I Took the "What Temperament Am I?" Quiz And This Is What I Got

Your Result: Choleric (Fire)

You enjoy socializing with friends and are very creative. 

You are often the leader or organizer of events, parties or meetings between friends. Your energy can fire-up events and people but you can also burn-up those around you with your intensity.

An affirmation for you would be:

• A lift of joy in the times of trouble
• The touch of innocence in a jaded era
• The word of wit when we’re weighted down
• The lift of humor when we’re heavyhearted
• The ray of hope to blow away our black clouds
• The enthusiasm and energy to start over and over again
• The creativity to charm and color a drab day
• The simplicity of a child in a complex situation.

I took two quizzes in Facebook today, and both described me as having a choleric temperament type. So I researched further and found this in www.womenbygrace.com:

• You are a born leader, dynamic and active and have a compulsive need for change.
• You often feel that you must correct wrongs.
• You are strong-willed and decisive, independent and self-sufficient.
• You are not easily discouraged and can be unemotional when necessary.
• You are capable of running anything and exude confidence.
• You are an expert in exerting sound leadership, establishing goals and able to motivate the family in to action.
• You always know the right answer and organize the household.
• You are very goal oriented, see the whole picture and organize well.
• You seek practical solutions to problems and move quickly to action.
• You delegate work but insist on productivity.
• You make the goals, stimulate activity and thrive on opposition.
• You have little need for friends and will work for group activity.
• You often lead from the front, organize and are usually right.
• You excel during emergencies.

Your personality weaknesses

• You can be bossy and impatient.
• You are quick tempered, can’t relax and can be too impetuous.
• You enjoy controversy and arguments and won’t give up when losing.
• You can come on too strong, are inflexible and uncomplimentary.
• You dislike tears and emotions and are generally unsympathetic.
• You tend to over dominate, are too busy for your family and will often give answers too quickly.
• You are impatient with poor performance and won’t let children relax if you have any. You are likely to send them in to depression.
• You have little tolerance for mistakes, however, you don’t analyze details yourself, are bored by trivia and can often make rash decisions.
• You can be rude and tactless and often manipulate people.
• You are demanding of others and believe that the end justifies the means.
• Work may become the driving force in your life and you demand loyalty in the ranks.
• You tend to use people and dominate others.
• You make decisions on other people’s behalf and you know everything.
• You can do everything better, are too independent and are overly possessive of friends and mate.
• You can’t say your sorry and, although you may often be right, you can become unpopular.

Then I found this in www.fourtemperaments.com:

The Choleric is an extroverted, hot-tempered, quick thinking, active, practical, strong-willed and easily annoyed person. Cholerics are self-confident, self-sufficient and very independent minded. They are decisive and opinionated and find it easy to make decisions for themselves as well as others. Cholerics tend to leave little room for negotiating. The Choleric is a visionary and seems to never run out of ideas, plans and goals, which are usually very practical. The Choleric does not require as much sleep as the other temperaments so their activity seems endless. Their activity almost always has a purpose because they are by nature result-oriented. They usually do not give in to the pressure of what others think unless they see that they cannot get the desired results. Cholerics can be crusaders against social injustice as they love to fight for a cause. Cholerics are both direct and firm when responding to others. They are slow to build relationships because results tend to be more important than people. They do not easily empathize with the feelings of others or show compassion. Cholerics think big and seek positions of authority.

Golly! I realized I am all that. Is it a bad thing? I don't think so. Maybe my personality weaknesses will make me more aware that I need to stop being like that. Or at least try to shed some of them off. A great eye-opener, if I may say so.