ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses ten traits including six personality characteristics, two classic motivational drives, and two value orientations. The personality characteristics are self-confidence, decisiveness, resilience, energy, flexibility, and emotional maturity. The classic motivational drives include the willingness to assume responsibility and the need for achievement. The value orientations are personal integrity and service mentality. Emotional maturity is a conglomerate of characteristics indicating that a person is well balanced in a number of psychological and behavioral dimensions. Self-awareness allows people to be objective about their strengths and weaknesses. Self-control leads to both evenness of emotions and balance between oneself and others. Traits are stable characteristics or dispositions, comparatively innate or learned early, and are amenable to modest adjustment over time. More self-confidence tends to increase and improve decisiveness. Greater resilience enhances energy, which leads to greater ability to achieve and to a greater willingness to assume responsibility.
