Learn About Your Personality and Interests

Learn About Your Personality and Interests is Part Seven of Discover U in Ten Steps and part of a self-assessment to uncover hidden talents. Find a free printable self-assessment form at the Brand and Purpose Toolkit.

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When you explore personality types and interests you can gain insight into yourself and others, and match with a compatible career choice.

PERSONALITY-tendencies toward personality type or trait.

• Myers-Briggs personality types can help in choosing careers, communication, and understanding motivation. The 16 types are combinations of Extraversion or Introversion, Judging or Perceiving, Thinking or Feeling, and Sensing or Intution. See also the Myers-Briggs Pinterest board.
• Delve Into DISC. Marston’s DISC types are: Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, Conscientiousness. See the DISC Pinterest Board.

The chart below explores the connection between Myers-Briggs and DISC personality types.

Download a free printable pdf with information about MyersBriggs and DISC

More options to explore personality include:

• Dr. Kiersey identified four temperaments: Artisan, Guardian, Idealist, Rational. These can help to match to a career. A graphic that combines Kiersey temperaments with Myers-Briggs is at adioma.
• The Big Five includes Extroversion, Openness, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Neuroticism. The Big Five compared to Myers-Briggs at PersonalityJunkie.
• Archetypes at Press Play for an Appealing Brand Message.
• TED talks: Your Personality and Your Brain by Scott Schwefel, The Puzzle of Personality by Brian Little.
• Personality types based on brain dominance and energy focus from David Borchard, author of “Will the Real You Stand Up?”
• Find tools to explore personality and interests at the Discover U Toolkit Wakelet.

INTERESTS are activities that you enjoy. What kind of articles and books do you like to read? What’s in your computer files and bookmarks? What apps are on your cellphone? These things indicate your interests.

• John Holland’s personality types reveal interests. They are: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional. A graphic that combines Holland Codes with Myers-Briggs is at personalityjunkie.
• Holland Code Pinterest Board
• Holland Code Type – Assessment at CareerOneStop, and Quiz at roguecc.edu

Find careers that are a good match for Myers-Briggs types and career clusters that match your Holland Code type.

This is part of a self-assessment to uncover hidden talents.

Discover U in Ten Steps

1. Discover your heroes
2. Identify your strengths
3. Explore your skills
4. Examine your beliefs
5. Look at your values
6. Develop a mission statement
7. Learn about your personality and interests
8. Think about your talents and dreams
9. Tell your story
10. Express yourself

Brand and Purpose Toolkit at Resources

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