THE WINNING MIND

The antidote to selfishness is LOVE. To the Sanguine that loves to speak, "If [you] speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, [you] are a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal". To the analytical Melancholy "if [you] have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, but [you] have not love, [you] are nothing." To the optimistic Choleric that loves to work "if [you] have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, [you] are nothing. To the Phlegmatic, even if [you] give away all [you] have, and deliver up [your] body to be burned, but have not love, [you] gain nothing. This is the definition of Love: Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. In love, we thi...

To be selfish is to be devoted to oneself; to care about or be concerned about oneself only; to lack consideration for other people or to be concerned with only one's personal pleasure or profit. Selfishness is part of human nature. Everyone is selfishness at some point and to some degree. The choleric with a keen mind thinks of goals, ideas and plans. He focusses on his goals and the tasks associated with its fulfillment. However, he is sefish when he does not care about the welfare and wellbeing of the people involved in supporting him to make his ideas a reality. He wants his tasks to be done as quickly as possible and he is ready to be ruthless with anyone who wants to hinder his move. The Sanguine has a fun-loving mind, he is always full of jokes and likes people to be attracted to him because of his jokes and friendliness. He exhibits the selfish traits when he gets upset when he is not at the centre of people's attraction. He also does not like to take responsibility ...

He loves an easy and simple thought-life. He loves to think of life and activities as happy, lively and fun. This makes his mind free of worries, troubles and fear. His lively and fun-loving mind seem to always have its bank full of jokes and funny stories that generously and effortlessly flows out of his mouth. However, he exhibits a shallow thinking pattern by avoiding in-depth, problem-solving, solution - based thinking. His mind is greatly controlled by the outward force of emotion. His mind is like a leaf blown by the wind of what he sees, hears, tastes and feels. This makes him give complements such as: 'how beautiful', 'how colourful', 'how delicious', 'how lovely' and so on. His mind engages in minimal thought processing which is a limiting factor. He suffers forgetfulness and tends to being apologetic so often. When a he is scolded or told off, he soon forgets what he was corrected on and makes the same mistake again, then apologises.  It ...