Personal qualities affect all aspects of a person's life, starting with his professional preferences and the subtleties of communication with others, and ending with interior design and the choice of clothing.
Personal qualities are innate or acquired characteristics of a person's character. Some can change during life, especially under the influence of society, others remain unchanged. It is widely believed among psychologists that many personal qualities are formed in the first five years of life, and later they are only corrected.
Various character traits can be attributed to innate personality traits. For example, Cattell refers to them as the level of intelligence, features of perception and memory, talent for music, drawing, etc., as well as the fundamental characteristics of temperament.
Jung adhered to a similar opinion on this issue and divided all people into eight main types according to their personal qualities: he divided extroverts and introverts into feeling, sensing, intuitive and thinking. It was this approach that was taken into account when creating the Myers-Briggs test, which is based on four components: introversion - extroversion, awareness - intuition, judgments - sensations, reflections - feelings.
The choice of a profession with certain personal qualities deserves special mention. According to psychologists, a person who has an unsuitable character for a particular job will not succeed in it. Moreover, each profession has its own desirable and undesirable personal qualities, which is also important to consider.
For example, a successful entrepreneur must possess such qualities as independence, hard work, adequate self-esteem, responsibility, courage, initiative, sociability, reliability, and stress resistance. At the same time, aggressiveness, tactlessness, self-doubt should not be inherent in him. The teacher must be observant, demanding, tactful, balanced, attentive, able to explain the material well, but not withdrawn, prone to aggression, non-punctual, irresponsible.
