Discover Your Personality: Sanguine
Posted: Monday, February 01, 2010
by Ellen McCormick
Are you fun and adventure loving? Do you like new things, new ideas, new experiences? Do you love telling stories about last night's party? Do your friends and family sometimes tell you to stop exaggerating, or that you don't follow through enough? If you have said yes to two or more of these questions, it is very likely that you are a sanguine personality.
The sanguine personality, like the choleric, is extraverted and primary, acting first and thinking later. But, unlike the choleric, the sanguine is people centered, very focused on what other people say and think, how to get along with others, etc. The sanguine are fun-loving, creative, outgoing people, who only stop talking when they fall asleep. They are the ones who have lots of great ideas and fun new games to try. Most children naturally find their way to the backyard of the sanguine on the block, where something is always new and exciting. The downfall is that, while sanguine are bright and fun, they don't always follow through, and this can cause difficulties with family, friends, and work.
Strengths
Likeable: Friendly, cheerful, fun, and talkative, it's very easy to like sanguine.
Social Life: Sanguines are usually the life of the party, good at storytelling, and quick to make others laugh. If you want to have a fun time, hang out with a sanguine!
Creative: They have lots of new ideas and love adventure, so they're the first to want to try these ideas (careful, though – this point will also come up under the weaknesses!)
Enthusiastic.
Expressive: Sanguines talk a lot – they share their stories and ideas. They also share their emotions. When you're with a sanguine, you go through what they're going through, and really share in their life and experiences. They bring you in.
Affectionate: Sanguines have a very easy time getting along with people, and loving people. If someone you know has a hundred and one "best friends," including people they've only met a couple of times, most likely, that person is a sanguine personality. Because they are expressive, they show their friendship. They aren't afraid to hug, laugh and cry with their friends and the people they love.
Innocent: The sanguine is naturally well meaning. They want to help and do good.
Sincerity: In addition to being spontaneous, sanguine personalities are sincere. Their moods change quickly, but they don't pretend. They really do feel the way they do. They don't stay mad long, and they don't hold grudges. They are quick to see and admit their own mistakes, and aren't ashamed of apologizing for them.
Weaknesses
Exaggeration: Sanguines are such good storytellers, that they sometimes exaggerate and change the story so much that other people would call it lying. They don't naturally see it that way – they think they are doing everyone a favor by making a good story better… but, little by little, the sanguine has to learn when a rowboat outing is called an international cruise, it's a lie, even if it is more interesting.
Compulsive: Sanguines often talk too much, or start too many ideas, and can't keep their thoughts or words under control. Along the same line, sanguine often lack follow up. They may constantly sign up for new activities, but also drop out of them after a session or two when the novelty has worn off.
Restless or nervous: Sanguines have a lot of positive energy, but lack the drive and direction of the choleric. Their energy often stays undirected and comes across as restless or nervous.
Over Imaginative: The sanguine can spend so much time daydreaming or imagining things that they shirk responsibility and reality.
Can lack manners: Sanguines love stories – any stories – and often talk about people behind their back, or share stories that other people don't want shared. Because they are so emotional, they can get angry as quickly as they get happy and excited. While they love to talk, they aren't good at listening; they fidget, interrupt, or get distracted. They can talk too loudly, and laugh too long. Sometimes they come across as being fake.
Sacrifice principle: Sanguines tend to lie for the sake of reputation, and sacrifice principle for the sake of friendship.
Plan for Improvement
1. Commitment and follow through. Pick one or two points, one or two activities or events, and make sure you follow through on them. Don't get side-tracked or distracted, and don't pass the work off to someone else after the fun part is over.
2. Depth. Learn how to go further than the surface, how to see more in others that the external or social aspect. Learn to appreciate in yourself your true values, more than you humor, creativity and fun. Put meaning behind what you do. Use your fun-loving tendencies and your great ideas to support real causes, important values. For example, find a cause that really moves you, whether it's a charity, or something in your work, or religion, or a specific group or agency… Find things that are worth supporting, and use your creative ideas and talking talent to support that group or cause, plan their activities so they will be more fun, attractive, creative, and effective, etc.
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