Reading Class Journal #1

Summary and Reaction

In this week's lecture we read about two articles. The first one was "Getting Along" and the other was "Body Language". Out of the two articles, "Getting Along" was my favorite. This article touched on the different personality traits of the human being. These personality traits included bossy, competitive, cooperative, enthusiastic, helpful, innovative, romantic, thoughtful and skeptical. There wasn't any distincitve element that decides which personality trait you belonged to, but the only trait that is supposedly different for young girls and boys were competitive and cooperation. We learned that there weren't any ideal personality traits because you can have a makeup of a number of traits. However, we also learned the golden rule when interacting with others: to treat others the way you want to be treated.

There is an old saying that it's not the outside appearance that matters , it's actually what the personality is like. After reading this article about different personality traits it has helped me alot to understand better about different traits. I think the perfect girlfriend personality would be enthusiastic + helpful +innovative + romantic + cooperation + a little bit of bossy. Enthusiastic because she might give me good advice and share her ideas with me. Being helpful is great because she can help me with my English homework or even clean my bedroom. Innovative is important too, due to she can be creative and think about which interesting places we should go. Having a romantic girlfriend is what every boy's dream, so that speaks for itself. Having a cooperative girlfriend is important too because she would enjoy my company or even laugh at my boring jokes. Being cooperative means working together and solving problems easier. As for the last element i chose a little bit of bossy. This is solely on my laziness, bossy people tend to be leaders, she would able to lead me in my life and tell me what I should do. However, a perfect personality girlfriend is all too hard to find.

Outside Reading

This is an outside reading I found interesting. It's an online test to find out your personlaity. At the end you will get results about your own personality profile and I found the questions in the test interesting and I can say the results are very accurate. The results I scored told me that i was a down to earth guy who is uncreative. I also do things accidently and disorganized.

http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive/

My Results:

• You are somewhat conventional. (Your percentile: 20)
  (High scorers tend to be original, creative, curious, complex; Low scorers tend to be conventional, down to earth, narrow interests, uncreative.
• You tend to do things somewhat haphazardly. (Your percentile: 35)
  High scorers tend to be reliable, well-organized, self-disciplined, careful; Low scorers tend to be disorganized, undependable, negligent.
• You tend to shy away from social situations. (Your percentile: 31)
  High scorers tend to be sociable, friendly, fun loving, talkative; Low scorers tend to be introverted, reserved, inhibited, quiet.
• You are neither extremely forgiving nor irritable. (Your percentile: 44)
  High scorers tend to be good natured, sympathetic, forgiving, courteous; Low scorers tend to be critical, rude, harsh, callous.
• You aren't particularly nervous, nor calm. (Your percentile: 55)
• High scorers tend to be nervous, high-strung, insecure, worrying; Low scorers tend to be calm, relaxed, secure, hardy.