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A revealing "personality profile" self-test and Littauer's insightful advice help readers better understand themselves and others. A bestseller.

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Sociologie, société et politique

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Publié par	Baker Publishing Group
Date de parution	01 juillet 1992
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781441200075
Langue	English

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What makes you so special?
A lot of things. Find out just how wonderfully and creatively God made you in Personality Plus . In these pages you ll learn whether you re: or a combination of the above. You ll also learn how to best use these unique, God-given assets to bring harmony into all your relationships. Florence Littauer explains, When we know who we are and why we act the way we do, we can begin to understand our inner selves, improve our personalities, and learn to get along with others.
a spontaneous, vivacious, cheerful Sanguine
a thoughtful, faithful, persistent Melancholy
an adventurous, persuasive, confident Choleric
a friendly, patient, contented Phlegmatic
Once you understand how to bring out your best, you ll find that others look better too. Discover the person you ve always wanted to be in Personality Plus .
REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION

FLORENCE LITTAUER
Copyright 1983, 1992 by Florence Littauer
Published by Fleming H. Revell a division of Baker Book House Company P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49516-6287 www.revellbooks.com
Thirty-eighth printing, August 2004
Printed in the United States of America
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means-electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other-except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Littauer, Florence.
Personality plus / Florence Littauer.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-8007-5445-X
1. Personality. 2. Temperament. 3. Success-Religious aspects-Christianity. 4. Christian life-1960- I. Title. BF698.L54 1992 155.2 6-dc20 92-13275
Unless otherwise identified, Bible quotations in this volume are from the King James Version of the Bible.
Bible quotations identified GNB are from the Good News Bible-Old Testament: Copyright American Bible Society, 1976; New Testament: Copyright American Bible Society, 1966, 1971, 1976.
Scripture quotations identified TLB are taken from The Living Bible , Copyright 1971 by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, IL 60189. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
The Personality Profile is from After Every Wedding Comes a Marriage by Florence Littauer. Copyright 1981, Harvest House Publishers, 1075 Arrowsmith, Eugene, OR 97402.
Contents
A Special Note of Thanks
PART I Personality Profile: A Quick Method of Self-Examination
1 There s Only One You
2 Your Personality Profile
PART II Personality Potential: A Look at Our Individual Assets
3 Let s Have Fun with Popular Sanguine
4 Let s Get Organized with Perfect Melancholy
5 Let s Look at Our Emotions
6 Let s Get Moving with Powerful Choleric
7 Let s Relax with Peaceful Phlegmatic
PART III Personality Plan: A Way to Overcome Our Personal Weaknesses
Introduction: Positives Carried to Extremes Become Negatives
8 Let s Organize Popular Sanguine
9 Let s Cheer Up Perfect Melancholy
10 Let s Tone Down Powerful Choleric
11 Let s Motivate Peaceful Phlegmatic
PART IV Personality Principles: A Path to Improved Relations with Others
12 Each Person Is a Unique Blend
13 We Don t Like to Be Fenced In
14 Opposites Attract
15 We Can Recognize Differences in Others
16 How to Get Along with Others
PART V Personality Power: A Source of Strength to Achieve Our Potential
17 Personality Plus Power Produces Positive People!
Appendix: Personality Test Word Definitions
A Special Note of Thanks
Twenty-five years ago a friend of mine gave me a copy of Spirit Controlled Temperament by Tim LaHaye and asked me to read it. I was instantly fascinated with the four temperaments that originated with Hippocrates four hundred years before Christ was born. As I read on, I found the description of a person so like me, and then one so like Fred, that I felt the author must have secretly known us. Although I had never met Tim LaHaye, I really wanted to talk with a man of his perception. Within a year our paths crossed, and we both spoke at the same seminar. Tim was just as dynamic and exciting as I d hoped he d be, and he encouraged me in my further study of the temperaments.
After all these years of teaching and counseling, I have put together my compilation of Personality Plus temperaments, and I am dedicating this book to Tim LaHaye , who first inspired me. I agree with what he said to me in a letter:
I am more convinced now than when I wrote the book that the fourtemperament theory is the best explanation of human behavior there is.
Thank you, Tim LaHaye, for your encouragement.
FLORENCE LITTAUER
PART ONE Personality Profile A Quick Method of Self-Examination
CHAPTER 1
There s Only One You
Everyone wants a better personality. We all picture ourselves on Fantasy Island, where the ringing of the mission bells transforms us into articulate, attractively attired aristocrats. We no longer trip, fumble, spill, or grope; we converse, captivate, charm, and inspire. When the show is over, we switch off our mind-set and resume our test pattern of life. As we stare at our blank screens, we wonder why our situation comedy was canceled; why we ve been replaced by the new stars who play their roles with confidence; why we seem to be cast as misfits.
We rush off to personality courses that promise to transform us into sparkling wits within twenty-four hours; self-evaluation experiences that will make us into minigods with maxipower; or sensitivity sessions, where we will feel our way into a fantastic future. We go expecting miracles and come home disappointed. We don t fit the mold of the exciting person, bursting with potential, pictured as the norm. We have different drives, abilities, and personalities-and we can t be treated as the same.
No Two Alike
If we were all identical eggs in a carton, a giant mother hen could warm us up and turn us into slick chicks or roving roosters overnight; but we are all different. We were all born with our own set of strengths and weaknesses, and no magic formula works wonders for all of us. Until we recognize our uniqueness, we can t understand how people can sit in the same seminar with the same speaker for the same amount of time and all achieve different degrees of success.
Personality Plus looks at each one of us as an individual blend of the four basic temperaments and encourages us to get acquainted with the real me underneath before trying to change what shows on the surface.
It s What s Underneath That Counts
When Michelangelo was ready to carve the statue of David, he spent a long time in selecting the marble, for he knew the quality of the raw material would determine the beauty of the finished product. He knew he could change the shape of the stone, but he couldn t transform the basic ingredient.
Every masterpiece he made was unique, for even if he had wanted to, he would not have been able to find a duplicate piece of marble. Even if he cut a block from the same quarry, it wouldn t have been exactly the same. Similar, yes, but not the same.
Each One of Us Is Unique
We started out with a combination of ingredients that made us different from our brothers and our sisters. Over the years people have chiseled on us, chipped, hammered, sanded, and buffed. Just when we thought we were finished products, someone would start shaping us up again. Occasionally we d enjoy a day in the park, when everyone who passed by admired us and stroked us, but at other times we were ridiculed, analyzed, or ignored.
We were all born with our own temperament traits, our raw material, our own kind of rock. Some of us are granite, some marble, some alabaster, some sandstone. Our type of rock doesn t change, but our shapes can be altered. So it is with our personalities. We start with our own set of inborn traits. Some of our qualities are beautiful with strains of gold. Some are blemished with fault lines of gray. Our circumstances, IQ, nationality, economics, environment, and parental influence can mold our personalities, but the rock underneath remains the same.
My temperament is the real me ; my personality is the dress I put on over me. I can look in the mirror in the morning and see a plain face, straight hair, and a bulgy body. That s the real me. Gratefully, within an hour I can apply makeup to create a colorful face; I can plug in the curling iron to fluff up my hair; and I can put on a flattering dress to camouflage too many curves. I ve taken the real me and dressed it up, but I haven t permanently changed what s underneath.
If only we could understand ourselves:
Know what we re made of Know who we really are Know why we react as we do Know our strengths and how to amplify them Know our weaknesses and how to overcome them
We can! Personality Plus will show us how to examine ourselves, how to polish up our strengths, and how to chip away our weaknesses. When we know who we are and why we act the way we do, we can begin to understand our inner selves, improve our personalities, and learn to get along with others. We are not going to try to imitate someone else, put on a brighter dress or new tie, or cry over the kind of stone we re made from. We re going to do the very best we can with the raw material available.
In recent years manufacturers have found ways to duplicate some of the classic statues, and in any large gift store you may find dozens of Davids, walls of Washingtons, lines of Lincolns, replicas of Reagan, and clones of Cleopatra. Imitations abound, but there s only one you .
Where Do We Start?
How many of you have a Michelangelo complex? How many of you look at other people as raw material, ready to be carved up by your expert hand? How many of you can think of at least one person whom you could really shape up if only he d listen to your words of wisdom? How anxious is he to hear from you?
If it were possible to remake other people, my husband, Fred, and I would be perfect, for we