It makes it so much easier when we think about people
if we can categorize them. At the same time we know that everyone in the
world is unique. There are tall people, short people, old people, young
people, quiet people and boisterous people. It would help if we had some
words that would describe people's personality. In this instruction unit
we are going to group people by their temperaments. A couple of thousand
years ago Hippocrates saw that people behaved in roughly four basic patterns
that are known as temperaments. Unfortunately, he called them: sanguine,
phlegmatic, melancholic, and choleric (names of fluids in the body). To
make it easier to remember we are going to use colours for each of the
four temperaments: Orange,
Green,
Blue
and Gold, and
to help us to remember their meaning we will use an adjective with
each one as well: Action Orange, Analysing
Green,
Empathic Blue and
Dependable
Gold.
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To help you determine your strongest colour, print off this Appreciating Differences Thru Colours worksheet and have it handy as you follow through this material.