In order to find a common language with a new acquaintance, colleague or fellow student as soon as possible, it is enough to find out his type of temperament. Such a characteristic, which describes the characteristics of the psyche, will make it possible to predict the behavior of a person in a particular situation. The same problem can make one person upset and give up, and the other will serve as an impetus for the struggle and success. Of course, each person is individual, and the differences between the two sanguines can be much stronger than between the melancholic and choleric. However, motor activity, emotionality, introversion and extroversion for each type of temperament differ from the others in certain indicators.
Who is that?
The most concise description of choleric can be considered three main features of his character: activity, determination and self-sufficiency. Such a person is little dependent on the opinions of others, always knows what his goal is, and with tenacity moves towards its achievement. Possessing an unstable nervous system, a person with such a temperament is subject to a sharp change in mood. In one day, such a person can experience a spiritual upsurge, and working spirit, and burning fury, and in the evening find signs of upcoming depression. However, such multiple fluctuations allow a person to quickly grasp and assimilate large volumes of new information, to acquire useful skills.
You can often find the definition of choleric as a fast-moving and aggressive optimist.. However, he always approaches serious things from a position of reason, putting the raging sea of emotions in the background. Most often, choleric are extroverts, who are easily and quickly made new friends, like frequent communication with a large number of people. Most often, choleric people become excellent leaders, souls of their companies and heads of the family, regardless of gender. However, occasionally among them you can find an introvert who prefers to exist alone. This does not mean that a person will be reserved, insecure and lonely, but he can give preference to small quiet companies and not rush to start a family and children.
Male choleric is more aggressive and dominant. They make excellent leaders, military and politicians who are demanding not only to others, but also to themselves. They prefer to communicate with people who do not show strong emotions. Moreover, such a leader can easily become furious if his authority is questioned.
Men whose personality type is characterized as choleric can become real domestic tyrants who do not spare their loved ones. This often happens when the need for dominance cannot be satisfied in a career or hobby. In the event that the man’s ambitions are satisfied outside the family, he can become the most caring and loving parent.
Such a man stubbornly achieves the favor of the lady he liked and almost always succeeds in this.
Female choleric has many qualities that are traditionally attributed to the male sex. This is a high level of aggression, fortitude, the desire for power and the ability to quickly solve problems. Often external fragility and lightness are combined with internal rudeness and stubbornness. Such women are called the "general in a skirt", few men are able to build a strong and lasting alliance with them.
Female choleric prefers active admiration and expensive gifts from the gentleman, while she wants to play the role of lead violin in a relationship. Such a girl will not sit at home and wait for her husband from work, warming up dinner. She will climb the career ladder and will certainly achieve success in this. The traditional role of the mother is rarely suitable for the choleric woman, and among them there are many adherents of childfree. However, if she has a son or daughter, she can become a great friend, mentor and senior companion to her child, while demanding that he clearly follow the rules established by her.
The choleric child is an uncontrollable element that leaves chaos and destruction behind itself.
He practically does not sit in one place, it is difficult to interest him in reading or drawing. The kid reacts very violently to any external changes, loudly informing everyone around him that he likes or vice versa. Both boys and girls prefer physical activity to mental activity, so they have certain difficulties with learning at school. At the same time, from an early age, children divide those around them into those that they like and those that they will simply ignore, no matter what attempts they make towards rapprochement.
Sensitive and active children of choleric, in spite of all their optimism, during transitional periods from childhood to adolescence are often susceptible to depression and mental disorders. Parents need to try to build an open and trusting relationship with such a child. Choleric subtly feels lies and injustices, so in vain punishment or deceit can easily undermine his confidence. Good grades of unmanageable fidgets with gifts and goodies should not be encouraged. This can lead to the fact that the child learns to accept all human relations in the form of commodity-market ones. In order to instill in him a love of new knowledge, you can be interested in his unusual presentation of material, game training or offer a competition.Gambling choleric is able to roll mountains in order to prove their superiority and win the dispute.
Recognizing a choleric in the process of communication is quite simple, just a few meetings are enough. However, the brightest representatives of this type of personality can be determined even by appearance. The entire set of characteristics leaves a certain imprint on the appearance, behavior and choleric lifestyle.
His physique is slim and even somewhat thin, his limbs are long and thin. Both men and women look fragile and angular. The skull tapers up like a chicken egg. The oval of the face is rhomboid, with sharp cheekbones, an even high forehead and a pointed chin.
The lower jaw is slightly sloping and miniature. The teeth are most often small and quite even. The corners of the mouth are raised, while the lips themselves are thin and pale. The most prominent part of the face is a large predatory nose, which can be slightly bent down and even have a hump. The feet, like the rib cage, are narrow, and the neck of the choleric is long and thin.
If it were not for the frequent smile and radiant calm eyes, the appearance of the choleric could be gloomy and painful. Such people rarely have problems with being overweight, rather, their body weight is below normal. Men are like birds of prey, and women have the grace of a snake or black panther. Choleric people with high growth can become professional models, since such body angularity, coupled with smoothness and confidence of movements, look great on the catwalk.
Positive side
Each characteristic of choleric of any gender and age can be considered as its plus or minus, it all depends on the specific situation. Stubbornness easily turns into perseverance, and domination into responsibility for oneself and others. In various areas of life, choleric people have many positive qualities that will help them coexist in harmony with themselves and with others.
- Emotions Legends can be made up about the equanimity of choleric people; no one's opinion can destroy their self-esteem. This helps such people reach certain heights in any work and any hobby. In addition, such a leader extends his confidence to the team around him, instilling in people faith in victory and the desire for it. Their variability allows you to adapt to almost any situation, and willpower and determination will allow you to turn it in the direction necessary choleric.
- Parenthood and family. Choleric is an imperious, but fair parent. Children are drawn to his society, as his vibrant life and strong emotions are attractive to them. Such a head of the family knows how to correctly distribute the duties and rights of his small "state". He finds a way out of any difficult situation and stimulates the activity of other family members.
- Job. Choleric strengths are most fully revealed in conditions of high competition. His high intelligence allows you to think big, not be distracted by minor issues and quickly solve problems. Colleagues of the choleric note that he is quickly moving from theory to practice, he is able to lure the team and correctly distribute responsibilities within it.
- On friendly terms. For all his love of communication, choleric is a very integral and self-sufficient person since childhood. He appreciates his acquaintances, but can perfectly do without their company or approval. The company most often is a leader and often takes on organizational issues during trips or training camps. He prefers to be frank with one or two trusted people, while remaining rather reserved in communicating with the rest.
- Intimate sphere. The sexual temperament of a choleric is directly dependent on his emotional state. During periods of activity, both men and women will be passionate lovers who love experimenting and feel good about their partner.The playful choleric is able to wake up a desire even in the coldest phlegmatic and pull it into his adventures. Both men and women of this type of personality can rarely choose one partner for many years, they prefer freedom and new experiences. Moreover, if half of them will be sensitive enough and responsive, not too jealous and ready for the obvious flirting of choleric with other people, then building a long and harmonious relationship is quite possible.
disadvantages
Completely positive and completely negative characters exist only in children's fiction, so each positive quality of a choleric is balanced by negative. If we consider the same areas of life, we can note the following features of this type of personality.
- Emotions Choleric quick-tempered and domineering, he loves to command and win in debate. Patience is not the main virtue of such men and women; they hardly yield even to brute force, do not like emotional and sensitive people and rarely empathize with other people's troubles. Their ever-changing mood becomes literally a clockwork, counting down the seconds until the next fit of rage or despair. Choleric people often have health problems, as they are constantly in emotional stress.
- Parenthood and family. Demanding choleric parent or spouse sometimes goes beyond reasonable boundaries. In pursuit of the success of children, they often ignore the feelings of a son or daughter, lose their trust and love. Children of such parents often become famous athletes, who then write memoirs about a difficult childhood and the tyranny of adults. Cholerics quick to kill can sometimes punish or scream at their child, not understanding the situation. Powerful parents do not like to apologize and do not know how to properly.
- Job. Choleric people do poorly with monotonous routine work, begin to be distracted from it, and as a result make mistakes. They are bad diplomats and negotiators, often put pressure on partners and ignore their words. Colleagues can consider such a man or woman unprincipled, walking over other people's heads in pursuit of a leadership chair. The most violent workaholics, ruthless both to themselves and to others are obtained precisely from choleric.
- On friendly terms. A friend choleric practically does not know how to hear and listen to anyone but himself. He considers his opinion to be the only true one, and everyone around him as his property. Even in simple friendly conversations can show excessive aggression and pressure. Prone to adventures, can drag the whole company of friends into trouble, from which only he can get out.
- Intimate sphere. The real choleric believes that he gives himself to the partner without a trace and receives too little in return. He is pathologically jealous, while he himself often sins with intrigues on the side. Changes in mood greatly affect sexual appetite, so it can be either too persistent or too passive. If the choleric is not in the mood, then rejects offers of physical proximity with sarcasm and ridicule. After quarrels, it’s hard for him to be the first to reconcile and even more so to admit that he was wrong. Choleric chooses to forget scandals and behaves as if nothing had happened.
It easily leaves a bored partner, even if they have common children and a long experience of married life.
Unlike other types of temperament
The choleric personality type differs from other types in many ways. Firstly, it is high emotionality and aggressiveness. However, besides them, there are still some nuances that make it possible to reveal that the interlocutor is more of a choleric type than a sanguine or melancholic one. For convenience, the main parameters are presented in the form of a table that allows you to compare four bright representatives by their features and behavior.
character traits | choleric | phlegmatic person | sanguine | melancholic |
Sustainability of attention and interests. | Weak-resistant, easily distracted. At the same time, it can be fixed on one target, if it considers it important. | Stable in their interests, capable of performing monotonous and of the same type of work, but little initiative. | Volatile attention, takes up a lot of cases and often throws them. | Steady attention in the event that the emotional background is calm. |
Aggressiveness, endurance. | High aggressiveness, often enters into verbal fights and does not hesitate to use force. | It can easily restrain itself even in stressful situations, it is almost always calm. | It hides emotions well and is generally peaceful. | Prone to frequent mood swings, depression and tantrums. |
Patience. | Very weak patience. | Very patient personality. | Medium patience, does not like monotony, but is able to withstand it. | Very weak patience, gives up at the slightest difficulty. |
Sociability. | He gets along poorly with people, is sharp in judgments and estimates. In this case, most often an extrovert. | Moderately sociable, prefers a small circle of acquaintances. | He loves big companies, holidays and new acquaintances. | Uncommunicative, closed, prone to introversion. |
Adaptation. | Good adaptability. Prefers to change the conditions for themselves. | Slowly getting used to the new and does not like change. | Very high adaptive ability, changing like a chameleon. | It is difficult to adapt to unfamiliar conditions. |
Mood. | Frequent swings and sudden changes in mood. | Steady steady mood, sometimes there is a slight apathy. | Steady cheerful mood, quickly and calmly experiencing trouble. | Unstable mood, frequent nervous breakdowns. |
Speech and gestures. | Fast speech, loud voice, wide and active gestures. | Smooth speech, low mobility. | Expressive facial expressions and articulation, clear gestures. | Quiet confused speech, facial expressions and gestures are practically absent. |
In ordinary life, meeting pure choleric or phlegmatic people is quite difficult. People often combine two or more types of personality in themselves.
For example, a person may be subject to frequent changes in mood, become furious and love disputes, while it is very poor to adapt in a new team or when moving to another house. Moreover, one side of the personality will always prevail over the other, so even in this case it will be possible to determine the leading type of personality.
Between themselves, people with different characters can both perfectly interact, and constantly argue and quarrel. Sanguine works great and communicates with all other types of personality, while not allowing them to subordinate themselves. He can even turn the aggression of a choleric into a funny joke, which will smooth and reduce the intensity of the conversation. Others also like to communicate with a phlegmatic person, which is peace of mind. The phlegmatic himself is nervous at the same time from the sudden changes of the interlocutor and prefers not to communicate with hysterical melancholic and aggressive choleric.
The affability of a choleric can instantly be replaced by irritation with the emotions of a melancholic or a leisurely phlegmatic.
Choleric can work well with a sanguine person if the latter is in his submission. Two choleric can rarely get along with each other in peace and harmony. The same can be said of two melancholic people who are able to plunge into the abyss of a nervous breakdown not only of each other, but of everyone around them. A quiet and timid melancholic generally prefers to spend time alone and is especially afraid of communicating with an aggressive and domineering choleric.
Professional activity
Proud and powerful choleric people prefer either the position of leader or independent work. They poorly tolerate outside control and the need to obey other people's teams. The lively and inquiring mind of a choleric loves complex and diverse tasks, changing the environment and alternating mental and physical activities.And the worst enemies of such men and women are stability and monotony.
The modern world offers choleric people of both sexes a wide field for self-realization. There are many professions in which such active and emotional people will feel in their place.
- Journalist, photographer, reporter, actor or television host. Such a profession involves a large circle of communication, diverse tasks and irregular working hours.
- A guide or guide will travel a lot and often change the atmosphere.
- A military career is also perfect for both men and women with this type of personality.
- Active and motivated people make excellent athletes or coaches.
- Those choleric people who prefer to work with children will find their calling in the profession of a children's animator or holiday organizer.
- You can build a good career in advertising and PR management, interior or clothing design, and also become an excellent artist or composer.
To get success in your chosen field, you should abandon quiet work with monotonous work of the same type, frequent communication with emotional people in stressful situations and animals.
Famous representatives
Almost pure choleric temperament can often be found among famous military leaders in the history of our country. For example, the Russian commander A.V. Suvorov was a typical representative of choleric. According to the memoirs of his contemporaries, he was active, took up a huge number of cases at the same time, was distinguished by active gesticulation and loud speech.
Another prominent representative of choleric temperament was the famous poet and writer A.S. Pushkin. His poems themselves reflect the explosion of emotions that Alexander Sergeevich experienced and splashed onto paper. His expressiveness and aggression eventually led the poet to the famous duel, on which he died.
V. I. Chapaev is a hero of the Civil War, possessing all the signs of choleric. Bright and emotional speech, violent gestures, the ability to be in a thousand places at the same time: all this is inherent in people with a similar type of personality.
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