Your Mirror – 6 Personality Factors
A New Year has begun, a time that calls for making resolutions, promises to do better at something, small or large. We promise to do better at things: to go to the gym more, start a new job, better manage money, or clean up our communities or our oceans. We promise to make our relationships with people better: to be more patient with our children or grown children, show up at work with more cooperation, listen more, or care more. We are more likely to succeed at what we aspire to do by how strong our relationships are. But the secret to strong relationships lies in our personality.
For many decades, the Five Factor Model of personality traits has been used in hiring to team building. The traits of the 5 Factors are included in a new model called the HEXACO 6 Factor Model. The main difference is that a new factor has been added, a character trait that measures trust and modesty, self-interest to other-interest. All scales are on a continuum, from high to low; all individual scores are compared using a large database of scores:
(Credit: https://psyml.co/new-science/) If interested in knowing more about where you are on the 6 scales, take the brief 6 Factors test:
If you want to make a change, start with understanding who you are and who you choose to be. Based on what you see in these 6 factors, or if you take the test what your test results show, are you content with how you show up? What factors, based on your own point of view, contribute to or detract from your daily work or personal relationships? If you want to make a change in your traits, you can.
“The mass of men,” writes Henry David Thoreau, “live lives of quiet desperation”, disappointed in their work, their chosen values, or how they spend their time. The mass of men Thoreau refers to need not include you, your aspirations, your relationships, or your personality.
“If you want to make the world a better place take a look at yourself and make a change,” sings Michael Jackson in one of his most famous songs. His voice is set to a powerful video here:
Michael Jackson: Man in the Mirror:
Make 2024 the year when you are happy with who you see in the mirror.
Or make a change.