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Essay / Trying to understand my personality - 1040
In the words of Soren Kierkegaard: “The personality is only mature when a man has made the truth his own. » There are many different people in the world. Everyone has a different personality that makes them unique. The tenth grade class at Presbyterian Christian School took one academic test and three personality tests to discover potential future careers. ACT Incorporated developed the PLAN to show our estimated ACT score and the possible careers in which we would do best. We also took three personality tests to discover our true personality. KRB Consulting Company carried out a test where we evaluate ourselves according to the adjectives that best describe us. The second test we took was “Colors of Careers,” given to us by Jones County Junior College Assistant to the President Gwen Magee. The last test we took was the “Jung Typology Test”. The purpose of this article is to discover the differences in our personalities and the careers that follow our certain personality. The PLAN results give us the estimated ACT score and our college readiness. My composite score was eighteen. Although I want to achieve better results, I was above the benchmark scores for year 10 in English and science. My reading and math scores are below benchmark scores. My scores were in English, seventeen; mathematics, eighteen; reading, seventeen; and science, twenty-one. In total, my estimated ACT composite score range is between nineteen and twenty-three (ACT Incorporated). The PLAN is a test that shows our potential careers. The career I chose during my exam was healthcare. The PLAN gave me the result “region 99”, meaning I could choose any career I wanted. With the results of the PLAN, I still want to be in the health care business...... middle of paper ...... and go back to four hundred and sixty BC Mary Miscisin, author of Showing Our True Colors, says: “It is interesting to note that the discernment of four groups is a common theme that links many of the most predominant personality theories. » In the 1920s, Carl Jung expressed his opinion after years of research. He said there were four categories: feeling, thinking, sensation or intuition. He says these categories are innate and the culture a person grows up in also influences their personality. Don Lowry studied the different meanings associated with colors. He then carefully chose colors that resembled the characteristics they would represent. Hippocrates observed people and saw that there are four different approaches to life: phlegmatic, choleric, melancholic and sanguine. All of these have differences, but can also be compared (1-4).