In order to quickly find a common language with a new acquaintance, colleague or fellow student, it is enough to know his type of temperament. Such a characteristic describing the peculiarities of the psyche will make it possible to predict a person’s behavior in a given situation. The same problem can make one person upset and give up, and another will give impetus to the struggle and success. Of course, each person is individual, and the differences between two sanguine persons can be much stronger than between melancholic and choleric. However, physical activity, emotionality, introversion and extroversion for each type of temperament differ from others by certain indicators.
Who is that?
The most concise description of choleric can be considered three main features of his character: activity, decisiveness and self-sufficiency. Such a person depends little on the opinions of others, always knows what his goal is, and with perseverance moves towards its achievement. Possessing an unstable nervous system, a person with such a temperament is subject to an abrupt change of mood. In one day, such a person may experience a spiritual upsurge, and working composure, and burning rage, and in the evening he may find signs of upcoming depression. However, such multiple fluctuations allow a person to quickly grasp and assimilate large amounts of new information, to acquire useful skills.
You can often find the definition of choleric as a rapid and aggressive optimist. However, he always approaches serious things from the point of view of the mind, putting a raging sea of emotions in the background. Most often, choleric persons are extroverts who easily and quickly make new acquaintances, like frequent communication with a large number of people. Most often, choleric people become excellent leaders, the souls of their companies and the heads of the family, regardless of gender. However, occasionally among them you can meet and introvert, who prefers to exist alone. This does not mean that a person will be closed, insecure and lonely, but he may prefer small quiet companies and not rush to start a family and children.
Male choleric person 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. In this case, such a leader can easily fall into a rage if his authority is questioned.
Men, whose personality type is characterized as a choleric person, can become real home tyrants, not sparing their loved ones. This often happens when the need for dominance cannot be satisfied in a career or hobby. In the case when the ambitions of a man are satisfied outside the family, he can become the most caring and loving parent.
Such a man persistently achieves the favor of the lady she likes and almost always succeeds in it.
A female choleric person has many qualities that are traditionally attributed to the male sex. This is a high level of aggression, firmness of mind, the desire for power and the ability to quickly solve tasks. Often external fragility and lightness are combined with internal rudeness and stubbornness.Such women are called “general in a skirt”, few men are able to build a strong and long union with them.
Female choleric prefers active admiration and expensive gifts from a 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 spouse from work, warming up dinner. She will climb the career ladder and is sure to achieve success in this. The traditional role of the mother rarely fits a choleric woman, and among them there is a lot of childfree supporter. However, if she has a son or daughter, she can become an excellent friend, mentor, and elder companion to her child, while demanding from him the strict implementation of the rules established by her.
A child choleric is an uncontrollable element that leaves behind chaos and destruction.
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 telling everyone around him that he likes or vice versa. Both boys and girls prefer physical activity to mental activity, therefore they have certain difficulties with studying at school. At the same time, from an early age, children divide others into those that they like and those that they will simply ignore, no matter what attempts to bring them closer together.
Sensitive and active choleric children, despite all their optimism, are often prone to depression and mental disorders during the transitional periods from childhood to adolescence. Parents should try to build an open and trusting relationship with such a child. Choleric subtly feels the lies and injustice, therefore, in vain punishment or deceit can easily undermine his confidence. You should not encourage good marks unmanageable fidget gifts and treats. 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 for new knowledge, you can be interested in its unusual presentation of the material, game training or to offer a competition. Gambling choleric is able to move mountains in order to prove their superiority and win the dispute.
Recognizing choleric in the process of communication is quite simple, just enough of a few meetings. However, the brightest representatives of this type of personality can be defined even by appearance. The whole set of characteristics leaves a definite imprint on the appearance, behavior and lifestyle of the choleric person.
His build is slim and even somewhat thin, his limbs are long and thin. Both men and women look fragile and angular. The skull is tapering upward, like a chicken egg. The oval of the face is rhomb-shaped, with sharp cheekbones, an even high forehead and a pointed chin.
The lower jaw is slightly sloping and tiny. The teeth are usually small and at the same time fairly smooth. The corners of the mouth are raised up, 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 crook. The feet, like the chest, 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 choleric could be dark and painful. Such people rarely have overweight problems, rather, their body weight is below normal. Men are like birds of prey, and women have the snake or black panther’s grace. Choleric, having a high growth, can become professional models, as such angularity of the body, coupled with the smoothness and confidence of the movements look great on the catwalk.
Positive sides
Each characteristic of a choleric person of any gender and age can be considered both his plus and minus, it all depends on the specific situation. Stubbornness easily turns into perseverance, and dominance - responsibility for yourself and others. In various areas of life choleric have many positive qualities that will help them coexist in harmony with themselves and with others.
- Emotions. On the equanimity of choleric people, you can add legends, no one’s opinion can destroy their self-esteem. It helps such people to reach certain heights in any job and any hobby. In addition, such a leader extends his confidence to the team around him, giving people confidence in victory and striving for it. Their changeability allows you to adapt to almost any situation, and willpower and determination will allow you to turn it in the direction necessary for choleric.
- Parenthood and family. Choleric is a powerful but fair parent. Children are drawn to his society, because his bright life and strong emotions are attractive to them. Such a head of the family is able 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 the rest of the family members.
- Job. Most fully the strengths of choleric reveal in conditions of high competition. His high intellect allows you to think big, not to be distracted by insignificant questions and quickly solve tasks. Colleagues choleric point out that he quickly moves from theory to practice, knows how to lure the team and correctly distribute responsibilities within it.
- In friendly relations. With all his love for communication, choleric is a very complete and self-sufficient person since childhood. He appreciates his acquaintances, but he can do very well without their company or approval. The company is often the leader and often takes on organizational issues in travel or fees. Prefers to be frank with one or two trusted people, while remaining rather restrained in communicating with the others.
- Intimate sphere. The sexual temperament of a choleric person directly depends on his emotional state. In periods of activity, both men and women will be passionate lovers who love experiments and feel their partner well. Playful choleric is able to awaken the desire even in the coldest phlegmatic and pull it into their adventures. Both men and women of this type of personality can rarely choose one partner for many years, they prefer freedom and new impressions. Moreover, if their half is sufficiently sensitive and responsive, not too jealous and ready for the obvious flirtation of choleric people with other people, the construction of a long and harmonious relationship is quite possible.
disadvantages
Fully positive and completely negative characters exist only in children's fiction, therefore, every positive quality of choleric person is balanced by a negative one. If we consider the same areas of life, we can note the following features of this type of personality.
- Emotions. Choleric is quick-tempered and powerful; he loves to command and win disputes. Patience is not the main virtue of such men and women, they hardly concede even brute force, do not like emotional and sensitive people and rarely empathize with other people's misfortunes. Their ever-changing mood becomes literally a clockwork, counting down the seconds to another bout of rage or despair. Choleric people often have health problems, as they are constantly in emotional stress.
- Parenthood and family. The demanding choleric of a parent or spouse sometimes passes 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 later write memoirs about difficult childhood and the tyranny of adults. Cholerics who are quick to punish can sometimes punish or shout at their child without understanding the situation. Powerful parents do not like to apologize and do not know how to properly.
- Job. Choleric people do not do well with monotonous routine work, they start to distract from it and as a result make mistakes. They are bad diplomats and negotiators, often put pressure on partners and ignore their words. Colleagues may consider such a man or woman unprincipled, walking on the heads of others in pursuit of the executive chair. The most furious workaholics, ruthless both to themselves and to those around them are made from choleric people.
- In friendly relations. Friend choleric practically does not know how to hear and listen to anyone but himself. He considers his opinion the only correct one, and everyone around him is his property. Even in simple friendly conversations can show excessive aggression and pressure. Prone to adventures, can draw the whole company of friends into trouble, of which only he can get out.
- Intimate sphere. This choleric believes that he gives himself to a partner without reserve and receives too little in return. He is pathologically jealous, while he himself often suffers from intrigues on the side. Changes in mood greatly affect sexual appetite, so it can be both too persistent and too passive. If the choleric person is not in the mood, then the proposals of physical intimacy rejects with sarcasm and ridicule. After quarrels, it is difficult for him to go first to reconciliation and, all the more so, to admit that he was wrong. Scandals choleric prefers to forget and behaves as if nothing happened.
It is easy to leave a bored partner, even if they have common children and a long experience of married life.
Difference from other types of temperament
Choleric personality type differs from other types in a variety of parameters. First, 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 type. For convenience, the main parameters are presented in the form of a table, which allows to compare four bright representatives by their features and behavior.
traits | choleric person | phlegmatic person | sanguine person | melancholic |
Stability of attention and interests. | Low-resistant, easily distracted. At the same time able to be fixed on a single goal, if it considers it important. | Stable in his own interests, capable of performing monotonous and of the same type of work, but has little initiative. | Unsustainable attention, takes up a lot of cases and often throws them. | Sustained attention if the emotional background is calm. |
Aggressiveness, consistency. | High aggressiveness, often enters into verbal skirmishes and does not disdain to use force. | It can easily restrain itself even in stressful situations, almost always calm. | It hides emotions well and is generally peaceful. | Prone to frequent mood swings, depressions and tantrums. |
Patience. | Very weak patience. | Very patient personality. | Average patience, does not like monotony, but is able to withstand it. | Very weak patience, throws the case with the slightest difficulty. |
Sociability. | Poor live with people, sharp in judgments and evaluations. In this case, most often extrovert. | Moderately sociable, prefers a small circle of friends. | Loves big companies, holidays and new acquaintances. | Low social, closed, prone to introversion. |
Adaptation. | Good adaptability. Prefers to change the conditions for themselves. | Slowly gets used to the new and does not like change. | Very high adaptive abilities, changing like a chameleon. | Difficult to adapt in unfamiliar conditions. |
Mood. | Frequent drops and mood swings. | A steady even mood, sometimes there is a slight apathy. | Sustained cheerful mood, quickly and quietly experiencing trouble. | Unsustainable mood, frequent nervous breakdowns. |
Speech and gestures. | Quick speech, loud voice, wide and active gestures. | Smooth speech, low mobility. | Expressive facial expressions and articulation, clear gestures. | Silent confused speech, mimicry and gesticulation are practically absent. |
In ordinary life, to meet pure choleric or phlegmatic is quite difficult. People often combine two or more personality types at the same time.
For example, a person may be prone to mood swings, to become enraged and to love disputes, while at the same time adapting very poorly to a new team or when moving to another housing. In this case, one side of the personality will always prevail over the other, so even in this case it will be possible to determine the leading personality type.
Between themselves, people with different characters can interact as well as constantly argue and quarrel. Sanguine works great and communicates with all other types of personality, while not allowing them to subjugate themselves. Even the choleric aggression he can turn into a funny joke, which will smooth and reduce the intensity of the conversation. Others also like to communicate with the phlegmatic person, which is calm itself. The phlegmatic person himself is nervous from the sudden changes of the interlocutor and prefers not to deal with hysterical melancholic and aggressive choleric.
Choleric friendliness can instantly be replaced by irritation to the emotions of melancholic or slow phlegmatic.
Choleric can work well with a sanguine person, if the latter is in his submission. Two choleric people can rarely get along with each other in peace and harmony. The same can be said about two melancholic people who are able to plunge into the abyss of a nervous breakdown not only of each other, but of all others. Silent and timid melancholic generally prefers to spend time alone and is especially afraid of communication with aggressive and powerful choleric.
Professional activity
Proud and overbearing choleric people prefer either the position of leader or independent work. They do not tolerate control from the side and the need to obey the commands of others. The lively and inquisitive mind of a choleric person loves complex and diverse tasks, a change of scenery and an alternation of mental and physical activity. 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.
- A journalist, photographer, reporter, actor or TV host. Such a profession involves a large circle of friends, diverse tasks and irregular working hours.
- A guide or tour guide will travel a lot and often change the setting.
- A military career is also great for both men and women with a similar personality type.
- Active and motivated people make excellent athletes or trainers.
- Those cholerics who prefer to work with children will find their vocation in the profession of children's animator or organizer of holidays.
- You can build a good career in advertising and PR-management, interior design or clothing, as well as become an excellent artist or composer.
To achieve success in the chosen field, it is worthwhile to 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 in the famous commanders in the history of our country. For example, the Russian commander A. V. Suvorov was a typical representative of choleric persons. According to the memoirs of his contemporaries, he was active, he took on a huge number of cases at the same time, was distinguished by active gestures and loud speech.
Another prominent representative of the choleric temperament was the famous poet and writer A. S. Pushkin. His poems themselves reflect that explosion of emotions that Alexander Sergeevich experienced and splashed onto paper.His expressiveness and aggression ultimately led the poet to a famous duel, in which he died.
V.I. Chapaev - the hero of the Civil War, who had all the signs of choleric. Bright and emotional speech, violent gesticulation, the ability to be in a thousand places at the same time: all this is inherent in people with a similar personality type.
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