Exploring Your Personality and Major

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 JungA 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. 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. Taking 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. Taking the DWYA • The test does not measure: • Intelligence • Psychological or emotional health

17. Taking the DWYA • Answer the questions honestlyto 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 • Extravert - E • Sensing - S • Thinking - T • Judging - J • Introvert - I • INtuitive - N • Feeling - F • Perceptive -P

21. Begin Self-Assessment How we interact with the world and where we place our energy E_____________________________|____________________________I ExtraversionIntroversion What careers would match the preferences of the extravert? Introvert?

22. E is for Extravert Extraverts: • Are energized by social interaction. • Are outgoing, talkative and friendly. • Are easy to get to know. • Make friends easily. • Like variety and action. Some careers that match: • Customer service • Sales • Public relations • Human resources • Physical therapist • Financial advisor • Business management

23. A Disadvantage: Speak and then Think

24. I is for Introvert Introverts: • Are energized by quiet time alone. • Are private and reserved. • Have fewer, but more in depth relationships. • Tend to think things through quietly before speaking. Some careers that match: • Computer scientist • Software engineer • Scientist • Engineer • Accountant • Graphic designer • Pharmacist • Artist

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

26. Extroverts 75% of peopleIntroverts 25%

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

28. Eventhough there are 16 personality types, we are all unique because we are varying degrees of each type.

29. 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.

30. Exercise: Talkers and Listeners

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

32. Self-Assessment The kind of information we naturally notice and remember S_____________________________|___________________________N Sensing Intuition What careers would match the preferences of the sensing type? Intuitive type?

33. S is for Sensing Sensing types: • Focus on what they can see, hear, feel, taste and smell. • Value realism and common sense. • Work with facts, figures and concrete details. • Work step by step. • Do accurate work. • Learn through experience. Some careers that match: • Business executives • Accountants • Police and detectives • Judges • Lawyers • Computer programmers • Doctors • Dentists • Interior decorators

34. N is for INtuitive Intuitive types: • Value imagination and innovation. • Focus on possibilities. • Prefer working with ideas and theories. • Use their imagination. • Find creative solutions. • Use inspiration. Some careers that match: • Scientists • Engineers • Psychologists • Artists • Photographers • Actors • Professors • Writers

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

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

37. Activity:Write about this apple:

38. Personality Exercise • Write about the picture for 5 minutes

39. By Ian Jackson

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

41. Self-Assessment How we make decisions T_____________________________|___________________________F Thinking Feeling What careers match the preferences of the thinking type? Feeling type?

42. T is for Thinking Thinking types: • Make decisions based on logic. • Value justice and fairness. • Like to critique and debate. • Think it is important to be right. • Work with numbers and figures. • Enjoy challenging work . • Motivated by achievement. Some careers that match: • Business managers and administrators • Lawyer • Judge • Computer Specialist • Scientist • Engineers • Mathematicians • Doctors and dentists • Military leaders

43. F is for Feeling Feeling types: • Make decisions based on personal values. • Good decisions take other’s feelings into account. • Value harmony. • Like to help others. • Motivated by being appreciated by others. Some careers that match: • Child care workers • Social workers • Counselors • Family practice physicians • Pediatricians • Interior decorators • Photographers • Artists and musicians

44. 60% Of women are feeling types.

45. 60% Of men are thinking types.

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

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

48. Exercise: Thinking or Feeling

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

50. Self-Assessment Whether we prefer to live in a more structured or spontaneous way J_____________________________|_____________________________P JudgingPerceiving What careers match the preferences of the judging type? The perceptive type?