Practical emotional intelligence slides on persoanlity type 6- the devil's advocate.

1. Practical Emotional Intelligence
Volume 16: Personality Type 6:
The Devil’s Advocate
(part 2 of 2)
Adopted from the book ‘Stop Being Your Self’ by
Ronan Gallagher

2. Today’s
Content:
Type 6: The
Devil’s
Advocate
(part 2 of 2)
Type 6: Unhealthy Relationships
Type 6: Signs of Stress
Type 6: Signs of Growth
Type 6: Self-Care Signs
Type 6: Self-Care & Mindfulness Exercises

3. Type 6: Unhealthy
Relationships
Type 6 relates to others in a neurotic
and unproductive way, by:
Focusing on their anxious concerns
and making others endure their
complaining.
Being suspicious and paranoid
about other’s motives.
Focusing on and constantly testing
other’s authenticity and
commitment to them.

4. Type 6: Signs of Stress
When Type 6 feels that life is not going as planned,
in times of stress or uncertainty, they will:
Become even more fixated on detail and spend an
inordinate amount of time on the same.
Act competitively with their peers, to maintain
their image.
Competitiveness can manifest as extreme
alignment with beliefs or groups and
dismissiveness to any outliers.

5. Type 6:
Signs of
Growth
Move from a negative, pessimistic individual that is always
catastrophising to an optimistic, loyal and supportive friend.
Change from being constantly fearful and anxious, to a more
relaxed, trustful individual.
When a Type 6 has made a conscious decision to leave
behind the unhelpful aspects of their personality and to
deepen their self-awareness through mindfulness practices,
they:

6. Type 6: Self-Care Signs
A Type 6 needs to plan some Self-Care,
when:
They lose faith in themselves to deal
with personal problems.
They give away their personal
autonomy to beliefs and groups,
instead of trusting own intuition.

7. Type 6: Self-Care and Mindfulness Exercises
Meditate 5 weekday mornings per week for 5 mins. Meditation or mind training, is the only way we can permanently change our
ability to regulate our emotions, without external help.
Meditate
Write a letter to your parents. Write a paragraph on why you are angry at them and a paragraph on why you are grateful to them.
Write
Start a regular physical exercise routine.
Start
Request that individuals make their position or intentions clear. Explain in a positive manner, that you would like to understand
their perspective.
Request
Seek Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or Clinical Hypnotherapy.
Seek
Keep a journal for 1 month and note all your fears and worries, then note how the things turned out that you were concerned
about.
Keep

8. Thank you very much for reading!
Next week the focus is on Type 7- The Optimist