What kind of personality is more likely to succeed?

Although the success of a business is determined by many factors, according to RTC’s sample data of more than 21 million people around the world, successful founders generally have certain similar personality attributes. . So what kind of personality is more likely to succeed? Let’s take a look:

Self-realization and personality classification

When each individual matures and becomes independent, in addition to survival, he pursues career success. And personal success is a natural thing. This can be explained from Maslow's driving forces of human psychology. Maslow believed that the development of human motivation is closely related to the satisfaction of needs. There are different levels of needs. The lower level needs are physiological needs, and the higher level needs are security, love and belonging, respect and self-actualization needs. To sum up, there are 5 levels, namely physiological, safety, social, respect and self-actualization.

Which personality type is more likely to succeed?

Self-realization refers to the full realization of creative potential. The pursuit of self-realization is the highest motivation of people, and its characteristic is the dedication to a certain career. Selfless devotion. High-level self-realization has the characteristics of transcending the self and has high social value. In fact, it is success in the popular sense or the success of each individual. Every individual, no matter what their personality and level, may have the opportunity for self-realization.

Psychology makes different classifications of people’s personalities based on their personality characteristics, such as extroversion and introversion. Based on this, it is believed that people with different personalities should engage in different occupations (careers) in order to succeed. Easy to achieve success. Although there are many classifications of personality (temperament, personality) in the world, the Myers-Briggs Personality Taxonomy (MBTI) is now a more common one. Some of the world's top 500 companies are recruiting Employees use this mental category all the time.

The theory of Myers-Briggs personality classification originated from the book "Psychological Types" published by Swiss psychologist Jung in 1921. American psychologists Briggs and his daughter Miles developed this personality taxonomy after long-term observation and research. Despite all the criticisms of this classification, after decades of development, the MBTI has become one of the world's most famous personality tests.

According to Jung’s four psychological characteristics of human beings: thoughts, emotions, feelings, and intuition, combined with introversion and extroversion, the following questions arise:

From the perspective of psychological abilities Depending on your direction, are you an extrovert (E) or an introvert (I)?

In terms of the way to understand the external world, are you feeling (S) or intuition (N)?

In terms of which method you rely on to make decisions, are you rational (T) or emotional (F)?

In terms of lifestyle and attitude, do you judge (J) or understand (P).

According to different answers to these questions, people’s personalities can be divided into 16 types, which are:

1) ESTJ macho type 2) ESTP challenging type 3) ESFJ Master type 4) ESFP Performer type 5) ENTJ General type 6) ENTP Inventor 7) ENFJ Educator 8) ENFP Journalist type 9) ISTJ Business type 10) ISTP Adventurer 11) ISFJ Caregiver type 12) ISFP Artist 13) INTJ Expert Type 14) INTP scholar type 15) INFJ writer type 16) INFP philosopher

The theoretical basis of these classifications is that personality directly and indirectly determines the behavior of human individuals, and is therefore closely related to success and success.

What is short is what is long

However, there has been a long-standing psychological theory that extroverts are more likely to succeed than introverts because extroverts are more likely to be successful. It is easy to get along with and communicate with others. Introverts are in a state of self-enclosure and isolation and are not good at expressing and communicating with others. Therefore, it is difficult to succeed and become talented by working alone.

Carnegie fully expressed this concept in his book "A Good Life, a Happy Life".

He believes that only 15% of a person's career success is due to his professional knowledge (technology), and the other 85% depends on interpersonal relationships and life skills. That is to say, a person must be good at communicating with others, be gregarious, obedient, expressive, etc., then he (she) will be successful.

Many people have no choice but to believe the words of this world-renowned educator. Because in addition to using a large number of individual cases to prove it, he also provided statistical evidence. He counted the status of some engineering technicians who received adult education in his class and found that the person with the highest income was not the person who knew the most about engineering, but the person who had specialized knowledge, was able to express his ideas, and was good at it. Someone who lives, leads and inspires others. From this, it can be said that people who are extroverted, good at interpersonal communication and dealing with others can make a lot of money and be successful even if their professional knowledge is not outstanding.

In fact, Carnegie's theory of success is just a summary of his educational experience. It is doubtful whether it has universal value. Even from the perspective of personality classification, it can be seen that people's success is diverse. No matter what kind of personality, there is a basis and possibility for success.

From the perspective of the principle of biological diversity, the diversity of human personalities is also obvious. This diversity is not only reflected in different people having different personalities, but also in the same person having different personality traits. For example, sometimes introversion and extroversion are combined, and there is no absolute extroversion and no absolute introversion. This personality diversity is also reflected in the Myers-Briggs personality classification. The so-called 16 types of personality or success mean that different individuals have different personalities and have the basis for success in different fields.

Moreover, even the same profession requires different personality traits to complete. For example, when a journalist goes out for interviews and meets with various parties, experts, scholars and various interviewees, he/she needs to use his/her extroverted personality characteristics in order to deal with different people and successfully complete the interview task. After the interview task is completed, it is necessary to filter the interview materials, refine the essence, remove the rough and select the essential, remove the false and retain the true, and write an exciting and touching article with a wonderful pen through comprehensive conception and detail processing. At this time, you need an introverted personality, which can subtly Set your mind and write thoughtfully to complete the task.

On the other hand, the same individual can also achieve success in different fields. For example, he/she can be both an inventor and an adventurer; a general and an engineer; a designer and a scholar. Therefore, success is open to everyone. There is no so-called superiority or inferiority between extroversion and introversion.

Introversion may be more likely to succeed

The British psychiatrist and writer Anthony Stoll made a sharp criticism of the superiority of extroversion over introversion. In his book "Solitude", he made a powerful defense against introversion and loneliness. He believes that people are destined to be alone for much of their lives, and not all lonely people are unhappy. Moreover, many lonely people have achieved great success, no less than extroverted people with high emotional intelligence. The saddest thing is that due to misdirection and self-alienation, modern society overemphasizes the importance of interpersonal relationships, thus neglecting or even misunderstanding the "positive functions" of loneliness and introversion. This can be described as a kind of harm to the human spirit and soul. Irresponsible injury to innocent people.

It can be seen from many famous figures how important loneliness and introversion are to success. Arthur Schopenhauer spent most of his life in loneliness. Schopenhauer was born on February 22, 1788 in Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland) into a prominent wealthy business family. In 1809, Schopenhauer was admitted to the University of G?ttingen. Here he studied physics, mineralogy, natural history, botany, philosophy, and carefully studied the works of Plato and Kant. He also audited courses in physiology, astronomy, meteorology, ethnography and law. Schopenhauer, who was introverted and lonely by nature, had an asset left to him by his father, which enabled him to indulge himself in lonely spiritual exploration. Later, he studied at the University of Berlin and mastered 7 languages, including Latin, Greek, French, English, German, Spanish, and Italian, and expanded his fields of exploration to chemistry, electromagnetism, electricity, ornithology, and fish. Typology and Nordic poetry.

Schopenhauer completed his famous philosophical work "On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Ground" (published in 1813) at the age of 25, and "The World as Will and Representation" at the age of 29.

Regarding loneliness and introversion, Schopenhauer's close friend Gwen said at Schopenhauer's funeral, "There is an extraordinary person lying in this grave." He lived all his life on earth but no one knew about him. He died alone, just as he lived alone. Even more exciting are some of Schopenhauer's own discussions on loneliness and introversion:

The first lesson young people learn is to endure loneliness.

Loneliness brings double benefits to a person with excellent mental endowments. First, he can be with himself, and second, he doesn't need to be with anyone else. The second point is particularly valuable, especially when we remember the constraints, annoyances, and even dangers that social interaction implies.

The less a person has to deal with people due to objective or subjective conditions, the freer his situation will be. The disadvantages of loneliness are clear to us, if not immediately felt. By contrast, the downsides of social life are hidden. Recreation, chatting, and other pleasures in interacting with others often conceal huge, even irreparable, harm.

From the perspective of a ruler being short and an inch being long, being lonely or withdrawn may be a good quality and personality. Because firstly, not everyone can endure loneliness, and secondly, a considerable number of lonely people have achieved extraordinary success and made great contributions to society and human civilization. Taking Russell as an example again, his mother, who knows her son better than his parents, knew very well when Russell was young that his son was withdrawn and introverted by nature. He neither had the ability to respond to everything and be an eloquent politician, nor did he have the physical fitness and ability to charge into battle and become a general. Physically, but the mother was not disappointed in her son (probably she could not read Carnegie and emotional intelligence theory at that time). She encouraged her son to embark on the path of reading and studying knowledge. Thanks to Russell's solitary pursuit of knowledge, he left us a large number of handed down works such as "History of Western Philosophy" and "Principles of Mathematics", which also added priceless treasures to human civilization.

Another touching example is Madame Curie. If it had not been for her introverted character that made her do learning and research alone, she would not have won the Nobel Prize twice. She is also withdrawn, sometimes even cold and difficult to approach. Only after being in contact with her for a long time can you feel her ordinary and kind heart, and sigh that she is actually a very simple and sincere person.

The success of ordinary people

Perhaps the above-mentioned characters are more extreme examples, because these people themselves are geniuses, and their brilliance will not be dimmed whether they are alone or gregarious. That being the case, let’s talk about an ordinary example. In addition to fields such as politics, business, business, and management (even these fields also require people to remain lonely at certain times or work and live in a lonely way), in some other fields such as scientific research, art, writing, music, archeology, and design , drawing, experiments, etc. The way people work and live is not the collaboration of large groups of people. Needless to say, introverts in these areas are also mostly successful.

Even ordinary people can find happiness in introverted and solitary fields such as gardening, fishing, collecting stamps, etc., and make life meaningful. There are many such fields, whether in work or life, such as reading, collecting, paper-cutting, seal cutting, and many of the work fields mentioned above.

Loneliness and introversion do not mean that a person does not communicate and interact with others, but that he/she changes the way of communication and interaction with others. For example, when a person is reading, he or she is communicating with the author; when writing, he or she is communicating with readers, and it is a higher level of communication - spiritual communication; when doing experiments, he or she is communicating with predecessors and people. Communicate with different experimental methods; when doing archeology, you are communicating with ancient people, and so on. Even today's "hand talk" on the Internet is a unique and lonely communication. From the perspective of emphasizing the positive role of interpersonal communication, loneliness is also beneficial to people. Quincy said that if a person's life is not intertwined with loneliness, his intellectual scope will never be expanded.

Appreciating loneliness and introversion does not mean to deny being gregarious, socializing, learning to deal with others, and improving interpersonal relationships, but it means that loneliness and introversion, like other personalities and behaviors, have shortcomings and strengths. , and isolation is sometimes a very important way of introspection, such as in scientific research and creative work.

No matter what your personality is, you can succeed. There is no need to regard a certain character as superior and a certain character as inferior, or even link success too much to a certain character. Because everyone is a masterpiece of nature. As long as they do not violate their own personality or even give full play to their own personality, success is not a luxury.