Cross Balance

Four Temperaments

The Greeks (i.e. Hippocrates) defined temperaments (or humours) into four types
- sanguine, melancholic, phlegmatic, and choleric.
In rather more understandable terms, these can be called:

introvert/watcher, introvert/thinker, extrovert/talker, extrovert/doer

The last bit of each term corresponds with the faculties just described.
 In our daily lives we have to exercise all four faculties.

However,
it seems that we all tend to have a bias towards one or another faculty,
and this begins to determine our different personalities.
In the same way that the faculties can be paired,
so can the temperaments that form a spectrum between each pair.
Thus both spectra start with an introvert and end with an extrovert.
And the thinker is paired with the talker,
and the watcher (observer or listener) with the doer.