Phoebe's PLJ" began as a project for my Freshman English class when we were reading Daniel Pink's "A Whole New Mind". The purpose of the PLJ or Personal Learning Journal was to blog our thoughts on a selection of Pinks exercises throughout his book. I just recently came across this, today in fact. I was looking up creativity blogs on the internet, looking for some inspiration to do, well, anything. As I was reading through them I realized that creativity blogs are no more than random thoughts and tidbits of a persons creative, spiritual, and emotional journey through time. I have decided to make this PLJ not only a personal learning journal, but also my very own Personal Learning JOURNEY, my version of a creativity blog. With that I shall let the journey begin. No, not begin, resume with the journal as my witness.

1/9/08

Personal Brain Assessment

from the moment i began to take the "Personality Puzzle" created by Marita and Florence Littauer i could guess wich two sections i would fall into. In short the two were the Popular Sanguine or the poplar, easy-going, talkative, bubbly personality, or the strong, dominant, and bossy Powerful Choleric. I of course ended up ion the latter. I would deffinitly say it fits, as much as the dissappoints me. As a powerful choleric, some of my strengths include being dynamic, active, decisize, independant and strong-willed. The more i thouhgt about those as my strengths, the more acurate they seemed to become. I tend to be a very independant person and i like to get things done my way, under my control.


This self-sufficent and immensly competative side of me very quickly bacome part of my life at age 5. At this time i began taking my first figure skating lessons. This oppened a whole new world for me, and i soon became emmersed in the sport. I got my first taste of competition 2 years later, and i was hooked. From then on competition became my drug. I would look for the competition in everything, and even instigate conflict in daily life in order to satisfy the need for competition. And this brings me to one of the main weaknesses demonstrated by the powerful choleric personality, over competetive. Recently ive realized that ive sabatoged alot of relationships by this need for conflict, and the incentive to manipulate people. I've been working hard on not doing such nearly as much recently though.

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