1. Exploring Your Personality and Major
Chapter 2
Exploring Your Personality and Major

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. 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 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
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. 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

24. Extroverts 75% of people Introverts 25%

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

26. Exercise: Talkers and Listeners

27. 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.

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

29. The kind of information we naturally notice and remember
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?

30. 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

31. 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

32. Activity: Write about this apple:

33. Personality Exercise
Write about the picture for 5 minutes

34. By Ian Jackson

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

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

39. 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

40. 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

41. 60% Of women are feeling types.

42. 60% Of men are thinking types.

43. Exercise: Thinking or Feeling

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

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

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

47. 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
What careers match the preferences of the judging type?
The perceptive type?

48. J is for Judging Judging means orderly and organized.
It does not mean judging other people.
It is important to emphasize this point. Students often misinterpret “judging” as used in personality type. I wish I could change this word, but I can’t.

49. J is for Judging Judging types: Generally keep things in order.
Set goals and work toward them.
Finish projects and meet deadlines.
Follow a schedule.
Like having high responsibility
Some careers that match:
Business executives
Managers
Accountants
Financial officers
Police and detectives
Judges
Lawyers
Computer programmers
Military leaders

50. P is for Perceptive
Perceptive means being spontaneous and flexible.

51. P is for Perceptive Perceptive types : Like creative disorder.
Dislike routine.
Change goals as new opportunities arise.
May miss deadlines.
Explore the unknown.
Don’t like rules and structure.
Often take risks and are adventurous.
Value fun and excitement.
Some careers that match:
Pilots
Athletes
Paramedics
Police and detective work
Forensic pathologists
Engineers
Scientists
Carpenters
Artists
Musicians

52. Judging vs. Perceptive
Greatest source of interpersonal conflict

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

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

55. Exercise: Judging or Perceptive?

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

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

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

59. 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.

60. 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.

61. 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.

62. 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.

63. 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.

64. 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.

65. Personality and Decision Making
Judging types 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.

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

67. 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

68. 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.

69. 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

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