Dr R K Sanghavi

  # RKS: MORE ABOUT PERSONALITIES (III) TEMPERAMENTS RKS / 2025-2026 / Ser 7 / Blog 6 1st September 2025 TEMPERAMENT TYPES TEMPERAMENT & PERSONALITY Dear Reader, Temperament refers to an individual's inherent, biological predisposition to respond to the environment, often characterized by specific emotional and behavioral tendencies. Attitude, in contrast, represents a learned evaluation of a specific object, person, or situation, influencing thoughts, feelings and behaviors toward it. Personality, on the other hand, encompasses the totality of an individual's characteristics, including their temperament, traits, beliefs, and values shaping their unique way of interacting with the world. KEIRSEY TEMPERAMENT SORTER David Keirsey, an American psychologist, developed the   Keirsey Temperament Sorter in 1978   after learning about the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) system. He traces four "temperaments" back to Ancient Greek traditions. (Vinney C. What Is the Keirs...

        # RKS: MORE ABOUT PERSONALITIES (II) ARE YOU AN ANALYST, DIPLOMAT, SENTINEL OR EXPLORER?  RKS / 2025-2026 / Ser 7 / Blog 5 1st August 2025 DISSECTING PERSONALITIES THE 'A' vs 'T' SUBTYPES Dear Reader, Employers have been using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) self-reporting questionnaire, or its variants, in fixing criteria for hiring; even eligible bachelors and maidens visit these whilst zeroing on their life partners. In MBTI theory, the four categories are introversion/extraversion, sensing/intuition, thinking/feeling and judging/perceiving. According to the MBTI, each person is said to have one preferred quality from each category, producing 16 unique personality types. The 16 MBTI types are typically referred to by an abbreviation of four letters - the initial letters of each of their four type preferences (except in the case of intuition, which uses the abbreviation "N" to distinguish it from introversion).  For instance: ENTJ: ext...

       # RKS: MORE ABOUT PERSONALITIES (I) ATTITUDE DETERMINANTS  RKS / 2025-2026 / Ser 7 / Blog 4 1st July 2025 DETERMINING LIFESTYLE FUNCTIONING ANALYTICAL vs EMOTIONAL CHARACTERISTIC Dear Reader, The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a self-report questionnaire that makes pseudoscientific claims to categorize individuals into 16 distinct "psychological types" or "personality types". The MBTI was constructed during World War II by Americans Katharine Cook Briggs (1875-1968) and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers (1897-1980), inspired by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung's 1921 book Psychological Types.  Fig:  Inventors of MBTI personalities. Briggs began her research into personality in 1917. Upon meeting her future son-in-law, she observed marked differences between his personality and that of other family members.  Although Myers graduated from Swarthmore College in political science in 1919, neither Myers nor Briggs were formally educated in the...

      # RKS: 💤 SLEEP (III) PROMOTE HEALTHY SLEEP - DRIVE AWAY INSOMNIA RKS / 2025-2026 / Ser 7 / Blog 3 1st June 2025 ENSURING OPTIMAL SLEEP ... NATURALLY Dear Reader, In yesteryears sleep therapy was pharmacologically defined as successful inducing sleep for 20 hours in a day for an extended period, say 2 weeks. But in today's context the same is neither acceptable nor practical. Various drugs are available which claim to mimic the physiological sleep pattern. But since drugs are besieged with their own shortcomings in terms of side effects, alternative sleep aids have become very popular and widely accepted. Fig:  Worldwide usage of sleeping aids. In the context of usage of aids for sleeping disturbances the top 10 countries by rank include: Sweden Norway Denmark Singapore New Zealand United States of America (USA) France Canada United Kingdom (UK) Czechia This last blog of a series of 3 pertaining to sleep and its disturbances claims to unfold various options ava...

     # RKS: 💤 SLEEP (II) INSOMNIA aka SLEEPLESSNESS RKS / 2025-2026 / Ser 7 / Blog 2 1st May 2025 INSOMNIA - A PAIN OR A GAIN? THE INSOMNIA OUTBURSTS Dear Reader, The word "insomnia" is derived from the Latin words "in-" meaning "not" and "somnus" meaning "sleep". There are 237 million (mn) insomniacs in the world today and there is a widespread consumption of medication for sleep disturbances including sleeping aids. In the context of global prevalence of insomnia, the top 10 countries by rank include: Brazil (31%) China (24%) South Korea (24%) France (22%) Germany (15%) United States of America (USA) (13%) United Kingdom (UK) (11%) Australia (11%) Japan (10%) Netherlands (5%) One in 4 Indian is suffering from India and 1 in 20 people awake even at 4 a.m. is an Indian! Is the poor sleep voluntary or involuntary is indeed intriguing and makes an interesting study particularly with respect to our country folks. INSOMNIA CLASSIFICATIONS ...