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Choleric

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Choleric individuals are often characterized by their energetic, industrious, and assertive nature.

They tend to be strong-willed, determined, and passionate.

This temperament is associated with the summer season and the fire element.

Fire represents passion, transformation, and energy. It embodies creativity, destruction, and renewal, as it can forge new paths and cleanse away the old.

Fire’s intensity and warmth reflect its dual nature of creation and annihilation.


Strengths of Choleric Temperaments


Potential Challenges

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general characteristics

  • Quick Reaction
  • Maximum effort to control
  • Issue-oriented
  • Ask "what"
  • Fast
  • Born leader
  • Dynamic and active
  • Compulsive need for change
  • Must correct wrongs
  • Strong willed and decisive
  • Unemotional
  • Not easily discouraged
  • Independent and self-sufficient
  • Radiate confidence
  • Can run anything

as parents

  • Exhibit sound leadership
  • Establish goals
  • Motivate family to action
  • Know the right answer
  • Build an organized household

at work

  • Goal-oriented
  • See the whole picture
  • Organize well
  • Seek practical solutions
  • Move quickly to action
  • Delegate work
  • Insist on production
  • Achieve the goal
  • Stimulate activity
  • Thrive on opposition

as friends

  • Will lead and organize
  • Will work for group activity
  • Are usually right
  • Excel in emergencies


cholerics will get stressed out when you...
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If you want to help cholerics...

respect you
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They will hold you in high esteem if they see your commitment in the form of hard work.

Be willing to take initiative.

Offer suggestions that they didn't ask for.

As always, prepare for a fight, but they will appreciate your drive.

get to work
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Establish what the problem is and then just get them to work.

do business with you
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They aren't there to chat or make friends.

They are there to do business.

Nothing could be worse than asking where they live, where they spent their last vacation, or what they thought of the game last night.

Don't flatter cholerics if you don't know them well.

Just leave the compliments at home.

Paradoxically, cholerics are the easiest to sell to.

Although they often demand that they make all the important decisions themselves, they strongly dislike dealing with vacillating people.

Comments like, "It's hard to say", "It depends" or, "I don't really know what to say" just frustrate cholerics.

listen to you
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It's best to focus on what they have to say, because once they're convinced you understand them, then and only then will they listen to your point of view.

Deliver you opinion without blinking.

have their full attention
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Cut the small talk.

It's vital you're clear and straightforward.

do better work
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Try to demonstrate the benefits of keeping an eye on the details.

Explain that the results will be better and profits larger if they just consider a couple of small but crucial elements of the project.

see your tempo synchronized to their own
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Hurry up! Speed up! Speak and act more quickly.



Cholerics grow in the spiritual life by...

  1. acknowledging their own role in the problems they attribute to others

  2. practicing the virtues of meekness and humility

  3. nurturing their interior life as a habit

  4. making good examinations of conscience

  5. relating all of their actions to supernatural motives