Everyone is drawn to particular kinds of people. The characteristics I value in others is someone who's adventurous, lives in the moment, honest, encouraging, funny, and isn't serious all the time. I like to enjoy life, and want to spend time with someone who is joyous and full of optimism. As for characteristics, I want to portray to others is optimistic, funny, caring, hardworking, and outgoing. I want to be known as the person who people can rely on and enjoy spending time with. I know life won't always be pleasurable and there will be hard times, I want them to know that I'll be there for them and will cheer them up if they are feeling down. Based on these traits I want to portray to others, I feel like I possess all of these characteristics although I've been a little less …show more content…
Although a temperament can influence one's behavior, it can't define or predict every action one will do. Instead, it's a way for other people to understand how one behaves. These temperament traits are determined by several attributes such as an infant’s level of activity, adaptability to daily routines, responding to new situations, mood, and, how quickly they adapt to changes. In young children, there are three activity levels, easy, difficult, and slow to warm. Easy (flexible) children tend to be happy, have regular sleeping and eating habits, adaptable, and calm. Active (feisty) children on the other hand, are on the complete opposite spectrum of flexible children. They're sometimes a bit fussy, have intermittent feeding and sleeping habits, and are fearful of new people and situations. Lastly, slow to warm (cautious) children are a bit of a mix of flexible and feisty children. They may be less active or tend to be fussy, and may react negatively to new situations, but over time they become more confident when they are repeatedly exposed to a situation.