I was very excited to take the PMAI test because I love to find out habits or personality traits that I may not have been aware of. The PMAI was right on when I was given my results, my three strongest archetypes are: Caregiver, Lover, and Jester. I knew from reading over the book about archetypes that my number one would be the caregiver. I worry about other people and how they are feeling, and I try to make everything right. This can be seen as a good thing in the way I am compassionate for people, but also has its drawbacks because I tend to focus on other’s needs before my own. When reading the stories I like and live it seemed to be right on. The caregiver likes stories that show a person’s generosity by helping others and really making a difference. This jumped out at me because one of my favorite movies is “Freedom Writers,” where Hillary Swank takes on the challenge of teaching inner city high school students and gives them the motivation they never received before in order to succeed. My second top score was Lover which I thought was accurate as well. I am passionate towards life and the people in it. Lastly I am a jester which is the person who is happy and always wants to make a situation light hearted and fun. This can also be drawback because while reading the jester as a leader it states: “you may not be comfortable in thinking of yourself as a leader, and the acceptance of leadership is likely to be an important area of growth.” I found this to be something that I have been struggling with since starting my HTM curriculum, and that is that I really do want to be a leader, but I don’t think of myself as a natural leader. It has been something I have been working on and I think I’ve come a long way, but not quite there yet. I really enjoyed learning more about myself and if I were to choose which three archetypes I would be, I probably would’ve chosen the ones the PMAI results showed. I think for the most part, all three described my personality and I am happy with that. I want to be a caregiver, a lover, and the jester. I think life is about love, compassion, and happiness and the PMAI showed that.
I 100% agree with your 3 archetypes. You are always so nice to everyone in class, and are always laughing and smiling. I think this is why I enjoy working in groups with you because you always make it more fun and help me not to be so serious and focused on how we need to get everything done exactly as it says and follow ever rule and policy. I feel like with your caregiver archetype, once you learn to not put all of your energy into caring for others and remember that you, yourself, have priorities too, you will be able to use it to be a great leader in your career. You will be able to gain peoples trust and respect because you ACTUALLY care and they will be able to notice that!
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