Your Personality and Stress

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Your Personality and Stress
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Which Personality Type Are You?

• Are you a stress seeker or a stress avoider?
• How do you perform under stress?
• Is it possible to respond to the normal pressures
  and stress of life with vitality, meaning, and
  joy?
• What kind of lifestyle do you prefer to live
• Rushed
• Relaxed
• Somewhere in between

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Traditional Types

• Type A
• Type B
• Combination of Type A and Type B

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Traditional Types

• Type A
• Emphasize competition and achievement
• Drive to succeed, coupled with impatience,
  irritability, and aggressiveness
• Trouble relaxing
• Perfectionistic
• Feel pressured even when relaxed
• Constant clock watcher
• Their work is never done
• Eats fast, walks fast, talks fast

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Traditional Types

• Type B
• Serious but easy going
• Patient and relaxed
• Prefers a peaceful, steady, quiet, and generally
  tranquil lifestyle
• Not easily irritated
• May appear lethargic, sluggish, and bored
• Avoids stress and new challenges
• Sometimes lacks the excitement, enthusiasm, and
  dynamism needed to perform at peak levels under
  pressure

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A Different Look at Personalities

• The Ambitious Type
• Feel at a loss when youre not doing anything
• You want to start on another activity as soon as
  you have finished one
• You speak fast and aggressive
• Youre responsive to change, but at the same time
  quick to lose your temper for no clear reason

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A Different Look at Personalities

• The Anxious Type
• Experience difficulty in relaxing and appear on
  edge even when things are progressing
  satisfactorily
• Panic easily and feel your world is turned upside
  down if things dont happen as you expect

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A Different Look at Personalities

• The Calm Type
• Feel secure in your present position
• Do work that you like to do and are inclined to
  avoid anything that bears a high risk
• Can give birth to laziness and lack
  responsiveness

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A Different Look at Personalities

• The Non-Caring Type
• Change things unexpectedly in your daily routine
• Often feel bored and that life presents no
  challenges
• Like constant change

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A Different Look at Personalities

• The Doubtful Type
• Sensitive to excessive extent
• Tendency to fall apart easily
• Always thinking about what others will say
• Experience difficulty in expressing your
  innermost feelings except to those who know you
  intimately

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Which one are you?

• What can you do to change who you are?
• What things can get in your way to this change?
• How will you know when change has taken place?