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Crises have a funny way of revealing who people truly are. Your response in a crisis shows more about your personality than the situation itself.  Some remain composed by protecting others. The caring Dove keeps their voice steady and faces relaxed. They listen...

When someone leaves the team, you can feel it. The energy shifts, and skills that you took for granted are lost. As the song says, “You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.” 🦅 When an Eagle leaves, momentum slows down. Decisions take longer. The drive that once...

Some believe many fail due to a lack of skill, intelligence, or experience. However, people often fail because qualities that helped them get promoted become overused and backfire. That insight is key to a landmark study by Robert and Joyce Hogan, published in the...

If you're connected with me, you know that our personality influences everything we do. It shows up in our thought patterns and the choices we make. Today, we'll look at how our style affects the way we eat and how we try to control ourselves to lose weight or stay...

Introvert. Extrovert. We throw these words around as if they’re obvious. But they’re not. Introverts Introverts tend to recharge inwardly. In the Bird Styles, this is seen as the logical, analytical Owls 🦉 and the supportive, empathetic Doves 🕊. Owls turn inward to...

We all want to feel loved, but we don’t all speak the same language. More than 30 years ago, Dr. Gary Chapman introduced the world to the Five Love Languages: Words of Affirmation, Acts of Service, Quality Time, Gifts, and Physical Touch. His simple yet powerful...

As we approach the Super Bowl, football is the perfect lens to study the power of personality. Four NFL teams are named after birds: the Philadelphia Eagles, Baltimore Ravens, Seattle Seahawks, and Arizona Cardinals. But this article explores four very different...

There’s one class every child should learn, and it’s not being taught. It would influence their job, career, and every relationship they ever have. It’s not finance. It’s not coding or AI. It’s not public speaking. The class would be Self-Awareness. Students would...

Susan T. Bell’s 2007 study is one of the most fascinating studies on teams and styles I have ever seen. It’s a meta-analysis, published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, that compiled two decades of research on what truly drives team performance. Instead of...

Over the past twenty years, I’ve helped hundreds of thousands of people understand themselves through four personality styles I call the Eagle, Parrot, Dove, and Owl. When I examine these four fundamental money behaviors—earning, spending, giving, and saving—I see...