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 four personality styles that the professor identified are: Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and Compliance (hence the acronym DISC). 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 with a primarily high-D personality will usually be a take-charge character interested in accomplishing tasks and getting stuff done. A high-I person, on the other hand, will be very people-oriented and more interested in telling stories and talking about themselves than in accomplishing tasks or being productive.

Because each personality type values different things, and we all tend to like people who are most like us, you need to take a person’s DISC style into account when dealing with them. If you’ve ever tried to chit-chat with a high-D person, or stay right on task with a high-I person, you know the futility of trying to interact with a person using a style that isn’t compatible with their own. 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, Adrian Law and his team can teach you practical techniques for recognizing 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. If you would like to learn more, please visit the Law to Success Review at http://TheLawToSuccess.com/