What is the Choleric Personality Temperament?
The Choleric Personality Temperament is known as the Leader/Doer Temperament.
They are the rarest of the four Primary Temperaments, and in particular, females with the Choleric Temperament as their Primary are exceedingly scarce.
It is far more common for the Choleric Temperament to be a Secondary Temperament, although this is not as common as other combinations.
Known as the most extraverted Temperament, people with this Temperament are usually ambitious and goal-oriented. With their driven and passionate nature, you can count on a Choleric person to get things done swiftly!
They are considered logical and pragmatic and are good at solving problems. However, while they are independent and strong-willed, their authoritarian nature can come off as bossy or domineering. But this is because they set an incredibly high standard for themselves.
Choleric people thrive on productivity and will not quit until their expectations are met.
Choleric Temperament Personality Type cross-reference
- Keirsey Type – Rationals
- Animal Type – Lion
- DISC Type – Dominant
- Socio-Communicative Type – Driver
- True Colors – Green
- Color Code – Red
- Personality Compass – North
- Occupational Type – Enterprising
- Learning Type – Activist
- Leadership Type – Dominator
MBTI Personality Types (xNTx) – Intuition and Thinking
Enneagram Types
- Type 1 – The Reformer (ENTJ, INTJ)
- Type 3 – The Achiever (ENTP)
- Type 5 – The Investigator (INTJ, INTP)
- Type 7 – The Enthusiast (ENTP)
- Type 8 – The Challenger (ENTJ)
Choleric Temperament Strengths
- Choleric people are the doers.
- They like to lead and are usually good at making decisions.
- They are very goal-oriented and enjoy challenges, complex assignments, and opportunities for advancement.
- They tend to be solid and direct.
Choleric Temperament Weaknesses
- They can be argumentative.
- They often are too dictatorial.
- Because they think of the goal, they can step on people to reach it, becoming aggressive and competitive.
- They must guard against being too bossy or taking charge of others’ affairs.
Choleric Temperament Limitations
- Doesn’t understand that directness can hurt others
- They have a hard time expressing grace
Choleric Temperament Orientation
- People with a choleric temperament are results-oriented.
- They make goals and stick to them.
- They are driven to succeed and tend to stay positive with constant forward movement.
- They face opposition head-on with the mindset of getting results.
Choleric Temperament Traits
Choleric people are extraverted and exude self-confidence.
- They are independent and strong-willed.
- They have quick minds. They are generally active and practical in their activities.
- Their communication style is assertive and direct, often brief, almost to the point of rudeness.
Choleric people enjoy taking risks and get bored quickly.
- They can be domineering and opinionated.
- They find it easy to make decisions, not only for themselves but for others as well.
- They can be somewhat controlling in relationships.
Choleric people are creative.
- They never seem to run out of ideas or plans, all of which tend to be practical.
- They are steadfast in their ideas,
- However, they will not give in to peer pressure.
While they can be compassionate and rally for social causes, they are slow to build relationships in their personal life.
- They likely only have a few close friends, even though they are unafraid to meet and talk to new people.
- They don’t tend to empathize with others.
- However, they are also very slow to anger, though their domineering Personality and direct manner of speaking can be misconstrued as anger.
Choleric Temperament Types also tend to require less sleep than other Temperament Types.
Choleric Temperament Careers
Personality Temperaments, Traits, and Types
Personality Temperaments, Personality Traits, and Personality Types are used in Psychology to discuss a person’s Personality, a collection of Emotions, Perceptions, and Actions that interact with each other, regulate themselves, and shape a dynamic system that forms a person’s Behavioral Patterns.
Your inherited Traits (your Personality Temperament), along with your acquired Traits (such as education, socialization, and other various pressures and aspects in your life), form your Personality.
A Personality Type identifies a specific collection of Traits, both learned and natural, that comprise a broad, general Personality Classification—a way of labeling a collection of traits and behaviors.
A Personality Trait remains consistent and stable over time, which means you exhibit the same pattern across different situations and throughout your life.
Three criteria characterize Personality Traits: (1) consistency, (2) stability, and (3) individual differences. For example, if you are talkative at home, you also tend to be talkative at work. And if you were talkative at age 20, you would still be chatty at age 40.
Personality Temperament is your “Naturally Intuitive” biological Trait. These Traits are partly inherited from your genes and partially determined by your brainstem, which doesn’t change throughout your life. These are Natural Traits regarded as innate or inborn and not learned.
Your Personality Temperament is formed as an infant and is hard to modify, manipulate, or change because it is genetic. In some way or another, your inherited behavioral tendency will always be there.
Personality Traits are the quantitative differences between people, and Personality Types are qualitative differences between people. The most crucial difference between the Trait Theory and Type Theory is that Type Theory views people’s characteristics as discrete categories. In contrast, Trait Theory views these characteristics as a continuum.
For example, where a Type Theorist would claim that introverts and extraverts are two types of people, a Trait Theorist claims extraversion is a gradient and individuals can fall somewhere in the middle.
Your Temperaments, along with acquired Traits, form your Personality.
