<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>Your Temperament</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">Below you will find a discription of your temperament. Your specific temperament is a combination of your two temperament types. The first one listed on your user dashboard is your primary (listed first below) and the second one is your secondary (listed after the primary in each title.) Your temperament is one of the following three depending upon the combination of both your temperaments.</span><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size: small;">Melancholy Sanguine</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">Mr. MelSan is usually a very gifted person, fully capable of being a musician who can steal the heart of an audience. As an artist, he not only&nbsp;draws or paints beautifully but can sell his own work- if he's in the right mood. It is not uncommon to encounter him in the field of education,&nbsp;for he makes a good scholar and probably the best of all classroom teachers, particularly on the high school and college level. The melancholy&nbsp;in him will ferret out little-known facts and be exacting in the use of events and detail, while the sanguine will enable him to communicate well&nbsp;with students.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">Mr. MelSan shows an interesting combination of mood swings. Be sure of this: he is an emotional creature! When circumstances are pleasing&nbsp;to him, he can reflect a fantastically happy mood. But if things work out badly or he is rejected, insulted, or injured, he drops into such a mood&nbsp;that his lesser sanguine nature drowns in the resultant sea of self pity. He is easily moved to tears, feels everything deeply, but can be&nbsp;unreasonably critical and hard on others. He tends to be rigid and usually will not cooperate unless things go his way, which is often idealistic&nbsp;and impractical. He is often a fearful, insecure man with a poor self-image which limits him unnecessarily.&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: small;">Melancholy Choleric&nbsp;</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">The mood swings of the melancholy are usually stabilized by the MelChlor's self-will and determination. There is almost nothing vocationally&nbsp;which this man cannot do-and do well. He is both a perfectionist and a driver. He possesses strong leadership capabilities. Almost any craft,&nbsp;construction, or educational level is open to him. Unlike the MelSan, he may found his own institution or business and run it capably-not with&nbsp;noise and color but with efficiency. Many a great orchestra leader and choral conductor is a MelChlor.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">The natural weaknesses of MelChlors reveal themselves in the mind, emotions, and mouth. They are extremely difficult people to please, rarely&nbsp;satisfying even themselves. Once they start thinking negatively about something or someone (including themselves), they can be intolerable to&nbsp;live with. Their mood follows their thought process. Although they do not retain a depressed mood as long as the other blends of the&nbsp;melancholy, they can lapse into it more quickly. The two basic temperaments haunted by self-persecution, hostility, and criticism are the&nbsp;melancholy and the choleric. It is not uncommon for him to get angry at God as well as his fellowman, and if such thoughts persist long enough&nbsp;he may become manic-depressive. In extreme cases, he can become sadistic. When confronted with his vile thinking pattern and angry, bitter&nbsp;spirit, he can be expected to explode.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">His penchant for detailed analysis and perfection tends to make him a nitpicker who drives others up the wall. Unless he can maintain a positive frame of mind, he is not enjoyable company for long periods of time. No one is more painfully aware of this&nbsp;than his wife and children. He not only "emotes" disapproval, but feels compelled to castigate them verbally for their failures and to correct&nbsp;their mistakes-in public as well as private.&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: small;">Melancholy Phlegmatic</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">Some of the greatest scholars the world has ever known have been MelPhlegs. They are not nearly as prone to hostility as the two previous&nbsp;melancholies and usually get along well with others. These gifted introverts combine the analytical perfectionism of the melancholy with the&nbsp;organized efficiency of the phlegmatic. They are usually good-natured humanitarians who prefer a quiet, solitary environment for study and&nbsp;research to the endless rounds of activities sought by the more extroverted temperaments. MelPhlegs are usually excellent spellers and good&nbsp;mathematicians. These gifted people have greatly benefited humanity. Most of the world's significant inventions and medical discoveries have&nbsp;been made by MelPhlegs.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">Despite his abilities, the MelPhleg, like the rest of us, has his own potential weaknesses. Unless controlled by God, he easily becomes&nbsp;discouraged and develops a very negative thinking pattern. But once he realizes it is a sin to develop the spirit of criticism and learns to rejoice,&nbsp;his entire outlook on life can be transformed. Ordinarily a quiet person, he is capable of inner angers and hostility caused by his tendency to be&nbsp;vengeful.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">MelPhlegs are unusually vulnerable to fear, anxiety, and a negative self-image. It has always amazed me that the people with the greatest&nbsp;talents and capabilities are often victimized by genuine feelings of poor self-worth. Their strong tendency to be conscientious allows them to let&nbsp;others pressure them into making commitments that drain their energy and creativity. When filled with God's spirit, these people are loved and&nbsp;admired by their family because their personal self-discipline and dedication are exemplary in the home. But humanitarian concerns cause them&nbsp;to neglect their family. Unless they learn to pace themselves and enjoy diversions that help them relax, they often become early mortality&nbsp;statistics.&nbsp;</span></p>
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