Creative You: Using Your Personality Type to Thrive

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Creative You: Using Your Personality Type to Thrive by David B Goldstein & Otto Kroeger talks about identifying your personality. The book is divided in 3 different sections.

The first section gives one a clear idea what is creativity and helps you identify your personal creative preferences. One also gets to learn about his/her full profile of individual preferences and temperaments.

The second sections lists down the 16 personality types where one gets to learn their strengths and weaknesses. Blind spots are listed out and tips are given on how to boost creativity.

In the third section the authors show how you can use your creativity to thrive and for maximum effect.

First of all you will need to analyze and figure out what your personality type is before locating the correct section to read through.

My thoughts

It was interested to read and look at the personality types of my boys in relation to me and how I could help to develop their creativity.

Based on the descriptions here are the classifications which I derived.

Myself- ISTJ

Monkey Boy- ENFJ

Doggie Boy- INFP

Having both introvert and extrovert kid makes it difficult to create a home environment that is conclusive for both boys to develop their creative sides. However the explanations and tips given within the book do help me understand them better and give me an idea on how to guide each one of them.

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October 5, 2013

Weekend Reflections: Reflecting on Parenting

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My new shoes

Parenting is never easy. It gets all so more complicated when you have more then one child and all of them have vast differences in their personality. Are they introvert or extrovert? What methods work best with each child? It is a constant trial and error situation as the kids personalities and preferences are evolving as they grow. There is no set answer to problems which we may face and it certainly has been extremely stressful at times trying to find a solution to the obstacles that come my way.

I have been reading quite a few parenting books the past month and the two books- Raising Boys by design

and Quiet Kids gave me quite a lot of insight into how to guide my kids.

HERO

Honor– adhering to truth, values, compassion, and principles beyond self

Enterprise- working at important things, whether they seem big or small

Responsibility– carrying important people and things throughout life.

Originality– being a dreamer, a thinker and an explorer in this world

HERO is what we should be focusing on for our kids. (especially boys)

To be able to understand our kids we should first ask ourselves these questions.

1. What are my kids original thoughts and doings?

2. Where does he/she shine and what are his/her gifts?

3. Am I stretching him creatively and imaginatively?

4. What steps could I take to strengthen his/her imagination and his/her critical thinking skills?

6. Am I letting him/her develop naturally or pushing him/her to do what I want him/her to do instead?

7. Which areas are your kids doing well while which areas are they failing behind in?

8. How are the challenges in their lives stimulating growth in each area?

9. How are we teaching our kids to be HEROS?

Teaching boys are different from teaching girls. Boys need to be constantly challenged to practice original thinking and creative action in honorable, enterprising and responsible ways. They have to be taught to be HEROES.

They will fail and falter many times. They will think something is original only to find out that it has been done before. And they will get hurt, emotionally and even physically, as they take risk towards originality. But without those risks and without testing grounds for their gifts, their GOD given heroic design will remain unfulfilled.

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Creative You: Using Your Personality Type to Thrive

Weekend Reflections: Reflecting on Parenting

HERO

How are you teaching your boys to be HEROS?