The first step in understanding who you are is to understand your personality. People have been trying to understand what makes us different from one another since before the time of Christ. It was Hippocrates (460 BC – 370 BC) that made the first known study of personality. He held that a person's personality was based on the balance of bodily humours; yellow bile, black bile, phlegm and blood. He meant well, but ended up being very wrong. Since then many other physicians and scientists have studied the emotions, attitudes, and behavior that motivate people.
There are many good tools available for identifying personality. The Enneagram Personality Tests divides the human race into nine behaviors. Myers-Briggs identifies our uniqueness by focusing on four dichotomies. The one I recommend, because it is the most widely used method, and the one used in the GPS Life Purpose Journey, is the DISC Personality Profile. Disk focuses on four personality components:
- Dominance or Drive
- Influence
- Steadiness
- Conscientiousness
