Everyday life
How to Communicate With Each of the Four Temperaments
One way of talking never fits everyone. Here is what each temperament needs to hear, what quietly shuts them down, and how to ask so you actually get a yes.
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Communication
Every entry in the journal tagged communication.
The tradition
Shakespeare, Jonson and the Language of the Humours
In 1598 Ben Jonson put a medical theory on stage. The four humours failed as science but survived as a language for character, from Shakespeare's melancholics to the way we still say someone is in a good humour.
Everyday life
How Each Temperament Learns, and How Each One Fools Itself
Four ways of studying and four ways of avoiding it: the sanguine talks and calls it understanding, the choleric skips the foundation, the melancholic reads one more thing, the phlegmatic never tests himself.
Everyday life
The Four Temperaments at Work
Which roles fit each temperament, how the four types clash in a team, and how to build a group where every nature does its best work.
Everyday life
Leadership and the Four Temperaments: The Failure Nobody Warns You About
Each temperament has a real strength in charge and a matching cost that lands on someone else. Here is what the four look like from underneath, and one concrete thing each can do differently.