Three Remarkable Kiwis: Personality Plus, #1

By Stewart Forsyth

You may know of at least one of these three remarkable people. You will probably

not learn anything new about what they did in reading this. My goal is

that you will learn more about how they did it. In looking at the personality of

these people we will explore them as whole people, including some things that

do not, or did not help them. By reading how they succeeded you might identify

areas where you could improve.

• Language: English
• Publisher: FX Publishing
• Release date: Aug 4, 2020
• ISBN: 9780473527334

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The world's shortest personality test.

We are using the Big Five, or Five Factor personality model to describe these people. To get a feel for that you can assess your own personality.

Use the descriptions above to position yourself on these five dimensions or traits of personality – put yourself closer to the descriptions that describe you best.

We don’t pay so much attention to your Middle of the Road ratings – what makes you unique is where you are furthest out.

Take the two most far out ratings – they can be low – as in towards the left, or high – leaning right. To get a view of what makes you special – pick out the two that are stretching furthest from the middle.

By combining these two most notable or unique of your personality traits you can now locate the personality compound that best describes you – of the 40 possible, this is likely to provide a good indication of your thoughts, feelings and behaviour across many parts of your life.

See the Personality Matrix (next page) to help you locate the personality compound (combining your two most notable individual personality traits) that best matches your unique personality:

Personality Matrix

If you have any questions or comments about personality or these compounds - drop me a note - [e-mail]

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Ashleigh Young

An example of the Curious personality compound?

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I got this email. This email which looked highly dubious. It arrived at 9.18am and was from the director of the prize, which I had never heard of, and he wrote, ‘We’ve got some good news.’ But he spelled my name wrong, and he included the line, ‘It is important I speak to you right away.’ Which immediately put me in mind of Nigeria. A scam. ‘Dear friend,’ you know. So I forwarded it to Fergus [Barrowman, the publisher at Victoria University Press where Ashleigh Young works as an editor], and said, ‘This sounds like spam, don’t you think?’ And he said, ‘Actually, I think you should give them a call.’ "And so then I was talking to this guy in Yale, Connecticut, and he said, ‘Look, we’ve been reading your book. . . ’, which is the most amazing thing to hear in an American accent, and he put me on speaker phone, and all these