Persuaders The Sanguine Personality Types of the PURE System
Like the sanguine personality types described by the Ancient Greek physician Galen who built on Hippocrates' "four humors" system of personality typing, persuaders are optimistic, cheerful, confident and full of energy. Like rulers they are extroverts, have short attention spans, like fast movement and are not terribly detailed. Like unifiers they are relationship-oriented "people people" - they are more interested in who they're with rather than what it is that they're doing.
Persuaders love to tell funny stories and always have an anecdote at hand for any occasion - it doesn't matter what the topic or situation, a persuader will have a story about it. They love the sound of their own voice - and making fun of other people's. Some of them are excellent impressionists, taking off the boss or your great aunt Edna to a tee. With great social skills persuaders can talk their way out of all kinds of situations - or they'll try to. They hate to be embarrassed in public so will do everything they can to "explain away" behavior that may land them in trouble.
Hugely creative, persuaders are wonderful innovators with their "blue skies" thinking - some of their plans, however, may turn out to be impractical. Also, they are not great on follow-through - they leave that to the rulers and the examiners. Easily distracted, these sanguine personality types like a lot of "color and movement" and the joke in the workplace or at school is that you can catch a persuader's attention by dangling anything shiny in front of them.
Famous persuaders include Bart Simpson and Bobby Hill, and in real-life Jim Carrey, Richard Branson and Ellen de Generes.
The persuader's motto: Live fast, die young, leave clean underwear.
