Understanding Your Personality and Mindset - Lesson 15

Dr. Chuck Coker
Understanding Your Personality and Mindset
pc312-15
Identifying Your Mindsets
Lesson Transcript

[00:00:00] It's time to wrap up our mindsets conclusion, and I wanted to make sure that we cover a couple things that will help you identify your mindsets and how those will fit with the people that you interact with. 

[00:00:17] So if you'd move to your page in the study guide, you will find some boxes across the top of the page. What I'd like for you to do is underneath the listing of each one of the mindsets fill in your scores. This way you can identify your priorities as an objective, subjective or belief-oriented thinker. It's going to help you achieve what has been ordained by God for you before the foundation of the Earth. And it will also help you focus on the type of jobs that you enjoy most as you walk your walk through life. So underneath the boxes where you have your scores, add your objective scores together, your subjective scores together, and your belief scores together, and then identify which one is highest. So you can see where your natural default is going to be and how you will need to work and adapt with other people during this process. 

[00:01:36] Then on the next page. I would like for you to consider your history. What I'd like for you to do is list three jobs that in your lifetime you've really enjoyed, and then two things that you feel best about that job. What did you really like? And then what are the things that you might not have liked so much? And then keep the score implication based on how you feel personally. So as you do that, what you're going to find is your own explanation of what the graphics are actually telling you. So as you finish that out, you're going to have some answers that are going to help you identify, number one, where you are personally. But also when we interact with other people, how you are going to have to adapt, because that's very much the most important part of understanding yourself. When we first started this process, we talked about the whole concept of self-awareness. The premise of having that self-awareness is so that you can self-regulate the second step in emotional intelligence, and that will allow you to become what other people need to hear. 

[00:03:24] So let's take just a moment and take you back to what I promised earlier in this process. And that is what question can you ask anybody that you've met for the first or second time and you don't know them very well to find that road that will take you to a much quicker relationship and a level of intimacy with that person? So here's the question What do you enjoy doing in your time off? Or tell me about your hobbies or interest. And so, Ed, I'd like for you to share with me your answer to that question so that we can then begin to define where your mindsets are. 

[00:04:17] I like to ride my bicycle on the trails around our house. 

[00:04:23] And do you enjoy doing that by yourself, or would you prefer to have other people with you? 

[00:04:29] I like doing it with other people. 

[00:04:31] Good. So what do we know about Ed's mindsets? Well, first of all. He enjoys doing it with other people. So we know that this there's a social skills and a traditional skills because he wants to do it with his family and friends. So we know that those scores are elevated, but we also know that he is getting his exercise. In other words, he's investing his time and energy in building his health. So we know that there is probably at least a reasonably elevated utilitarian because he's doing that exercise to build his health. So when we think about where it is going, we know that he has probably got the developmental aspects of both social and traditional, but also the utilitarian skill sets. So I'd now like to ask you, Bill, tell me what you enjoy doing in your off time or your hobbies and interest. 

[00:05:48] I like finishing off my to do list because I don't like things left undone. I love to go out in the woods and take pictures. 

[00:05:58] Excellent. Well, that is very, very definitive for you. First of all, when we see that he wants to finish up his to do list, that's a very high utilitarian score. But it's also indicative of the fact that he enjoys doing these things by himself, which also tells us that there's an elevated individualistic. But there's one other key element to being out in the woods. Taking pictures tells us very succinctly that the aesthetic has got to be high because he is taking and absorbing the beauty of God's nature into his life, and he's preserving it for himself and his own interests. So, Bill, we see the high, individualistic and utilitarian your most prominent mindsets, but that aesthetic is awful high, too. Thank you so much for sticking with us through this mindsets course, because I believe it's going to help you identify what's most important for the people that you interact with on a day to day basis and will help you also. Find your pathway as God orders your steps.