Trying to Understand My Personality

In the words of Soren Kierkegaard: “Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.” There are many different people in the world. Everyone has a different personality that makes him/her unique. The tenth grade class at Presbyterian Christian School took an academic test and three personality test to discover potential future careers. ACT Incorporated developed the PLAN to show our estimated ACT score, and the possible careers we would do the best in. We also took three personality tests to discover our true personality. KRB Consulting Company made a test where we rate ourselves according the adjectives that best describe us. The second test we took was “The Colors of Careers”, given to us by the assistant to the president of Jones County Junior College, Gwen Magee. The final test we took was the “Jung Typology Test”. The purpose of this paper is to discover the differences in our personalities and the careers that follow our certain personality.

The results of the PLAN gives us the estimated ACT score and our college readiness. My composite score was an eighteen. Although I want to score better, I was above the benchmark scores for the tenth grade in English and science. My reading and mathematics are below the benchmark scores. My scores were English, seventeen; mathematics, eighteen; reading, seventeen; and science, twenty-one. All together my estimated ACT composite score range is between a nineteen to twenty-three (ACT Incorporated).

The PLAN is a test that shows our potential careers. The career I chose when I took the test was health care. The PLAN gave me the result “region 99”, which means I could choose any of the careers I want. With the results of the PLAN, I still want to be in the health care ...

... middle of paper ...

...n be traced back as far as four hundred sixty B.C. Mary Miscisin, author of Showing Our True Colors, says, “It is interesting to note that the discernment of four groupings is a common theme that connects many of the most predominant personality theories.” During the nineteen twenties, Carl Jung expressed his opinion after years of research. He says there were four categories, feeling, thinking, sensation, or intuition. He says these categories were innate and the culture a person grows up in also influences personality. Don Lowry studied the various meaning associated with colors. He then carefully chose the colors that resembled the characteristics they would represent. Hippocrates observed people and saw that there are four different approaches to life, phlegmatic, choleric, melancholic, and sanguine. These all have differences, but can also be compared (1-4).