Personality Plus Ch 3

Popular Sanguine Temperament

• Characteristics: Joyful, innocent, witty, humorous, optimistic, enthusiastic, creative, simple, emotional, demonstrative, love to be with people. See excitement in all experiences, repeat events in colorful descriptions.

Popular Sanguine Children

• Early Traits: Innately seek fun and games, inquisitive and cheerful from a young age. Play with anything, laugh, coo, and enjoy people.
• Example: Marita, the author's daughter, had an impish look, creative talent (coloring the walls), and a delightful sense of humor from infancy. Developed into a media publicist, author, and speaker.

Appealing Personality

• Charisma: Popular Sanguines draw people in with their bubbly personalities and natural charisma. They often have groups of admirers.
• Example: Marita created an elaborate city play with plastic bricks and money, attracting children to play.

Talkative, Storyteller

• Circumstantial & Forgetful: Have difficulty remembering details, objects (e.g., cars), and places. Have short memories.
• Helpfulness as a weakness: Can inadvertently attract unwanted attention through their friendly nature and colorful stories (losing a car in a multi-story car park).
• Attracts attention through storytelling: Popular Sanguines turn everyday events into stories making them appear more exciting than they actually are.

Life of the Party, Memory for Color

• Center of Attention: Desire to be the center of attention and have colorful and dramatic stories to tell.
• Strong memory for colorful details: Excellent at remembering colorful details of events (clothes, unique situations) but not names, dates, facts.
• Example: Author’s personal experience of losing a car in a multi-story parking garage, and attracting helpful strangers, whom she later regaled with her colourful account of the event.

Enthusiastic and Expressive

• Emotional & Demonstrative: Optimistic and enthusiastic about most things. Express their emotions openly. Move, jump, wave, and wiggle during conversations, demonstrations, and activities.
• Example: Author's description of an enthusiastic pastor who jigged during his sermon, and of a hair dresser who maintained enthusiasm despite the problems from customers.

Curious

• "Know Everything" Desire: Always curious and want to know everything, investigate unknown things. It often gets them into trouble or unexpected situations.
• Example: Curious woman who climbed onto a roof during a reshingling job.
• Example: A Popular Sanguine child, given the task to prepare coffee but forgot to plug in the machine.

Always a Child

• Childlike Simplicity: Retain childlike ways and simplicity even into their adulthood. Prefer the world of make-believe.
• Avoidance of Responsibility: Often avoid settling down and taking on responsibilities

Volunteers for Jobs

• Commitment and Follow-Through: Love to volunteer but often fail to follow through with the task.
• Example: Personal anecdote of a Popular Sanguine who volunteered to prepare coffee but forgot to plug in the coffee pot.

Creative and Colorful

• Innovative ideas: Constantly come up with creative and colorful ideas for events and projects.
• Example: The author's Halloween party, which involved orange juice punch in crystal cups, floats and costumes, leading to an unexpected incident with juice and candy pumpkins.

Inspires and Charms Others

• Motivational Leaders: Can inspire and motivate others to work and make them enjoy doing it. Often the idea-starter but need someone to finish the task.
• Example: Ron's ability to inspire his fellow troops with a talent show, and effectively avoiding work tasks during the Korean War.

Makes Friends Easily

• Outgoing and Friendly: Make friends easily. Start conversations with anyone.
• Example: Conversation started in a checkout line about a church supper's bread.
• Example: Making friends in the store's ladies' room and aiding a distraught bride.

Seems Exciting

• Turning Simple into Spectacular: Unconscious effort to embellish any simple task into an exciting experience, regardless of whether or not it truly is engaging for other people.
• Example: A desk clerk in American Airlines narrating the life histories of Hollywood stars.

Important Note:

• The temperament is not about intelligence. Popular Sanguines do not have less intelligence than other temperaments.
• There are downsides to having enthusiasm and seeking to be the center of attention.

Quotes

• Proverbs 17:22 GNB (the only quote that is actually included in the text in question): Being cheerful keeps you healthy….

Explore the characteristics and traits of the popular sanguine temperament. Learn how these individuals express their joy, creativity, and charisma, especially in children. Discover examples of behaviors and personality traits that define the sanguine personality type.