The Perfect Melancholy

Perfect Melancholy

·       Perfect Melancholy appears to be thinking deeply. He is quiet, undemanding, and likes to be alone. He follows schedules strictly. Noise and confusion will bother him and he will not adapt well to be dragged around to different places and having his routine upset. They prefer to work alone because conversation only slows progress.

(In call center setting, these are the people who don’t join team building and eat their lunch alone. Likewise, they are the people who are fixated to one post in a bay. They hate being transferred from one station to another.It doesn’t matter who their seatmate was.)

·       They are serious and reliable. They doesn’t feel life is very funny and finds it impossible to smile. They are people who are serious of purpose, dedicated to order and organization, and appreciative of beauty and intelligence. They don’t dash off in search of excitement but analyze the best plan for their lives. They are people who set long–range goals and want to do only what has eternal purpose.

·       Perfect Melancholies are the soul, the mind, the spirit, the heart of humanity.

·       Perfect Melancholy is born with pessimistic nature, and foresees problems before they happen.

·       While getting organized would help everyone achieve a higher level, for Perfect Melancholy it is the basic essential of life. They love the use of lists, charts and graphs. Perfect Melancholies must have things organized, or they can’t function.

(This characteristic makes Perfect Melancholy fit for Managerial position (e.g. TeamLeader or Operations Manager) for they can see the cost before counting. Their organization skills allows them to track group of people)

·       Perfect Melancholy is usually well dressed and meticulously groomed. The most important part of life to any Perfect Melancholy is his schedule. He needs to know where he is going, when, and why. A day without direction is a cause of insurrection.

·       Perfect Melancholy’s motto in life is “If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing right.” It’s never a matter of how fast he can do it, but how well. The quality is always more important than the quantity.

·       In a society where mediocrity is accepted as above average, Perfect Melancholy always set the highest standard.

·       Perfect Melancholies make excellent counselors because they have a deep ability to see into the hearts of others. They are willing to listen to people’s problem, analyze them, and come up with viable solutions. Perfect Melancholy has sincere compassion for others and really cares.

(Because of this, Perfect Melancholies are hard to trick or cone when in a call. They could easily analyze who is telling the truth and who genuinely needs help. Once they sense that callers are manipulating, they know how to ride with the manipulation)

·       Because Perfect Melancholies are perfectionist, they want perfect mates. They make friends cautiously, to see if people measure up, and they would rather have a few faithful, devoted friends than an abundance of acquaintances as do Popular Sanguine.

·       Perfect Melancholies are emotional except that their highs are higher, their lows lower, and the whole pattern is prolonged.

(In a typical quality audit, you will see inconsistency with Perfect Melancholy, at times they are perky and at times they are grumpy.)

Negative side:

·       Perfect Melancholy loves the study of temperament because it gives him analytical tools to use in his constant search for introspection – and yet he resists the temperaments because he is afraid the theory is too simple, too easy to understand, and is not deep enough to be significant. He refuses to be put in a box with a label, because he feels that, unlike other temperaments, he is unique being, complex not known even to himself, and surely not able to be put in any general grouping.

·       With Perfect Melancholies it is sometimes hard to tell happy from sad, because they don’t ever want to get too excited, and most of life is serious.

·       They are gloomy people who never tends to be cheerful.

·       The Perfect Melancholy mind is like a radio dial on which the station is set on negative. They love to focus on the negative side of life.

·       When one spends much mental energy dwelling on negative, such mind falls easily into depression.

·       Because Perfect Melancholies has low self–images, they tend to seek praise in a subtle way that even they don’t recognize in themselves.

·       Because Perfect Melancholies are perfectionist, they often refrain from starting certain projects because they are afraid they won’t do them right. They often hold back because they have to do it perfectly.

·       Many Perfect Melancholies feel there is something wrong with them because they are not lighthearted and jovial as others seem to be. People tell them to cheer up and loosen up, and they withdraw instead.

(You can spot this type of personality in a quality audit. You will notice that they are so formal. They are stiff. They don’t show emotion that much.)