Pete Alexander2x TEDx Speaker and best-selling author helping transform burned out workers into engaged colleagues.

Stress Relief Tool - Discover Your Personality

5 Jun 2019 · 2 min

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In this monologue, the speaker explains how understanding one’s personality can alleviate stress in both professional and personal contexts. For work‑related stress, they recommend the 16personalities.com test, an offshoot of the Myers‑Briggs framework, which identifies preferred working styles and can be used collaboratively with coworkers to improve teamwork. The speaker shares their own result (ENFJ, a natural‑born leader) as an example. For stress stemming from personal relationships, they suggest a personality‑color assessment based on the book Love: What’s Personality Got to Do with It? by Dr. Carol Reitberger, which categorizes temperaments by colors (e.g., orange for harmony, green for experience). The speaker describes their own mixed orange‑green temperament and encourages viewers to either take the online test or read the book to discover their color personality, positioning these tools as practical starting points for improving relationships and reducing stress.

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Understanding what your preferences are in certain situations and how your personality reacts with others can go a long way to helping you with stress relief. In order to find out what your personality is, I recommend two different tests depending on what the situation is. If it's work-related, I suggest taking the test at 16personalities.com. This is an offshoot of the famous Myers-Briggs test, and what it does is it helps you determine what your preferential working style is. And if you have your coworkers take the test as well, you're able to figure out together what's the best and most collaborative ways to work. As a result of taking this test, I, for example, came out as an ENFJ, and the test says I I'm a natural born leader. Lucky me. Now, if a personal relationship at home is causing you stress, may I suggest a personality color test? This is a book that helps you determine what is important to you as well as your significant other or close friend or family member. For example, I found out that my temperament is a cross between an orange, which says Let's all get along. And green, let's experience it all. What you wanna do to find this book is search for it called Love: What's Personality Got to Do with It? Again, by Dr. Carol Reitberger. Whether you take the online test or you read the book and you decide what your color personality is, either way, These tools are great to help get you started on the way to making your relationships that much better.