Color Your
Future
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Why study
Personality/Temperament
Styles?
• Realize there are other
ways of thinking,
believing, acting and
feeling
• Respect others
• Understand others
• Live and work well with
others
• Accept and tolerate
others
• Celebrate others
Disclaimer
Although, during this presentation,
we may seem to be experts in
personality/temperament styles,
however,…we are only
facilitators!
Temperament’s True Colors
• Orange
Orange
Artisan/Adventurer
• Gold
Gold
Guardian/Defender
• Blue
Blue
Idealist/Counselor
Green
• Green
Rational/Scientist
True Colors
• Before we explore these personality
colors in more detail…
• Let’s take the True Colors Test!
• This is a very limited six question test
– To get a better idea of your color, you might
want to take the Keirsey Temperament
Sorter
True Colors
• What is your primary color?
• How close is your secondary color?
• What about the name of your color
seems most like you?
Artisan
Adventurer
Idealist
Counselor
Guardian
Defender
Rational
Scientist
Orange: Artisan/Adventurer
• Represents energy, potency, power, and strength.
• Has the meaning of desire for adventure and all
forms of appetite and craving.
• Feels the will to achieve results, to win, to be
successful.
• Desires all things that offer intense living and full
experience.
• Generates an impulse toward active doing: Sport
struggle competition
enterprising productivity
• Is the present
Orange: Artisan/Adventurer
at school
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Active
Spontaneous
Carefree
Great Negotiator
Curious
Resourceful
Likes chaos
Multitasker
Great Joker
•Fidgety
•Disorderly
•Not serious
•Scattered
•Cluttered
•Uncontrollable
Test? What test? I forgot!! I had a game last
night!
Rules? Forget the rules! Let’s try it…It’ll be
fun!
Orange: (Artisan/Adventurer)
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Distribution in Population-12-33%
Goals in Life: Fun and Adventure
Likes: Action, Sensation, Fun, Competition
Dislikes: Inaction, being bored, being pinned down, detail,
formality
• What others might dislike about Oranges:
– Can be oblivious to over-all patterns that are apparent to others
– They may seek to stimulate competition that others find burdensome
• Contributions:
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Speedy Troubleshooting
Learn (and sometimes forget) quickly
Ability to negotiate, “angle” a deal
Great in situations that allow physical action, jokes, short-term, high
impact activities
Famous
Artisan/Adventurers
Art/Entertainment/Sports/
Journalism/Literature
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Elvis Presley
Elizabeth Taylor
“Magic" Johnson
Madonna
Hugh Hefner
Johnny Carson
Barbra Streisand
Clint Eastwood
Michael Jordan
Science/Education/Humanities/
Philosophy/Religion
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Politics/Government/Military
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
George S. Patton
Erwin Rommel
Nikita Khrushchev
Boris Yeltzin
Business/Industry/Finance
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John Paul Getty (ESTP)
Donald Trump
Charles Lindbergh (ISTP)
Orange: Artisan/Adventurer
Possible Occupations
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Party Animal
Warrior
Mountain Man
Craftsman
Wild Woman
Joker
Performer
Gold: Guardian/Defender
• The cornerstone
• Represents a need to be responsible, to fulfill duties
and obligations, to organize and structure our life
and that of others.
• Values being practical and sensible. They believe
that people should earn their way in life through
work and service to others.
• Reflects a need to belong through carrying a share
of the load in all areas of living.
• Represents stability, maintenance of the culture and
the organization, efficiency, and dependability.
• Embraces the concepts of home and family with
fierce loyalty and faithfulness.
Gold: Guardian/Defender at
School
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Organized
•Rigid
Rule follower
•System Bound
•Perfect
Efficient
•Predictable
Orderly
•Practical
Good Planner
Goal Oriented
Test: Just tell me exactly what I need
Decisive
Dependable to know…
Rules: We must follow the rules, they
exist to keep order, to maintain safety
and to ensure quality.
Gold: Guardian/Defender
•Distribution in Population-33-50%
•Goals in Life: Security, Acceptance, Authority
•Likes: Structure, Rules, Organization, fulfilling expectations,
details, perfection
•Dislikes: Change, cavalier or careless people, people who flout the
rules, rowdy people
•What others might dislike about Golds:
•Can be interested in establishing order in a way that offends
others
•The Gold way of action may seem too restrictive to others
•Contributions:
•Protector of status quo, tradition
•Good at finding fault with new ideas, methods
•Ability to eliminate “bugs” when developing something new
Gold: Guardian/Defender
Possible Occupations
•Guard
•Banker
•FBI Agent
•Accountant
•Pharmacist
•Dentist
Famous
Guardian/Defenders
Politics/Government/Military
Art/Entertainment/Sports/
Journalism/Literature
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Ed Sullivan
Kareem Abul-Jabbar
Barbara Walters
Dan Rather
Mike Wallace
Science/Education/Humanities/
Philosophy/Religion
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Brigham Young
Thomas Hobbes
Mother Teresa
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George Washington
Woodrow Wilson
Harry S. Truman
Jimmy Carter
Gerald Ford
George Bush
Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Victoria
General Colin Powell
Sandra Day O'Connor
Business/Industry/Finance
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Sam Walton
Ray Kroc
John D. Rockefeller
J C Penny
F W Woolworth
William K Kellogg
Charles Post
J. P. Morgan
Blue: Idealist/Counselor
• Represents calm; physiological tranquility and
psychological contentment.
• Values balance and harmony.
• Prefers life free from tension... They are settled,
united, and secure.
• Represents loyalty and a sense of belonging
• Vulnerable, when friends are involved.
• Corresponds to depth in feeling and a relaxed
sensitivity.
• Characterized by empathy, aesthetic experiences, and
reflective awareness.
Blue: Idealist/Counselor
at school
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Creative
Idealistic
Works for the Cause
Empathetic
Caretaker
Trusting
Harmonious
•Emotional
•Naïve
•Easily duped
•Too nice
•Talks too much
•Ignores policy
•Instigator for the cause
Test: This test question seems a little harsh! I hope
no-one is offended!
Rules: We will follow the rules as long as no person
nor animal is hurt. If the rule causes hurt, we will
organize a movement to change the rule!
Blue: Idealist/Counselor
• Distribution in Population-12-25%
• Goals in Life: Harmony, Good emotions, Using intuition, Know
self better
• Likes: Feelings, harmony between people, spirituality and
imagination, interaction with others
• Dislikes: Strife and discord, those who value rules or ideas
more than people, insensitivity to other’s feelings, or plight,
competition
• What others might dislike about Blues:
– Can be overly sensitive or concerned about other’s feelings
– May seem flaky and governed too much by feelings
• Contributions:
– Especially aware of accepting-attending behavior and note it’s
presence or absence more keenly than others
– Instrumental in creating more harmonious relations in the
workplace and in boosting morale
Blue: Idealist/Counselor
Possible Occupations
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Poet
Actor
Musician
Counselor
Teacher
Prophet
Peace Corps
Famous
Idealist/Counselors
Arts/Entertainment/Sports/
Journalism/Literature
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Jane Fonda
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Shirley MacLaine
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Emily Dickenson
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Oliver Stone
Business/Industry/Finance
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none
Politics/Government/Military
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Mohandas Gandhi
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Vladimir Lenin
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Thomas Paine
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Alexander Hamilton
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Molly Brown "The Unsinkable“
Science/Education/Humanities/
Philosophy/Religion
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Lord Alfred Russel Wallace
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Albert Schweitzer
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Carl Rogers
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Soren Kierkegaard
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Plato
Green: Rational/Scientist
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Expresses itself psychologically as human will in operation: as persistence and
determination.
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An expression of firmness and consistency.
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Strength can lead to a resistance to change if it is not proven that the change
will work or is warranted.
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Values their intellect and capabilities above all else.
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Characteristics seek to increase the certainty of their own values through
being assertive and requiring differences from others in intellectual areas.
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Depend upon information rather than feelings to create a sense of well-being.
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Expresses the grounding of theory and data in its practical applications and
creative constructs.
Green: Rational/Scientist
at School
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Intellectual
Creative
Visionary
Unique
Rational
Critical Thinker
Calm
•Nerdy
•Eccentric
•Devalues relationships
•Controlled
•Methodical
•Requires more information
Test: This test requires nothing more than memorization!
Ask me to think…to solve…to prove!
Rules: I generally walk to the beat of my own drum. I
never follow rules blindly. Prove to me that it is a good
rule. If you can’t, then we seek to abolish it and write a
new one!
Green: Rational/Scientist
• Distribution in Population-10-13%
• Goals in Life: Understand everything, Question everything,
Have novel insights, Independence
• Likes: Thinking, reasoning, Inquiry and questioning
everything, Logic, the “Big Picture”
• Dislikes: Routine, Following illogical instructions or traditions
• What others might dislike about Greens:
– Irritate others by frequently seeing interesting ideas or
directions of development uninteresting to others
– Can become locked into a search for the ultimate perfect
answer
• Contributions:
– Solitary thinkers who scrutinize and question everything in a
hope to build a better idea, organization, mechanism
– Brave, lonely long-distance thinkers who ponder everything and
seek complete understanding and answers
Green: Rational/Scientist
Possible Occupations
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Scientist
Computer genius
Inventor
Scholar
Mathematician
Engineer
Famous Rational/Scientists
Arts/Entertainment/Sports/
Journalism/Literature
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Steve Allen
William F. Buckley
Walt Disney
Mark Twain
Science/Education/Humanities/
Philosophy/Religion
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Albert Einstein
Charles Darwin
Friedrich Nietzsche
Marie Curie
Booker T. Washington
Aristotle
Politics/Government/Military
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Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
Peter the Great
Margaret Thatcher
Business/Industry/Finance
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Bill Gates
Steve Jobs
Buckminster Fuller
Thomas Edison
Steve Wozniak
George Soros
The Shadow and Bright Side
Artisan’s Shadow
Irresponsible or Flaky
Unpredictable
Not Serious
Not interested in Ideas
Guardian’s Shadow
Rigid and Controlling
Dull or boring
System Bound
Artisan’s Bright Side
Fun loving and Lively
Spontaneous and Flexible
Carefree
Hands on
Guardian’s Bright Side
Stable and Dependable
Provides Security
Efficient, Organized
The Shadow and Bright Side
Idealist’s Shadow
Overly emotional
Mushy or Naïve
Bleeding Heart
Rational’s Shadow
Arrogant
Ruthless or Heartless
Don’t care about people
Intellectual snob
Idealist’s Bright Side
Warm
Compassionate
Romantic and Idealistic
Rational’s Bright Side
Usually right
Tough minded
Powerful and efficient
Has deep knowledge, inventor
Is the glass half empty or half full?
• Orange: Are we going to worry about glasses
all day? I’ve got a softball game!
• Gold: Do I have the answer to this question?
No one told me we’d be asked this
question…Will it be on the test?
• Blue: Hmmm, I don’t know…What do you think?
Maybe we should ask the others. By the way,
that is a lovely glass. Did your mother give it
to you?
Is the glass half empty or half full?
Green: Well, due to the irregular shape of the glass, a
guess based on a visual cue would be inaccurate.
Hmmm, why don’t you do this:
Make a mark on the glass (make sure you mark the
bottom of the meniscus),
then pour the contents into another, bigger glass.
Then fill it back up to the mark from the faucet.
Now add the original contents back in.
If the water overflows the lip, the glass was more than
half full. If the water doesn’t come up to the top, the
glass was more than half empty.
References
• Keirsey, D, and Bates, M. (1984). Please Understand
Me. Gnosology Books, Ltd ISBN 0-9606954-0-0
• David Keirsey’s website:Temperament:
Different Drums, Different Drummers
http://keirsey.com/
• William Kirby, Lynn Kirby, Larry Riggs’ website True
Colors
http://www.uwsp.edu/education/wkirby/pluralis/color
s.htm
• Don Lowry’s True Colors website
http://www.truecolors.org/true_colors_story.html