THE FOUR TEMPRAMENTS WHICH, DEFINES GHANIANS?

The four temperaments describe the patterns of personality and are based on the description of an individual’s behavior. It tells us the ‟why ”of our motives and sources of our psychological stress.

Knowing our temperaments tells us our core needs and values as well as the talents we are more likely to be drawn to develop. The four temperaments are sanguine, choleric, melancholic and phlegmatic.

The sanguine temperaments are sociable and charismatic. They enjoy social gatherings, making new friends and tend to be boisterous. They are quite creative, talkative, compassionate, sensitive and thoughtful .Often they pursue a new hobby and lose interest as soon as it ceases to be fun. Sanguines tend to be forgetful, sarcastic, have shameless nature and very confident.

Cholerics on the other hand have temperaments qualities like being ambitious and leader like. They have a lot of aggression, passion and energy which they try to instill in others. They love to be dominant over others. Most great charismatic military leaders are cholerics.However; cholerics tend to be highly disorganized and essentially very much prone to mood swings.

The qualities of a melancholic temperaments include being introvert and thoughtful. Melancholics are often perceived very considerate, pondering, getting rather worried when they are late for events. They can be highly creative in poetry and art and are preoccupied with the tragedy and cruelties in the world.Moreso, melancholics are self reliant and independent; one negative part of melancholics is selfishness.

People with the phlegmatic temperaments are fundamentally relaxed and quite warmly attentive to being lazily sluggish. They tend to content with themselves and kind. They are accepting and affectionate. Most phlegmatics are shy and receptive and prefer stability to uncertainty and change. They are relaxed, calm, rational, curious and observant. This makes them administrators.

Based on this description of the four temperaments, we can draw a conclusion of the patterns that defines the 24million Ghanaians .we might have shades of all the four but we are more of the phlegmatic temperaments. We are lazy and accept things as they are rather than embracing change.

It is amazing how we make noise about social, political, and economic a issue suggesting various solution yet we make no efforts to inculcate these in our way of life. Am not a prophet of doom or criticizing anybody but I can say for a fact that if we continue with these attitudes we will be left with nothing as a nation in future. Ghanaians are fond of stability to uncertainty.

Ghanaians love singing the same chorus ‟nyame b3 y3”when we encounter problems. There is no doubt of God being the ultimate solution, but if we sit with our arms between our tights will our problems be solved?

In this era of‟dumsology”and ‟tweaa”economic crises, what have done as a people than to criticize those in office. True they are to be held accountable but what have you and I as individuals done to help ourselves and the nation as a whole.

Its time we embrace change, be creative and innovative. Its time we stop being lazily sluggish and be problem solving. Now is the time we become independent of external hands as a nation and on government as individuals.