Yellow - The Fun Lover

Yellow - The Fun Lovers

  • Yellows love life
  • Appreciate what they have rather than being miserable
  • Yellows bound through life well focused on themselves
  • Start more projects than finish
  • Yellows have a most difficult time accepting responsibility for themselves
  • Yellows take the easy path
  • Yellows seek enchanting opportunities and find life laced with silver linings
  • Yellows enjoy life regardless of what they are doing
  • Yellows enjoy the company of others
  • Yellows would like to change not themselves, but the world around them
  • Yellows learn early in life to cut corners
  • Yellows are impulsive and restless
  • Yellow finds it easy to relate to people of all ages
  • Yellows love to entertain and be entertained
  • Yellows are naïve and trusting
  • Yellows are often nicknamed “chatterbox.”

Personality Type Cross-reference

MBTI / Keirsey - Artisan (SP - Sensing / Perceiving)
Enneagram
Temperaments

Strengths

  • Loves to volunteer for opportunities
  • Comfortable with people
  • Gives priority to playtime
  • High energy
  • Turns crisis into comedy
  • Strong visual learner
  • Forgiving of self and others
  • Not burdened with emotional baggage
  • Highly optimistic (rarely depressed)
  • Likes self and accepts others readily
  • Loves to volunteer for opportunities
  • Sees life as an experience to be enjoyed
  • Flashy (racehorse rather than plowhorse)
  • Adventurous and daring 
  • Exciting and fun to be with (never dull)
  • Often places friend before family
  • Forgiving of self and others
  • Lively and entertaining
  • Vulnerable, innocent, and trusting
  • Endearing
  • Willing to free up the schedule to play 

Limitations

  • Needs to look good socially
  • Often speaks before thinking
  • Feels no need to prepare for the future
  • Sloppy and unpredictable
  • Forgetful
  • Undependable in a crisis
  • Prefers to enter a relationship knowing there is an escape
  • Needs to look good socially (high priority)
  • Irresponsible and unreliable
  • Self-centered and egotistical
  • Flighty and uncommon
  • Lots of talk with little action
  • Superficial and primarily interested in a reasonable time
  • Unwilling to experience pain to produce quality
  • Undisciplined
  • Loud and obnoxious in public places
  • Exaggerates successes and omits unpleasant trusts
  • Unable to confront or face issues 
  • Spends most of the time discussing own life
  • Shows up at their convenience
  • Undependable in a crisis
  • Unwilling to commit to long-term needs of distressed friends
  • Pursues won life regardless of friend’s situations or needs
  • Uncomfortable in painful or distressing environments
  • Makes new friends easily and without guilt, often at the expense of old friends 

How to Develop a Positive Connection

Do’s
  • Be positive and proactive with them in your life
  • Adore and praise them legitimately
  • Touch them physically
  • Accept their playful teasing
  • Remember they are more sensitive than they appear
  • Value their social interaction skills and people connections
  • Remember they hold feelings deeply
  • Promote creative and fun activities for and with them
  • Enjoy their charismatic innocence
  • Allow them opportunity for verbal expression
Don'ts
  • Be too serious or sober in criticism
  • Push them too intently
  • Ignore them
  • Forget they have "down" time also
  • Demand perfection
  • Expect them to dwell on problems
  • Give them too much rope, or they may hang themselves
  • Classify them as just lightweight social butterflies
  • Attack their sensitivity to be unforgiving
  • Control their schedules or consume their time