There are only four kinds of people .....

I know of Jung, but I have not read his stuff and am not familiar with these specific descriptions of the four personality types. I do however have a book here called Personality Plus by Florence Littauer. This is a great book which helped me to understand myself and others a lot more. It definitely helped my wife and I with our relationship as we are two different personality types. In understanding myself more, I also gained confidence as I did not try to be as outgoing as my friends. I used to struggle to 'compete' with them for attention, but once I grasped the concepts in this book, I realised that I had my own strengths and did not need to feel inferior. Her four personality types are: Choleric: This is the commander-type. Cholerics are dominant, strong, decisive, stubborn and even arrogant. Melancholy: This is the mental-type. Their typical behaviour involves thinking, assessing, making lists, evaluating the positives and negatives, and general analysis of facts. Sanguine: This is the social-type. They enjoy fun, socialising, chatting, telling stories - and are fond of promising the world, because that's the friendly thing to do. Phlegmatic: This is the flat-type. They are easy going, laid back, nonchalant, unexcitable and relaxed. Desiring a peaceful environment above all else. Obviously each type has it's positive and negative traits and most people do have a combination of each. There was a test in the book in which you could determine your own personality type. I am a Phlegmatic-Melancholy, which are both on the introverted side, Sanguine and Choleric are both extroverted.

Er...yes. Can't you be a creative doer and a pragmatic idealist? or simply a rational human? If one trait is dominant does that mean that the others may not come to the fore at times? I'd give my right hand to be ambidexterous!

I have read about this and I agree that people tend to be one of those 4 with mixtures of all the others. I hate the idea of being type cast by anything. It could limit someone to living within their type and never stretching their boudaries or it could help someone to find a path that would suit their skills. I have no idea what is best or even if their is a best. Maybe I am confusing it but I like the idea of stretching yourself to try explore other ways of being. In doing so you might strengthen on of the minor personality types that you have and improve the quality of your life through new experiences. I have done things over the years that are outside my comfort zone and gained as a result even though it was difficult. I believe that different elements have been stronger at different times of my life often because I have pushed into areas that were not natural for me. I would say I am an idealist but I have always wanted to be creative and have tried to develop that. Unfortunately I just do not have creativity in my personality makeup.

What about those who don't, won't and can't accept anyone else doing either by destroying anything created or done. Seems like that type has always been the fly in the ointment.

This is interesting, I think that you may be right because I cannot think of another type of person because every type of person can be placed in one of those categories. However, If people are of a certain type then that would suggest that certain types are more likely to succeed than others, since there are some people who are successful and some who are not. So is it possible for the unsuccessful ones to change their type?

I'm a doer and an idealist!!!I agree that for this logic to work you NEED to use at least two of the traits!