Actually I'm more between the Phlegmatic Sanguine and Sanguine, because I'm not quite that low energy always. I'm much more driven and fiercely independent sometimes than that. I think I was going through a period of burn-out from school/depression when I picked that, though I can see sides of myself in both.
yeah. not that i know you better than you, marm, but nothing about your online personality really says phlegmatic to me.
All "Phlegmatic" in that blend means is that the expressive behavior is moderate, or as we would call it, "ambiverted". I/A/E is driven by energy that either pushes us towards people (extroversion) or away from them (introversion). Keep in mind, that in this case, what I'm calling "introversion" and "extroversion" are really what Keirsey calls cooperative and pragmatic. MBTI I/E is
Inclusion (Interaction Style); this is
Control we're talking about.
So to be in the middle, and express as a Phlegmatic, you don't have the energy pushing you towards or away from people in the area of Control (leadership and responsibilities). You can go either way, expressing leadership, or shying away from it.
So compared to the pure Sanguine or Supine, there will be a bit less energy. You even mention "burn-out". That might be from the lower energy. So you will go back and forth in "drivenness".
However, in the
Responsive (wanted) area, you "respond as a Sanguine", meaning you're fully energized to want interaction from people. In the area of Control, this would correspond to Berens' Motive-focus: "focus on motives of why people do what they do, in order to work with them". So there will be energy from that, even if there is lower energy in the expressive dimension.
Over time talking to you, I would think of you as sanguine first.
Yeah I probably am. Phleg-Sang is just me when I'm tired/burnt out/depressed and I just totally shut down and am like "fuck no."
Even on here I seem pretty Sanguine, I get involved in all kinds of things which are unnecessary, there's nothing low energy about my posting style. Lulz.
Well, remember, there is also the Interaction Style, where you fall purely on the Sanguine side (Get Things Going, which is both ESFP and ENFP). That alone makes you on the surface a very Sanguine person. (You did say Phlegmatic-Sanguine in Inclusion as well, but if you're no longer having I/E uncertainty, and are sure of E, then you're likely just pure Sanguine in Inclusion
http://www.pastoral-counseling-center.org/Temperament-Area-of-Inclusion/sanguine-inclusion.htm. Or, it could be the same thing as Control; going back and forth between expressiveness and burning out).