Know Your Personality and Understand the Personalities of Others

Definition of personality

The word "personality" comes from the Latin "persona," meaning an actor's mask. Actors wore these masks to play different roles. This shows how a person can change their image to fit a role.

From a psychological view, personality is what makes a person unique. It includes their reactions to the world around them. It's a mix of traits, emotions, and motivations that define who we are.

Personality Patterns

Our genes and upbringing shape our personality. The environment and culture also play a big role. Knowing personality patterns helps predict how someone will act in different situations.

Personality Patterns and How to Deal with Them

Studying personality patterns helps us understand ourselves and others. It reveals our strengths and weaknesses. This knowledge can lead to success and self-awareness.

Psychology has many ways to classify personalities. Some focus on internal traits, while others use systems like Myers-Briggs. These classifications help us understand different personality types.

The suspicious or skeptical personality

This type is always cautious and suspicious of others. They are:

Always looking for hidden meanings and motives. They are tense and cautious in social situations.

They often doubt themselves and others. Making decisions is challenging for them. They live in fear of betrayal.

They are hard to trust and hold grudges. Dealing with them requires honesty and clear communication. It's important to show them the beneficial intentions of others.

The naive personality

This type is trusting and gullible. They are:

Blind trust without seeing who deserves it and not expecting evil or harm from others.

Not realizing the important opportunities available in his surroundings and neglecting to pay attention to them.

Complete submission to others, so that the individual is guided intellectually and behaviorally, in addition to the speed of being convinced by the opinions of others and the quick abandonment of personal opinions and trends.

Excessive forgiveness occurs when exposed to abuse and error on a permanent and continuous basis without relying on a moral or religious principle and accepting comments and criticism, even if they are unfair and incorrect.

Constantly speaking frankly is not desirable and exaggerated, which gives the individual an undesirable image.

It is recommended to deal with him in the following ways:

It is better to expose the owners of this personality to new experiences and experiments, assign him some difficult tasks, encourage him to perform them, and bring out his full capabilities and talents.

Not to interfere in the details of his life, and help him gradually rely on himself by expanding his horizons through reading, culture, and trying to change his environment, and integrating him with a more effective and influential environment in him.

Help him discover himself, his abilities, and his talents, so that he becomes an individual capable of achievement and confident in himself.

Emotional personality

This personality is characterized by the following:

This personality is characterized by sensitivity and strong emotion, so that this emotion affects the individual and controls him during the process of making important decisions.

Due to its interest in others' emotions, this personality wins over others.

Quietly withdrawing from different situations while avoiding insulting others around him, in addition to loving to attend social occasions.

Caring for others and trying to please them, and this personality is dominated by kindness, softness, and tenderness, and staying away from disputes and conflicts and aversion to them, as it is possible to hurt the emotional feelings of the person easily.

This style can be dealt with through the following methods:

Avoid ambiguity and severity in dealing, listen and show interest while talking, and avoid the authoritarian and harsh style while talking to him so that he does not lose his trust in others.

Not coercing and forcing someone to carry out a specific task or achieve a specific goal immediately and quickly.

Show interest in him and his feelings, and speak to him with personal, close words that touch his heart and emotions.