What if I am a Phlegmatic Choleric Melancholy?
As a phlegmatic choleric in inclusion you tend to socialize with those who you feel can be beneficial to your purposes. But, you expect others to put a lot more into the interaction than you do. Because of this you may find that you are particularly adept at tasks which require precision and accuracy. Your drive for perfection makes you quite stubborn and willful. Although, you can be friendly and cordial you don’t typically share your own thoughts and feelings with others.
You prefer to interact with those who recognize and accept your leadership abilities. Those with weak wills annoy you and you believe they get what they deserve for not standing up for themselves.
Your extreme independence helps you to make quick decisions, and take on a task with little input, or interference, from others. In fact, if others choose to interact with you when things need to get done, you make it known in no uncertain terms that you are in control and they can get behind and help push or get off the road.
You demand recognition for your efforts and have no problems displaying your displeasure when you don’t recieve what you view as your just desserts.
You neither display nor require overt displays of affection. In fact, you share your true feelings with a very select few who have earned your trust.
What you want others to know:
- you are drained after a tough job and would rather rest than socialize.
- anyone who chooses to be around you needs to be able to stand up for themselves.
- you won’t tolerate emotional weaklings.
- you are determined to maintain control of yourself and your environment.
- you are perfectly capable of making your own choices and accepting the consequences.
- you have a temper.
What you need to know about yourself:
- Everyone, including you, has to answer to someone. To behavior as though you can operate outside the “laws of life” will not get you where you want to go.
Take a few minutes to reflect and share you observations and reactions in the comments section. I am interested in the perspective of all, but I specifically invite you to comment.
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February 16th, 2008 at 7:20 am
What a great post. You must be a fan of anthroposophy, or Steiner, or Waldorf, yes? Great to read such a great interpretation.
Yours as a melancholic choleric!
February 16th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Hello Lisa,
Thank you for your comment.
Actually I base much of my writing on an ancient, nearly forgotten, Greek science. The Greeks were keen observers of human behavior and they noted that some individuals maintained an underlying temperament regardless of their immediate situation. Some were motivated by the urge to control (the choleric) others were driven by the yearn for socialization (the sanguine). In all the Greeks felt their were 4 such temperaments and they somehow felt they were tied to the fluids (or humors) of the body. Although, they were off on what caused the temperaments they were surprisingly on target in what the behaviors of those with certain temperaments were driven by. I’m a student of a branch of that counseling philosophy.
I’ve looked at your site 360 Alliance. Are you a professional development coach?
February 16th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
May I know what is your religion?
One thing is, most of the time I read of only 4 temperaments namely Phlegmatic, Melancholy, Sanguine and Choleric. I don’t know where supine comes from and it sounds like it’s a mixture of Sanguine and Phlegmatic.
And btw, the article on my blog isn’t written by me. It’s taken from another website. One of the articles found in http://www.briomag.com/
February 17th, 2008 at 4:08 am
Hello Dory,
My faith is Christian. To me, “religion” is a construct. Faith is the essence.
Much of the identification of the Supine temperament was done by Dr. Richard Arno. Here is a link that explains it in more detail.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Temperaments
Most counselors refer to the temperament as an “Introverted Sanguine.” Dr. Arno feels (and I agree) this is a contradiction in terms.
Thank you for commenting.