Lecture 9 - Personality

Figure 1: Personality

In some ways we are all the same. We all have the same human nature. We share a common humanity. We all have human bodies and human minds, we all have human thoughts and human feelings.Yet in other ways we are all completely different and unique. No two people are truly alike. No two people can ever have the same experience of life, the same perspective, the same mind. In our common humanity and our unique individuality lies in  personality. Personality is about our different ways of being human. How we are all variations on the same themes. How the human nature we all share manifests in different styles of thinking, feeling and acting.

Learning from Class:

Personality is interesting topic since other people judge each other mainly based on this factor. As stated by lecturer personality is something that people have that really valuable to contribute to the world, that comes through the expression of each persons personality where single spark of divinity that sets people off and makes them different from each other. Simply its a way of how the people measure and look at you.

After that lecturer mentioned Six Personality Types of people as below,

Conventional Organizers:

These sort of people like to work with numbers, records or machines in a orderly way (Systematic Way). Generally avoid ambiguous and unstructured activities. More suitable in theoretical business processors such as Accounting, Finance, Economics and etc.
Ex:- Government Employees

  

Realistic Doers:

These sort of people like to do in practical. Avoid social activities like teaching, healing and informing others. Likes to experiment thing as well as like to do more realistic work rather than theatrical concepts. Sees them self as practical, mechanical and realistic.

Ex:- The ones who involve in automobile engineering, carpenters

Investigative Thinkers:

These sort of people like to study problems and do more researches and coming up with solutions. Does not like to work with machines. Likes to look at social problem and able to come with solutions for them but lack of persuading power to make work or make it practical. Sees them self as self-determined, intelligent, curious, logical, precise, analytical, reserved, independent and rational.

Ex:- Social Scientist, Programmers

Artistic Creators:

These sort of people like music, see thing in different ways. Do work in their own creative way. More likes into Original Work. Sees them self as creative, emotional, expressive, imaginative, independent, idealistic, open, original, unconventional and tolerant.

Ex:- Dancers, Artists

Social Helpers:

These sort of people likes to help society. They like to volunteering. Eager to help people and solving social problems and sees them self as helpful, warm, co-operative, sociable, tactful, friendly, kind, generous, patient and understanding.

Ex:- Nurses, Councilors, social workers   

Enterprising Persuaders:

Potential entrepreneurs. These sort of people likes to take risk and good at tricking as well as persuading people. Most likely seen in leaderships and Businesses. Able to sell ideology. They are energetic and ambitious.

Ex:- Ideologist- People with great leadership and persuade others to follow them.    

Activity Done:

Before starting the theoretical content lecturer wanted us to show how people think a simple scenario in complected angles without stick in to the basic requirements to solve it, ultimately where they end up with incompatible answers for the problem.

Before concluding the lecture for the day lecturer divided us in to 6 groups and asked to come with 6 items that are required by passengers to carryout in a scenario of a emergency plane land into sea and where passengers got into isolated island and the plane authorities only allowed them to select 6 items which are necessary for live alive in isolated island.


Reality of the lecture:

From this lecture I understood all the problem we face can be solved by using simple and more specific techniques rather than mockup it as complicated situation. Identify different personality dimensions and levels that I have and enables me to differentiate and understand people and their personality from their behavioral aspects. 

Home Work: 

Dr. Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats

Figure 2: Six Thinking Hats (Saschina, 2012)

According to Mindtools (2012) "Six Thinking Hats is an important and powerful technique. It is used to look at decisions from a number of important perspectives. This forces you to move outside your habitual thinking style, and helps you to get a more rounded view of a situation".

White Hat:

Focus on the data available. Look at the information person have, and see what the person can learn from it. Look for gaps in persons knowledge, and either try to fill them or take account of them. (Mindtools , 2012)

Red Hat:

Look at problems using intuition, gut reaction, and emotion. Also try to think how other people will react emotionally. Try to understand the responses of people who do not fully know your reasoning. (Mindtools , 2012)

Black Hat:

Look at all the bad points of the decision. Look at it cautiously and defensively. Try to see why it might not work. This is important because it highlights the weak points in a plan. It allows people to eliminate them, alter them, or prepare contingency plans to counter them. Black Hat thinking helps to make plans 'tougher' and more resilient. (Mindtools , 2012)

Yellow Hat:

Think positively. It is the optimistic viewpoint that helps people to see all the benefits of the decision and the value in it. Yellow Hat thinking helps peoples to keep going when everything looks gloomy and difficult. (Mindtools , 2012)

Green Hat:

This is where people can develop creative solutions to a problem. It is a freewheeling way of thinking, in which there is little criticism of ideas. (Mindtools , 2012)

Blue Hat:

The Blue Hat stands for process control. This is the hat worn by people chairing meetings. When running into difficulties because ideas are running dry, they may direct activity into Green Hat thinking. (Mindtools , 2012)    

References

Mindtools. (2012). Types of personality. [Online] available at: http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTED_07.htm [Accessed 26th July 2012

Saschina. (2012). Types of personality. [Online] available at: http://teachers.saschina.org/jchambers/files/2011/04/6-Thinking-Hats-POSTER-1024x768.jpg [Accessed 26th July 2012]