state, “In other words, just as there is no one size fits all tool, no single test is appropriate for all purposes and all persons (p. 2). This quote helps readers understand that there are many factors that should be accounted for when assessing students.

In this paper, I will be evaluating my personality traits in attempts to acquire more familiarization about myself as a person, employee, and manager. After assessing my personality kind, I will critique in detail how each of my personality characteristics fit me. In this paper, readers will learn more about me as a person due to the results I receive from the Jung Typology Test. These results will help readers in digesting myself, and will help me learn more about my organization behaviors to make me a better employee, and co-worker.Still need work

From the results of the assessments regarding my personality, values, attitudes, motivation, decision making capabilities and other factors that reveal how effective I am in a working organization, I found that it affirms my Jungian “Executive” personality. In the first set of assessments I was asked a series of multiple choice questions on how I would handle a given situation. The Big Five test model had high scores for agreeableness, conscientiousness, and emotional stability, and it had moderate scores for extroversion and openness to experience. Agreeableness is defined as “someone who is good-natured, cooperative and trusting (Pearson Education, 2008).” Conscientiousness is described as “someone who is responsible, dependable, persistent, and achievement oriented (Pearson Education, 2008).” Extroversion is “someone who is sociable, talkative, and assertive (Pearson Education, 2008).” Emotional stability indicates that “someone is calm, enthusiastic, and secure (Pearson Education, 2008).” Openness to experience reveals that someone is “imaginative, artistically sensitive, and intellectual (Pearson Education, 2008).” Highlighting the conscientiousness and extroversion factors, one can see how these preferences are important to managers for conscientiousness leads to high levels of job knowledge and being social is a prerequisite for a leadership position. Other results stated that I not only possess the ENTJ personality, but also I have a high tendency to be a Type A

By taking psychology this semester I have learned a lot about myself and my personality. Such as, by scoring high in the extravert section of the IPIP-NEO test means I am very enthusiastic, action-oriented, and a very assertive person. I like an active lifestyle being fast-paced and having the energy to get things done. I am very calm type person; I don’t react with intense emotions or situations that cause most people stress. I think in plain and simple terms but can be described as a down-to-earth, practical person. I need my time but don’t mind enjoying time with others. I get satisfaction out of setting clear goals and purse them with determination. I like to work hard and be reliable to completing tasks, I like to critique my work until it is perfect and I’m often tough on myself when doing my work.

Personality is defined as “the combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual’s distinctive character” (google dictionary, 2017), just by reading this definition you can tell that personality is a complex system to fully understand. There are a number of tools or assessments from many theories and approaches that help better understanding personality, pulling apart its complexity. I have already given a lot of thought about who I am as a person, what traits do I have, what do I lack and what this says about the person I am. But taking this class that focuses on personality helped a lot in my understanding of myself as well as maybe understanding other personality types. Reflecting on what I have learned I chose three

Personality seems like a large topic, but is not as ominous as it seems. “Personality refers to individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving. The study of personality focuses on two broad areas: One is understanding individual differences in particular personality characteristics, such as sociability or irritability. The other is understanding how the various parts of a person come together as a whole” (APA). There are eight key aspects to consider when it comes to personality; unconscious aspects, ego forces, biological being, conditioned and shaped by experience and environments, cognitive dimension, traits skills and predispositions, spiritual dimensions, interaction. While personality is a big topic it is easier to understand by realizing everyone has one, even if it is different in each person.