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One aspect of "who you are" is your personality. Your personality is made up of the unique patterns of thought and behavior acquired over a lifetime. All you have to do is look around you to know that people have different personalities. I've been immersed in personality research for more than 20 years. The main result of this work is the brain-based, non-typing personality test called MindFrames, which is featured on my website, Initforlife.com. This instrument helps a person discover the basic elements of his or her personality online in about ten minutes. Because I've been involved in this technology for so long, I'm always surprised when I meet people who don't want to know about themselves, though I'm sure they have legitimate personal reasons. They don't know, and they don't want to know. They probably haven't considered the benefits of knowing about their personality. First, self-awareness gives you control. When you know your own habits of mind, you can make use of them in a conscious, deliberate way. You can identify and make the most of your strengths, and you can find ways to work around the less-emphasized aspects of your personality. Second, self-awareness helps you connect with others. The differences in people make relationships rich and interesting, but they also can lead to conflicts. One of the great barriers to compatibility and harmony is that we're sometimes surprised and irritated when others don’t think and act the way we do. When you’re aware of your own patterns and the patterns of others, you can appreciate the differences as strengths, enjoy them and use them to your advantage. You can think of ways to complement your weaker areas with their strengths, and visa-versa. You can also make an effort to stretch into their comfort zones to make interacting with them easier and more effective. All these ways of being more effective and improving relationships depend on being aware of your own personality tendencies—and the patterns of others.
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Dennis E. Coates is CEO of Performance Support Systems, author of MindFrames, a brain-based personality assessment system (www.initforlife.com) and co-founder of the Train-to-Ingrain alliance (www.train-to-ingrain.com, info@train-to-ingrain.com, 800-488-6463), which delivers a reinforcement-centered approach to learning and development that achieves permanent, measurable improvements in workplace behavior and positive impacts on business results.
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