Success begins with an individual’s mind and it is all in a state of mind. Sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks and believes in his mind that he can. Mental outlook, mental stamina and mental resoluteness contribute to success. If an individual learns to react positively, with hope and optimism, to life’s various situations, he is bound to develop a successful personality and become a successful person. How an individual reacts to a situation depends upon what he brings into the. situation in terms of his mental mark-up, abilities, attitude, skills, desires, understanding and habits. The interaction between the individual and the situation determines his behaviour and his total personality make-up. A positive personality spells strength, co-operation, leadership and success.
A dominating personality, to yield success and prove beneficial to the organization must have positive orientation to promote collective enterprise in harmony. A strong personality negatively oriented will raise discord, strikes,conflicts and may even lead to violence and total disintegration or downfall of the organization. All employers are therefore keen to select only those endowed with a positive personality for their organization. One of the effective means to find out whether a given individual has a positive or negative personality is the TAT (The mastic Apperception Test). It is the most popular among the. Projective techniques . Here the candidate is requested to record his reactions, Under set conditions, to a vague or structured picture. in the form of a story. The subject observes the picture for a minute or less and then puts down his thoughts revolving around the scene, in the form of a story here are four stories written on the picture shown below. Time allowed to write the story is only five minutes. You can put down your own reaction in the form of a story and compare it with those written by the others. By studying the comments you can draw your own conclusion about yourself.