1. Exploring Your Personality and Major
Chapter 2

2. Keys to Success: Find Your Passion

3. The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
Mark Twain

4. How do you know when you have found your passion?
When Time Flies

5. Success is not the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Anonymous

6. Personality Assessments
Do What You Are
The material in the textbook

7. Based on the theory of Carl Jung A Swiss Psychologist, 1875-1961

8. We are all born with a personality type.
If you understand your type,
you can understand yourself
and others.

9. There are no good or bad
personality types,
just differences.

10. The personality assessment identifies your preferences
The personality assessment identifies your preferences. Demonstration: What is your preference?

11. There are advantages and disadvantages of each type.

12. Focus on your gifts and talents.

13. How to take the assessment:
Think positively.
Answer honestly.
There are no right or wrong answers.
There are no good or bad personality traits—only differences that make us unique.

14. Personality Assessment
Helps you understand your personality type
Identifies your preferences
Provides useful ideas for selecting your career and major
Helps you identify your gifts and talents
Helps you to understand differences in others

15. Administering the DWYA
Find a time when you are not tired or rushed.
There are no right or wrong answers.
Each type has their own unique gifts and talents.

16. Administering the DWYA
The test does not measure:
Intelligence
Psychological or emotional health

17. Administering the DWYA
Answer the questions honestly to get the best results.
Answer the questions how you usually are when you are not stressed.
Do not answer the questions:
How you want to be
How you have to be at home, work or school
How others want you to be

20. Personality Types Introvert - I Extravert - E INtuitive - N
Feeling - F
Perceptive -P
Extravert - E
Sensing - S
Thinking - T
Judging - J

21. Begin Self-Assessment
How we interact with the world and where we place our energy
E_____________________________|____________________________I
Extraversion Introversion

22. The kind of information we naturally notice and remember
Self-Assessment
The kind of information we naturally notice and remember
S_____________________________|___________________________N
Sensing Intuition

23. Self-Assessment
How we make decisions
T_____________________________|___________________________F
Thinking Feeling

24. Whether we prefer to live in a more structured or spontaneous way
Self-Assessment
Whether we prefer to live in a more structured or spontaneous way
J_____________________________|_____________________________P
Judging Perceiving

25. Personality Types
Introvert - I
Extravert - E

26. EXTROVERT
MANY
FRIENDS
TALKING
EASY TO
KNOW
ACTION
SOCIAL

27. A Disadvantage: Speak and then Think

28. INTROVERT HARD TO GET TO KNOW QUIET INTENSE REFLECTIVE IN DEPTH
RELATIONSHIPS

29. Disadvantage: Think, and then Speak.
MAY NOT GET AROUND TO
SPEAKING AT ALL

30. Extroverts 75% of people Introverts 25%

31. Use the Textbook to Check your Preferences
Introvert or Extravert?

32. Even though there are 16 personality types, we are all
unique because we are varying
degrees of each type.

33. Where do you fit on the scale? Introvert or Extrovert?
E…X……………………………….I
E………………X………………….I
E……………………………...…X..I
Look at your book and your test results
and think about this question. Write your
results on the “Summarize Your Results”
in your text.

34. Exercise: Talkers and Listeners

35. Free Write 5 Minutes Choose one: I am an introvert I am an extravert
I am a combination introvert/extravert

36. Personality Types Introvert - I Extravert - E INtuitive - N
Sensing - S

37. SENSING TYPE
USES SENSES
WHAT CAN I SEE, HEAR, FEEL
TASTE, TOUCH?

38. SENSING
FACTS
SPECIFIC
DOWN TO
EARTH
IN ORDER
HARD
WORKING
PRACTICAL

39. INTUITIVE THE FUTURE CONCEPTS HEAD IN THE INSPIRATION CLOUDS INGENUITY
FANTASY
CREATIVE
THINKER

40. Use the Textbook to Check your Preferences
Sensing or Intuitive?

41. Where do you fit?
Sensing or Intuitive?
S…X…………………………….N
S………………X………………..N
S…………………………X….….N

42. Activity: Write about this apple:

43. Personality Exercise
Write about the picture for 5 minutes

44. By Ian Jackson

45. Free Write 5 Minutes Choose 1: I am a sensing type
I am an intuitive type
I am a combination sensing/intuitive type

46. Personality Types Introvert - I Extravert - E INtuitive - N
Feeling - F
Extravert - E
Sensing - S
Thinking - T

47. THINKING FIRMNESS LOGICAL JUSTICE OBJECTIVE POLICY LAWS CLARITY
DETACHED

48. FEELING HARMONY HUMANE FAIR HEARTED SOCIAL VALUES INVOLVED PERSUADE
CIRCUMSTANCES
SUBJECTIVE

49. 60% Of women are feeling types.

50. 60% Of men are thinking types.

51. Use the Textbook to Check your Preferences
Thinking or Feeling?

52. Do you prefer Thinking or Feeling?
T.…X…………………….………F
T……………X………………..…F
T………………………………X..F

53. Exercise: Thinking or Feeling

54. Free Write 5 Minutes: Choose one: I am a thinking type
I am a feeling type
I am a combination thinking/feeling type

55. Personality Types Introvert - I Extravert - E INtuitive - N
Feeling - F
Perceptive -P
Extravert - E
Sensing - S
Thinking - T
Judging - J

56. Judging means planned and organized.

57. JUDGING CONTROL FIXED PLANNED CLOSURE DEFINITE ORDERLY STRUCTURE
ORGANIZED

58. Perceptive means spontaneous.

59. PERCEPTIVE WAIT AND SEE GO WITH THE FLOW TENTATIVE FLEXIBLE ADAPT
PENDING
SPONTANEOUS
WHAT
DEADLINE?

60. Judging vs. Perceptive
Greatest source of interpersonal conflict

61. Use the Textbook to Check your Preferences
Judging or Perceptive?

62. Judging or Perceptive?
J…X……………………………….P
J………………X………………….P
J………………………………X…..P

63. Exercise: Judging or Perceptive?

64. Exercise: Where do you stand?
I can play anytime
I have to finish my work before I play.

65. Free Write 5 Minutes Choose one: I am a judging type
I am a perceptive type
I am a combination judging/perceptive type

66. Personality and Preferred Work Environment
Extraverts prefer environments that provide opportunity for social interaction.
Introverts like quiet for concentration.

67. Personality and Preferred Work Environment
Sensing types like a standard way of doing things and establishing a routine.
Intuitive types like change and finding new ways of doing work.

68. Personality and Preferred Work Environment
Thinking types are objective and rational and treat others fairly.
Feeling types value harmony and the support of co-workers. They know their values and apply them consistently.

69. Personality and Preferred Work Environment
Judging types like a work environment that is structured, settled and organized.
Perceptive types are comfortable in handling the unplanned or unexpected.

70. Personality and Decision Making
The introvert thinks up ideas and reflects on the problem before deciding.
The extravert acts as the communicator in the decision making process.

71. Personality and Decision Making
The intuitive type develops theories and uses intuition to come up with ingenious solutions to the problem.
The sensing type applies personal experience to the problem and comes up with solutions that are practical and realistic.

72. Personality and Decision Making
The thinking type uses cause and effect and applies logic to solving problems.
The feeling type considers human values and motives (whether they are logical or not) in the decision making process.

73. Personality and Decision Making
Judging steps go through the steps in the decision making process and make decisions quickly.
Perceptive types like to look at all the possibilities before making a decision. They do not want to make a quick decision.

74. Personality and Time Management
How do you manage your time?
Judging type
Perceptive type

75. Judging Types Naturally good at time management
Use time management techniques to meet deadlines
Relax once the work is done
If there are many projects, may find it difficult to relax and enjoy recreation
May need to work on stress management

76. Perceptive Types Prefer to be spontaneous rather than organized
May have difficulty meeting deadlines
Work at many projects at once
Take the time to relax and enjoy recreation
Need to work on organization and meeting deadlines to be successful in college.

77. Personality and Money Judging types good at financial planning
Perceptive types can adapt to change and tolerate risk
Feeling types often attracted to low paying jobs that serve others

78. Other Factors in Choosing a Major
If you have several careers that match your personality type, consider:
Career outlook
Salary
Working conditions
Lifestyle