About Personality Academy
Can knowing your personality style lineup increase your emotional intelligence?
Personality Education offers a practical study of human behavior that can help you awaken your sense of self and increase your compassion for others.
It provides a vocabulary that enables you to discuss how you see the world and how you interact with others. It promotes an attitude of curiosity towards understanding others.
Emotional Intelligence is the capability of individuals to use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior to achieve success in life.
Emotional Intelligence is a combination of Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Intelligences as defined by Howard Gardner in his “Theory of Multiple Intelligences”
The first step to increasing emotional intelligence is identifying and labeling one’s own emotions.
It is more challenging than one might believe to clearly identify what you are feeling. With practice, one’s ability to discriminate between different emotions improves.
Then, comes a greater awareness of one’s own and other people’s emotions as circumstances unfold. The next important skill to develop involves relating your emotions to fulfilled or unfulfilled longings, needs, and values. Ultimately, with an increased awareness of emotions and underlying values, one’s aptitude for self-regulation of emotions naturally improves.
You will know you have reached a high level of emotional intelligence when you are able to calmly explain your point of view as a misunderstanding arises and take on an attitude of curiosity towards understanding the other person’s perspective.
Each of the four personality style patterns are defined by a distinct set of driving needs and values that energize behavior.
Since our overall personality is made up of the four personality styles in different amounts, we each have our own unique set of needs and values.
We are typically attracted to situations that are in alignment with our values and we tend to avoid situations that are not in alignment with our values.
Identifying your own personal needs and values can help you navigate life more effectively.
When you recognize that other people also have their own unique set of needs and values that influence their feelings and actions, you’ll be more empathetic toward others and be more understanding of their behavior. Each of us is simply looking to have our needs and values met by our life experiences.
After learning to recognize personality patterns, you will begin to experience people, places, and events in relationship to the four personality styles.
Many people observe that they access each personality style to some degree in the context of different situations. However, one personality style is usually relied upon significantly more and another much less than the others.
You will recognize when you are operating in your top style and when you are accessing the other styles in your lineup.
You will naturally form more realistic expectations of your own behavior and the behavior of others.
When you can observe human behavior in terms of competing needs and values, it becomes easier to know what to do to direct interactions towards a more positive outcome.