
#I am not a very adventurous person on the job means code
Non-conformity, internal code of values.The "Character Strengths and Virtues" are attributes of the idealized self, or ego ideal. I did conceive of "character strengths and virtues" in a positive way as Martin Seligman does in his Positive Psychology, but now see them as images of perfection that inflate the idealized self theorized by Karen Horney.Ĭharacter Strengths and Virtues (what the Antisocial type is proud of) The New Personality Self-Portrait: Why You Think, Work, Love, and Act the Way You Do. They do not feel guilty about the past or anxious about the future. They will stand up to anyone who dares to take advantage of them. They are courageous, physically bold, and tough. In their childhood and adolescence, people with the Adventurous personality style were usually high-spirited hell-raisers and mischief makers. They do not worry about finding work, and live well by their talents, skills, ingenuity, and wits. They settle down only to have the urge to pick up and go, explore, move out, move on. They are silver-tongued, gifted in the gentle art of winning friends and influencing people. They do not worry too much about others, for they expect each human being to be responsible for him- or herself. Adventurers love the thrill of risk and routinely engage in high-risk activities. They are not strongly influenced by other people or by the norms of society. Men and women who have the Adventurous personality style live by their own internal code of values.

The following eight characteristic traits and behaviors are listed in his The New Personality Self-Portrait. Oldham has defined the Adventurous personality style.


being courageous, physically bold, and tough standing up to anyone who dares to take advantage of you.being high-spirited and making mischief.keeping on the move exploring, then, moving on not worrying about finding work living by your talents, skills, ingenuity, and wits.being gifted in the art of winning friends and influencing people.not worrying about others expecting each human being to be responsible for themselves.enjoying the thrill of risk enjoying high-risk activities.

not being influenced by other people or by the norms of society.Main Interests of the Adventurous Personality Type pitting yourself against your own mortality.challenging boundaries and restrictions.not being bound by the same terrors and worries that limit others.The interests of the Adventurous Personality Type include (Oldham, pg.
