The DISC model of human personality types is a powerful tool for success. Your ability to identify a person’s primary DISC personality style, and to use that knowledge appropriately is the key to Adrian Law’s Platinum Rule (which is the subject of another article altogether). So what exactly is the DISC model and why should you care?

A gentleman by the name of Professor William Marsden developed the DISC model around 90 years ago. After studying the behavior of a large group of people, the Professor determined that there are 4 unique behavior styles possessed by each human being, with one of them being dominant. If you understand a person’s main DISC personality type, you can communicate with them more effectively, a skill which sits at the heart of the Platinum Rule.

The DISC acronym stands for the four personality style Professor Marsden identified: Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and Compliance. As you would expect, a person’s dominant personality style directly influences most aspects of their life, including how they interact with others and how best you can interact with them. For example, a person who has a primarily high-D personality will be eager to shake things up, make changes, alter things to work the way they like best. A high-S personality values stability over all else and would be likely to resist change, even when it would be beneficial to them. Unless one of them alters the way they interact, this pairing will cause a lot of stress.

It is human nature to get along better with those who are like us. Because this is so, you can use a person’s DISC style to guide you in interacting with them in the way that they will be most comfortable with. Trying to relax and shoot the breeze with a high-D person would have disastrous results, as would being very matter of fact and task oriented with a high-I person. Since this is so, the ability to recognize someone else’s DISC personality style and modify your approach to one that is compatible with theirs is a powerful tool for succeeding in your interactions with them.

In the Law to Success Mastery program, you will learn practical techniques for determining a person’s DISC personality style as well as show you how to interact with them in ways that will make you both happy while getting you what you want. To learn more about this powerful program, please visit the Law to Success Review at http://TheLawToSuccess.com/

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