What is the East Compass Personality Type?
The East Compass Personality Type is the “Natural Planner” Style. They thrive on well-laid plans and approach their jobs with logic, organization, and from a bird’s-eye view.
Easterners like to consider the outcome of a project in its totality from the beginning and hate rules.
- Motto – Get it right the first time.
- Motivation – Looking for errors.
- Priority – Facts.
- Pace – Slow and cautious.
- Strength – Planning in detail.
- Weakness – Tunnel vision.
- Aptitude – Logical analysis.
- Work Style – Serious.
- Main Work Competency – Organization.
- Image – Quality.
- Pet Peeve – Inaccuracy.
- Symbol – A soaring bird.
North and East characteristics
Work hard, be Productive, Take responsibility, be Serious, Finish tasks, and Catch mistakes.
South and East characteristics
Move slow, Listen well, be Conservative, Avoid change, be Cautious, and Follow rules.
East Personality Type cross-reference
- Keirsey Type – Guardians
- Temperament Type – Melancholy
- Animal Type – Beaver
- DISC Type – Compliant
- Socio-Communicative Type – Analytical
- True Colors – Gold
- Color Code – White
- Occupational Type – Realistic
- Learning Type – Pragmatist
- Leadership Type – Avoider
MBTI Personality Types (xSxJ) – Sensing and Judging
Enneagram Types
- Type 1 – The Reformer (All Judging)
- Type 2 – The Helper (ESFJ, ISFJ)
- Type 6 – The Loyalist (All Sensing)
- Type 8 – The Challenger (ESTJ)
East Personality Type Careers
East-North job examples
- Judge–structured (E), decisive (N)
- Attorney – detailed (E), assertive (N)
- Surgeon–focused (E), confident (N)
- Engineer – analytical (E), determined (N)
- Quality Control – quality-centered (E), initiative (N)
East-South job examples:
- Editor – detailed (E), patient (S)
- City Planner – plans well (E), process-centered (S)
- Car Sales Rep – punctual (E), friendly (S)
- Secretary – proper protocol (E), helpful (S)
- Museum Curator – responsible (E), slow-paced (S)
What is the Personality Compass?
The Personality Compass, “A New Way to Understand People,” was developed by Diane Turner and Thelma Greco in 1998. Although similar to the four core Personality Temperaments, the Personality Compass focuses more on how individuals interact with others and less on personality tendencies like introversion vs. extraversion.
Learn more about the Compass Personality Types.
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.
