The 8 Colors

Personality type: What are the 8 Colors?
There are 8 basic ways your mind works – these make up the 8 colors.
You use all 8 colors (everyone does!), but you prefer some colors over others. This affects your personality, interests, strengths and weaknesses.

Red
- Freely interacting with the world
- Experiencing what's happening using your five senses
- Taking immediate physical action
- Being drawn to the most exciting thing around you

Orange
- Seeing possibilities
- Envisioning ways to improve what exists
- Creating something new
- Recognizing apparent patterns

Yellow
- Setting measurable goals
- Making and enforcing plans, rules and boundaries
- Giving directions
- Applying rule-based logic and cause-effect thinking

Lime
- Playing the proper social role
- Living according to culturally-shared values
- Developing and maintaining relationships
- Reinforcing harmony in your environment

Jade
- Verifying
- Reliving the details and emotions of the past
- Recognizing the natural order of things
- Comparing what's happening now to previous experiences

Blue
- Having vision
- Synthesizing to recognize the central theme or significance
- Reading between the lines
- Seeing images and symbols that provide insight

Violet
- Discovering how things work
- Arranging information into precise analytical categories
- Defining the purpose
- Applying principle-based logic and strategic thinking

Plum
- Determining the importance
- Comparing reality to an internal image of how things should be
- Evaluating the worth
- Striving to attain inner tranquility or peace