Five Elements Personality Test with TCM - Understanding and Managing Work Relationships & Friendships
Having to know which element predominates your personality from the previous Five Elements Personality Test, we can work out how people can relate to one another in various aspects of life such as work, family and loved ones, and understand which kind of elements work best together in the different aspects of life and which do not. Thereafter we can better manage our relationships with others and create a more harmonious relationship in all areas of our lives.
Before knowing how to manage the relationships with identification of which element predominates in your personality, we need to understand how Five Elements interact with one another naturally first. There are 2 basic cycles of the interaction between the Five Elements and we need to understand this first before we proceed on. The 2 basic cycles are the Productive Cycle and the Controlling Cycle. However I will only focus on the Production Cycle for this part of the article.
The Productive Cycle refers to the phase where the Elements support and strengthen each other.
As a rule of thumb, Wood produces Fire; Fire produces Earth; Earth produces Metal; Metal produces Water, Water produces Wood.
Now let us do a quick recap for the characteristics of the Five Elements Personality in work settings.
Wood: Resourceful and technical
Fire: Energetic, full of drive
Earth: Stable, demure, sympathic, empathic
Metal: Righteous and go by the book, straightforward
Water: Wise, ambiguous, fickle
In this part of the article I will just talk about which elements work best together to bring out the best between them in work environment.
Wood persons
To work with Fire persons (Wood grows Fire): Wood persons can guide Fire persons who are willing to do any tasks handed to them but usually do not know how to go about doing it. Wood persons will be resourceful enough to deal with the technicalities of inventing and designing a platform for Fire persons to perform on.
Fire persons
To work with Earth persons (Fire grows Earth): The more stable and demure Earth persons should allow Fire persons to render assistance to them as Fire persons are much driven with their fire energy and will ignite and propel Earth persons in terms of starting something new or when things have reached a point of stagnation.
Earth persons
To work with Metal persons (Earth grows Metal): Metal persons should receive assistance from empathic Earth persons in work to tone down the attachment to extreme principles of Metal personality and return to being more humanistic in work management.
Metal persons
To work with Water persons (Metal grows Water): Straightforward Metal persons will help Water persons to push forward in executions of ideas and creativity, letting things materialize and roll out rather than stuck at the brain storming stage.
Water persons
To work with Wood persons (Water grows Wood): Smart and creative Water persons will support and supply new ideas for the technical development aspect of work by Wood persons.
How about the characteristics of the Five Elements Personality in relationships with people ?
Wood: Competitive, socialize easily
Fire: Genuine dedication, selfless, friends in and out of work
Earth: Kind, compassionate, seeing the best of people, supportive
Metal: Extremely loyal, soft hearted, grateful and appreciative
Water: Honest, welcoming, accepting, flexible
Wood persons
When with Fire persons (Wood grows Fire): Wood persons are generally competitive in relations to other people. They socialize easily and when with Fire persons, will spark the relationship to a whole new level together with the enthusiasm and sincerity from Fire persons.
Fire persons
When with Earth persons (Fire grows Earth): The sincerity and selflessness of Fire persons will be warmly received and complemented with Earth persons’ sympathy and empathy. When Fire and Earth persons come together, often a strong and stable relationship will be forged through both real and kind hearts.
Earth persons
When with Metal persons (Earth grows Metal): The support from Earth persons will be well received with much appreciation from the Metal persons. From there, long lasting and committed relationships can be built between people of the two elemental personalities.
Metal persons
When with Water persons (Metal grows Water): Righteous Metal persons will be drawn to the honesty of Water persons. Together, Metal and Water relationships are built on acceptance of each other, hence there is always a tinge of appreciation and allowing in the interactions of the two elemental personalities.
Water persons
When with Wood persons (Water grows Wood): The accepting character of Water persons will soften yet encouraging and nourishing the strong headed Wood persons, making the relationship an ever growing and developing one. New fresh ideas and developments can flourish easily between the two elemental personalities.
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