Personality & the Brain: A new perspective on the ESTP
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The Striving Styles Personality System (SSPS) is a neuro-psychological framework designed to facilitate personal development and behavioral change by understanding how individuals' needs and emotions influence their behavior. It emphasizes the importance of integrating all four brain functions and utilizing one’s 'striving style squad' to develop skills beyond one's predominant style for better adaptation and fulfillment. By properly managing and accessing associate styles, individuals can enhance their problem-solving abilities, relationships, and overall effectiveness.
Personality & the Brain: A new perspective on the ESTP
- 1. The Striving Styles Personality System is a neuro‐psychological framework for development, behavioral change and achieving potential. It provides a step‐by‐step roadmap for breaking longstanding patterns of behavior that get in the way by re‐patterning the brain. An evolution of the MBTI®, it’s a powerful approach that can be used in any developmental program. www.StrivingStyles.com 416.406.3939 info@strivingstyles.com Personality & the Brain: A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON THE MBTI’S ESTP TYPE Based on the Striving Styles® Personality System What Is the Striving Styles® Personality System? The Striving Styles Personality System (SSPS™ ) is a revolutionary approach to helping you achieve your potential. It is a complete system incorporating Psychological Type, Emotional Intelligence, Needs Theory and Brain Development theories. It shows you how your brain is organized, how your needs and emotions influence your behavior, and how to strengthen your authentic self to become the person you are meant to be. The SSPS is based on the assertion that each of us is born with a predominant need and pattern of energy (Striving Style) that determines how we will behave in order to get that need met. The Striving Styles does not provide a laundry list of strengths and weaknesses; rather, it takes into account the complexity of your brain’s functioning and its impact on your personality. Adapting the MBTI® to Advances in Neuroscience Jung believed we have four mental functions in consciousness, meaning that our brain has four distinct areas in which these functions are located. By incorporating brain specialization and dominance, the SSPS provides insight into the mechanics of our minds and how our brain is organized so we can direct how it functions and how we feel. These four quadrants in our brain are meant to work together in an integrated fashion. Neuroscience has shown that when this integration does not happen, we become rigid and inflexible in thought and action. It also shows that it leads to physical and mental illness, including dementia. The SSPS teaches how to use all four functions of the brain in a step‐by‐step approach to development, leading to a healthy brain and a self‐actualizing human being. The Striving Style Squad Just as you have four quadrants in your brain, you have access to the striving energies of four “people”, called your Striving Style Squad. One of these four is your ‘alpha’ and dominates the others as your Predominant Striving Style. The other three – your Associate Styles – have different talents and abilities based on where they are situated in the brain. It is your Predominant Style that determines your Associate Styles based on Jung’s Theory of Psychological Type. Understanding the role each Striving Style plays in your personality and how each improves and enhances the functioning of the others is key to the fulfillment of your potential. It allows you to shift gears when you need to, drawing on the strengths and abilities of other members of your Squad, rather than only using your Predominant Style.
- 2. Personality & the Brain: A New Perspective on the MBTI’s ESTP Type The Striving Styles Personality System is a neuro‐psychological framework for development, behavioral change and achieving potential. It provides a step‐by‐step roadmap for breaking longstanding patterns of behavior that get in the way by re‐patterning the brain. An evolution of the MBTI®, it’s a powerful approach that can be used in any developmental program. www.StrivingStyles.com 416.406.3939 info@strivingstyles.com The ESTP’s Striving Style Squad DON’T OVERUSE YOUR PREDOMINANT STRIVING STYLE Your Predominant Striving Style is easier to use because it has more neural networks in place and is easily activated to use a set of prescribed behaviors. You have a tendency to use the behaviors that make you feel strongest and most confident – those of your Predominant Style. If you do this, you will only be successful in the situations where that type of behavior is effective. When Associates are not used and are left underdeveloped, it leaves the behavioral pattern of the Predominant Style to take care of performing roles and tasks it is not intended to do. This significantly limits our capacity for development, and can create inflexibility in our ability to respond to our relationships, our environment and new experiences that life brings us. MANAGE YOUR SQUAD EFFECTIVELY Although, your brain is designed so that your Squad is able to work together, your Predominant Striving Style can still overrule your Associate Styles if you are not in the driver’s seat. While you may not feel quite as comfortable with these three Associate Styles, you still need to access support from them when you need to. Otherwise, they will remain underdeveloped and are likely to be ineffective, awkward or undermining when you attempt to use them. Alternatively, you may already be conditioned into using an Associate Style instead of your Predominant Style because of what is socially and culturally acceptable. This leads to instinctive, emotional self‐ protective behaviors that can undermine your effectiveness at home, at work and in your relationships. Find out the extent to which you are using each member of your Squad by taking the SSPS Level I Assessment. It is up to you to learn how to manage and direct the activity of each member of your Squad to your advantage. It takes time to get comfortable using the Associates initially as it requires conscious attention to do so. Leveraging your Associate Styles ultimately allows you to see things from a different perspective, be creative in problem solving, and practice self‐care and care of others as you go about living your life.
- 3. Personality & the Brain: A New Perspective on the MBTI’s ESTP Type The Striving Styles Personality System is a neuro‐psychological framework for development, behavioral change and achieving potential. It provides a step‐by‐step roadmap for breaking longstanding patterns of behavior that get in the way by re‐patterning the brain. An evolution of the MBTI®, it’s a powerful approach that can be used in any developmental program. www.StrivingStyles.com 416.406.3939 info@strivingstyles.com Activities Best Suited to Your Predominant Style The Adventurer Style leads from their left, emotional brain where they ensure everything in their world is as it should be, so that they can experience the sensations they want to experience. The left, emotional brain is connected to the processing of positive and more complex emotions that involve thinking. More objective than the right emotional brain, it seeks to know how an object or person will create a desired sensation. Because of this, the Adventurer, who is driven by a predominant need to be spontaneous, is one of the most active and freedom loving of all the Striving Styles. Use your Adventurer Striving Style when you need to: Stay active Stay in the present moment Problem solve Take risks Activities that Are Better Left to Your Squad Each of your Associates has a unique set of talents and abilities based on its location in the brain. When an ESTP learns to incorporate them fully, rather than over‐ relying on their Predominant Adventurer Style, they move towards fulfilling their potential and becoming who they are meant to be. Use your Intellectual to manage impulsiveness and to be taken seriously. Intellectuals think and reason before speaking or acting. They consider facts, ask questions and evaluate situations before moving to action. Without the Intellectual, Adventurers run the risk of reacting on immediate criteria only and solving problem superficially. Use your Socializer to connect and communicate with others. Socializers spend time with others for the sake of the relationship, not just when things are exciting. They are great communicators who care about people and offer help generously. Without the Socializer, Adventurers seem like “fair‐weather” friends who might bolt when the good‐times stop rolling. Use your Visionary to create a vision for the future beyond what currently exists. Visionaries see how what needs to be done is connected to the bigger picture and act accordingly. They consider the implications of their actions, rather than just reacting. If they don’t use their Visionary, Adventurers don’t consider the consequences of their actions and suffer as a result. Discover more about how to develop your whole brain by purchasing a Leveraging Your Squad Report for the Adventurer with Intellectual. With the SSPS, you get more than just an assessment – you get a comprehensive, step-by-step roadmap for development based on brain organization. Expedite development by becoming a SSPS Practitioner today!