tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81476769095333662512024-03-18T09:26:16.325-07:00World SocionicsBlog providing articles and introductory guides to Socionics, the theory of personality type.Jack Oliver Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17146920373925937305noreply@blogger.comBlogger133125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8147676909533366251.post-15920955687140417642024-03-11T04:35:00.000-07:002024-03-12T09:33:06.112-07:00Gore Vidal (ILI): Personality Type Analysis<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRjuOMeiZsu36gv6A9s2ZeUafWILfJgmavRetmOJj1f3R3T_d9BG5gBhT_6M0MP2M1AZrXFUA2KQs1ynPnq765QJVpAkAk2oGXiMFjUBaVm6wt6FLZSTxOZSLaPd5qcTA1_dfxI3HIZebH1tXQDzS6fyPfPK9yW6_zHpS40dr_bIYSWc3rLogvAKrLr937/s1200/gore-vidal.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRjuOMeiZsu36gv6A9s2ZeUafWILfJgmavRetmOJj1f3R3T_d9BG5gBhT_6M0MP2M1AZrXFUA2KQs1ynPnq765QJVpAkAk2oGXiMFjUBaVm6wt6FLZSTxOZSLaPd5qcTA1_dfxI3HIZebH1tXQDzS6fyPfPK9yW6_zHpS40dr_bIYSWc3rLogvAKrLr937/w320-h320/gore-vidal.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b>Gore Vidal</b> (Eugene Luther Gore Vidal) was an American writer of novels, essays, stage plays and scripts for television and cinema, active from the 1940s to the 2000s. Towards the end of his life he became better known as a political polemicist in essays, interviews and speeches, mostly denouncing what he called "the national security state" in the US. He was on occasion a political candidate, running unsuccessfully as a Democrat in 1960 for Congress in what was then New York's 29th District, and in 1982 in the California primaries for the US Senate. During his 1960 campaign, he actually came up with the concept of what would later become the Peace Corps, introduced by President Kennedy.<div><br /></div><div><div>As a writer, Vidal was best known for such bestselling novels as <i>The City and the Pillar</i> (1948), <i>Julian </i>(1964), <i>Myra Breckingridge</i> (1968), <i>Burr</i> (1973), <i>Creation </i>(1981) and <i>Lincoln </i>(1984). His last novel was <i>The Golden Age</i> (2000). In his later years he focused increasingly on memoirs and political essays. As a playwright, Vidal had great success with <i>Visit to a Small Planet</i> in 1957 and then <i>The Best Man</i> in 1960, which was made into a movie in 1964 and revived on Broadway in 2012. During the so-called "Golden Age of Television", in the years 1954-59, Vidal had an extremely productive and successful period, writing a large number of plays for live TV performances. He was less successful when writing screenplays for motion pictures: most famously, he felt cheated of the credit he thought he deserved as one of the (in the end uncredited) two authors of the shooting script of <i>Ben-Hur</i> (1959); and he later sued the producers of <i>Caligula </i>(1979) in order to <i>not </i>be given credit for the script of the released movie. His most successful efforts in writing for the screen were the movie version of <i>The Best Man</i> (1964), and the now little-known TV movie of 1989, <i>Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid</i>. In the 1990s Vidal also started to work occasionally in small parts as a movie actor, most notably in <i>Bob Roberts</i> (1992) and <i>With Honors</i> (1994).</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Vidal was sort-of related to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: stockbroker Hugh D. Auchincloss was Vidal's, and then Jackie Kennedy's stepfather; they had half-siblings and/or stepsiblings in common. That gave Vidal access to the Kennedy White House for a couple of years. His peak as a television personality and political pundit was perhaps his series of debates on ABC with William F. Buckley (perhaps <b>LSE</b>) discussing the 1968 presidential primaries of both parties. Those debates have received renewed attention due to the 2015 documentary <i>Best of Enemies</i>, which has been recently adapted as a London play of the same name.</div><div><br /></div><div>Gore Vidal also gained public notoriety, especially after <i>The City and the Pillar</i>, with his views on sexuality (his basic thesis was that everyone was actually bisexual, and that homosexual acts between supposedly straight people were far more common than generally assumed). That part of his reputation led to Netflix producing a biopic in 2017, <i>Gore</i>, focusing on his sexual lifestyle. That film has remained unreleased due to the legal and image problems of its star, Kevin Spacey; perhaps his recent acquittal will eventually lead to Netflix finally releasing it.</div><div><br /></div><div><u><i><b>Life and work</b></i></u>: Vidal was born in 1925 in West Point, the son of Olympic athlete and aviation pioneer Gene Vidal, who later became Franklin Roosevelt's director of air commerce, and Nina Gore, daughter of US Senator for Oklahoma Thomas Gore. As a child, Gore Vidal spent much time at his grandfather's mansion in Washington, DC; when he was 10, his mother Nina divorced Gene Vidal and married stockbroker Hugh D. Auchincloss, who likewise lived in a mansion just outside Washington. That second marriage lasted for some six years. He has said that he was in the situation of having grown up in very wealthy households, while not being wealthy himself. That did give him access to a good education in elite boarding schools, where in his early teens he met Jimmie Trimble, who would remain forever Vidal's ideal, or idealized, companion, mentioned very often in his writings (in fact, Vidal described his psychological connection to Trimble in a way that sounds pretty much like socionics duality. Trimble was later killed during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945).</div><div><br /></div><div>After high school, Vidal had been accepted at Harvard but he chose to enlist in the army in 1943. He spent most of WWII in the Aleutian Islands as the first mate of a supply ship, but without seeing actual fighting. That experience led to two lifechanging events for him: the icy ocean water gave him hypothermia and rheumatoid arthritis in his left knee, which would eventually cripple him much later in life; and it gave him the material, and time, to write his first novel, <i>Williwaw</i>, published in 1946. That was among the first war novels set in WWII; it was successful commercially and critically and confirmed his career choice as a writer, at 20.</div><div><br /></div><div>For the next eight years Vidal pursued that career, with varying success. His first two books after <i>Williwaw </i>were well received but not very successful commercially. Then <i>The City and the Pillar</i> (1948), written in Guatemala where he chose to live for a few years, was much more successful, remaining in print for decades, but its portrayal of homosexuality was controversial at the time and led the <i>New York Times</i> critic to refuse to review any further of his books for many years. Today it would be said that the NYT decided to "cancel" Vidal. That did damage the sales of his next few books and forced him to look for other means of making a living: at first he tried writing popular novels under pseudonyms, but except for the three mysteries that he wrote under the name of Edgar Box, those efforts were not very successful although they did keep him afloat financially for a while. Still exploring other means of increasing his income, he finally got his "big break" as a writer of live TV plays for CBS and NBC, broadcast from their New York studios. Such plays were a major part of network programming at the time. That kind of job was perfect for one of Gore Vidal's greatest strengths, the ability to write scripts or popular novels in just a few days. That period was extremely profitable and essentially removed Vidal from serious financial worries for the rest of his life.</div><div><br /></div><div>That era of live TV plays did not survive the 1950s, and Vidal gradually shifted his activities towards writing, or "fixing", Hollywood movie scripts as a MGM contract writer. Paradoxically his best-known work for Hollywood remains one for which he received no credit: he was one of two writers who completed the final shooting script for<i> Ben-Hur</i> (1959) even as it was being shot, but the writer's guild decided to give sole credit to the author of a much earlier first draft. That experience made him fed up with Hollywood, and he turned his attention to two other activities in 1960: he wrote the political play <i>The Best Man</i>, which was very successful on Broadway, and he ran for Congress as a Democrat in upstate New York, where he had been living for some years. Although he lost, he did better than any Democrat for decades in what had been a solid Republican district. That, along with the success of <i>The Best Man</i> and his connection to John Kennedy's social circle via his relationship with Jackie Kennedy, made Gore a (peripheral) member of the social elite at the time, with some access to White House dinner parties and to the Kennedys' private homes. </div><div><br />That did not last long. First, Gore decided to use his hard-won financial independence to focus on his novel <i>Julian</i>, a work that required months of historical research which he preferred to conduct in Rome. Secondly, he had started yet another career as a writer of political and cultural essays, and in early 1963 he wrote one attacking Robert Kennedy as unfit temperamentally to ever be president. That not only burned his bridges with the Kennedy circle politically but also (apparently to his surprise) ended his personal relationship with Jackie Kennedy. Fortunately for Gore, <i>Julian </i>was a very successful bestseller in 1964, allowing to return to what had always been his preferred career as a writer: novels. </div><div><br /></div><div>So for the next forty years, besides a vast number of literary and political essays, Gore wrote a succession of novels (especially in the seventies and eighties) which can be divided into two broad categories: historical novels, mostly dealing with the history of the US (<i>Burr</i>, <i>1876</i>, <i>Lincoln,</i> <i>Empire</i>, etc) and <i>Creation</i>, set in classical antiquity; and quirky, fantastic, rather absurd novels where he seemed to be enjoying or indulging himself, and which he called his "inventions": <i>Myra Breckinridge</i>, <i>Duluth</i>, <i>Kalki</i>, <i>Live from Golgotha</i>, etc. His novels were written in partial social isolation, at his apartment in Rome or his villa in Ravello; largely a solitary life apart from a limited circle of close friends and intimates, and from his frequent appearances at TV chat shows, most famously debating William F. Buckley on ABC in 1968 in a series of programs on the presidential primaries of both parties. But Gore did not essentially change his lifestyle or approach to his career for decades, except for brief attempts at returning to politics: first in 1972 when he campaigned for the People's Party; then in 1982 when he ran for the Democratic primaries in California for the US Senate, losing to Jerry Brown. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8Rjj35sWHztdr7h0eMvDrqqqo2Ka4DQ8w_ewFryvjPYbZfX3VWKCEKj88DbjckhBwpq8nQv7oJtrGU4frjy1cHcA4MCinmar_detCNoHX_x_w2Sf0Jv7lw_xcZSoRDmbHFi9EpkFytrG_4hsS-YQo4yx1KCvI0sxwD940IKjmCLsMBXG_Pd_WNTkt0201/s1020/ae21a25d-46af-4dac-b2c5-b74138c53bed-1020x932%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="932" data-original-width="1020" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8Rjj35sWHztdr7h0eMvDrqqqo2Ka4DQ8w_ewFryvjPYbZfX3VWKCEKj88DbjckhBwpq8nQv7oJtrGU4frjy1cHcA4MCinmar_detCNoHX_x_w2Sf0Jv7lw_xcZSoRDmbHFi9EpkFytrG_4hsS-YQo4yx1KCvI0sxwD940IKjmCLsMBXG_Pd_WNTkt0201/w320-h292/ae21a25d-46af-4dac-b2c5-b74138c53bed-1020x932%20(2).jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Gore Vidal with John Kennedy in 1960</b></span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Throughout this period, Gore tried several times to repeat the success of his 1960 play <i>The Best Man</i> and of its 1964 movie version. However, the several plays that he did manage to get produced on stage during this period - among them <i>Romulus </i>(1962), <i>Weekend </i>(1968) , <i>An Evening with Richard Nixon </i>(1972) - were failures, shutting down after a couple of months at best. Likewise with his efforts with producing his own scripts for cinema or TV: the most infamous movie based on a script of his, the hardcore porn epic <i>Caligula </i>(1979), was originally developed on his initiative but as he lost control of the direction the movie was going, he actually sued to have his name removed from the credits, and later denied having anything to do with it (nevertheless, the dialogue in the released movie remained essentially that of Vidal's script). He had mixed results when simply selling the movie rights of his books with no further involvement: the 1970 movie version of <i>Myra Breckinridge </i>was a commercial and critical disaster which damaged the book's own sales; on the other hand, a TV mini-series adaptation of his book <i>Lincoln </i>was very well received. Gore's dream was to make another movie "his way" as he had with <i>The Best Man</i>; but his one modest success was the 1989 TV movie <i>Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid</i> with Val Kilmer. The following year Martin Scorsese hired Vidal to write the script for his planned movie <i>Theodora </i>on the Byzantine empress; that could have been Gore's most prestigious movie credit ever, but after a few years in "development hell" nothing came of it.</div><div><br /></div><div>In the last decade or so of his life, Gore's chosen lifestyle gradually fizzled out. His literary output drastically diminished - his last novel, <i>The Golden Age</i>, was published twelve years before his death - and he turned his attention to essays and interviews denouncing the "national security state" which in his view actually ran the US. He also started a late career - apparently more as a hobby - as a character actor in small roles in little-known movies. The decline in health - first of his lifetime companion Howard Austen, then his own (above all the rheumatoid arthritis from his WWII service in the Aleutians) - made him abandon his Ravello villa and move definitely to his Hollywood house, where he died in 2012 at 86 after a few years of physical and mental decline. He had been a heavy drinker for decades, especially towards the end, which eventually caused a neurological disorder. To the bewilderment of his close relatives, like his nephew the actor/director Burr Steers, Vidal changed his will just before his death to make Harvard University the sole inheritor of his estate, as well as the custodian of his papers, even though he had had no prior personal connection to Harvard.</div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaALPm1lHidu3FKaiVyvghipD33M4LhZnDGpk4VUSDA5jL19Go0ZzSCK9QgzcFyhO4i_l1QtkNQRlAjoR3zUb_9q_0LY_S2umOhijzLy0teS8dP6I2wRnOfJhJmhU1S2AwGg-x64FaGjAgR5sFhx3OKYMbcMqy9DuFMl90rAlNaaLWPfOekt0ZQjpZ1UuB/s1920/Gore%20ravello.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaALPm1lHidu3FKaiVyvghipD33M4LhZnDGpk4VUSDA5jL19Go0ZzSCK9QgzcFyhO4i_l1QtkNQRlAjoR3zUb_9q_0LY_S2umOhijzLy0teS8dP6I2wRnOfJhJmhU1S2AwGg-x64FaGjAgR5sFhx3OKYMbcMqy9DuFMl90rAlNaaLWPfOekt0ZQjpZ1UuB/s320/Gore%20ravello.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Gore in his villa in Ravello in the 1980s - life as he most enjoyed it</b> </span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><i><u>Socionics analysis</u></i></b>: throughout his life, Gore Vidal consistently showed the following traits in his personality and life choices: a strong preference for mental activity, professionally and in his private pursuits; an inclination to remain close to a small circle of friends over his entire life while on occasion capable of ruthlessly severing close personal relations abruptly and permanently (most obviously with his own mother Nina and Anaïs Nin) for his own reasons, as well as nurturing bitter resentment over some "enemies" for decades, even after their deaths (like William F. Buckley and Truman Capote). Gore also displayed a lifelong fascination and attraction for politically powerful individuals, and he remained torn on the choice between a political and a writing career, ultimately going for the latter but maintaining a lifelong sense of what-might-have-been over a political career. Also, Gore's lifestyle followed a consistent pattern over most of his life: he tended to live in fairly isolated properties in locations that struck his fancy some reason but with which he had had no previous personal connection, and which tended to be distant from whatever broader social circle he had when he selected those locations.</div><div><br /></div><div>Going into more detail:</div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="font-size: large;">T</span></b>: According to Gore Vidal himself, from an early age his mind was constantly active with imagining stories. If going (for instance) to watch a game of baseball or football etc, he would pay little attention to the game itself while focusing on stories created in his mind. That trait explained his remarkable ease in writing one teleplay a week for NYC tv in the fifties, as well as writing novels and essays in a matter of a few days. He took far more time when a historical novel required extensive research and fact-checking, but his detective novels written under the name of Edgar Box, as well as those that he called "inventions", he could write or dictate in a week or two. That skill was a consequence of his near-constant focus on his inner thoughts and imagination - he said that he had never suffered from writer's block, on the contrary: his difficulty was with stopping himself from thinking of things to write.</div><div><br /></div><div>Although Gore repeatedly stated, over decades, that he "was not his own subject" (at least until he wrote his first volume of memoirs, <i>Palimpsest</i>, in 1995), in reality not only his early fiction was full of disguised autobiographical reflections, but also his essays contained many descriptions and musings on episodes and individuals that had special meaning for him throughout his life, some of which he kept coming back to, giving the impression that for him his life was in a sort of "continuum" along which he could easily shift back-and-forth in his mind. This made him focus on past episodes according to their meaning to him, not so much according to their chronology. This is a characteristic of <b>T </b>as an ego function, and associated with valued <b>R </b>(in the <b>Gamma </b>quadra), it leads to the inclination in<b> ILI</b>s to long-term resentment and grudges as well as gratitude.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>As a novelist, Vidal was not very interested in "naturalist" stories that merely described events and characters in a conventional, linear faction (although some of his early work, as well as some of his "hack" novels, fell in that category). He was more interested in either carefully-researched historical fiction that also included deep reflections on religion and philosophy (<i>Julian </i>and <i>Creation</i>) or on the forces and individuals shaping the political history of the US (<i>Burr</i>, <i>1876</i>, <i>Lincoln</i>, <i>Empire</i>, etc), which reflect a focus on <b>P</b> as well as <b>T</b>. His more extreme or even self-indulgent novels, his "inventions" like <i>Myra Breckinridge</i>, <i>Duluth</i>, <i>Kalki</i>, <i>Live from Golgotha</i> etc, the result of ideas or inner thoughts that occurred to him but with little connection to the real world, are more clearly the result of "purer" <b>T</b>. He made this point explicit when he said that Myra Breckinridge - the character - suddenly "spoke" to him in his thoughts and he immediately started to write the novel, and only halfway into it did she reveal herself to him fully.</div><div><br /></div><div>Interestingly, a focus on <b>T </b>can be spotted in his choices of locations and properties to live in and purchase. Basically, he would decide - for reasons difficult for others to discern - to move to a location and a specific property that had caught his interest, in a way not very connected to practicality or even comfort. So in 1946, at 21, he moved to an abandoned small convent in Antigua, Guatemala, a place to which he had had no previous connection, and where he stayed just for a few years. Then, in 1950, he acquired Edgewater, a grand 19th century neoclassical house in a small village in upstate New York, because he fancied it - even though, as he later put it, it became a "white elephant" needing constant and expensive maintenance while not even very convenient for commuting to NYC, where his work was concentrated at the time. In the early 1960s, he moved to Rome, at first to focus on writing <i>Julian </i>but generally because the historical surroundings appealed to him at the time. There he rented for many years a penthouse on top of a historical building, also acquiring in 1972 La Rondinaia, a large villa in Ravello, along the Amalfi Coast, the property that became most associated with Vidal in the 1980s and 1990s. His stated reason to live in that area of southern Italy was its connection to classical Greece and Rome - which is a <b>T </b>reason. All of those properties had major disadvantages from a <b>S </b>perspective: Edgewater required constant maintenance due to water infiltration; the Rome penthouse was plagued by the noise and pollution of the city centre's traffic below; and La Rondinaia, although glamorous and pleasant in summer, was unbearably cold in winter, and its access required climbing steps that eventually proved too much for Gore's Alaska-damaged knee. The common trend is a much greater focus on the inner <b>T</b> meaning of such places for Vidal, rather than their comfort, convenience, aesthetics or even as investments. As an unfulfilled example of this inclination, in 1970 he seriously considered moving to the Irish countryside, but his companion Howard Austen found the idea so absurd that Vidal dropped it.</div><div><br /></div><div>Finally, despite maintaining throughout his life that he had no concern with his own death - and becoming offended when otherwise suggested - Gore gave much thought to his final resting place, choosing the Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, DC, the city where he had spent his childhood but with which he had not had any connection in decades. In documentaries and his memoirs, he would point out the precise spot where he, and his companion Howard Austen, would be buried, which he chose due to its proximity to the graves of the writer Henry Adams and Gore's friend during his teens, Jimmie Trimble (on Trimble, more details in the <b>R </b>section below). All of this points to a focus on his own deep inner thoughts, finding meaning not easily conveyed to others, as well as indeed a focus on the abstract concept of his death. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>T </b>is very easy to spot in Gore Vidal's writing and life choices, which points to an ego function and probably <b>T1</b>.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="font-size: large;">P</span></b>: Apart from his explicitly fantastic "inventions", Vidal was careful in conveying realistic information in his novels, most clearly in his historical fiction, and he was defensive and sensitive about suggestions that he had been less than accurate. Starting with <i>Julian </i>in 1964, he always described in an introduction or afterword not only his sources, but also what elements of fiction he had introduced on purpose. Gore faced the most controversy in that area with his most successful historical novel, <i>Lincoln, </i>in 1984: as he had portrayed a less than saintly Abraham Lincoln, he was bombarded by hostile reviews from some historians, which he vigorously refuted in articles and interviews, always listing his original sources. His concern with historical accuracy led him to spend years in research for each of such books; as from a creative point of view he was able to write very quickly, the years he spent on research for such books demonstrate the importance he gave to historical accuracy. He was deeply annoyed when a historically accurate script of his was distorted into inaccuracy by the studios, most notably the movie <i>The Left Handed Gun</i> in 1958 with Paul Newman as Billy the Kid. That led Vidal not to give up until he managed to have an accurate version of the story shown on screen, which he did in 1989 with the tv movie <i>Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid</i>. As a small example of this concern: during the shooting of <i>Ben-Hur</i> in 1958, he got the art director to remove tomatoes and peppers from a kitchen table in the set, as they had not yet been introduced in the Mediterranean world at the time of the story.</div><div><br /></div><div>In fact, this focus on accuracy is shown even in his "hack" novels written under other names: <i> Death in the Fifth Position</i> describes in detail the world of ballet productions in NYC in the 1950s, which he was familiar with as he had moved in those circles a few years earlier. Even his trashier novels of the fifties - <i>Cry Shame!</i> by "Katherine Everard" and <i>Thieves fall Out</i> by "Cameron Kay" - are set in cities that he had spent some time in, like New Orleans and Cairo, and which he felt comfortable describing in detail even as the plot of the novels was entirely fictional. As he got older, he stopped writing historical novels - he had hoped to write one on the Mexican War - precisely because he now lacked the energy to devote many months to careful research, and he refused to write those kinds of novels without such research.<br /><br />In his personal life, his focus on <b>P </b>can be observed in his confidence and mostly success in earning a living exclusively from literary work after his WWII service, as he did not have inherited wealth to rely on. When writing "serious" novels failed to produce sufficient income, he would diversify his efforts into writing essays, pulp novels, and finally teleplays and movie scripts. Throughout his life, Gore always managed to keep his lifestyle compatible with his income - as the latter grew, so his tastes became more expensive. Although arguably too extravagant sometimes, he always had a realistic grip on the state of his finances, and apart from his taste for "white elephant" properties, he never overstretched himself nor made risky investments like trying to finance his own plays or movies. He also knew when to forego short-term profit for the sake of his long-term reputation and marketability as a writer - hence he actually spent money in a legal suit to stay uncredited as the author of the first scripts of <i>Caligula</i>, which also meant giving up any share on its profits, as per the original contract. <b>P </b>was clearly a strong as well as a valued function.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="font-size: large;">S</span></b>: Gore Vidal's focus on <b>S </b>was quirky. He clearly gave a lot of value to eating and drinking well, and even to excess in his later years; on the other hand, as mentioned in the <b>T </b>section above, for the properties he chose to live in, his priority seemed to be how they connected to him in an inner way, rather than their comfort or external beauty. According to him, he decided to purchase his Ravello villa, La Rondinaia, when walking the rather long path towards it, even before seeing the house itself. When living on his own, his immediate surroundings tended to become unkempt and even squalid: to the extent that La Rondinaia remained comfortable and tidy over decades, that was due to Gore's long-term companion, Howard Austen (<b>SEI</b>), who looked after the daily aspects of their lives. <br /><br />As a young man, Gore was tall, fit and widely regarded as very good-looking, which in those years seemed to require little effort on his part: there is no record of him being interested in any sport activity except for physical therapy. As he got older, he needed to invest more effort, which he did by weight lifting and avoiding excessive eating and drinking. He continued until sometime in his sixties; he then seemed to give up caring and let himself go, eventually becoming obese due to indulgence in overeating and drinking. All friends and acquaintances who left descriptions of his lifestyle describe his drinking habits as extreme, sometimes getting so drunk that he almost needed to be carried back home. That eventually caused his Wernicke-Korsakoff neurological disorder in his final years. <br /><br />In summary, the only aspect of <b>S </b>that Vidal seemed to focus on visibly was his enjoyment of good food and drinks - as long as the food was prepared for him; there is no record of him enjoying cooking. Even his enjoyment of art owed more to <b>T </b>than to <b>S </b>or <b>E</b>: he prized his possession of a few ancient Roman and Greek artefacts - some partly damaged - but did not seem to appreciate works of art based on their beauty alone, but rather on their historical meaning. Also, there is no record of Vidal ever focusing on the practical, hands-on aspects of <b>S</b>: he was not a man to enjoy working with his hands, apart from writing, which he tended to do longhand. <br /><br />Overall, between <b>S </b>and <b>T </b>and <b>F</b>, it is clear that he gave more focus to <b>T</b>, while not being insensitive to some <b>S </b>sensations. <b>S </b>seems to have been an unvalued function that always "lost" to <b>T</b>. </div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="font-size: large;">E</span></b>: When replying to a comment on Gore's "courage" in writing the 1948 novel <i>The City and the Pillar</i> - perhaps the first American mainstream gay novel - his father, Gene Vidal, replied, what was so courageous about that, when you don't care at all what people think. Gore himself often stated that what people thought of him was of no importance compared to what he thought of them and advised others to adopt that stance. Although he did need to care what people thought of him sometimes - at the beginning of his career as an author, and when running for Congress - it does seem that he did so only to the extent that it was useful to his career, and did not reflect any deep psychological need for general acceptance. By all accounts, when at school, he did not care much about fitting in or being seen as successful; he was always a mediocre student who spent most of his time reading books unrelated to schoolwork. It is revealing that his professional success remained mostly limited to writing books and essays - essentially solitary work - while his efforts in more collaborative activities, like writing for movie productions, were much less successful: he often felt cheated or cast aside when working in a movie, either because his script would be changed too much, or because he remained uncredited, or both. His satisfaction with writing teleplays for NYC tv seemed to have been due to the fact that there was very little time between a script being written and the actual shooting, so there wasn't much time for modifications. His biggest fiasco in a movie project - <i>Caligula </i>- seems to have been due to a lack of understanding that he was dealing with, in effect, con men. The bottom line is that Vidal's occasional and limited success with movie writing may obscure the fact that he was ill-equipped, and unwilling, to devote himself to the politics and compromises required to thrive in that world.</div><div><br /></div><div>As a politician running for Congress in upstate NY in 1960, Gore was perfectly able to run a conventional, nearly successful campaign consisting of making speeches in town halls, visiting local dairy farms, etc. It must be said, though, that the local Democrats offered him the nomination; that he was already a household name as the frequent author of teleplays and guest at talk shows, and his movie star friends Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward also campaigned a bit on his behalf. With his name recognition, good looks, and connection to the Kennedys and movie stars, Gore only needed to avoid crass missteps while on campaign, rather than needing to be a very charismatic and driven politician. On the other hand, when he ran in the California Democratic primaries for the Senate in 1982, he made a point of saying what he thought, with little concession to public opinion, and had only 10% of the vote.</div><div><br /></div><div>When appearing in talk shows and interviews, Vidal maintained a more or less consistent posture: of ironic detachment combined with a somewhat patronising, condescending know-it-all attitude, avoiding displays of irritation or offense, as illustrated by his tv clashes with William F Buckley and Norman Mailer. However, as he got older - and apparently cared even less about his image - his know-it-all, patronising attitude also became increasingly impatient and hostile. When dealing with individuals privately, Gore was often unpredictable: he could be extremely welcoming to admirers approaching him, sometimes inviting them for a drink; or he could be curt and dismissive, apparently with little thought to maintaining a consistent public image. </div><div><br /></div><div>Even when Vidal tried to take into account the effect of his actions and writings on his public image, reputation and relationships, he often miscalculated badly. When writing <i>The City and the Pillar</i> in 1948, he was totally unprepared for the backlash he would receive, despite being warned by his editor and close friends. Later, in 1961, in an infamous episode at a White House dinner party, he quarrelled with Robert Kennedy and later wrote an essay describing him as temperamentally unsuited to ever be president - and then seemed shocked at being banished from the Kennedy circle, also by his quasi-stepsister Jackie Kennedy.<br /><br />The status that Gore later reached as a bestselling novelist freed him from having to worry too much about such backlashes; and he also gave up trying to belong to any exalted social circle, as he had in the 1940s with members of the NYC literary and artistic scene and in the 1960s with the Kennedys. He found his optimal social role as a political and literary gadfly, and his preferred lifestyle as living mostly in social isolation apart from long-term intimates - that is, free from having to focus on <b>E</b>. Interestingly, a lifestyle similar to that chosen by <a href="http://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2016/12/tiberius-ili-personality-type-analysis.html" target="_blank">Tiberius</a> (<b>ILI</b>) on Capri, not far from La Rondinaia, and Gore himself often noted the parallel and his identification with, if not admiration for, Tiberius. </div><div><br /></div><div>Gore's low-focus and even bewilderment with <b>E </b>matters, ultimately avoiding it as much as humanly possible, strongly point to <b>E4</b>. </div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="font-size: large;">F</span></b>: Gore Vidal was not prone to physical confrontations or attempts at intimidating others. When in actual confrontations with clearly <b>F</b>-strong individuals - like William F. Buckley and Norman Mailer, during tv shows - Vidal would maintain his ironic, detached posture, without attempting to match the other's aggressive stance. In fact, on at least two occasions, Mailer actually hit Gore (once by headbutting, and then by punching him) - with Gore offering little physical reaction. Although he was presumably physically confident, at least in his younger years, having served in the army in WWII, Gore clearly lacked a natural impulse to engage in physical confrontation, even when attacked. Even his verbal confrontations consisted rather of him making points to refute someone else's, and although he responded ironically to direct insults, he became uncomfortable in such situations.</div><div><br /></div><div>According to author Anaïs Nin, who met Gore immediately after the end of WWII, already at 20 he said that his ambition was to be president of the US. He was clearly fascinated by political power and was attracted to powerful people if he respected them - that is clear from his attitude to his grandfather, Senator Thomas Gore, to President Kennedy, and even to Hollywood producer Sam Zimbalist. He grew up in Washington DC, where he often guided his blind grandfather to the Senate chamber; his father was a senior official in FDR's administration, and he was used to being around powerful, famous and wealthy individuals as he grew up - even if, as he often mentioned, he could not look forward to inheriting much money himself. Senator Gore proposed to put him on a relatively easy track to a political career, either in Oklahoma or New Mexico, under the Senator's patronage, yet Gore showed no desire to follow that particular path. Later, in 1960, Gore did put some effort in running for Congress as a Democrat in New York, losing but doing very well in a strongly Republican district - but even then, the nomination was offered to him on a plate by the local Democratic Party. He was asked to run again in 1964, when almost certainly he would have won, but he declined. That was his last realistic chance of entering national politics: his 1982 primary run for the Senate in California was a quixotic attempt with no chance of succeeding. Gore remained wistful about his aborted political career for the rest of his life. Mostly he tried to dismiss it as if he had never been really interested, but occasionally admitting that it was an unfulfilled ambition. His own writings and memoirs give the strong impression that that was a very important and memorable period in his life, which he kept coming back to - even as he also dismissed it as a world that he "wanted to escape from". Overall it's hard to escape the conclusion that Gore had very much dreamed of a political career but lacked the single-minded drive and will necessary to succeed in it - which he seemed to recognise but never admit, so he adopted a "sour grapes" stance, of the "I never really wanted it anyway" sort. A desire for political <b>F </b>without having the personal <b>F </b>to really pursue it. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxphmkBmMK02Wm52PwOKFqFIpjQsJTPQCC72ISAqxosob2k7iQOGOOApaCd5OND8enVc4Sj5iVRM8RfbpV3VgNGlMPIpI0qQ7O-KorbHv2FMzcmoLWK6gsQbL7RUVv2rA1o9BLuoj9E0gjeHuE8RppXVRlmWZzcP_XtPNnDfINQgW12t-YZZb6tCP_N5eu/s300/get-more-with-gore-2-267x300.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="267" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxphmkBmMK02Wm52PwOKFqFIpjQsJTPQCC72ISAqxosob2k7iQOGOOApaCd5OND8enVc4Sj5iVRM8RfbpV3VgNGlMPIpI0qQ7O-KorbHv2FMzcmoLWK6gsQbL7RUVv2rA1o9BLuoj9E0gjeHuE8RppXVRlmWZzcP_XtPNnDfINQgW12t-YZZb6tCP_N5eu/s1600/get-more-with-gore-2-267x300.jpg" width="267" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Running for Congress in 1960</span></i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div><br />As far as a focus on <b>F </b>regarding his efforts and achievements, Gore liked to portray himself as a self-made man who, although born surrounded by wealth, could not expect to inherit any significant amount of money and so had to succeed on his own. That was an exaggeration: he had received considerable financial help from his father to buy his house in Guatemala and, more significantly, from his mother to buy Edgewater. Likewise, the mere fact that he was Senator Gore's grandson and Gene Vidal's son opened doors for him in the publishing and then tv businesses - but this is precisely the kind of observation that Gore hated: he was sensitive about his "self-made man" status and was annoyed at any suggestion that he owed anything to his family and connections.<br /><br /></div><div>Interestingly, the actor Paul Newman (probably <b>ESI</b>), one of Vidal's closest friends over decades, had this to say about him in his memoirs: <br /><br /><i>He could write "Julian", a great, brilliant book, publish a terrific novel like "Washington, DC" - and then the next day he'll do something dumb. Gore had a rather inflated sense of where he stood in the literary world. He has a sense of being truly powerful, but while he is a power, he was never truly powerful.</i></div><div><br /></div><div><b>F </b>was an element that Gore Vidal clearly valued, in himself and others, but he seemed to lack confidence and focus on it, leaving him unable to correctly evaluate his strengths and weaknesses in that area, which points to a <b>SuperId </b>function, <b>F5 </b>or <b>F6</b>. He did not seem to be bothered at all by people with clearly stronger <b>F </b>than he, but rather he seemed to enjoy their company. That points most obviously to <b>F5</b>. Interestingly, after acting in a scene with Joe Pesci in <i>With Honors</i>, Vidal said that Pesci's energy and forcefulness had raised his own levels of energy, in a way that he had never achieved as an actor, on his own. A small bit of <b>F5 </b>description.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="font-size: large;">R</span></b>: Gore Vidal's approach to <b>R </b>is best introduced by repeating what I described in the <b>E </b>section above: that what he thought of others was far more important than what they thought of him. Throughout his life, his personal relationships with individuals followed this pattern: he maintained a very limited and constant circle of intimate friends over decades: his companion Howard Austen, and the actors Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Claire Bloom and Susan Sarandon, as well as a less intimate circle of writers, like Jay Parini and Michael Mewshaw. He was very selective even with his own close family, having good but mostly distant relations with his father; keeping his sister and nephew at arm's length and, most notably, permanently breaking relations with his mother Nina at 33. He could also abruptly finish off friendships that he saw as having become bothersome (Anaïs Nin) or had betrayed him (Jackie Kennedy and Christopher Hitchens), and then not look back. In the 1970s, some ten years after his break with the Kennedys, Vidal happened to run into Jackie in the lift of the London hotel where by coincidence they were both staying: Vidal reacted by turning his back and ignoring her (to Howard's horror).<br /><br />Once Vidal had a grudge against someone, or even regarded them as "enemies", he relentlessly maintained that enmity, showing no remorse about attacking them after their deaths: the best examples being his own mother, Robert Kennedy, William F. Buckley and Truman Capote. When Buckley died, four years before himself, Gore wrote an essay attacking him that concluded with, "RIP WFB - in Hell". As for Capote, he wanted to sue him into bankruptcy because in a 1975 interview with a fringe magazine Capote had told an unfavourable version of Vidal's confrontation with Robert Kennedy in 1961. That suit dragged on until just before Capote's death, which Gore described as a "wise career move". As common acquaintances pointed out, Vidal showed no mercy even though Capote was in deep decline physically and financially, while Vidal himself was at his peak. Decades later, he still referred to Capote as having no redeeming traits whatsoever and just a horrible human being: “<i>Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house</i>.”</div><div><br /></div><div>One peculiar manifestation of Gore's <b>R </b>was his life-long reverence, some might say obsession, for the memory of Jimmie Trimble, his classmate in a boarding school for a couple of years during adolescence. According to Vidal (Trimble did not live to tell his side of the story) they had some sort of youthful homosexual relationship, but then got separated by WWII and Jimmie, as a marine, was killed at the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. Throughout his life, Gore maintained a focus on the memory of Jimmie Trimble, at first covertly (dedicating <i>The City and the Pillar</i> to "J. T." in 1948), then explicitly in his 1995 memoir <i>Palimpsest</i>. Gore described how he and Jimmie complemented each other in ways that sound like socionics duality, and actually he made Jimmie seem like a <b>SEE</b>: the all-American boy who excelled at sports especially baseball, not very good academically but who nevertheless had his own literary dreams. Gore Vidal maintained and nurtured memories of Jimmie to the end of his life, inspiring some of his writing (<i>The City and the Pillar</i> in particular, and even his take on <i>Ben-Hur</i>) and actually chose his own grave at a spot within feet of Trimble's own. </div><div><br /></div><div>Vidal's own friends and relatives were sceptical of how much of that relationship had been real from Trimble's point of view; Gore's sister Nina suspected that it had been mostly in his head. His lifelong companion, Howard Austen, got clearly fed up with the story and mocked Gore behind his back with obscene gestures when he mentioned Jimmie. Gore himself wrote that it had been the one perfect love of his life; yet much later, when asked about it in an interview, Gore replied, "that was a slight exaggeration. I said that because there was no other". Whether his "perfect relationship" with Jimmie was a real memory, or mostly wishful thinking, it indicated that Gore Vidal felt a strong psychological need to have had such a relationship, however briefly, even as a memory over seventy years - or a memory helped by fantasy and wishful thinking. This points not only to Gore's own need for self-fulfilment in <b>R</b>, but also how that was coupled with a strong focus on <b>T</b>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Gore Vidal tended to have an intense approach to <b>R</b>, with little room for more nuanced relationships unless he did not care that much about the person in the first place. This points to a valued but not very confident element, where he tended to overcompensate, often in over-the-top ways, pointing to a <b>SuperID </b>function and more specifically to <b>R6</b>.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="font-size: large;">I</span></b>: Gore found it very easy to diversify his writing into styles or areas that he had not explored before - either out of creative interest, or out of financial necessity. So he started out writing fairly conventional, even naturalist, novels; then he moved into historical fiction and, by financial necessity, into quickly-written pulp mysteries (the Edgar Box trilogy) and "trashy" novels under different pseudonyms, then easily moving into writing for the screen and stage. He then discovered a whole new branch of literature for himself: his "inventions", quirky absurdist satires - while at the same time maintaining a prolific non-fiction career as the writer of a vast number of essays. The essays themselves also covered a very wide range of subjects. While Vidal eventually lost interest in some of those branches - he mostly settled down on historical fiction, "inventions", and non-fiction essays - the way in which he went exploring new literary areas, and his confidence in doing so, suggest a fairly strong<b> I</b>, but more as a skill rather than as a natural impulse. </div><div><br /></div><div>A contrast can be made with Christopher Hitchens (<b>ESI</b>), whom Gore considered for a time his literary "heir", until they fell out due to ideological/political disagreements. Hitchens was, like Vidal, a prolific writer of essays on literature, culture, politics and current events - however, Hitchens said that he felt completely unable to try his hand at writing fiction. His literary career was far more single-track than Vidal's, and I suggest that the key difference was in focus on <b>I</b>. Vidal's <b>I</b> came easily to him, but as a skill, suggesting an <b>Id </b>function, ie <b>I7</b> or <b>I8</b>.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="font-size: large;">L</span></b>: Gore Vidal easily adopted an analytical frame of mind when debating others and counter-arguing the premises of their arguments, not only "live" but also when writing reviews and essays. Actually, many critics and friends have commented that essay writing was his real strength rather than novels. His essays analyse and dissect many political and cultural issues of the time when they were written, which he was mostly able to do with a cold detachment. As for <b>L</b> in the sense of ideological premises and assumptions, Vidal's political positions over the decades can be described as being mostly centre-left in the context of the time. When running for Congress in 1960 in a strongly Republican district, though, he carefully moved to the centre and ran essentially as a Kennedy Democrat. However, apart from a suspicion of the US "establishment" - which he felt he knew better than most, due to his background - it's difficult to see coherent ideologies over the decades. Two consistent beliefs stand out: first, his position that since around the 1950s the US had been in decline, certainly in comparison to Western Europe, in terms of education, culture, general access to health care, etc (as his personal reference point was the post-WWII years, when the US was at is peak and Europe in ruins); and second, his often stated belief that there were no such things as heterosexual or homosexual individuals, only acts, and that everyone was, deep down, bisexual, even if most did not act on it. These two beliefs he tended rather to assert, rather than support with empirical information, unlike his approach in other matters.<br /><br /></div><div>As described in the <b>P </b>section, throughout most of life Gore Vidal was careful to base his arguments on factual information, even as in doing so he maintained a know-it-all attitude. As he got older, though, and his essays became more "conspiracy theorist" and more based on the assumption that he knew better, and less supported by factual information, Vidal seemed to be drifting to relying on his two strongest functions, <b>T1</b> and <b>L8</b>. It was during this time that Christopher Hitchens triggered his break with Gore Vidal with his 2010 essay "Vidal Loco", essentially saying that his conspiracy theories, based on very little research, suggested that Vidal had gone nuts: the <b>ESI </b>noticing the decline of <b>P </b>in Vidal's later essays.</div><div><br /></div><div>Gore Vidal's <b>L </b>was easily accessed throughout his life but not given priority, he clearly valued <b>R </b>and <b>P </b>over it, until he started to focus more on it, as if by default, in his old age. That points most obviously to <b>L8</b>.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><i><u>Conclusion</u></i></b>: Gore Vidal obviously had <b>T</b>, <b>P</b>, <b>R </b>and <b>F</b> as quadra values, so he was clearly a <b>Gamma</b>. More specifically, the function ordering that fits him best is that of the <b>ILI</b>, and that therefore was his socionics type.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><u><i>Appendix: Howard Austen:</i></u></b> Vidal had as constant companion, live-in secretary, best friend and life partner a man named Howard Austen, whom Vidal met in Manhattan in 1950. Although at first driven by sexual attraction, their relationship soon became non-physical according to both. Over 53 years - until Howard's death in 2003 - they lived together in Gore's several homes, with Gore as the sole provider of income, with Howard indeed acting as secretary, housekeeper, and taking overall care of their practical daily needs, while Vidal focused on his writing. Their mostly comfortable relationship over the decades would seem to suggest <b>Duality</b>, pointing to <b>SEE </b>for Austen. Yet, the overall evidence for his type, independently from his relationship with Gore, points clearly to <b>SEI</b>, thus with a <b>Super-Ego</b> relationship for them. This may be counter-intuitive but I suggest that it is not so odd for two <b>Integrator</b>, <b>Irrational </b>types: both content to drift into a lifestyle where their functional preferences would overlap rather than contradict each other. So Gore would choose to live in isolated, pleasant locations as per his <b>T </b>thoughts, which mostly also pleased Howard's <b>S </b>focus, like Edgewater, Rome and Ravello. Howard was sometimes unhappy with Gore's life choices, on occasion "vetoing" some decisions like a move to Ireland, but never enough to justify risking the loss of an arrangement which was also pleasant and convenient for himself. Also, Gore's self-imposed social isolation in order to avoid focusing on <b>E </b>did not prevent Howard from developing his own social circles near their different homes, with Gore remaining oblivious or indifferent to them. </div><div><br /></div><div><i><u><b>Sources</b></u></i>: Fred Kaplan had full support and cooperation from Vidal to write his 1999 biography, <i>Gore Vidal: a Biography</i>, but Vidal did not like the finished book. He himself wrote two volumes of memoirs, <i>Palimpsest </i>(1995) and <i>Point to Point Navigation </i>(2006). After his death, his friend the author Jay Parini wrote another biography in 2015, titled <i>Empire of Self</i> in the US edition. Another writer acquainted with Vidal over decades, Michael Mewshaw, wrote in 2014 <i>Sympathy for the Devil</i>, which is a personal memoir of his friendship with Gore Vidal rather than a biography. All of those report the same basic facts and convey the same impressions of Gore's character and personality, but the books by Kaplan and Parini provide some useful corrections to Gore's occasionally self-serving narratives, especially regarding the nature of his relationship with Anaïs Nin and his claim to having been "self-made" since he was 17. There is also a vast number of videos on Gore Vidal on YouTube and elsewhere.</div><div><br /></div><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">To learn more about ILI, click<span> <a href="https://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2015/06/ili-intuitive-logical-integrator.html" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">here</a><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">If you are confused about our use of Socionics shorthand, click<span> <a href="http://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2016/03/shorthand-notation-for-model-a.html" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">here</a><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></span></span></p></div><div><br /></div>Peter Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11380891940588634230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8147676909533366251.post-73764292274422629362022-03-15T15:35:00.003-07:002022-03-16T20:12:30.350-07:00Volodymyr Zelenskyy (EIE): Personality Type Analysis<span id="docs-internal-guid-c7ccdd26-7fff-8a76-63c5-ca42cf765b24"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="border: none; clear: left; display: inline-block; float: left; height: 246px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; overflow: hidden; width: 192px;"><img height="210" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/cG-RMvR3xwSnON2ggQaauPXGPtw9VoEKxunPlcps7HosrhoS8CcdVDwvw37ZtpcU71z4UyY6jFXis4UXfg9fQiQSaBhgo3FBuqagPnUYL7rNWkvT1uV2Fq1mGaXI-PPjhO8IL6ZR=w164-h210" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="164" /></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy (born 1978) is a Ukrainian comedian, actor, film producer, and the current President of Ukraine. Zelenskyy began his career in entertainment doing comedy skits, eventually moving on to starring in movies, as well as funding movies and shows himself. In 2015, Zelenskyy began starring in a comedy/satire TV show called </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Servant of the People</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in which he played a school teacher who is suddenly and unexpectedly elevated to the Presidency of Ukraine after his rant against widespread government corruption in Ukraine went viral. In 2018, Zelenskyy ran for President under his newly formed political party named after the TV show he starred in, <i>‘Servant of the People’</i>, as a political outsider (as expected of someone who spent their life in entertainment instead of politics) on a populist, anti-corruption platform which frequently referenced the TV show and, according to some, seemed to blur the lines between fiction and reality. Another of Zelenskyy’s campaign tactics was to intentionally draw comparisons between himself and fellow actor-turned-President </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ronald Reagan (EIE)</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. He would even quote Ronald Reagan's famous <i>"Government is no the solution to the problem, government is the problem"</i> line in his inauguration speech. Despite portraying himself as a man of the people, Zelenskyy has been criticized for his strong connection to Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky. Despite these and other criticisms I will cover later, Zelenskyy won the Presidential election with 73% of the vote against the incumbent President Petro Poroshenko. Zelenskyy’s Presidency has seemingly gone from one crisis to another, each more dangerous than the last. The first of which was when US President </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2016/08/donald-trump-sle-personality-type.html">Donald Trump (SLE)</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> tried to force Zelenskyy to investigate Hunter Biden, son of at the time Democratic Presidential candidate and current President </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joe Biden (EIE)</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by implying he would cut off American aid to Ukraine which the country relies on. The second major crisis was the COVID-19 pandemic. The third, the most notable, and the most recent crisis of Zelenskyy’s Presidency is of course the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. Zelenskyy’s status as the leader of Ukraine in this crisis and his bravery in staying in the capitol city Kyiv, even as Russia is attacking the city, has in the past few days (as of writing this article) elevated him to international acclaim.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The one thing that stands out about Zelenskyy above all else is his charisma. Blessed with a magnetic personality, Zelenskyy chose entertainment as his initial career choice despite graduating with a law degree. He has been a charming host and a skilled actor, and his skill as a communicator is what swept him to the Presidency in 2019. The writer of a DW News article on Zelenskyy declares confidently that Zelenskyy’s speeches during Russia’s invasion will go down in history, calling him an outstanding communicator while contrasting his skilled use of rhetoric with the flailing rhetoric of Russian President </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vladimir Putin (LSI)</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. It’s impossible to find any article or video covering Zelenskyy that does not focus mostly on his charisma.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Zelenskyy himself is well aware of the importance that charisma and an appealing image plays in politics. In a 2019 article covering Zelenskyy in relation to Donald Trump’s impeachment, he is described as having a disarming ability to adopt whatever persona suits the occasion. When asked how his career in entertainment prepared him for politics, Zelensky states </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“What the viewer loves in an actor, this feeling of humanity—of course I use it. And that’s very easy to do, because I remain myself… I look at things like a producer. I would often watch a scene on the monitor, and the director and I would yell, ‘Stop, no more, this is unwatchable! No one will believe this.’”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Zelenskyy’s charisma has been on full display during the most recent crisis. In addition to staying in Kyiv, meeting with soldiers and putting out statements to keep morale up, Zelenskyy has given speeches filled with emotional appeals to both the West for aid and addressed to Russians imploring them to put a stop to the invasion, including a speech spoken in Russian (Zelenskyy’s native language) naming specific streets, parks, bars, etc., in the Donetsk region, building an emotional connection with people there and emphasizing that it is Ukrainian territory, in an attempt to convince the Russian people of the injustice of the invasion.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What’s clear about Zelenskyy is that he is not only very concerned with appealing to others, he is very good at it as well. With Zelenskyy’s unbridled charisma, his perception of how things appear to others, and his rhetorical skill, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">E1</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is clear.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In addition to basic emotional appeal, Zelenskyy shows a strong understanding of how symbolic actions influence perception, as seen in his most immediate actions after becoming President. Among Zelenskyy’s actions was the decision to change the traditional greeting that guards used for the President from the more standard and grandiose greeting to a simple <i>"good morning,"</i> and to reduce the size of the Presidential motorcade, both among his many actions intended to send the clear message that Ukraine was entering a new era of governance by a good and upstanding President who is not interested in the trappings of power. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Zelenskyy’s campaign also had a very strong focus on presenting an inspiring vision of a future Ukraine, without the corruption that plagued the country since its independence. Presenting corruption as the root of all problems in Ukraine, his stated goals of rooting out corruption and ending the war in the Donbass region were often described as being overly ambitious and unreasonable, considering Zelenskyy promised he would only run for one term.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In addition, a rather minor point, but still worth noting, is that Zelenskyy himself appears to have an inclination toward viewing things by what they represent, rather than at face value. For example, saying to a journalist in reference to the gaudy President’s Office after his inauguration </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“These walls are filled with the symbolism of the past thirty years. They were the site of what brought our country to the condition it’s in. You want to wash all this off yourself.”</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> In addition, in interview clips, Zelenskyy discusses events in terms of both the symbolic effect they have and the long-term effects of past events. All of this, his understanding of how to affect emotions with symbolic change and his overly ambitious vision, is consistent with </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">T2</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> supporting </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">E1</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Zelenskyy clearly values toughness and the will to make change. For example, saying of the Ukrainian oligarchs </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“You have two billion dollars? O.K. One billion goes to paving roads. That’s how you have to talk to them.”</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, asserting the necessity of being harsh against oligarchs. We can also see this in his decision to stay in Kyiv during the attacks, responding to American offers of evacuation "I need ammunition, not a ride." Zelenskyy also clearly has a desire to act to change his country. He has projected confidence while staying on the ground in Kyiv during Russian attacks on the city. It is likely from this that Zelenskyy values </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">F</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. His recent bravery in Kyiv during the Russian attacks would even seem to be indicative of </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">F</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ego, or at the very least strong <b>F</b>. However, there are quite a few problems with </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">F</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ego. Noticeably, despite his tough rhetoric and some early executive actions, Zelenskyy has had serious difficulty pushing his agendas through. Quite a lot of his attempted bills have been stalled in the parliament. While this could very easily be explained by the fact that Ukraine’s executive has much less authority than many other executives, it is still strange for the nominal leader of a party which controls a majority of parliament (240 out of 450), with an additional 80 seats belonging to members of allied parties. This could also easily be explained by the unclear ideological values of Zelenskyy’s Servant of the People party. Even so, Zelenskyy has only recently begun to take bold action, such as running for President. Prior to that, he primarily criticized and satirized Ukrainian politics from the side-lines as an entertainer. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">F</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> does not appear to be a natural strength, instead, it is something Zelenskyy has worked to develop, best suiting </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">F6</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Further evidence of combined </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">T2</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">F6</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> would be the frequent criticism that Zelenskyy’s campaign promises were often overly ambitious and excessively visionary, lacking an understanding of how much he would actually be capable of accomplishing, which is the reason that Zelenskyy’s popularity was at an all time low prior to its spike as people unified behind him in response to Russia’s invasion.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In addition, Zelenskyy spent the early parts of his life involved in creative work, including comedy routines, acting, writing and filming and producing movies and TV shows. Zelenskyy spent his earlier period of life taking part in many different projects, and only lately has he started decisively committing to a single course and seeking power, a life trajectory fully consistent with someone relying on unvalued </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I8</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for most of their life until transitioning to pursuing valued </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">F6</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. The creativity on display in Zelenskyy’s Presidential campaign, ignoring traditional media and focusing on social media, creating a connection between the real Zelenskyy and the fictional President that Zelenskyy played on TV, etc. provides further evidence of </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I8</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Combined with Zelenskyy’s desire to effect change and his valuing of </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">F</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a desire to do so on an ideological and structural basis. Most of his comedy centered on criticisms of Ukrainian politics, particularly the corruption and oligarchy that has always plagued Ukraine since the fall of the Soviet Union. This suggests that Zelenskyy has always to some extent been motivated by a desire to see structural change, (<b>L</b>). Rather than directing his comedy and political career toward specific individuals or specific moral condemnations (<b>R</b>), they have been directed toward general impersonal problems in the way Ukrainian society has been structured since 1991.This suggests that Zelenskyy values </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">L</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> along with </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">F</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, i.e. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Beta Quadra</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. However, despite valuing </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">L</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Zelenskyy has been very frequently criticized for not really having any clear ideology. His speeches, while uplifting, are typically light on specific policy ideas, consisting almost purely of emotional rhetoric. Zelenskyy’s lack of a clear ideology or specific policy positions has been the biggest criticism he has received in his short political career. Zelenskyy’s party, the Servant of the People party, is itself very ideologically incoherent. At one point, Zelenskyy’s representative in Parliament declared Libertarianism as the party’s ideology, but later another leader of the party declared that the ideology would no longer be libertarian and that, to make necessary compromises, the party would become a mix between liberal and socialist views, a very rapid and seemingly random shift in ideology, and an already unbelievable shift in ideology for any political party, made even more jarring by the fact that the party has only existed for a little more than four years. It seems that for both the party Zelenskyy created and Zelenskyy himself, alignment with the West and the EU, and anti-corruption are the only clear and consistent policies (and even these are quite vague), with everything else up in the air. Combining this incoherence which can only be </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">L5</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> or </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">L4</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with the fact that Zelenskyy still seems to value </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">L</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">L5</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is most likely.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In addition to this, Zelenskyy has been quite dismissive of competence as a necessary quality for a leader, on several occasions stating that he does not need to be a good manager, just that he needs to be a good person. Zelensky himself even admits that he is not a particularly competent person. This all indicates that Zelensky does not value </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">P</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and, by his own self-assessment, is quite weak at </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">P</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> aspects.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Often, rather than citing ideological consistency or competence as reasons for electing someone to government, Zelenskyy will talk about the need for having good selfless people in government, showing a clear awareness of <b>R</b>. However, Zelenskyy does not seem to put much of a focus on <b>R</b> for the sake of <b>R</b>. Two examples come to mind; first, in Zelenskyy's inauguration speech, he requests that lawmakers stop putting up pictures of the current President in their office, and instead put up pictures of their children. The second example is another of Zelenskyy's speeches, spoken in Russian the night that Russia's invasion started, in which he named specific individuals that he is good friends with living in the separatist-controlled regions in Donetsk as well as specific places that hold sentimental value to him. In the first example, this request takes place in the context of Zelenskyy imploring lawmakers to think about future generations when making their decisions rather than short-term selfish gain, a <b>T</b> focus using <b>R</b> as a tool rather than a point of focus itself, all channeled through through an attempt at emotional impact (<b>E</b>). The second example was also <b>R</b> being used as a tool in service of <b>E</b> during a time of desperation. While both of these examples show an awareness of <b>R</b> from Zelenskyy and confident use as well, they both show <b>R</b> only being used as extrinsically, in service of <b>E1</b>, and there does not seem to be any other instances of <b>R</b> usage by Zelenskyy in the sources I looked through, not even as a background element. Lastly, as I said before, Zelenskyy's political career has been on the basis of challenging oligarchs and pursuing structural change, an <b>L</b> focus, rather than an <b>R</b> focus. This is all consistent with <b>R7</b>.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">E1</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">T2</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">L5</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">F6</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, <b>R7</b>, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I8</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and weak unvalued </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">P</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, the type that best fits Volodymyr Zelenskyy is </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">EIE</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To learn more about EIE, click <a href="https://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2015/05/eie-ethical-intuitive-energiser.html">here</a>.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you do not understand our use of Socionics terminology, click <a href="https://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2016/03/shorthand-notation-for-model-a.html">here</a>.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sources</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For a broad overview of Zelenskyy’s life, I used the following articles:</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/04/how-trumps-emissaries-put-pressure-on-ukraines-new-president" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/04/how-trumps-emissaries-put-pressure-on-ukraines-new-president</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/ukrainian-president-volodymyr-zelenskyy/story?id=83085078" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://abcnews.go.com/International/ukrainian-president-volodymyr-zelenskyy/story?id=83085078</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-who-is-volodymyr-zelenskyy-ukraines-unlikely-wartime-president-7791092/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-who-is-volodymyr-zelenskyy-ukraines-unlikely-wartime-president-7791092/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/zelenskyy-ukraine-russia-putin-invasion-rcna17661" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/zelenskyy-ukraine-russia-putin-invasion-rcna17661</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.dw.com/en/ukraines-volodymyr-zelenskyy-from-comedian-to-national-hero/a-60924507" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.dw.com/en/ukraines-volodymyr-zelenskyy-from-comedian-to-national-hero/a-60924507</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Interviews and speeches:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; white-space: normal;" /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://youtu.be/db6B9f-swBQ?t=2574" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://youtu.be/db6B9f-swBQ?t=2574</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/full-transcript-zelenskyys-emotional-appeal-russians-rcna17485" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/full-transcript-zelenskyys-emotional-appeal-russians-rcna17485</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkWfOWqVYJQ" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkWfOWqVYJQ</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OOBEs8TIjk" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OOBEs8TIjk</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC2t-SqWMX4" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC2t-SqWMX4</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVAExDHaKcc" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVAExDHaKcc</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><div><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Info on the Servant of the People’s Party:</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_of_the_People_(political_party)" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_of_the_People_(political_party)</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Other sources used:</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/04/24/ukraine-president-virtual-campaign-226711/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/04/24/ukraine-president-virtual-campaign-226711/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.chathamhouse.org/2021/11/ukraine-still-backs-zelenskyy-despite-slow-progress" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.chathamhouse.org/2021/11/ukraine-still-backs-zelenskyy-despite-slow-progress</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-invasion-who-is-president-volodymyr-zelenskyy-russias-enemy-number-one-12551009" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-invasion-who-is-president-volodymyr-zelenskyy-russias-enemy-number-one-12551009</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/02/20/1082037466/what-to-know-about-ukraine-president-volodymyr-zelenskyy" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.npr.org/2022/02/20/1082037466/what-to-know-about-ukraine-president-volodymyr-zelenskyy</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/25/who-is-volodymyr-zelenskyy-europes-most-vulnerable-president" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/25/who-is-volodymyr-zelenskyy-europes-most-vulnerable-president</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/4/22/volodymyr-zelenskyy-wins-ukraines-presidential-vote" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/4/22/volodymyr-zelenskyy-wins-ukraines-presidential-vote</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-who-is-volodymyr-zelenskyy-ukraines-unlikely-wartime-president-7791092/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-who-is-volodymyr-zelenskyy-ukraines-unlikely-wartime-president-7791092/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fr9ARK2Zo4" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fr9ARK2Zo4</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30ALpcuyaYM" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30ALpcuyaYM</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkGbnplg308" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkGbnplg308</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgNj6xkA2u8" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgNj6xkA2u8</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/no-policies-no-problem-ukrainian-comedian-s-election-success-latest-n990331" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/no-policies-no-problem-ukrainian-comedian-s-election-success-latest-n990331</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1DS9iDmQVk" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1DS9iDmQVk</span></a></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p></span>
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crossorigin="anonymous"></script>KHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490730739852654480noreply@blogger.com1Kyiv, Ukraine, 0200050.4501 30.523422.139866163821154 -4.6328500000000012 78.760333836178845 65.67965tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8147676909533366251.post-60447898979455666282022-02-05T17:22:00.007-08:002022-03-16T20:12:40.380-07:00Alexander Hamilton (LIE): Personality Type Analysis<p><span style="border: none; clear: left; display: inline-block; float: left; height: 247px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; overflow: hidden; width: 209px;"><img height="226" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/wA2IagXtJbJI8A0af_ZwD8pwCB2O4ckKY0SKTHSjfl6JlNiUSdBlM7iDVNq60_ZjlXvQ7qm7r6whNdZrGuti2LCxxlDBXEBJg-Qagw_6yP4X_k2wu206QqYWslX9oG9ouMa03YHy=w191-h226" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="191" /></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Alexander Hamilton (1755 or 1757-1804)</b> was one of the founding fathers of the United States of America. Born out of wedlock in the Caribbean, Hamilton immigrated to America on the eve of its revolution against British control. He studied law and wrote essays arguing passionately for greater freedom from Britain, one of the most known being a rebuttal against <i>“a Westchester Farmer” </i>(a pen name for Samuel Seabury) called ‘Farmer Refuted’. Hamilton interrupted his schooling to join the continental army where his leadership skills were noticed and he rose through the ranks to eventually become right hand man to General and first President <b>George Washington</b> (</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ESI</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">). After the war, Hamilton took part in the constitutional convention to replace the failing articles of confederation, in which he gave a 6-hour speech in support of his own form of government, which many in the convention believed gave far too much authority to the executive branch and thus this speech made made him a lot of enemies. Once the new constitution was decided on, Hamilton partnered with John Jay and <b>James Madison</b> (</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LII</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) to write the Federalist papers, which argued for New York state to ratify the constitution. Hamilton served as the first Treasury Secretary under President Washington, in which he repeatedly clashed with Secretary of State <b>Thomas Jefferson</b> (</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LII</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) over the size of the federal government and concentration of power (Hamilton wanted more, Jefferson wanted less), before both left the administration (Jefferson quit due to his lack of ability to combat Hamilton’s policies, while Hamilton quit to pursue other projects and due to lack of funds). During this time, Hamilton also founded the Federalist party to combat the anti-Federalists led by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson. Out of political office, Hamilton would clash with the second President <b>John Adams</b> (</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ILI</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) who was a Federalist, a rivalry which caused the Federalist party to cannibalize itself and eventually implode during the presidencies of three successive Democratic-Republicans, Jefferson, Madison, and <b>James Monroe</b> (<b>EII</b>). In 1804, Vice President <b>Aaron Burr</b> (</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SLE</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">), knowing he would be replaced as President Jefferson’s running mate in the election that year, ran for governor of New York, and Hamilton, viewing Burr as a scoundrel with no values or morals, stepped in to prevent Burr from winning the election. In response, Burr challenged Hamilton to a duel. Hamilton accepted, and in the duel, Burr fatally shot Hamilton, who died of his wound on July 12th, 1804. Today, Hamilton is credited first and foremost with having created the American financial system that lasted to the present day. Hamilton’s face is on the $10 bill, the only person other than <b>Benjamin Franklin</b> (</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ILE</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) to appear on current U.S. currency without having been President. He was also recently thrust back into the spotlight as the subject of Lin Manuel Miranda’s hit Broadway musical ‘Hamilton’.</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-3541e22f-7fff-c95a-89a8-b3d87a185b74"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hamilton’s greatest strength, and the reason he was valued so much by George Washington and others, was his pure competence in everything he did. Alexander Hamilton was a genius manager of people and resources, with an eye for efficiency that was almost completely unmatched. In his early teenage years, shortly after being orphaned, Hamilton was employed as a clerk at a local import-export firm which traded with New York and New England on the island of St. Croix, and his management was so impressive that the owner of the firm felt completely comfortable leaving the teenaged Alexander Hamilton in charge for five months while he, the owner, was at sea. All this while voraciously reading every single book that he could get his hands on. At the beginning of the American war for independence, Hamilton joined the army and cobbled together 60 men for an artillery regiment in which he was elected captain, and his leadership abilities were noticed. His skill in managing the regiment was the primary feature noticed and got him many requests by high-ranking officers to join their staff, all of which Hamilton refused until he got an offer he couldn’t refuse: to become General George Washington’s aide-de-camp. Washington believed in choosing as an aide-de-camp one whom he could put all of his faith in to execute the duties required of them with competence. Following the war, Alexander Hamilton taught himself law and managed to pass the bar so that he could practice as an attorney. Hamilton was appointed to the Congress under the Articles of Confederation, which he was already criticizing prior to joining on the basis that Congress under the articles did not have any of the power necessary to perform any of its duties, that it could only collect voluntary taxes from the states and with such strict requirements for passing a bill that it was impossible for anything to get done. Hamilton was not interested in the abstract values of freedom and liberty that were used to defend the articles, basing all his criticisms on the Congress’ lack of efficiency or ability to do what it needed. Hamilton’s defense of the new, proposed constitution in the Federalist Papers, of which he wrote 51 out of 85, was based on how much more efficient the constitution would be than the articles of confederation.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Following the adoption of the constitution and the ascendancy of George Washington to the Presidency, Hamilton was chosen to become the first Secretary of the Treasury, at which point he set about creating a financial system predicated on efficiency and progress, with a large part of this program being the Federal Government’s assumption of state debt, which centralized Federal power by requiring all states to collectively pay off the nation’s debt rather than pay off their own debt individually. His anti-Federalist opponents, the Democratic-Republicans (though they simply called themselves 'Republicans' at the time) who were led by Thomas Jefferson, opposed Hamilton and his financial plan on the basis that this expanded government power and thus went against the core values of the American revolution. Hamilton’s arguments for his economic policies were their effectiveness in increasing economic well being, often citing the United Kingdom as an example of effective economics (and effective politics, having argued for an executive branch similar to the British system when he spoke for 6 hours at the constitutional convention), a stance that was anathema to the Republicans and caused them to label Hamilton as a monarchist and accuse him of working on behalf of Britain.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hamilton’s other programs were justified in similar ways, always on the basis of pragmatism, while his opponents criticized his disregard for the principles of the revolution, a conflict that would form the basis of the first set of political parties, the Federalists founded by Alexander Hamilton, and the Democratic-Republicans founded by Thomas Jefferson. The first party system was, in essence, a conflict between Hamilton’s calculating pragmatism and Jefferson’s loyalty to the idealistic, abstract principles of the revolution, essentially a conflict between </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">P</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">L</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, with Hamilton supporting the </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">P</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> approach. This reliance on </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">P</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with very little focus on </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">L</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> not to mention Hamilton’s incredible skill with practical management of resources, makes it clear that </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">P</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was Hamilton’s most valued and skillful element, and consistent only with </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">P1</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-ca967623-7fff-f107-b5a9-41e7213cf9ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alexander Hamilton himself said </span><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.”</span></i></span><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-09d410cd-7fff-70c5-7aa5-c834ff7831de"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Though Hamilton certainly ignored </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">L</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in favor of </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">P</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, It cannot be said that Hamilton was bad at </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">L</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Hamilton was a very skilled lawyer, and his defense of the new constitution shows that he understood the necessity for having a structure in place to pursue pragmatic benefits. Still though, his complete dismissal of abstract ideological values in favor of tangible benefit is enough to say that </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">L</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was an area of very low focus despite its strength, fitting </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">L7</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hamilton’s approach to </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">P</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> always took a very future-oriented approach. Most notably, his financial system was made specifically for the purpose of lasting long into the future. His concern was if this financial plan would last and keep America successful and stable in the long-term. His focus on promoting manufacturing was on the basis of preparing for the changing times, namely the industrial revolution, which was just starting up in Britain at the time. Hamilton was always concerned with the future implications of actions taken by himself and others, and his early correspondence shows that, even during the revolutionary war, Hamilton was very concerned about the future economic system the United States would adopt and was putting thought into the system he believed would be best to implement. All this shows a strong focus on </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">T</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> as well as </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">P</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hamilton also concerned himself with a very large variety of issues, most pertaining to economics but also concerning himself with the law, the constitution, government centralization, and the creation of a standing army. He worked to push president John Adams to establish a standing army, which was meant to be led by George Washington, although Washington never took command in person and died while Adams was still in office during his only term of four years. Hamilton was also a curious and voracious reader, reading constantly even at a very early age the works of a wide variety of philosophers and thinkers.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To have been involved in such a wide variety of pursuits, despite his life having been cut short by his duel with Aaron Burr, is astounding, with a breadth of knowledge, intellectual curiosity, and variety of pursuits strongly indicating a focus on </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> However, the vast majority of his interests were centered on ensuring his vision of a strong central government. Hamilton did not view his creativity and variety of interests as something to pursue for its own sake, relegating it to a tool to be used in service of </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">P</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">T</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, which put together with his focus on </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">T</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> being used to support </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">P</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is most consistent with </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">T2</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I8</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In pursuit of his policies and ideals, Hamilton worked non-stop. The poster child for workaholics, Hamilton’s health frequently suffered from his endless workload and his wife, <b>Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton</b> (</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ESI</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) had to force him to take a break and take care of his body through exercise and adequate rest, however he was always working on something and could rarely be pulled away from his work, a dismissiveness consistent with </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">S4</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alexander Hamilton was notoriously combative in pursuit of his goals, having picked fights with nearly every single founding father except for his patron George Washington. Just as many picked fights with Hamilton as well. Hamilton was known to enjoy conflict, unlike his main rival Thomas Jefferson who dreaded direct confrontation and primarily worked through proxies. The key thing to point out with regard to this is that, while Hamilton could certainly be very assertive when carrying out his duties for others, he only came into his own regarding pushing for his own agenda later in life. On St. Croix, even at the tender age of 14 when he was in charge of the local import-export firm, Hamilton had no trouble admonishing workers who were not up to his standards, even when they were more than triple his age. He could also be very pushy when fulfilling the requests of George Washington, but with the exception of a brief resignation from Washington’s staff over Washington’s refusal to grant him command of troops, Hamilton only started engaging in conflict consistently for the sake of his agenda after becoming Secretary of the Treasury. When he did so, he was very effective with it, primarily because President Washington, despite seeking to appear politically neutral, leaned toward the Federalists far more than the anti-Federalists. With Washington on his side, he was given free reign to act how he wanted. After Washington stepped down, he was succeeded by John Adams, who hated Hamilton. At this point, it became clear that Hamilton, through constant bickering with other politicians, had no friends in power when he needed them most, with the exception of holdovers from the Washington administration, particularly his successor Secretary of the Treasury. However, these men were distrusted by the notoriously paranoid and vindictive Adams who eventually decided to fire them. During these four years Hamilton engaged in a never-ending feud with John Adams, despite both being from the same party. This feud brought out the worst of Hamilton’s personality, as he became more vindictive, paranoid, and authoritarian in his outlook, eventually coming around to supporting the Alien and Sedition Acts, which are widely regarded as blatantly unconstitutional, especially the Sedition Act which made it illegal to slander or defame the government of the United States, with language so vague as to allow the administration to imprison or fine anyone who wrote criticisms of the Adams administration.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hamilton was also known to harbor many fantasies of battlefield glory, repeatedly requesting to be given command of soldiers from George Washington, who consistently refused because Washington did not want to risk losing his closest and most competent assistant, and due to a need to appoint men of higher rank. Eventually, after Hamilton threatened to resign, Washington relented and gave him command of three battalions near the end of the war. These fantasies came back later in the Adams administration as Hamilton requested to be a general in the newly created standing army. Though after the revolutionary war, Hamilton never actually took part in combat.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hamilton also had a strange relationship to dueling. Despite his moral opposition to dueling due to his religious beliefs (which became more and more important to him as he grew older) he seemed almost enthralled by the idea of dueling and yet he rarely engaged in duels himself. He served as a second in several duels and was almost the principle in several duels himself but ultimately agreed to call them off. He was quick to aggressively protect his reputation by threatening a duel, and that was usually enough to gain a retraction from his detractors, yet the only duel he ever fully went through with was his deadly 1804 duel with Aaron Burr.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From all of this, we can see that Hamilton certainly valued </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">F</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and quite strongly, yet had an often immature relationship to it. Later in life, he grew into someone who was willing to resort to open conflict much more in pursuit of his goals but in doing so, his use of </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">F</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> could be accurately described as ‘hyperactive’ later on in life, i.e. something he voluntarily grew in over time, which is most consistent with </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">F6</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I would also add that, in addition to the already mentioned conflict between <b>P</b> and <b>L</b> that formed the basis of the first party system, Hamilton and the Federalists supported centralized government power, while Jefferson and the Republicans supported decentralized power, essentially a conflict between valued </span><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">F</b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and unvalued </span><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">F</b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As would be expected of someone as quick to resort to conflict as Alexander Hamilton, he made many enemies and not very many friends. Much like his one-time acquaintance, later adversary and eventual killer Aaron Burr, Hamilton had a way of somehow turning pretty much everyone against him, including people who should have been his political allies, such as President John Adams, though Adams, due his jealousy and <i>"encyclopedic memory for slights"</i>, also played a large role in creating and perpetuating this rivalry. Hamilton’s only consistent, major political ally was George Washington, and after Washington stepped down as President, Hamilton was stripped of most of his political influence, only being able to affect events indirectly as a major leader of the Federalist party, though even then his influence over them would eventually wane, primarily due to his rivalry with fellow Federalist John Adams, someone who also made too many enemies and not enough friends. Though John Adams was paranoid about the holdovers from Washington’s administration serving at Hamilton’s behest, Hamilton was not close enough to them to influence them in any meaningful way.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In terms of personal relationships outside of politics, Hamilton was also quite a poor judge of character, relying often on friends who showed their corruption time and time again, as well as being somewhat of a dupe with regard to his extended family. Despite his extended family in Scotland never trying to contact him or help him in any way during the rough years of his adolescence and never reaching out to him after he had achieved enormous success in politics, some of them reached out during dire times asking for financial aid, which Hamilton obliged. When he trusted someone, often based on very little reasoning, it was very easy for them to take advantage of him.</span></p><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This all generally indicates a severe deficiency in <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">R</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and combined with the points already indicating weak </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">F</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, it’s clear that Hamilton, while definitely a genius policy-maker, was an inept politician. While researching Hamilton, I was asked on occasion by friends and family why he never became President, despite his nearly unparalleled ambition and intelligence. The answer was his lack of self-control in starting conflicts and his inability to manage his relationships with others, essentially weak <b>R</b> and overactive <b>F</b>. Of course, it is also likely that Hamilton did not have any desire to be President, but he certainly did want to be a major political leader, and after Washington stepped down, his weak <b>R</b> and <b>F</b> is what held him back from that.</span></p><span style="background-color: #fcff01;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, while </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">R</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was certainly an extraordinarily weak point for Hamilton, it also served as his only source of comfort and respite from the stress of politics. At times of intense strain in both politics and his law practice, Hamilton would always look to his very close relations, primarily his family and particularly his wife Elizabeth, for support. This, combined with his choice to rely on close friends in politics, sometimes to his detriment, and help out family who did not really have his best interests at heart, makes it clear that Hamilton valued </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">R</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> quite a lot, and with his ineptitude consistent with </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">R5</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Hamilton also had a strong vindictive streak, causing him to act antagonistically on harsh, personal judgements, such as against John Adams, culminating in his writing of the Adams pamphlet, a tirade against the President which tanked his (Hamilton's and Adams') popularity and turned the cracks in the Federalist Party's foundation into a gaping hole. Another example would be his vindictiveness against Aaron Burr, portraying him as nothing more than a power-hungry opportunist with no morals or principles who was even more dangerous than Thomas Jefferson (whom Hamilton also despised), a characterization of Burr that most scholars agree is unfair though they disagree on how much. He went so far as stepping in to stop Burr from becoming President during the tie in the election of 1800 and stopping Burr from becoming Governor of New York in 1804. This vindictiveness is more consistent with valued <b>R</b>+<b>F</b>, i.e., <b>Gamma Quadra</b> rather than <b>R</b>+<b>I</b>, i.e., <b>Delta Quadra</b>.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So with </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">P1</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">T2</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">S4</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">R5</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">F6</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">L7</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I8</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, it is clear that Alexander Hamilton was an </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LIE</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">To learn more about LIE, click <a href="http://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2015/06/lie-logical-intuitive-energiser.html">here</a>.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">If you are confused about our use of Socionics shorthand, click <a href="http://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2016/03/shorthand-notation-for-model-a.html">here</a>.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><u>Sources</u></b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">My main source was Ron Chernow's biography 'Alexander Hamilton'</span></span></p></span>
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crossorigin="anonymous"></script>KHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490730739852654480noreply@blogger.com0New York, NY, USA40.7127753 -74.005972812.402541463821152 -109.1622228 69.023009136178842 -38.849722799999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8147676909533366251.post-86778788230107923522022-01-24T15:34:00.002-08:002022-03-16T20:12:48.654-07:00Chiang Kai-shek (LSI): Personality Type Analysis<span id="docs-internal-guid-49c8d56a-7fff-96ae-2f9c-b3e93a22c40f"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="border: none; clear: left; display: inline-block; float: left; height: 258px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; overflow: hidden; width: 206px;"><img height="241" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_IjT1UZAgcf4_9IRYx81eNEJl0qBi1MUsIqm6I8Dlb-FtMI3HyGdcioYV0Ngq0gXeVDXMUhTsVLA0zrWahQBENv-j2KDgTzSfqn34ShDkS3j3u8R4ntrjbLFpZ2giYksOaVnq-PB=w184-h241" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 2.84217e-14px;" width="184" /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-3e9574ba-7fff-459f-f943-adb221007a0d" style="font-weight: normal;"></span>Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> (1887-1975), also known as Jiang Jieshi, was a Chinese revolutionary, general, and President of the Republic of China from 1927 until his defeat at the hands of Mao Zedong (</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">EIE</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">) in the Chinese Civil War in 1949, after which he and his government fled to the island of Taiwan, which he ruled until his death in 1975. First taking part as a military leader in the Xinhai revolution against the Qing dynasty in 1911 led by Sun Yat-sen, Chiang rose through the ranks of the nationalist party, called the Kuomintang, and eventually became commander-in-chief of the National Revolutionary Army. In this leading role, Chiang led the Northern Expedition to reclaim the vast majority of China which was controlled by warlords, and with his rule over China established, he presided over the Nanjing Decade, which was a period of unprecedented economic growth from 1927-1937. This was followed by the Japanese invasion of 1937, triggering the Second Sino-Japanese War, which had a very mixed legacy, with continued appeasement of Japan, brutal human rights abuses, rampant corruption within the military and bureaucracy, as well as many poor military decisions. In Taiwan, Chiang ruled as military dictator through martial law and oversaw both rapid economic growth and continued human rights abuses. To his supporters, Chiang was a visionary leader and staunch patriot who did what was necessary to defend China from its external and internal enemies. To his (more numerous) detractors, he was an incompetent and corrupt dictator over a kleptocratic regime who bungled his way through several wars and lost the mainland to the communists, despite having had a decisive advantage.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Central to Chiang’s personal and public life was a need to meet his very high standards. In his personal life, Chiang was primarily influenced by his neo-Confucian values and education, with a strong focus on discipline, duty, and self-improvement (which primarily took the form of self-criticism). In pursuit of these ideals, Chiang was an extreme perfectionist, or at least attempted to be one. Though often failing to live up to his ideals, Chiang would engage in endless self-criticism in his diary, constantly trying to align with his image of perfection and his values. These were practices that Chiang began at an early age and would continue for the rest of his life.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Politically, Chiang was staunchly ideological and legalistic. First and foremost in his political philosophy were always a set of core principles to be followed. While Chiang’s vision was mostly inspired by another revolutionary, Sun Yat-sen (a topic which I will cover later), Chiang’s pursuit of this vision always followed a set of core principles, specifically nationalism, rights of the people (often translated as democracy), and people’s livelihoods (sometimes translated as ‘socialism’). While these principles were initially outlined by Sun Yat-Sen, they remained vague enough to placate everyone who needed to be placated (including right-wing nationalists and left-wing communists) until Chiang devoted himself to his clearer interpretation of these principles, which would be augmented by Chiang’s personal neo-Confucian and later Christian views, principles which Chiang would attempt to instill in China and Taiwan for the rest of his life. So important were these principles that when Chiang Kai-shek was in charge of the Whampoa Military Academy where the officers that would take part in the Northern Expedition studied, military tactics made up only one quarter of all lessons, while political instruction based primarily on the three principles of the people (and instilling a Bushido code) made up the other three quarters of the lessons. Beyond his ideological approach to politics and military instruction, Chiang was a very strict leader, valuing obedience and ideological purity above all else, for example, withholding supplies from military commanders in World War 2 whom he judged to be disloyal and harboring communist sympathies.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Chiang was extremely willing and able to forcefully implement his values. As a revolutionary, he was a very decisive and skilled commander. In his leadership of the Kuomintang, he was far more decisive than Sun Yat-sen, for example choosing to push forward with the Northern Expedition that Sun had been hesitating on starting. Unlike Sun, who relinquished power in 1911 to Yuan Shikai, Chiang never willingly relinquished power except for one resignation in 1927 in which he knew he would be asked to come back (and he was asked to come back a few months later). As President in both China and later Taiwan, he maintained a dictatorship where most power was centralized in his hands (though warlords who willingly submitted to his rule were allowed to maintain their territory with high degrees of autonomy) and dissent was strictly punished. Examples can be seen all throughout Chiang’s rule but notable examples include the 2/28 incident in Taiwan, the 1927 purge of communists from the Kuomintang, and his crackdown and intimidation of wealthy capitalists.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Chiang also excelled at political power-struggles. Understanding how to use his leverage to win, Chiang emerged successful from power struggles against Wang Jingwei</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> in 1927, and against various generals and reformers in Taiwan, not to mention his ability to gain American support for relatively minor concessions throughout World War 2 and during diplomatic crises with the Communist mainland while in Taiwan.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Chiang’s constant focus on obedience to principles, his desire for principled perfection in his personal life and his adherence and enforcement of strict ideological principles in military and political matters were the core of his personality. While Sun Yat-sen was an inspirational revolutionary leader, he faced constant setbacks and failures. After overthrowing the Qing dynasty, Sun Yat-Sen was unable to prevent China from falling under Yuan Shikai’s dictatorship and later splintering among warlords. It was Chiang who brought the strict legalism, enforcement, and decisiveness to the Kuomintang necessary to, at least on paper, reunify China and see through the revolution to the end. This clearly suggests strong and valued </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">L+F</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, with </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">L</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> taking precedence and </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">F</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> used in a supporting role, best fitting </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">L1</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> and </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">F2</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Though Chiang Kai-Shek was certainly decisive in his leadership, he also had the ability to be patient, wait for better opportunities and take time to set up a more favorable scenario. Examples of this can be seen in his decisions to appease Japan during their pre-1937 attempts at expansion into China, such as not fighting against their invasion of Manchuria. In Taiwan, Chiang’s goal was to create a model society that would show what China could be capable of and thus raise support for a Kuomintang counter-attack against the Communist mainland or in some other way result in the mainland becoming more aligned with (or under the control of) the Kuomintang. This would seem to suggest some capability in Chiang’s use of </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">T</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, however, it would be difficult to characterize his use of </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">T</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> as strong or an aspect given a lot of focus. Chiang Kai-shek would prove to be unreasonably stubborn in his long term plans, one example being his continued attempts to crush the Communist rebellion and appease Japan’s expansionist desires while doing so, a course he pursued throughout the 1930s against all internal opposition, which eventually led a patriotic warlord, Zhang Xueliang, to kidnap Chiang and force him to forge an alliance with the Communists. Chiang’s stubbornness and lack of foresight would come up again in failed strategies against Japan (such as the decision to stake his best German-trained divisions against Japan in the hopeless battle for Shanghai) and his decision to stake most of his army in a battle for Manchuria against the Communists. One bad decision is normal for everyone. A few bad decisions can be explained in other ways, however frequent poor decisions related to extreme stubbornness and lack of foresight show that despite a seemingly adequate capability in </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">T</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, it was still clearly a weak spot.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Despite this weakness, along with his valuing of </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">F</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, Chiang Kai-Shek can also be shown strongly valuing </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">T</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. Chiang at all times sought to align his actions with a long-term plan for China’s (later Taiwan’s) political development. He agreed with Sun Yat-sen’s vision of a unified, democratic, modernized China that could defend itself with foreign imperialism and aligned with Sun’s plan for how this would be achieved. Specifically, this followed a three-step plan, starting with military unification, then <i>“political tutelage”,</i> which was a period of authoritarian rule during which citizens were supposed to be taught their rights and how to engage in politics, and ending with a transition to constitutional democratic governance. It should be noted that this process for long-term transition to an independent democratic China was laid out by Sun, not Chiang. Chiang simply followed the path Sun laid out, starting with the Northern Expedition (which Sun remained indecisive on and kept putting off until his death), then political tutelage during the Nanjing decade. It should also be noted that political tutelage, i.e. authoritarian rule, never ended on Taiwan until after Chiang’s death. A charitable interpretation of this would be that Chiang lacked confidence in how events would play out if he made the final transition to democratic government, believing that he alone knew what was best and that others could not rule the country as well as he could, and a lack of confidence in his ability to indirectly influence events, indicating a greater confidence in <b>L</b>, <b>F</b>, and to a certain extent <b>P</b> than in <b>T</b></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. A less charitable interpretation would be that Chiang simply desired to remain in power despite his stated views, in which the point that he lacked confidence in indirect influence remains true, indicating he was still more confident in </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">F</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> than </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">T</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. However charitably you choose to interpret this, the conclusion is still the same: Chiang was more confident in <b>L</b> and <b>F</b> than he was in <b>T</b>. Chiang Kai-shek’s inconsistent ability to plan ahead, his inheriting a long-term vision from someone else much more confident in </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">T</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, and greater confidence in</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">F</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> over </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">T</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> put together makes </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">T6</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> very obvious. The unreasonable stubbornness and resistance to the advice of others to pursue alternate paths is characteristic of </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">I4</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Linked with Chiang Kai-shek’s long-term vision was something of a messiah complex. Chiang was himself very emotionally invested in his </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">T</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> based ideals, believing his destiny to be synonymous with China’s destiny, as was seen in his diary. Chiang was quite private about these feelings, only writing about them in his diary, but nonetheless it was still present and formed a large part of his psychology. It is clear that Chiang valued </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">E</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> with </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">T</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, however </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">E</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> was still a clear weakness of his. Chiang had an exceedingly unappealing personality. Words consistently used to describe him include <i>"harsh"</i>, <i>"cantankerous"</i>, <i>"abrasive"</i></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, <i>"aloof"</i>, and worse. Beyond being thoroughly unlikeable personally, Chiang was also out of touch with the views of ordinary citizens, most notably with his allowance of widespread corruption within the military and the Kuomintang</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, and while the Kuomintang and army did function well enough to get by despite the rampant corruption, Chiang was utterly oblivious to how this corruption negatively affected his image in both the United States (whose support he desperately needed in the civil war against Mao) and his image among average Chinese citizens, most of whom were peasants. Mao, on the other hand, had a very strong understanding of image-management and a very appealing personality, and it was due to these skills of his that many Chinese peasants flocked to his banner and Kuomintang soldiers defected en masse to join the Communists. It is clear that Chiang valued </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">E</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> yet was oblivious to how to manage aspects related to </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">E</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, making </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">E5</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> most fitting.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Despite his unlikeable personality, Chiang Kai-shek was still capable of maintaining decent personal relations with others, though not consistently or with any apparent nuance. For example, he faced serious personal difficulties with the American overseer of the Chinese war effort, General Joseph Stilwell, whose arrogance, condescension, and ambition caused him to frequently clash with Chiang. For his part, Stilwell was offended by Chiang’s arrogance, stubbornness, and strictness. Nonetheless Chiang could make personal concessions and overtures to placate Stilwell’s ambition. Chiang was also able to get along with other leaders on a personal basis, such as President Franklin D. Roosevelt (</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">SEE</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">), or <a href="https://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2016/03/mahatma-gandhi-iei-analysis.html"><b>Mahatma Gandhi</b> (</a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2016/03/mahatma-gandhi-iei-analysis.html">IEI</a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2016/03/mahatma-gandhi-iei-analysis.html">)</a> whom Chiang met with personally to convince him to avoid sabotaging the British war effort, not to mention his ability to inspire personal loyalty in some of his warlord allies such that even when his ally Zhang Xueliang kidnapped Chiang in 1936 to force him to form a united front against Japan with the Communist rebels, Zhang had no plans to harm Chiang and in fact pledged his loyalty to Chiang while imprisoning him. Still, back in Nanjing, Chiang took the opportunity while Zhang was with him to arrest him, and Zhang would remain under house arrest until Chiang’s death in 1975.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">However, Chiang Kai-shek still faced difficulties with regard to personal relationships, with his relationship with Stilwell repairing then breaking down consistently. While sometimes making exceptions for close relationships, he could at other times be very ruthless, for example, in a rather notable example of Chiang’s rare vindictiveness, just before fleeing to Taiwan as the Communists were winning the mainland, Chiang went back to the wartime capital Chongqing and suddenly executed several military officers who were imprisoned in 1936 for their role in the aforementioned kidnapping (though Zhang Xueliang himself was transported to Taiwan where he remained under house arrest). What this all shows is a serviceable capability in </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">R</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">,</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> but with no real value or nuance. As seen in his ability to appeal to others on an interpersonal level (though not emotionally), his handling of those military officers, his relationship with Zhang Xueliang, and in his indecisiveness regarding his relationship with Stilwell, Chiang Kai-shek was someone with enough understanding of the importance of personal loyalty and other <b>R</b> related aspects, with a good ability to inspire personal loyalty in others. However, this was without confidence or skill and always subservient to his ideological values, that is, subservient to <b>L</b>, with only rare moments of personal vindictiveness. These are traits most consistent with </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">R3</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Chiang Kai-shek’s management of China is notable for its success in spite of the numerous problems facing the country at the time. Between the unification of China following the Northern Expedition in 1928 and Japan’s invasion of China in 1937, under Chiang’s leadership, China went through the Nanjing decade, named after the capital city Nanjing. The Nanjing decade, while marred by its human rights abuses and authoritarianism, was nonetheless a period of unprecedented economic growth. Despite the Communist rebellion at the time, excessive corruption (which Chiang allowed as it did not cause too much inefficiency to deal with, and Chiang believed he had more pressing concerns) and frequent clashes with (and concessions to) Japan, China remained stable and successful. After fleeing to Taiwan, Chiang's goal was to position Taiwan as a model alternative to the Communist mainland, primarily through economic success, which he managed extremely skilfully. Taiwan’s economic success exceeded the success of the Nanjing decade, due to the combination of Chiang’s skilful management and generous economic aid from the United States. The Nanjing decade ended with Japan’s invasion, but even after the war against Japan devolved into a stalemate across a massive frontline and despite Japan’s blockade (and capture) of Chinese ports, Chiang still maintained China’s domestic economy well, with inflation kept to a minimum and daily life continuing as usual for those living far away from the front. Rampant inflation would not take hold over China until after the Communist victory in the battle for Manchuria in 1948.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Chiang Kai-shek however, was always motivated by something other than proper management and economic success. Chiang’s motivations were always ideological, and Chiang would willingly neglect pragmatic management if they interfered with these. For example, during battles against Japan late in the war Chiang, withheld important supplies from generals he believed to be disloyal or have Communist sympathies. Another example would be how Chiang focused far more on ideological education than military tactics in the Whampoa military academy. Yet another example was in Chiang allowing officials loyal to him to engage in massive corruption, only cracking down on corruption after setting himself up in Taiwan. Chiang Kai-shek clearly had a very strong use of </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">P</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, but still not valued above his ideological views, and when faced with a choice between </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">P</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> and </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">L</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, Chiang always chose </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">L</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, a dismissive attitude consistent with </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">P7</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">And lastly, in Chiang Kai-shek’s private life, he led a very calm and regimented existence. He woke up early, went to bed early, ate well, and took good care of himself, suffering few health issues until he was in his 70s. This stands in stark contrast to Chiang’s wife, Soong Mayling (</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">EIE</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">), who suffered frequent health issues (including mental health and physical health) and often sought treatment in American hospitals for her ailments. Chiang put great emphasis on taking care of himself physically, though primarily for the purposes of keeping himself capable of taking on the political and military challenges he faced. His pleasant lifestyle and healthy habits were not for the sake of his own enjoyment. Beyond this, Chiang Kai-shek was also frequently focused on minute details as a military leader, known for his frequent micromanagement. We can clearly see from this that Chiang Kai-Shek focused extensively on </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">S</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> but didn’t see it as having inherent value, which is very consistent with </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">S8</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">With </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">L1</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">F2</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">R3</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">I4</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">E5</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">T6</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">P7</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, and </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">S8</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, Chiang Kai-shek is a clear example of an </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">LSI</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">To learn more about LSI, click <a href="http://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2015/09/lsi-logical-sensory-integrator.html">here</a>.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">If you are confused about our use of Socionics shorthand, click <a href="http://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2016/03/shorthand-notation-for-model-a.html">here</a>.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sources</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">My primary source is Jay Taylor’s biography The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China.</span></p></span></span>
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crossorigin="anonymous"></script>KHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490730739852654480noreply@blogger.com0Taipei City, Taiwan25.0329636 121.5654268-3.2772702361788468 86.4091768 53.343197436178841 156.7216768tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8147676909533366251.post-722303055562831192021-11-30T16:27:00.004-08:002022-03-16T20:12:59.071-07:00Otto Von Bismarck (SLE): Personality Type Analysis<span id="docs-internal-guid-a9bcfee0-7fff-8fbd-70d8-744d41610f0d"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-170ad270-7fff-2136-f163-ecea601eb3f2"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="border: none; clear: left; display: inline-block; float: left; height: 279px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; overflow: hidden; width: 191px;"><img height="257" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/fY05GvGZSGtvVa1R8ElrkCYkYpnunT-YS1UageVkvn7iBW5Wsl9vht6j-KPXOhYMqn6PvIiZQeJWxgrDDG2fyjYm7D1NOvAEcsNM1bTyZd-WQOK3e1HSg5Qol1ig6CBoW99k9Mwg=w172-h257" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="172" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;">Otto, Prince of Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg</b> (born </span><b style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;">Junker Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck</b><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;">,</span><b style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;"> </b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">1815-1898) was chancellor of Prussia and later Germany. He is best known for his achievement of unifying the various German states (completed in 1871), which he continued to govern as Chancellor until his dismissal by Kaiser Wilhelm II (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">EIE</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">) in 1890.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">One of the most interesting things about Bismarck was his lack of real power. As a mere chancellor, his position was completely at the mercy of his benefactor, the King of Prussia and later German Kaiser, Wilhelm I. Wilhelm always had the final say as a somewhat absolute monarch, and could override or fire his chancellor whenever he wished, and in addition to that, any specific domestic law that Bismarck wanted needed to be passed by the Reichstag. Despite this, Bismarck’s contemporaries, including his friends and enemies (of which he had many) widely considered him to be a dictator.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">This is because, despite his limited power, Bismarck was keenly aware of how to use what little power he had to get whatever he wanted. Bismarck managed to unite and rule Germany through sheer force of will. And it was through his forceful and temperamental personality that Bismarck maintained his nearly unchecked power over Germany for nearly 20 years. Kaiser Wilhelm I himself once remarked <i>“It is difficult to be Kaiser under Bismarck.” </i></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Whenever Bismarck faced opposition, whether it was real or perceived, his first instinct was always to fight to enforce his will. Bismarck believed that open conflict had a sort of ‘cleansing’ effect. Examples of this could be seen throughout his time as Chancellor of Germany, most notably his attempt to crack down on the Catholic church (Catholics were the majority in Southern Germany) which led to suppression of Catholics themselves and Catholic practices, known as the 'Kulturkampf' or 'Culture struggle'. Other notable examples include during the 1848 revolutions, which Bismarck opposed, when Bismarck gathered the peasants of his estate to march on Berlin to defend the monarchy against the revolutionaries (though the Prussian officers he met when arriving rejected his plan and instead told him to simply gather supplies). Bismarck's constant conflicts with the Landtag (Prussian parliament) resulted in the House of Deputies declaring that they could not work with him, and the King responded by dissolving the Diet and allowing Bismarck to introduce laws suppressing freedom of the press early in his chancellorship. Bismarck also opted for a military method to unite Germany, starting wars with Denmark, Austria, and France to do so. Furthermore, he established a series of anti-socialist laws to forcefully suppress the Socialist party as much as he was legally allowed. According to Bismarck’s worldview, conflict was necessary to achieve what one wanted, best encapsulated by his now famous <i>“iron and blood”</i> speech.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202122; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">In September 1862, when the Prussian House of Representatives were refusing to approve an increase in military spending desired by King Wilhelm I, the monarch appointed Bismarck Minister President and Foreign Minister. A few days later, Bismarck appeared before the House's Budget Committee and stressed the need for military preparedness to solve the German Question. He concluded his speech with the following statement: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202122; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>“The position of Prussia in Germany will not be determined by its liberalism but by its power [...] Prussia must concentrate its strength and hold it for the favorable moment, which has already come and gone several times. Since the treaties of Vienna, our frontiers have been ill-designed for a healthy body politic. Not through speeches and majority decisions will the great questions of the day be decided—that was the great mistake of 1848 and 1849—but by iron and blood”</i></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202122; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">This speech sent shockwaves through Prussia’s parliament, in which liberal members held a plurality of the seats, and created a mini-crisis that almost saw Bismarck losing his power immediately after acquiring it, as many in Prussia’s government pushed for Wilhelm I to fire him. Luckily for Bismarck, Wilhelm refused, and in the following decade Bismarck would make good on his promise to use iron and blood to achieve his goals.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202122; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202122; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Bismarck in general was always aware of his power and leverage in any situation. One of his many ways of maintaining control over Wilhelm I was to threaten to resign, and thus no longer offer his political expertise to the management of Prussia/Germany. Another one of Bismarck's methods was feigning a temper (which was believed by everyone because Bismarck on many occasions showed a very real and very vicious temper), such that no one would be willing to risk ending up on his bad side.<br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202122; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202122; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Throughout all of Bismarck’s life, fighting to achieve his goals, conflict with opposing factions, a desire for power and desire to subordinate others, were all the most common themes present. This is enough to make </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202122; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">F1</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202122; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> quite obvious. It really is no wonder he was, and is, often referred to as ‘The Iron Chancellor’.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202122; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Bismarck’s worldview is also indicative of his sociotype. Bismarck was a radical conservative, believing in maintaining royal supremacy and a strict social hierarchy. Maintaining royal power was one of Bismarck’s main goals after unifying Germany, with his other goals being the maintaining of his own power and creating a united German identity. While it is unsurprising that Bismarck would seek to preserve the social hierarchy in Germany since Bismarck himself was a Junker (Prussian nobility), his genuine belief in the King's divine right to rule and the fervor with which he defended royal and aristocratic power makes it clear that his hierarchical values come from a genuine internal motivation, rather than solely pragmatic concern for his own position in society (though maintaining his position in society certainly played a role in Bismarck's ideology). This hierarchical worldview is indicative of valued, and likely confident </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202122; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">L</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202122; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> blocked with <b>F</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202122; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. Bismarck also had a strong ability to use laws and legal loopholes to his advantage, such as when Bismarck, as well as King Wilhelm, disliked the budget put forward by the Landtag, so rejected it and despite the lack of legal precedent, asserted that he would be able to use the previous years budget to run the government since a new budget had not been agreed on. Bismarck's skills at legal manipulation also point toward strong <b>L</b>.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202122; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Despite his conservative leanings, Bismarck was not a strict ideologue. He was willing to compromise on his views in pursuit of his goals. For example, although he would have preferred an authoritarian royalist state, Bismarck introduced universal male suffrage to gain a political advantage in the North German Confederation (the northern states joined Prussia prior to Bismarck’s unification of the South) in 1867. Though pursuing the Kulturkampf to reduce the power of the Catholic church, Bismarck would end the Kulturkampf and ally with his former Catholic opponents in the German Centre Party to fight against the Socialists. To fight against the Socialists, despite being reactionary, Bismarck would introduce one of the most advanced welfare states in Europe to gain support from the working classes that would have likely gone to the Socialists instead. For Bismarck, there were few hard lines, and policies were tools to be used to resist opposing ideologies and power blocks, rather than be ends in and of themselves. This is best summarised by one of Bismarck’s well known quotes, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>“Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best.” </i>This is enough to say conclusively that Bismarck used </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">F</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">L</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> with great confidence but also with notable flexibility in his use of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">L</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, most consistent with </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">L2</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. In addition, Bismarck’s ability to change tactics and compromise his ideological pursuits when needed is indicative of some effective </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">I </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">usage</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, but unvalued, seeing as it was only used when necessary. The adaptive nature of Bismarck’s use of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">I</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> combined with the complete lack of value placed on it for its own sake, is most consistent with </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">I3</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">While Bismarck was easily able to rely on </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">F</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">L</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> to navigate the politics in Germany and push through his agenda, one of the most interesting facts that sets him apart from many other authoritarian leaders was his lack of overt grandiosity. While Bismarck certainly had a high opinion of himself and knew that, by uniting Germany, he had forever changed world history more drastically than the vast majority of leaders, during his time in power he was not one to advertise this fact often. He did not tend to give grand speeches and in fact was a somewhat poor public speaker (except for in debates, of course, where he was quite skilled). He also lacked charisma in the conventional sense of the word. Though many were attracted to his very powerful personality, he did not project an appealing image nor make others feel good through charm.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">At least, this was how he acted while in power. After his fall from grace and dismissal by Wilhelm II, Bismarck briefly retreated to isolation in his estate, before eventually getting back into politics indirectly through giving interviews, releasing secrets, and playing at what his son Herbert called 'pseudo-politics'. He also began writing his memoirs. During this period between his downfall and his death, he began going on tours through Germany where large crowds gathered to see the ‘Iron and Blood Chancellor’ in person, cheering him on. During these events, Bismarck would enjoy reveling in all of the praise and attention. He would then give actual public speeches meant to create an emotional effect, rather than for purely pragmatic and political purposes. For most of his life, Bismarck operated purely for political gain and acquisition of power, but later in life became more extroverted and engaged in the social and emotional atmosphere, consistent with </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">E6</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">As one would expect from Bismarck’s lack of emotional awareness, his behavior regarding his personal relationships left much to be desired. Bismarck’s quick temper and vindictiveness would often lead to him mistreating his loved ones, causing him much shame and regret once he had calmed down. One minor example was when Bismarck, in a fit of anger, hit his dog. Shortly after, his dog died of natural causes related to old age (not due to Bismarck’s mistreatment), causing Bismarck to break down in tears over having mistreated the dog he loved so close to its death. A much bigger example would be when Bismarck used his power to threaten to change German primogeniture laws to disinherit his eldest son Herbert, thereby preventing him from marrying the woman he loved due to many perceived personal failings, such as her divorce and because she was from a family of Bismarck’s political rivals. This turned Herbert into a cynical alcoholic and he never recovered, causing Bismarck much guilt throughout the rest of his life.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Additionally, Bismarck could only enforce his political will through his power and leverage, since he was often unable to get others to join his side personally due to his reputation for having a poor moral character. While beloved by the masses, particularly after his dismissal by Wilhelm II, Bismarck often made a poor impression on the individuals he interacted with in politics, which would prove a massive hindrance to him when trying to push his agenda. This all would seem to make </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">R4</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> a good fit. Biographer Jonathan Steinberg said of him, while describing how he was forced to resign by Wilhelm II, as...<i>"Having crushed his parliamentary opponents, flattened and abused his ministers, and refused to allow himself to be bound by any loyalty, Bismarck had no ally left when he needed it."</i></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Lastly, Bismarck’s legacy of a united, royalist Germany as the most powerful country in Europe would come crashing down after his death in the world wars, partially due to Wilhelm II’s expansionist ambitions and the relative incompetence of Germany’s early 20th century leaders. Bismarck had created a system in German politics and foreign policy where only he, by nature of his genius, was capable of managing the various conflicting interests. No else one understood the systems that Bismarck had created, such as the League of the Three Emperors, which formed an alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia, an alliance that made no logical sense due to the extreme and explicit hostility between Austria and Russia over control of the Balkans. In fact, sometimes even Bismarck didn’t understand them himself, but managed to keep these systems and policies going despite the seeming impossibility, thanks to his pure political skill, but despite being praised for his genius, the German state and foreign policy that Bismarck oversaw was always a house of cards, and without the <i>“genius statesman” </i>keeping it up, it was destined to come crumbling down.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Strangely, for someone as obsessed with his legacy as Bismarck, he did not see this turn of events coming until long after his fall from power. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">It is often said that Bismarck’s legacy crumbled so soon after his fall from power because Bismarck could not envision a world without himself. Bismarck’s desire to protect his legacy and complete inability to do so despite his immense power seems most indicative of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">T5</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Further indication of <b>T5</b> can be seen throughout Bismarck's time in power in how he pushed through policies or systems in the moment to gain more immediate power and leverage which would later come back to disadvantage him in the future. His establishment of universal suffrage is a perfect example of this, as it helped him gain an immediate political advantage, but in the time of the German Empire, would come to be a hinderance as liberalism became more popular in other German states and its popularity would continue to grow under Bismarck's reign.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Having argued for Bismarck’s use of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">F1</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">L2</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">I3</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">R4</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">T5</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">E6</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, I find it impossible to see Bismarck as any type other than <b>SLE</b>.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><u>Sources</u></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">My main source was Jonathan Steinberg's biography 'Bismarck: A Life</span></p><br /><br /></span></span></span>
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crossorigin="anonymous"></script>KHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490730739852654480noreply@blogger.com339524 Schönhausen, Germany52.583192999999987 12.038422924.272959163821142 -23.1178271 80.893426836178833 47.1946729tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8147676909533366251.post-38246479547559853082021-09-17T19:17:00.003-07:002022-03-16T20:13:06.808-07:00Henry Kissinger (ILI): Personality Type Analysis<span id="docs-internal-guid-2f16f4f3-7fff-0b4f-14f8-264ac8abaac9"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="border: none; clear: left; display: inline-block; float: left; height: 266px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; overflow: hidden; width: 202px;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white;"><img height="245" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/a1rplMaUrZYlPCHPG-EUK5t3kUOkhYzjcC56hYDQljUMKHAV00T97OIjBYSVminxrXPF6B3Iw0v2CBXmOU6Fp8ixpgRALn4WbJUo_VYycdpvnxObj3EbrbWIZvlBYnL-N0N6k0vA=w182-h245" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="182" /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-dca864da-7fff-6586-cd20-a8eccf51712e"></span><b>Henry Alfred Kissinger</b> (born Heinz Kissinger in 1923)</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a German-American writer, geopolitical analyst, consultant, and former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State to presidents <a href="https://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2016/03/richard-nixon-esi-analysis.html">Richard Nixon (</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2016/03/richard-nixon-esi-analysis.html">ESI</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2016/03/richard-nixon-esi-analysis.html">)</a> and Gerald Ford (</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SLI</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">), having the distinction of being the only person in history to have held both titles at the same time. Kissinger’s reputation is controversial. He is praised by some for his use of </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">realpolitik</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, an approach to diplomacy that chooses to eschew ideology or morality in favor of pragmatism. He is also praised by many for his achievements, including his pivotal role in pursuing </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">détente</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with the Soviet Union, opening negotiations with the diplomatically isolated Maoist China, negotiating a ceasefire to the Yom-Kippur war, setting the stage for long-lasting peace between Israel and Egypt (completed during the Carter administration), and negotiating the end of America’s involvement in the Vietnam war. However, Kissinger is also routinely criticized for his amoral approach to diplomacy, often called a 'war criminal' for his involvement in bombing campaigns in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, as well as his support of right-wing dictators throughout Latin America, among other actions he took while in power.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Henry Kissinger’s most notable personality trait, and one of his greatest strengths, is his analytical ability and strategic mind. Kissinger, and even his critics would admit this, has a masterful understanding of the long-term geopolitical implications of any one event or idea. Biographer Walter Isaacson said of him:<i> </i></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>“Likewise, his fingertip feel for the world’s webs of interdependence – how an event in one corner of the planet will reverberate in another – has become more important in an era of complex globalization.” </i></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kissinger was known to analyze every situation with a long-term strategy. When writing about Kissinger’s time as a consultant in the Kennedy administration, Walter Isaacson also stated <i>“</i></span><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">... <a href="https://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2016/03/john-kennedy-eie-analysis.html">(</a></span><a href="https://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2016/03/john-kennedy-eie-analysis.html"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">John F.) Kennedy (</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">EIE</span></a></i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><a href="https://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2016/03/john-kennedy-eie-analysis.html">),</a> who considered Kissinger brilliant but tiresome, was driven to distraction by his ponderous insistence that all issues be put in a long-range, strategic context,”</i> which was a focus that Kissinger had throughout his time in the Nixon and Ford administrations. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Even before joining Nixon’s administration, and after leaving the president’s cabinet with the defeat of Gerald Ford to Jimmy Carter (</span><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">SEI</b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">) in the 1976 election, Kissinger continued writing books and articles about geopolitics where he commented on the current trends and where they would likely lead the world in the future. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Most of Kissinger’s books are meant to analyze the contemporary geopolitical trends and predict where these trends will lead in the future. For the ones that do not concern contemporary geopolitics, such as ‘A World Restored’ or ‘Diplomacy’, Kissinger still explains events and trends in sequential order, how one leads into the next, and what the modern world can learn from analyzing the past. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kissinger’s strategic thought process and long-term thinking, his desire for every action to lead toward a specific end-goal, and his masterful understanding of the global and long-term consequences of any action or event, as well as his <i>“fingertip feel”</i> for geopolitics, and his constant focus on how current trends will affect future outcomes, make a strong case for </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">T1</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-5610e136-7fff-305c-702a-2893d838c267"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kissinger’s approach to foreign policy had a distinct pragmatism to it, with Kissinger being one of the most committed pragmatists to influence US foreign policy during the twentieth century</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, eschewing moral concerns on the basis that a country’s only duty is to maintain its own power to prevent any foreign threats against it. While many politicians used moralistic rhetoric to pursue practical ends, and some actively pursued a moralistic foreign policy, Kissinger openly and unashamedly practiced </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">realpolitik</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, the term coined in the 19th century to describe the approach Otto Von Bismarck (</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SLE</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) took in foreign policy, one of ignoring moral and ideological concerns in favor of purely power-based diplomacy. In fact, it is no surprise that when Charles de Gaulle (</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ESI</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) asked Kissinger who his favorite diplomat was, he answered that it was Otto Von Bismarck. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kissinger makes use of a plethora of facts and information in his analyses, which can be seen most clearly in his books, which are packed with context, events, and examples, all of which are synthesized to form a cohesive analysis, and presented in a very dry and factual way, with little emotion or moralism to be found. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kissinger took the same approach in his memoirs. He explained the events of his years in power in clear, factual terms, and made a point of relying as little on memory as possible and using the plethora of documents available to him (as well as his personal diary from the time period) to describe events. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kissinger’s strong usage of facts and data as well as his dry presentation to explain his analyses of long-term trends seems indicative of </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">P2</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> supporting </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">T1</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kissinger had a seemingly ideological devotion to the idea of pragmatism in foreign policy. He would explain his views in a clear, structured way, and views geopolitics through a systematic lens, often utilizing structural analysis to promote his pragmatic views. Notably though, Kissinger only used this sort of ideological framework to promote a pragmatic foreign policy which he saw as the end goal in and of itself. This is most consistent with </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">L8</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> supporting </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">P2</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, all of which fed his </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">T1</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> motivations.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In his promotion of a pragmatic foreign policy, Kissinger states plainly his belief that the only purpose of foreign policy is to promote a country’s power and protect its national security. He is quite forthright in his lack of moral considerations, and while he does defend his views as being the most moral, often using the Metternich system which set up a balance of power in Europe that (mostly) maintained peace for a century as an example of his principles in action, he sees no point in masking his cynical calculus with something that would be more acceptable to the average person. Regardless of the objective merits of a purely pragmatic foreign policy, it is not something most average people find appealing given the inherent amorality of it, and most politicians would at least make an attempt to sound more appealing when presenting their ideas. Kissinger, on the other hand, saw no purpose in playing these games to make his ideas more palatable. While previous politicians, although promoting continued involvement in Vietnam, talked about promoting democracy and self-determination in order to stop the spread of communism, Kissinger (and Nixon) instead talked about pragmatic concerns of how a sudden withdrawal would affect America's other alliances, as well as linkage (linking geopolitical concerns in one area to the concerns in a different area to gain more leverage in negotiations). In fact, contrary to the common media narrative, Kissinger is unique, not because of his <i>realpolitik</i> approach (other presidential administrations before and after had the a similar approach), but he is unique because of how openly cynical he was with regard to foreign policy. This is consistent with </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">E4</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While showing very few signs of </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">R</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> on the surface, Kissinger in his memoirs, whenever introducing a new person, always makes a point of describing not just their personalities but also his view of them, making his opinion clear with his descriptions, such as describing someone as being <i>“a man of integrity and honesty”</i> and often saying outright how much he admired certain individuals based on their character traits. On the rare occasion that Kissinger describes an event in emotional terms, it is often framed from his personal perspective. For example, in his chapter on what he called <i>“the agony of Vietnam”,</i> he spends little time discussing the severe agony of Indochina during a period of war, instead focusing on the United States, specifically because of his personal attitude toward it: </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I cannot yet write about Vietnam except with pain and sadness…”</i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> he wrote in his first of three memoirs, ‘The White House Years’, and after describing the severe reaction of US citizens to the war, how it divided the country, he explains his pain at seeing America tear itself apart, saying </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The principles of America’s honor and America’s responsibility were not empty phrases to me. I felt them powerfully. I had been born in Germany in the Bavarian town of Fuerth, six months before Hitler’s attempted beerhall putsch in Bavaria’s capital, Munich. Hitler came to power when I was nine years old… Until I emigrated to America, my family and I endured progressive ostracism and discrimination… Through this period America acquired a wondrous quality for me. When I was a boy it was a dream, an incredible place where tolerance was natural and personal freedom unchallenged… I therefore have always had a special feeling for what America means, which native-born citizens perhaps take for granted… The domestic turmoil of the Vietnam debate therefore pained me deeply… I believed in the moral significance of my adopted country.” </i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Therefore, w</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hile tangents involving Kissinger’s emotional attachment to certain issues were rare, when he did write emotionally, it heavily concerned his personal views written from his perspective, rather than a general, emotionally charged description like one would find in </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">E</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> valuing types.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, despite Kissinger frequently commenting on </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">R</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> related things, the vast majority of his written work concerns analysis of trends using factual data, including in his memoirs. Kissinger’s ability to establish relations with individuals on the world stage was lacking, with him often requiring others to bridge the gap. For example, while negotiating a ceasefire to the Yom Kippur war, Kissinger faced difficulty getting along with Israeli prime minister Golda Meir, but was helped in his efforts due to Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat’s ability to easily establish a rapport with Kissinger. Kissinger primarily showed valued </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">R</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in his memoirs, where the reader is given access to his personal thought process, showing that </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">R</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is certainly valued and focused on somewhat, but overall remains a less important and less noticeable part of his personality than </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">T</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">P</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, consistent with </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">R6</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Henry Kissinger’s other most notable personality trait is his desire for power. Throughout his life he was always looking for a way to gain more influence. Kissinger himself would often say <i>“power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.” </i>and one of his brief girlfriends (one of many, he was quite a womanizer) said of Kissinger that <i>“for him, power was an aphrodisiac, but it was also the climax”. </i>This, in addition to his view of the world as an endless competition between opposing forces, is enough to confidently say that </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">F</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a valued element for him. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conversely, Kissinger himself often lacked the aggression needed to make his mark and acquire what he wanted. The extent of his personal assertiveness were his common fits of anger and Kissinger frequently needed to attach himself to other more powerful individuals. After being drafted into the US army in World War II, Kissinger joined the military intelligence part of his division and eventually was put in charge of the German city Krefeld solely due to establishing his connection with a strong-willed, assertive, and eccentric officer named Fritz Kraemer. Later, in Kissinger’s political career, he would become known due to his personal and advisory relationship to Governor Nelson Rockefeller (</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SEE</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">), only gaining real political power when he was hired to be president Richard Nixon’s national security advisor. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">In addition, Henry’s wife, Nancy Kissinger, is described as being strong-willed and assertive, readily using aggression in public, such as one event where Henry was accosted by a cultist at an airport and Nancy was the one who pushed her aside and threatened to <i>“slug”</i> the cultist so she would go away. In fact, despite what one would expect based on traditional gender roles, it was said that Nancy was the one who felt protective of Henry. While it is a minor point, Kissinger eventually settling down with a strong-willed assertive woman would indicate that he not only sought people with powerful personalities for the sake of his career, but also because he liked assertive people in general. Therefore, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kissinger’s love of power and influence, along with his own lack of assertiveness, and his desire to attach himself to other more assertive individuals for both his career and love life, indicates </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">F</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in his super-id, most consistent with </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">F5</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Overall, it’s been argued that Henry Kissinger’s personality best fits </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">T1</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">P2</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, <b>E4</b>, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">F5</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">R6</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">L8</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, making </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ILI</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the most likely type for him.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">To learn more about ILI, click <a href="https://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2015/06/ili-intuitive-logical-integrator.html">here</a>.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">If you are confused about our use of Socionics shorthand, click <a href="http://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2016/03/shorthand-notation-for-model-a.html">here</a>.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sources</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My main source was Walter Isaacson’s biography, simply titled ‘Kissinger’.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For a much more detailed (though naturally biased) look at Kissinger’s years in power, one could read his set of gargantuan memoirs, titled (in order of release) ‘The White House Years’, ‘Years of Upheaval’, and ‘Years of Renewal’. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For a look at Kissinger’s worldview which his geopolitical analysis is filtered through, one could read his 1994 magnum opus ‘Diplomacy’.</span></p><div><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>
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crossorigin="anonymous"></script>KHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490730739852654480noreply@blogger.com0Kent, CT, USA41.7247554 -73.47696429999999213.414521563821154 -108.63321429999999 70.034989236178845 -38.320714299999992tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8147676909533366251.post-29759528787601083632021-08-27T04:15:00.006-07:002022-03-16T20:13:57.141-07:00Napoléon Bonaparte (SLE): Personality Type Analysis<span id="docs-internal-guid-96d1f878-7fff-34f7-7e4f-5a2207cbbd6a"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihLB_iWaE4utClerPMHxRWMBE-X3VW9sT4mBkhPpnk0skwZU38TyY0rG-T9ekCHJWOJ1W7or8Zx68l1jt-erPtCuFi_FCcOMNSZgCUAJYU4-xhfJUiDCdvBhFrkyRHYDbkXgYz0xwdZbVX/s1556/Napoleon-Bonaparte.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1556" data-original-width="1176" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihLB_iWaE4utClerPMHxRWMBE-X3VW9sT4mBkhPpnk0skwZU38TyY0rG-T9ekCHJWOJ1W7or8Zx68l1jt-erPtCuFi_FCcOMNSZgCUAJYU4-xhfJUiDCdvBhFrkyRHYDbkXgYz0xwdZbVX/s320/Napoleon-Bonaparte.jpg" width="242" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><b>Napoléon Bonaparte </b></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">(1769 - 1821)</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, otherwise known by the regnal name <b>Napoleon I</b>, was a French general, politician, and emperor, who thanks to circumstances provided by the French Revolution, rose from mild Corsican nobility through the ranks to lead Revolutionary France through wars against 5 coalitions, expanding its borders to cover most of Western Europe and parts of Eastern Europe. Widely considered to be one of the greatest military generals in history, he is also remembered for his many domestic reforms within France, his most notable being the standardization of France’s different regional legal systems into a single 'Napoleonic Code' which would go on to form the basis of most Western European legal systems. Following his defeat in the war of the 6th coalition, Napoleon was exiled to the small island of Elba, which he had been promised for him to rule as a sort of mini-emperor. However, after less than a year, with the deal not being upheld, he snuck back to France to take power one last time. He was, however, defeated in the battle of Waterloo soon after by General Arthur Wellesley (</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LIE</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) and exiled to the island of St. Helena in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, where he died shortly after in 1821.</span><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Napoleon’s most notable personality trait was his seemingly infinite willpower and energy. Napoleon always had a goal and would move towards it relentlessly, pushing aside or breaking whatever obstacles stood in his way, and often putting himself in physical danger. Indecision and hesitancy was almost a foreign concept for him.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Examples of this could be seen in his Italian campaign as a general in the War of the First Coalition. When Napoleon took control of the Italian army, it was in an awful state, lacking in both resources and morale. Morale increased as soon as he arrived. Despite being initially looked down on for his short stature, young age, and the perception that he was only put in charge due to political connections, he was said to have radiated a commanding energy, and possessed a very strong capacity for hard work, both of which soon earned him the respect of his fellow officers and his soldiers. Napoleon also made incessant demands to the French Directory for more and more materials due to the outrageously weak state of the Italian army, and due to his stubbornness, managed to gain enough material to wage war against the Austrians. Throughout the Italian campaign, Napoleon disobeyed orders from the government frequently when he believed, usually correctly, that he could push forwards and gain more. He also exceeded his authority as a general by making peace with various Italian states, while invading the ones that would not submit, such as Venice and the Papal States. Eventually, after taking his army close to Vienna, he signed a peace agreement with Austria, thus ending the war of the first coalition.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Moving on to his years in power, Napoleon showed a severe lack of restraint. While most of the Napoleonic wars were started by other countries attacking France, Napoleon’s insistence on taking territory for France and its client states, led to the perception among other countries that Napoleon was a ruthless warmonger bent on endless war and conquest. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Napoleon was driven by a need to acquire more, and to achieve more, endlessly. Knowing he was destined for great things, he felt incredibly frustrated with the focus on promoting nobility at the expense of meritocracy during his initial days as a low-level soldier prior to the French Revolution, since it held him back. He became thankful for the introduction of meritocratic promotion following the revolution. After Napoleon’s first defeat, he was given a very generous deal that would allow him to be the emperor of a small island called Elba and reign there along with an offer to pay for his and his family’s expenses. However, this promise did not follow through, with King Louis XVIII (<b>ILI</b>) refusing to provide the necessary funds, and facing bankruptcy, Napoleon fell into a depression and even unsuccessfully attempted suicide, because this was such a tremendous loss of status and power.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Napoleon’s strong-willed nature was present throughout his life, seen in his tendency to fight with school bullies and stubbornness against those with more authority than him. For example, in a class as a child, children were seated and on one side of the room they were seated under a Roman flag, and on the other side a Carthaginian flag. Napoleon refused to sit under the Carthaginian flag because they lost the Punic wars to Rome.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Napoleon’s ability to make demands of his superiors while disobeying orders and suffering no consequences, his commanding aura, his willingness to bulldoze his enemies as a standard method of getting what he wanted rather than using diplomacy, his constant expansion of French territory, and never ending desire for more status and power, are all indicative of </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">F1</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In pursuit of his goals, Napoleon made use of whatever structure he could, and created structure as well. This can be seen in his time in power. After overthrowing the directory in a coup d'état, Napoleon was able to rewrite the French constitution in a way that gave the First Consul (which would be Napoleon himself) nearly unchecked power. Napoleon further made use of this structure to give himself more power upon making himself Emperor. Upon gaining power as Consul and continuing while Emperor, Napoleon set about restructuring French society in a very systematic way, first doing away with the excesses of the French Revolution such as its new calendar and the associated 'decimal time', while bringing back Catholicism as the state religion. Napoleon’s biggest contribution in his attempts to reform France was, as I alluded to before, his establishment of the Napoleonic Code. Prior to Napoleon, France had different legal systems depending on which province one was in. The Napoleonic Code standardized France’s legal system at the national level, and Napoleon spread this system to all of the territories he conquered.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Napoleon also overhauled the structure of the French army, adopting the ‘corps system’ which would divide the French army into separate corps that would have subdivisions below them and were under the command of a particular army being led by a particular general. The corps would be composed of all necessary types of soldiers (infantry, cavalry, and artillery) allowing them to act independently when necessary and thus greatly improving the speed and efficiency of Napoleon’s<i> '</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Grande Armée'</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>.</i> </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Napoleon’s mind was just as structured as his government and military. Historian and biographer Andrew Roberts wrote <i>“Napoleon was capable of compartmentalizing his life, so that one set of concerns never spilled over into another - probably a necessary attribute for any great statesman, but one he possessed to an extraordinary degree.”</i></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Napoleon himself said <i>“Different subjects and different affairs are arranged in my head as in a cupboard. When I wish to interrupt one train of thought, I shut that drawer and open another. Do I wish to sleep? I simply close all the drawers, and there I am - asleep.”</i></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This all points to strength in </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">F + L</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, but Napoleon’s use of </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">L</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was not focused on a global system like </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">L1</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> but rather used flexibly, fitting </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">L2</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This description of the structure of Napoleon’s army also brings me to discuss his relationship with </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">P</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Napoleon was known to be a very efficient leader. He excelled at managing his resources in his armies, spent long amounts of time poring over maps to learn the terrain of areas he was in, constantly asking questions to learn whatever information he could. He was always focused on taking in information and how he could use that information to make things more efficient. Napoleon’s skill at management was nearly unrivalled and was one of his greatest assets in his wars. All of this suggests a strong focus on </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">P</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, yet motivated entirely by </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">F</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Napoleon certainly did not ignore </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">P</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> aspects but only used it as a means to an end, consistent with </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">P8</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">While engaging in practicalities, Napoleon was also known to neglect his health often. Others frequently commented on his extreme workaholism, which caused him to neglect his sleep. On campaigns he would adopt a polyphasic sleep schedule, meaning he would sleep in very short bursts allowing him to get frequent but short breaks to refresh himself. However, despite this, Napoleon would still take time to rest his body and mind when not fighting, and would return to a normal sustainable sleep schedule after campaigns. Napoleon took frequent baths, once claiming that 1 hour in a bath was as refreshing as 4 hours of sleep. He enjoyed living in luxury, however this was often in the form of art and decorations (particularly of the ‘Empire’ style pioneered under Napoleon’s patronage) used to promote Napoleon’s image and to satisfy his wife Josephine (<b>EIE</b>) who was insistent on having as much luxury as possible, rather than any sort of desire for relaxation and comfort on Napoleon’s part. This is all consistent with </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">S7</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another of Napoleon’s greatest assets in his conquests was his innovativeness. From his creation of the corps system to his many unique and unheard of battlefield tactics, Napoleon in the early and middle parts of his military career constantly brought something new to the table. One of the earliest examples was when he was an artillery officer during the war of the first coalition in the siege of Toulon, where his creative placement of his artillery resulted in a French victory and the evacuation of British forces from the city. However, this never came at the expense of action, as Napoleon never stopped to consider alternate options when the time came to act. Napoleon himself said <i>“</i></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.”</i></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, Napoleon’s enemies eventually adapted to the changes Napoleon brought to warfare of the time period. Many of them adopted the corps system as well and grew used to Napoleon’s creative battlefield tactics. Yet, when his enemies had learned how to counter him, Napoleon never adapted again, choosing to stick with the same old tactics he was used to, even after they had stopped working. This all suggests Napoleon was capable of using </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">when needed to some extent, but ultimately lacked strength in it and, given his clear valuing of </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">F</span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, that makes <b>I</b></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3</span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> clear.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A more important trait than his failure to continue innovating that led to Napoleon’s downfall was also his severe short-sightedness. I already touched on this earlier when I discussed how Napoleon’s insistence on constantly annexing new territory led others to perceive him as a warmonger, despite the fact that most of his wars were defensive in nature. Napoleon’s short-sightedness also is seen in his lack of ability to take a step back and view the big picture. More specifically, his constant aggression led to him gaining many subjects, client states, and unwilling allies, as well as a shortage in French manpower. Napoleon did not realize the consequences this would have on future campaigns, and he began relying more and more on his clients and unwilling allies to provide soldiers for his wars, culminating in his impulsive and disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812. Napoleon believed that the Russian war would be just like any other, but he was wrong. Napoleon was oblivious to the machinations of Russian Tsar Alexander I (</span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">EIE</span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">), who had been forging relationships with Napoleon’s allies, especially Prussia and Austria. The armies of these two states happened to never engage in any combat with Russian armies, likely not a coincidence. Alexander, along with his best general, Mikhail Kutuzov, lured Napoleon deep into the country until winter, and Napoleon did not realize he was caught in the trap until it was too late.</span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Napoleon seemed incapable of observing the big picture and seeing how everything would develop over time. Other examples of this lack of foresight include his invasion of Spain, which began the Peninsular War; his inability to notice when his opponents began adapting to his military innovations (which I’ve already described); and his enforcement of the Continental System, a blockade against Britain that Napoleon enforced on the whole continent and stubbornly refused to back down from, even when it hurt the French economy more than it hurt the British economy.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Napoleon was always wrapped up in the moment, fighting battle after battle, war after war, focusing on the present and failing to see the forest for the trees. Nevertheless, Napoleon still made attempts to plan for the future; when he began to realize Josephine was likely infertile, Napoleon divorced her because he had become obsessed with producing an heir, and he married an Austrian princess. Overall his attempts at planning for the future were very limited and usually unsuccessful. This best fits </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">T5</span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Although lacking awareness of how his image carried over in the long-term, Napoleon was a very inspirational leader, and a masterful propagandist in the short-term. He knew well how to promote his image to others, how to raise the morale of his soldiers, and how to inspire loyalty in his army and his people. He patronized art which depicted him in an imperial style. Napoleon’s speeches were always said to have been incredibly inspiring and uplifting. While exiled to Elba, Napoleon picked up on the unpopularity of the returned Bourbons in France and made his way back with a small handful of soldiers loyal to him. When one of Napoleon’s former Marshals, Marshal Ney was sent with an army to defeat Napoleon’s small band, Napoleon walked up to the army alone and said <i>“Soldiers, if there is one among you who wants to kill his general and emperor, here I am.”</i> The loyalty that the soldiers had toward Napoleon was so great that all the soldiers (and Marshal Ney) put down their weapons and joined Napoleon. This happened several more times on his way back to Paris. However, this loyalty could only have been achieved due to Napoleon’s constant battlefield victories, so while this shows some skill in </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">E</span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Napoleon was ultimately more reliant on </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">F</span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Despite Napoleon’s charisma, Napoleon faced difficulties in his personal relationships. This was partially due to his introverted, borderline antisocial behavior. When Napoleon was young, he had no interest in making friends and as an adult was quite socially reclusive. He was easily manipulated by Josephine early on in their relationship, when she did not seem interested in him at all, and Napoleon would obsessively worry about whether or not she liked him, and if she was cheating on him. He was also notoriously a loner when he was young, finding it incredibly difficult to make friends.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">More than that though, Napoleon was very bad at the personal side of politics. He was far too trusting, having no understanding of who he could trust and who he couldn’t trust. After he fired foreign minister Talleyrand (<b>ILI</b>) and police minister </span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fouché, he continued to trust them, take their advice and give them other powerful positions, oblivious to the fact that his firing of them turned both of them against him. Talleyrand in particular was known to everyone at the time to only be looking out for himself, being willing to lie whenever needed and betray whoever was necessary to maintain his position. Napoleon seemed oblivious to all of these red flags. Today Talleyrand is known for having betrayed every single government he worked for, having betrayed the Bourbon monarchy, the Revolutionary government, and the directory. He, along with Fouché would go on to betray Napoleon as well. Napoleon also made a grave mistake in trusting Tsar Alexander I. While discussing a peace deal (the treaty of Tilsit) he became convinced that Alexander I was his ally, and was steadfast in that belief until Alexander dropped out of the continental system (which prompted the 1812 invasion). This is despite the fact that Alexander was diplomatically undermining Napoleon at every opportunity, specifically by getting closer to Prussia and Austria (which, according to the treaty of Tilsit, were under France’s sphere of influence) as well as exchanging letters on a regular basis with the aforementioned Talleyrand. Napleon knew that these exchanges were occurring but did not realize that they was also a big, red flag. Unlike Napoleon’s mild efforts to plan for the future, he showed practically zero focus on judging his relationships or figuring out who was on his side or against him. I think the combination of Napoleon’s impressive charisma but lack of skill in managing one on one relationships makes a very strong case for </span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">E6</span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">R4</span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. In my research, it would also seem that Napoleon’s extremely weak use of </span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">T</span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">R</span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> were the main contributing factors to his downfall.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Putting all of this together, Napoleon Bonaparte best matches with </span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">F1</span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">L2</span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I3</span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">R4</span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">T5</span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">E6</span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">S7</span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and </span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">P8</span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> making <b>SLE</b> the only reasonable typing for him.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">To learn more about SLE, click <a href="https://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2015/09/sle-sensory-logical-energiser.html">here</a>.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">If you are confused about our use of Socionics shorthand, click <a href="http://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2016/03/shorthand-notation-for-model-a.html">here</a>.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sources</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The primary source for Napoleon’s life I used was Andrew Roberts’ biography ‘Napoleon: A Life’</span></p></span><p> </p>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To Micah, <i>“faith is something that everyone
has, so it’s just a matter of what you’re gonna decide to have faith in”</i>.
With this view, Micah approaches the fields of film and literature with a near <i>“spiritual”
</i>reverence. It is with this reverence that Micah requires a story to be <i>“allowed…
to speak through metaphor and imagery”</i>, believing that to do otherwise and
overly <i>“preach”</i> the message would not be having faith that it will be
interpreted correctly. Micah sees the close identification with literature, and
his eventual contribution to it, as his life’s calling. In addition to this
pseudo-religious approach to a singular aim, Micah shows a natural affinity for
analysing the meanings of themes, this being his chief area of confidence. This
affinity for themes also manifests in how his interests draw his
attention. For instance, his enjoyment of the horror genre is less about
feeling afraid and more about grappling with the <i>“metaphysical idea of fear
in a symbolic way made into reality”.</i> Furthermore, he is clear that in his
own writing, he is not so much focused on character, or the plot, but more on
the underlying themes these superficial elements represent, with not all of his
love poems being <i>“actually love poems”</i>, but representing something
deeper. In these ways, we can see that Telos manifests as a prime,
all-encompassing motivator for Micah and a place of natural confidence. One
could say that Micah ‘lives and breathes’ thematic imagery and is a devotee to
creating and furthering these themes in literature. For this reason, the best
place for Telos is straightforwardly the Leading function. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Emotions (E2)</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Micah does not see himself as purely an analyst
of themes, but also a <i>“storyteller”</i>, and throughout his interview, the
desire to shore up the deeper meanings of events was interspersed with an
emotive quality that could engage a reader. Micah remarks that in his own
writing, there is often a <i>“tragic” </i>quality and he has written multiple
poems that would be quite moving. In discussing his own interest in literature,
above all other interests, Micah speaks of <i>“passion”</i> it instils in him
that he does not feel for other fields, and how that feeling of enthusiasm is
crucial for him to give the time to learn something, saying that <i>“once you
get [his] heart there, [his] mind is already almost there.” </i>Although a
teacher himself, Micah criticises schooling for taking the <i>“exciting” </i>elements
out of fiction, such that pupils lose interest in what ought to be emotionally
compelling. Furthermore, in mathematics, his least favourite subject, Micah
recalls a begrudging respect he felt towards his maths teacher, who eagerly
showed his own passion for the subject, which to Micah, may as well be <i>“humanity”
</i>itself. With this desire for passion comes an expectation on others to show
their emotions openly, with Micah becoming suspicious of his friendships with
those who do not communicate a positive reaction to him. At the same time,
Micah is able to adapt and shape his tone to the needs of his audience, being
able to <i>“work in jokes” </i> to his speeches to make them less boring
and, despite naturally being highly critical of written poetry, being tactful
and focusing on the positives when marking another person’s work, assuming the
quality of the work did not reflect on his own ability. From this information,
we can see that Emotions plays a strong and valued, but flexible and
subordinate role to Telos, giving his sense of underlying, thematic meaning, a
dramatic and emotional edge. This best fits the Creative function.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Talking to Micah, he appears to possess a
stable, calm demeanour, without the restlessness often seen with a type low in
Senses. On a few occasions, Micah mentions how he can be lazy, disposed to <i>“chilling
and stuff”</i>. He also shows a middling level of ability in day to day
maintenance, and upon being asked about the tidiness of his room, said that <i>“people
are worse than me, but I’m not the best”. </i>At college, he was capable at
keeping his clothes <i>“off the ground”</i>, but never took much pride in this
and never saw himself as a <i>“very tidy person in general”</i>. Furthermore,
we can see that Micah, despite feeling lazy, finds the idea of a workaholic to
be <i>“very attractive”</i>, which suggests that he is not comfortable with his
lack of activity and would prefer a more unhealthy level of activity. Overall,
this suggests that Senses is one of Micah’s weaker functions, but not the
weakest, while also not being valued, more something Micah does to middling
ability without appreciation. This is a good fit for the Role function.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Pragmatism (P4)</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In general, Micah says that he has <i>“never
really been exceptional… at anything” </i>and does not feel confident in his
ability to do things well. Despite this, and not wanting to be <i>“viewed as
dumb”</i>, Micah has not evidenced much drive to increase his capabilities.
During his college degree, Micah worried about his finances, realising that
after graduating he would <i>“have no idea [how] to make money”</i>.
Nonetheless, he continued with his chosen degree of English because he enjoyed
it. Additionally, when trying to learn things, Micah soon realised that it was
a pointless activity unless he was passionate about the thing he wished to
learn. In these ways, we see that Micah’s priorities in decision-making are
counter to what is practical or about self-improvement, with him much
preferring to do what fires his passion, even if the stakes are high. Micah’s
difficulty with efficient implementation extends to how he articulates himself,
with Micah having a faltering, wordy way of communicating, with many uses of <i>“like”</i>
to stall his delivery of sentences and the inappropriate use of qualifications
like <i>“almost” </i>or <i>“maybe”</i>, such that the strength of his language,
when taken literally, does not match what he actually meant. At times, Micah
would pause and say <i>“I’m not sure if I know how to explain”</i>,
acknowledging the trouble he has with putting his thoughts into words. In
general, Micah avoided the use of objective fact when speaking, preferring to
begin controversial sentences with “<i>To me, it is…” </i>and ground the truth
of the statement in personal opinion, seemingly an area in which he feels more
authority to speak from. What we can see from this is that Micah struggles to
accumulate and work with factual information he is not passionate about and has
a more universal trouble assessing how to do things well and whether he has
done a good job, making it a very weak area. At the same time, he deprioritises
attempts to overcome this difficulty, showing he does not value it. This range
of qualities best fits the Vulnerable function.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Force (F5)</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the wilful and dynamic, even workaholic <i>“hero”</i> of the stories he
analyses. However, when asked about his ‘own story’, Micah said that he is <i>“usually
no[t]”</i> the hero, reserving this for <i>“people [he] admire[s]”</i>.
Additionally, he was quick to identify the physical activity of sports as one
of the areas he is least confident in, and has recently felt <i>“annoy[ed]”</i>
at his own lack of assertiveness while teaching at school, feeling unable to <i>“get
[the] respect”</i> from his pupils to cause them to be quiet, something which
he has seen other teachers achieve “automatically”. As well as lacking
assertiveness and the dynamism to see himself as a ‘hero’, Micah shows a
general difficulty moving from his thoughts to activity, sometimes due to
laziness, or especially when having feelings of emotional distress, and <i>“if
[he doesn’t] have someone forcing [him] to do something… it’s really hard for
[him] to do”</i> something productive. What we can see from this is a
pronounced lack of confidence and ability in Force, with Micah very much seeing
himself as support for more engaging individuals. At the same time, it appears
that Micah values this area, seeing things in terms of who is more ‘heroic’ and
appreciating the forceful willpower that others can provide for him. For these
reasons, Force best fits the Suggestive function for Micah.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Although struggling with the practicality of
learning factual information and applying it well, Micah shows more confidence
in his ability to <i>“analyse themes”</i> and seems to readily enjoy picking
apart the underlying meaning from surface material in literature and film.
Although struggling to articulate himself efficiently, Micah shows a refined
sense of the distinctions between the ideas he is analysing and has formulated
a clear sense of <i>“how [he] see[s] the world” </i>and reality. Analysis of
literature is also something he takes seriously, with Micah being <i>“harsh or
critical”</i> of the poetry he and others construct. Indeed, despite not
feeling very intelligent, intelligence is a quality his friends readily
identify in him, and although he will avoid games and puzzles that may make him
look <i>“dumb” </i>in front of others, Micah will feel confident with certain
other logical games like chess. What can be garnered from this is that Laws is
another area of middling natural ability for Micah, but something which he has
taken seriously and is able to use competently in his chosen field. This is a
good fit for the Mobilising function.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ideas (I7)</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is clear that Micah’s chief interest is in
writing literature, and when asked what he would do if this were not an option,
he would still like to be in a career that is in close proximity to this field,
showing a passionate but singular devotion. While only able to learn that which
fires up his passion, it is also clear that Micah maintains a focused, even
narrow scope on what creates that passion, and does not seem to collect a broad
range of different interests. Nevertheless, Micah does showcase an ability and
confidence in analysing ambiguity and breadth of shifting perspectives,
particularly when applied to literature, with him enjoying how perception of a
story can shift depending on the viewpoint of each character in a story. What
this suggests is that Ideas is a limited, even suppressed area for Micah, but
which can be used powerfully in service of his Leading function. The Ignoring
function best fits this description.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="color: black;">Demonstrative Function –
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A regularly occurring theme for Micah is his
focus on close attachments to certain individuals, and this can be seen in his
work, with him being <i>“quite fond of… using couples”</i> and love poems, but
normally as <i>“metaphors” </i>for deeper themes. This can also be seen in who
he identifies as heroes, being the individual people in his life that he <i>“admire[s]”.
</i>When feeling inadequate, it is notable that Micah focuses more on his
personal relationships and experiences strong feelings in this area. He may
begin to <i>“question”</i> his friendship with someone if the other person
reacts apathetically to him, causing him further anxiety. This can be quite
intense for Micah, with him temporarily abandoning poetry due to the pain of a
particular relationship, where he eventually wrote a poem for them. What we can
see from this is a consistent, dominant theme for Micah that runs alongside his
Leading and Creative functions. The strong focus in this area indicates that it
is a strong function. However, it does not appear to be valued, but rather
something Micah returns to when feeling inadequate. Furthermore, when given the
choice between focusing on personal character for its own sake and broader
themes, Micah will choose the latter. For these reasons, we can see Relations
as being very strong and prevalent for Micah, but unvalued and not used for its
own sake, while seen more when he is lower in confidence. This best fits the
Demonstrative function.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">His pugnacious tendencies are still apparent in his physically overbearing, in-your-face manner when publicly confronting opponents -- a prime example of which can be seen in </span><a href="https://youtu.be/ror9v2LwHoY" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jones’s gun debate with Piers Morgan</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Even the title of his news organization <i>“Infowars”</i> illustrates his combative mindset, which only heightened as his operation came under intensifying legal and financial attack following the 2016 presidential race when he began his outspoken support for <b><a href="http://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2016/08/donald-trump-sle-personality-type.html">Donald Trump (SLE)</a></b>. In his own words, he describes his operation as <i>“the tip of the spear”</i> in a global information war, and implores his viewers/listeners to actively participate in <i>“the animating contest of liberty”</i>. Given Alex's overwhelmingly prominent emphasis on </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Force</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, it's readily apparent that he not only values it, but it's his base element (</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">F1</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another of Alex’s noteworthy traits is his consistently informal manner, interacting with and relating to others in direct, personal terms -- often greeting show guests as <i>“brother”</i>, explicitly relying on<i> “gut”</i> feelings when making judgments, criticizing public opponents based on perceived character deficiencies, or identifying with members of his crew as friends rather than mere professional colleagues (</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">R</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">). For instance, when David Knight (one of the news anchors on the Infowars platform) suffered a heart attack, Alex kept his viewers up-to-date on Knight's condition and how his family was faring -- being as how he often visited their home. Despite David Knight's segment being very popular with Infowars viewers, and his eagerness to return to work soon after leaving hospital, Jones stated that he threatened to fire Knight if he didn't take the time off recommended by his doctor. Jones recounted a prior experience he had of losing a close relative who insisted on resuming an active work life shortly after suffering a heart attack, and expressed fear of losing Knight in the same way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another example of Alex Jones's forceful usage of </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">R</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> can be seen in his recent public feud with </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joe Rogan (SEE</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">). Jones’s multi-decade friendship with Joe became strained after Rogan began publicly distancing himself from Alex's stances on certain subjects, and chose not to re-invite him onto the JRE podcast following pressure from major platforms to disassociate with Jones. Jones took Rogan's repeating of <i>“Soros talking points” </i>and failure to speak in his defense while he was subject to mass deplatforming as a personal -- rather than ideological -- betrayal. In response, Alex decried Joe Rogan as a<i> “coward”</i>, <i>“backstabber”</i>, and <i>“sellout”</i> in 'call out' videos attacking his character. After making some initial attempts to mend relations between himself and Rogan in the early months of their conflict, it seemed Jones then decided to cut his losses in typical Gamma fashion, disassociating himself from someone who he perceived as being untrustworthy. Since then, it appears the two have finally managed to mend fences, with Rogan re-inviting Alex onto his podcast. Over the years, Jones has repeatedly shown a propensity to go on vengeful, personal tirades against those whom he feels have betrayed, or otherwise slighted him in some way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While it's been suggested by some that Alex Jones's meme status tirades are purely insincere affectations, there's a good deal of evidence to the contrary. Those who know AJ personally -- including his ex-wife -- attest to the fact that he has a tendency to be just as intense in his day-to-day interactions. Jones has stated on numerous occasions that when he goes off the rails, he's simply disinhibiting himself and acting out what he actually feels; based on the consistency of his manner over the years, both on and off air, it seems he's speaking truthfully on this. Based on the accounts of those close to him and his behavior when off the set of his show, it would appear that AJ is consumed with the subject matter he talks about on air -- even in his personal life. By every indication, he sincerely believes what he's been putting forward on his platform.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Despite his strong emotional expressivity, Jones is unapologetically uncouth, undisciplined, and intellectually unrefined in how he articulates himself -- nor does it appear that he particularly cares to change this. His harsh, confrontational style of communication can clearly be seen in the way he confronted</span><a href="https://youtu.be/gH0WavrlPjw" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> politicians like </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Marco Rubio</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and other prominent public figures, during Congressional hearings. At one point, while amongst other members of the press, AJ chased Silicon Valley CEO </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sundar Pichai</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> down the halls of Congress and into the hearing, </span><a href="https://youtu.be/XdEeQGpPLW4" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">shouting “Google is Evil”</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> all the while. He became so disruptive that a police officer eventually threatened him with arrest if he didn't control himself. Alex's general lack of social decorum, and apparent indifference to such things, shows that <b>E</b> is unvalued for him</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This, along with the other bombastic rants he's known for, further indicates a very strong -- likely demonstrative -- usage of </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">E</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in the service of expressing <b>R</b> attitudes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jones voraciously consumes news media on a daily basis like an alcoholic taking drink, but shows little-to-no interest in integrating all that data into a coherent, theoretical framework. This lack of logical structure, combined with his aforementioned unrefined, over-the-top style of communication is very off-putting to many, and makes it easier for those who dislike his dire reporting to dismiss him as raving kook -- even when he has solid data to substantiate his claims. While Alex is best known for his conspiracy show, the Infowars operation is funded primarily through his sales of nutraceutical products and survival paraphernalia -- an enterprise that he runs with the same reckless gusto that he exhibits in his news program & on-the-ground reporting. Among the business tactics he uses is selling popular items at loss-leader prices to severely undercut competitors and aggressively take market shares (though Alex often shoots himself in the foot by getting so caught up in the day's news topics that he often forgets to plug his own products). What's more, Jones has a habit of over-sharing mundane -- sometimes very personal -- factual details, even when it's not particularly appropriate or paints himself/others in an unflattering light. Given the way he enthusiastically approaches fact data -- in his voracious consumption, impromptu business uses, and somewhat messy expression of it -- along with his conspicuously weak & unvalued </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">L</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, it would be reasonable to conclude that Alex Jones is a </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">P6</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Naturally, this entails a "<b>vulnerable</b>" <b>L4</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In addition to his insatiable interest in researching current events, Jones is also obsessed with historical knowledge, frequently going on unprompted rants about the species’ ancestral struggle to survive into present day and the future prospects of humanity. He particularly prides himself on predicting contemporary geopolitical developments in his reporting of documentation years before. Jones has even gone so far as to make “Tomorrow's news today” an official Infowars tagline. He's also shown a great interest in having trends forecasters like </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gerald Celente</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> on his show as recurring guests. Despite this, throughout his life Alex has often made impulsive, short-sighted decisions that've gotten him into unnecessary trouble. Taking this into account, it appears that Jones probably has </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">T</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> as his “</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">suggestive</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">” function, given that he values it so highly yet shows great difficulty applying it in aspects of his day-to-day life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While I can't think of any public examples demonstrating the functional strength/weakness of </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">S</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for Alex Jones (aside from his apparent taste for rich foods contributing to his precipitous weight gains in the past) it's clearly not a value to him, since he's so consumed with his work that even when he takes a rare vacation, he still calls into his show to host segments </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in absentia</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. So, with an overwhelmingly prominent </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">F1</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, visible creative uses of </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">R</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> even in professional settings, hyperbolic levels of often disruptive </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">E8</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> demonstrations, a near contemptuous disregard for an obviously weak </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">L</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, enthusiastic yet haphazard uses of a likely “</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">mobilizing</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">” </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">P</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, an oft neglected -- likely “</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ignoring</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">” -- </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">S</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and a high personal demand for </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">T</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> information sources all point to </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alexander Emric Jones</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> being an </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SEE</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre;">If you are confused by our use of Socionics shorthand, click <a href="http://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2016/03/shorthand-notation-for-model-a.html">here</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Tony Robbins, born
Anthony Robbins, is an American Philanthropist, Businessman, Motivational
Speaker, and Life Coach, that claims that he has never lost anyone during his
entire professional career.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Tony, in his own words,
had a fairly abusive home-life and was quickly on his own at 17 years old.
Although he left on his own accord, he still provided for his family working as
a handyman until he began his professional career under the tutelage of
Personal Development Guru, Jim Rohn. Rohn taught him about happiness and
success further propelling Tony’s desire to help others do the same.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The most obvious and
present theme in Tony’s life from then to now is about breaking personal
barriers with a strong emphasis on “pushing through obstacles.” Not only is this
his prime message, but it’s also how he naturally displays himself on stage, in
his seminars, and even during intermissions. It is as if this theme is ever
present in his life. The following quotes further exhibit this attitude toward
the world:</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #545454; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">“The
path to success is to take massive, determined action.” <o:p></o:p></span></i></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #545454; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">“If
you can’t, you must. If you must, you can.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #545454; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">“A
real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken new action. If
there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #545454; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Knowing
is not enough! You must take action!”<o:p></o:p></span></i></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">By these few examples it
is very clear that Tony values getting things done through determined physical
action - even over one’s own knowledge. It is important to note that most of
his methods assume that this amount of <i>willpower</i> is inside of everyone -
almost as if he isn’t aware that not everyone can muster this type of energy
into whatever it is they want to do. Tony’s singular action focused attitude
strongly suggests that Tony best fits in an <b>F</b> valuing <b>World-Rejecting
</b>quadra over a <b>S</b>, <b>World Accepting</b> quadra. With these examples,
it would be safe to assume that he’s an <b>F-Ego</b> type in the <b>World-Rejecting
Quadras </b>(<b>SEE, SLE, LSI, ESI).</b></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Unlike his natural
ability to take massive action, he spends a lot of time teaching others how to
find their vision and direction - which he positions as central to finding
“fulfilment” in life. However, he demonstrates a lack of flexibility to
instruct others on specifically <i>how</i> to do this as it pertains to their
situation, preferring to teach others to do this in the same manner he did, which was surrounding himself with people who provided him with this meaning
behind such <i>determined</i> action. This possibly indicates <b>Super-Id</b>
for this particular piece of information. He stated that the best place to get
your vision or purpose is from your role-model, as if one cannot produce this
on their own and <i>must </i>rely on others to acquire such purpose or vision.
This inflexible, lackluster curriculum of <i>“just hand it off” </i>supports
possible <b>experiential</b> <b>information metabolism (1D) of T</b>. All of
this suggests <b>T </b>being in the <b>Super-Id Block, </b>and<b>
1-Dimensional,</b> therefore <b>T5.</b></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">When given a strong
vision you can create change, but according to Tony, change is short lived
without strong, meaningful relationships. He has spent an incredible amount of
time navigating the connection between couples and helping them ignite the same
early-relationship passion in their later years. He rests most of his advanced
content around the bonds between oneself and other people and he stresses the
importance of nourishing such bonds. This strongly supports that he <b>values R</b>.
Furthermore, the following quote may reveal more about Tony’s type:</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">“The quality of your
life is the quality of your relationships.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Tony stresses that the
ability to keep working on your relationships and yourself is a means to
gaining <i>personal</i> power. He strongly believes that all the answers to
life lie within one’s <i>own strength</i>. In other words, getting better at
being you makes everything else come together. This points in the direction of
beliefs that are about the power of the individual. Such beliefs most strongly
represent <b>Gamma-Quadra</b> values versus a more collective rallying,
world-changing <b>Beta-Quadra </b>set of values. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">He is easily able to
read the emotional states of others and affect them long enough to get them to
listen to him. He uses vast amounts of high-energy emotions on a wide spectrum
to infuse a crowd with excitement, passion, and enthusiasm -- and seems to never
fail at doing this. This may indicate high dimensionality for <b>E</b>.
However, he shows no real need to teach people how to generate excitement, nor
does he place any stress or importance on influencing any collective assembly
at all. For him, it is best depicted as something he is good at and takes for
granted. He easily brushes his strength in this area aside and places emphasis
on developing a sense of personal power - and becoming the <i>“Giant Within"</i>. In
fact, he has admitted that he goes into client sessions as a <i>“Trojan Horse"</i>, allowing them think he’s going to give them what they want, but he instead
gives them <i>“what they need to grow"</i>. That supports his value of <b>R+F
</b>over<b> E.</b> That being said, his ability to control the mood of a crowd
effortlessly, appears to be<b> 4-Dimensional, subdued E (E8). </b></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Knowledge is not enough
for him, he clearly wants to see evidence that you actually know what you’re
talking about through empirical proof <b>(P)</b>. Simply to know is not
enough! Knowledge is not beyond it’s application; this indicates <b>subdued L</b>,
as he isn’t keen on using these ideas to navigate and crush opposition, but
simply to disregard them until they’ve proven proper utility and real-world
application. This attitude toward theoretical knowledge would also explain that
his method for coaching, which is a mixed combination of “practical things”
he’s learned over the years. In his book <i>Mastering the Money Game</i><b> </b>he
sought the advice from not just one Billionaire, but many! He used multiple
sources of information attempting to get at the underlying idea of what
actually works in the financial world. They taught him how to acquire financial
success in the stock market and how to prevent personal financial downturns
when the market changes. Interestingly enough, instead of spending an
incredible amount of time tweaking this advice and/or formulating a system of
his own, he simply defers his authority to these experts with some spin of his
own. This further suggests <b>P</b> being in the <b>Super-Id</b> block, but
valued. More importantly, although using the advice of people he sees as
experts, he attempts at mastering this <i>“by his own will”</i> by projecting his own
independent authority on it. In other words, he simply doesn’t hand it off like
he does with <b>T </b>information, but would rather take a shot at it himself<b>.
</b>This suggests <b>P6.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">As a life coach, he is
still not able to get nationally recognized with his current coaching model. It
is not because of his lack of performance or results, but his natural
resistance of any standardized coaching model, as every case is situational.
His alternative to these international coaching standards is called “Strategic
Intervention” which is not based on anything directly, but rather years of
combining techniques to see what has worked in real life. Strategic
Intervention is a model that is based on keen observation and flexible adapting
rather than a strict structure, allowing the coach to be much more supple in
his approach. Especially when compared to more rigid personal coaching models.
He has said that his system delivers more results for less effort, indicating a
preference for results-oriented efficiency (<b>P)</b>. However, he had
challenges putting this in a packaged system that was easy to sell without the
help of Cloe Madanes, who had experience in developing therapy models. His
consistent rebuking of “rigid” models and challenges packing his system
suggests <b>L4.</b> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">He has admitted that he
does not go into coaching sessions with a series of canned techniques, but he
delivers specifically what that case requires. When dealing with an
uncertainty, he will begin to explore possible hidden motivations behind
behaviors. Once these hidden motivations are identified, his exploration ends
and his practical, face the problem head-on approach begins. This is standard
behavior of what you’d expect with someone who has </span></span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Extraverted Irrationality</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
in the <b>Leading</b></span></span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">and</span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> Role</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> functions, more specifically the off/on
relationships that is demonstrated with </span></span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">F </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and </span></span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">I</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. Tony shows the
ability to read body language and the emotions with the metabolism of </span></span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">I and
E </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">elements. However, once he’s assessed the situation, he quickly resumes
control of the coaching session. This outlines his rather short, quick usage of
</span></span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">I</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, then returning to </span></span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">F.</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> All of this supports </span></span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">I3</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Lastly, his recent
Netflix Documentary labeled <i>“I Am Not Your Guru”</i> is a way for him to free
himself of hierarchy, even his own status above others. This theme of
independence saturates Tony’s entire disposition. In other words, he is simply
empowering others to lead their own lives, not having some <i>“leader”</i> that people
can follow. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Concluding with <b>F1,
R2, I3, L4, T5, P6, </b>and<b> E8,</b> a strong preference of <b>Gamma</b> quadra
values, and his<b> F+R</b> approach of teaching others how to be free, living
through action and devoted relationships, I strongly support his TIM being
nothing other than <b>SEE</b>. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">To learn more about <b>SEE</b>, click <a href="http://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2015/07/see-sensory-ethical-energiser.html">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">If you are confused by our use of Socionics shorthand, click <a href="http://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2016/03/shorthand-notation-for-model-a.html">here</a>.</span></div>
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Damon Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04804080795270524275noreply@blogger.com2North Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA, USA34.187044 -118.381256234.134507 -118.4619372 34.239581 -118.3005752tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8147676909533366251.post-52086295874818462602019-11-05T18:43:00.001-08:002022-03-16T20:15:05.408-07:00Ken Combs - Diagnostic Report (LSI)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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a diagnostic interview, an analysis of Ken’s answers suggests the 8 IM Elements
may best be assigned to the functions of Model A in the following order, making
his best fit type the ‘Logical Sensory Integrator’ or ‘LSI’.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One
of the most dominant themes to come out when interviewing Ken was his pursuit
of logical clarity, even over the meanings of particular words used during the
interview process, finding ‘value’ to be <i>“kind of a difficult word”. </i>Similarly,
on multiple occasions, Ken would be dissatisfied with an answer he had given,
saying that he felt it was <i>“too vague” </i>and needed a better way of being
described. In this way, we can see that Ken feels it is important that
information, both when acquired by him and when presented to others, should be
clearly defined and explained, reducing any ambiguity in the scope of their interpretation,
while allowing himself and the interlocutor to understand the matter with
definitional precision. To do this, he attempts to break down and lay out the
information presented to him in a way that is <i>“consistent”</i>, formulating
it into <i>“some kind of structure” </i>with reasons to support their
placement. Furthermore, it seems that Ken has <i>“confidence and assurance” </i>in
a role where he could spend the day presenting his structured understanding to
other people in a way that provides them some benefit. This all suggests that
rigorous sense-making is a process in which Ken is confident, readily takes
ownership of with others and feels to be a necessity, regularly and
continuously trying to bring clarity to his understanding of the phenomena
around him. This would best fit the Leading function. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In
differentiating the meanings of different words and concepts, Ken looks for <i>“some
kind of concrete action or appearance” </i>and feels that the sensory world
brings him a <i>“sense of gnosis”</i>, i.e. personal knowledge. Working as a
bartender’s assistant, Ken occasionally takes on the role of bouncer and,
assuming that he has the authority to do so from more senior colleagues, Ken
will be able to make <i>“quick decisions” </i>and act with volition, preventing
drunk people from driving and being prepared to turf out the disorderly, if
need be. In these ways, Ken shows a capability and an orientation towards
concrete information and the use of Force, although in each case, it is
subordinated to his understanding of Laws. He will not act forcefully in his
role unless he has the backing from the co-workers he is <i>“supposed to be
representing when applying this force”</i>, while his turning to concrete
appearance is a means by which he can better differentiate between concepts in
his head. Ken feels most confident when he is able to enter what he calls a <i>“physical
flow”</i>, where what he has to do is <i>“narrow[ed]” </i>by an understanding
that he is <i>“doing the right thing”</i>, allowing him to push through
obstacles with a <i>“forward tilt”. </i>One desire of Ken’s is to narrow his
path of action amidst a series of potentially deadly consequences, such as someday
taking up motorcycling and doing backflips, where false moves are not an
option. In practise for Ken, achieving this flow can mean pushing the limits of
how much he is able to carry in his role as a bartender, taking the maximum
number of glasses and risking letting them fall. From this, it is clear that
Ken sees himself at his best when conducting purposeful action and places
himself in situations where he is able to act more decisively. At the same
time, his success in these areas is subordinate to his pursuit of complete
clarity in any situation, and frequently becomes the medium through which his
logical clarity is realised. This makes the application of Force capable and
valued, but cautious and subordinate to Laws, and as such, is a prime candidate
for the Creative function. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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frequently struggled with terms when they were of a personal, ethical nature,
such as <i>“friends” </i>and <i>“values”</i>, seeing these as needing careful
definition. At least in terms of defining what a ‘friend’ is, Ken relied on a
slightly stilted paradigm, where he is yet to find anyone who qualifies. Such a
person would need to have a <i>“vested interest” </i>in his bodily and
psychological health, who would <i>“take a bullet” </i>for him, while provoking
a mutual need for action in him. Due to this high bar, Ken privately reserves
the word ‘acquaintance’ for everyone else. Similarly, for values, which Ken
defines as <i>“something occurring psychologically”, </i>he struggles to find a
clear example of relying on them, much preferring to do that which he
identifies more impersonally as a <i>“moral standard”</i>. What we see from
this is that Ken’s use of Relations is rather weak and frequently curtailed by
his stronger, more dominant pursuit of Laws. At the same time, he seems to
recognise this area of focus with some degree of seriousness, rather than
treating it as a complete blind spot. As such, it makes a good candidate for
the Role function. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(I4) </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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participates in a limited number of hobbies, and any new ones he may consider
taking on, such as motorbiking, have a clear sensory quality to them. Although
spending a lot of time trying to be reflective and carefully reaching an
understanding of phenomena around him, there was no sign of Ken seeking out new
ways of thinking or unusual interests to explore. Furthermore, when asked questions
that push for speculation, Ken came up short, saying for instance that in 10
years’ time he would like to be <i>“hopefully not dead. I might end up
somewhere, I might end up somewhere totally different.” </i>What we see here is
a weakness in Ideas. At the same time, from other answers we can see a
deliberateness from Ken in reducing the scope of possibility, rather than
increasing it, with Ken seeking clarity through the nullification of any
ambiguity in his understanding of words, trying to root out any vagueness.
Similarly, his way of achieving the desired ‘flow’ is to put himself in
situations where there is no viable course of action other than the ‘right’
action. From these points of data, we can reasonably infer that Ken is not only
very weak in Ideas, but actively works against it in his psyche, making it a
good candidate for the Vulnerable function. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Suggestive Function -
Emotions (E5) </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It
is notable that, throughout the interview, Ken spoke in a deadpan, almost
monotonous voice, with content that, despite being clear to read and understand
when written down, did not easily direct attention and guide interest when
being spoken. It suggests that Ken lacks an innate ability to present or
express himself in a way that is tailored for impact and grabs attention. At
the same time, we see a desire in Ken to be part of a circle of people where
there is some emotive interaction, enjoying activities like Dungeons and
Dragons which carry a <i>“communal element” </i>and where people collaborate on
stories that <i>“play around with certain emotions”. </i>It is clear though
that Ken does not see himself as the driver of such community and does not like
having to <i>“herd or corral”</i>, instead preferring to facilitate so that
this can be achieved by others. At the same time, rather than putting himself
in the centre of any community, Ken remains sort of a lone figure, <i>“disappear[ing]
for months on end and just com[ing] back”. </i>The evidence of this suggests
that Ken appreciates environments rich with emotional expression and enjoys
communal belonging but is very weak at expressing Emotions himself. He has
difficulty acting to maintain that belonging in the group for an extended
period of time, preferring others to galvanise the collective towards an
activity. The best function to describe such use of Emotions would be the
Suggestive function. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As
well as the pursuit of logical clarity, a second key motivator for Ken seems to
be the pursuit of greater reflection and the divination of the images and <i>“ruminations”
</i>that flash from his subconscious, with Ken spending a lot of time paying
attention to what is going on in his head and trying to <i>“scribble” </i>down
what comes to him, with seemingly quite elaborate pictures being created. He
likes to keep these drawings pinned on his wall. Some visions may seem more
complex and even feel quite real, like Ken imagining he was having a
conversation with Carl Jung about Sam Harris, only to realise that was
impossible because the former died a few years before the latter was born.
However, it does not seem that reflection is a point of confidence and success
for Ken, but rather, a place where he is still learning to find his feet. It
can sometimes feel like a <i>“TV being flipped rapidly between stations… not
always being clear where the daydreams are going” </i>and his inability with
Ideas makes him unable to navigate this <i>“fractal” </i>lack of <i>“linear[ity]”</i>.
At other times, he may feel trapped in a <i>“loop” </i>of the past, thinking
over and over what he may have done wrong without finding something new from
this reflection. Additionally, reconsidering nostalgic counterfactuals of past
events can be a source of great satisfaction. Ken’s reasoning for traversing
this seemingly perilous, internal landscape of quagmires and disorientation,
but also some reward, is the pursuit of something that <i>“resonates with [him[
internally… being able to put it out there and communicate it and making
something meaningful for someone else.” </i>Without that sense of meaning, Ken
feels that communicating to others will be little more than <i>“making sounds” </i>and
<i>“a voice crying in the wilderness”. </i>We can see from this that Ken
regularly takes risks with Time as a point of personal development, in a way
that ultimately can serve satisfaction to his desire for greater expression of
Emotions. This idea of a bold and valued, but weak, risky and ultimately
developing function, that operates in service of his Suggestive function, would
best fit the Mobilising function. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(P7) </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ken
is largely focused on creating conceptual clarity and deriving meaning from his
insights to better communicate the clarity of his understanding. As such, there
is little in the way of motivation for something more practical or working on
improving his skills in areas that would bring about some financial or useful
merit. However, he does show some awareness of practical needs. For instance,
he jokingly remarks that a good reason he shouldn’t start a church anytime soon
is that he would need to first work out what the doctrine is. At the same time,
although giving no sign of being motivated by efficiency of process, he does
derive enjoyment from finding ‘flow’ in his actions when forcing himself to act
in reckless physical circumstances, which does suggest a capable understanding
of Pragmatism and how things work in setting up situations for this to happen.
This understanding of Pragmatism, combined with it being used minimally in the
service of more motivating functions, best suits the Ignoring function. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Senses (S8) </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although
mostly inexpressive, Ken’s demeanour also radiates the calm collectedness of
someone with a stable energy level and confidence in their immediate physical
surroundings. Although he likes to create situations of high-stakes intensity,
Ken is quite comfortable in physical jobs that are <i>“repetitive and
logistical, allowing [him] to achieve something technically, with flow of
physical energy”</i>. Ken’s physical interests can be just as easy-going as
intense, from a desire to go motorbiking to hiking, and he has a relaxed
approach to those which are less dangerous, where he tends to <i>“wing it” </i>in
terms of preparation, being happy to find a different activity should the
weather be bad. In a way, the achievement of flow for Ken is the perfect
synergy of both Force-oriented action, and a harmony and oneness with the
physical moment, with Ken <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">“get[ting] to be an animal for a while,
all the human concerns drop[ping] away”</span></i><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">. With his
deep, mental wanderings, Ken will also throw in physical language, noting the <i>“conceptually
aesthetic” </i>nature of those insights he wants to <i>“scribble” </i>down.
Furthermore, when Ken is most likely to grow irritated, it will be over
experiences of physical or emotional <i>“discomfort”</i>, such as people
getting in his space, yelling or disrupting his sleep. He describes a period of
hypersensitivity in his sleep where <i>“there are pins and needles in [his]
skin, where the act of breathing seems offensive.” </i>In such situations, Ken
can choose to <i>“suffer”</i>, but may otherwise <i>“fidget” </i>with the air
conditioner and change his blankets. What we see from all this is someone who
has a very strong orientation towards Senses, where an awareness of the
physical stimuli in his immediate surroundings holds a particular sway, but
where there is nonetheless an absence of it being spoken of as a motivator for
action, but instead more of a hygiene factor that he is sensitive to and has to
sort out. Furthermore, in creating flow, Senses plays a key role in tandem with
Force, balancing harmony with intensity. Such a powerful, ever-present, nuanced
but ultimately unmotivating nature for Senses can best be described by the
Demonstrative function.</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b>Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix </b>was an aristocratic politician and military commander in the last century of the Roman Republic. He is best known as the first Roman commander to march on Rome itself and as the first to assume the office of Dictator without a preset term limit - even if he resigned after less than two years. Although his political goal had been to strengthen the then shaky foundations of the Republic, when he died in 78 BC his career and example had established the precedents for the dictatorship of <a href="https://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2016/04/gaius-julius-caesar-see-analysis.html" target="_blank">Gaius Julius Caesar (SEE)</a> and therefore for the later regime of the emperors. His life and personality are known from the writings of ancient historians, in particular Plutarch, who wrote a biography of Sulla partly based on Sulla's own memoirs, which have not survived.<br />
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<i><u><b>Background</b></u></i>: Sulla was born in 138 BC, a member of the patrician (i.e. of highest nobility) clan Cornelius - arguably the most powerful clan overall - but Sulla himself started out in a relatively impoverished status despite his aristocratic background: although not destitute, he lacked the funds to pursue a public career. Frustrated, he turned to debauchery with Rome's underclass of actors, musicians, dancers, and the like. During this time he started a close friendship and homosexual relationship with the actor Metrobius, which continued on-off until Sulla's death at 60, even after Sulla's personal circumstances had improved drastically.<br />
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At thirty. he inherited considerable wealth from a mistress and from his stepmother, which raised him to senatorial status, and then he apparently got connected by marriage to the rising plebeian "self-made" politician and military man, <b>Gaius Marius (SLE)</b>.<b> </b>Marius, some twenty years older and now elected consul (most senior executive magistrate), took Sulla under his wing. In a campaign in north Africa, the previously inexperienced Sulla managed to capture the enemy king single-handedly through a combination of political intrigue and personal bravery. The next 8 years were marked by Marius' political supremacy, being elected as consul further five times while he commanded the armies fighting a Germanic invasion of Gaul and Italy. Sulla still served with Marius in this period, but once the military threat was over, Marius faded somewhat into the political background, and Sulla's career took off. In 97 BC he was elected praetor, and then served as governor of Cilicia (in southern Turkey), becoming the first Roman official to deal directly with the Parthian Empire (in modern Iraq and Iran) and to sign a treaty between the two powers. As per Sulla's own account in his memoirs, on that occasion he had an encounter that deeply impressed him: a Chaldean seer told Sulla that he was the greatest man in the world and that he would die at the peak of his success and fortune. Since then, if not earlier, Sulla held a firm belief that he was favoured by the goddess of luck, Fortuna, which seems to have given him total confidence in his personal destiny and success, allowing him to engage in remarkable feats of risk-taking. That is also the background for later taking the extra name of Felix ("Fortunate").<br />
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Back in Italy, Sulla and Marius were given major army commands during the so-called "Social War" between Rome and some of Italy's other nations. Among Sulla's achievements was receiving the highest military honour, the Grass Crown, by acclamation of the soldiers, for having personally saved his legion at Nola. This boost to his "CV" helped him get elected consul soon afterwards, and accordingly assuming the supreme command of the massive military expedition against King Mithridates VI of Pontus, who had invaded Rome's provinces in the eastern Mediterranean. However, that was derailed by the now elderly and bitter Marius, who in a sort-of "legal coup" used the Popular Assembly to transfer the military command from Sulla to Marius. Seeing that not only as a huge affront to his own personal and political standing but also (arguably rightly) as a strike against the very institutions of the Republic, Sulla took the unprecedented and even sacrilegious step of marching on Rome with six legions. Resistance was futile and Marius fled into exile. After a brief stay in Rome to consolidate his political support in the Senate, Sulla resumed his military expedition against Mithridates. The political arrangements he had set up in Rome quickly collapsed, though, to be replaced by the dominance of Marius and his followers, who returned to Rome in a bloodbath with the purge of Sulla's key supporters. Sulla was declared an outlaw and his immediate family forced to flee to join him in Greece. Marius himself died soon afterwards. Rome remained governed by Marius's partisans in an authoritarian but quasi-constitutional regime.<br />
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Sulla's next five years were marked by a series of military victories in Greece, with him defeating Mithridates's forces despite numerical disadvantage. After reaching terms that restored Rome's territories and kept a humiliated Mithridates bottled up in his Pontus core territories, Sulla prepared to return to Italy to restore Rome's "true" government. The defenses set up by the "Marian" government proved no match for Sulla, who by now had also been joined by several younger exiled aristocrats, such as the future "triumvirs" <b>Marcus Licinius Crassus (LIE)</b> and <b>Pompey the Great (EIE)</b>. So at the end of 82 BC Sulla re-entered Rome as the victor in the civil war. Militarily supreme, he legalised his political position by having the Senate and People appoint him as Dictator - a constitutional relic of the Republic whereby the usual checks and balances were suspended during a military emergency. However, while in the past the Dictators had been appointed to a fixed term of six months, Sulla insisted that he be appointed without a fixed term and specifically as "dictator for the making of laws and for the settling of the constitution". Thus, as Dictator, Sulla was also Rome's first "dictator" in the modern meaning of the term.<br />
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Sulla's policies as Dictator consisted of: a violent series of proscriptions of his political enemies; constitutional reforms with the general aim of increasing the authority of the Senate at the cost of the Plebeian Assembly; and a series of more "nuts and bolts" reforms to improve the workings of the provincial governments and the judicial system. His reforms also aimed at making it far more difficult for any future commander to use his military forces against the state, as Sulla himself had just done. Sulla's policies have been sometimes called "reactionary" in the sense that they decreased the power of the popular assemblies and, in particular, of the office of people's tribune while increasing that of the aristocratic senatorial class. On the other hand, Marius's use of the Popular Assembly, led by his tame people's tribune, to remove a military command from Sulla - a sitting consul - had amounted to a subversion of the Republic's institutions and, if unopposed, in effect to a shift towards Athenian Democracy. Sulla would probably see himself as a "conservative" rather than as a "reactionary", someone reforming Republican institutions so they could work as they (supposedly) had for four centuries, defending it from those who would change it into something very different.<br />
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Included in his proscription lists was the young <b>Gaius Julius Caesar (SEE)</b>, closely connected to Gaius Marius personally and politically, but Sulla relented and pardoned him after pressure from Caesar's relatives, with Sulla quoted as complaining, "<i>but in that young man I see many Mariuses</i>". Sulla resigned the Dictatorship after two years, remaining however another year in government as consul, until retiring from politics for good at the end of 80 BC. He moved to a seaside villa accompanied by his new young wife, Valeria, and his on-off long-term partner the actor Metrobius. There he devoted himself to writing his memoirs and drinking parties with actor friends, as during his impoverished youth, and to sensual self-indulgence generally, dying just over one year later at 60. It has been suggested that by then he had been diabetic for some years. He composed his own epitaph for his tomb, one simple version of which would be: <i>"no better friend - no worse enemy</i>".<br />
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<b><i><u>Socionics analysis</u></i></b>: Sulla's character and personality showed the following traits, throughout his life and career: personal daring and bravery, both politically and militarily, with high risk-taking; an unassailable faith in his own destiny and in his status as Fortune's favourite - his capacity for daring and risk-taking stemmed from his faith in his destiny and luck - he just "knew" he would not fail. Sulla was also very adept at all levels of personal relationships, confident in his ability to know whom he could trust and how much, who among this followers were reliable and true friends and who were merely opportunistic, and which enemies were reconcilable and which were not.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">R</span></b>: The importance of R in Sulla's self-image is already clear from his choice of epitaph: <i>"no better friend - no worse enemy". </i>This is a man who prides himself in his unerring ability to know who his friends and his enemies are, and in his resolve in paying them back as they deserve. It is a self-portrait of a man for whom <b>R </b>is at the centre of his thoughts and motivations, and it is the harsh, unforgiving <b>Gamma </b>version of <b>R</b>, blocked with <b>F</b>, rather than the more open <b>Delta </b>version.<br />
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Throughout his life and career, Sulla always felt he thoroughly understood the nuances of all his personal relationships. His initial "big break" in his career - the capture of King Jugurtha of Numidia - was the result of risky backroom politics where any misplaced trust would have resulted in his death. Later, at the peak of his power, he confidently evaluated the attitudes towards him of his associates and treated them accordingly: whether as opportunistic careerists attached to him out of self-interest (like Pompey, Crassus and Catiline), or as truly devoted followers (like Lucullus and Metellus Pius), or as in selfless romantic attachment to him (Metrobius). More specifically, although he seemed to show more obvious public favour to Pompey, with Lucullus more in the background, Sulla's total trust in Lucullus was clear as he made Lucullus the executor of his will and gave him more critical commands in the war against Mithridates. Sulla flattered Pompey and threw him occasional bones such as marriages into the aristocracy (yet not really at the very top of the aristocracy), but only gave Pompey commands where he would be no real threat to Sulla. He knew exactly how he needed to treat each of them (and how each deserved to be treated).<br />
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The same went for whether someone was a bitter irreconcilable enemy (like Marius or Sertorius) or, even if hostile, not a real threat (like Caesar). Sulla never fell victim to misplaced trust because he very seldom made mistakes in that area, and was clearly proud of that. That points to someone for whom <b>R </b>was a very strong as well as valued function, pointing to an <b>Ego </b>function, i.e. <b>R1 </b>or <b>R2</b>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>F</b></span>: Sulla's ease with the use of power and force - whether as personal authority, or as physical bravery on the battlefield, or in military tactics, or as ruthless political violence (on occasion ordering men to be executed on the spot) - is obvious, although arguably that would be just a "job requirement". It is difficult to see, though, how a man not very focused on <b>F </b>would excel in all its aspects to the level that Sulla did. But more clearly, Sulla himself wrote in his memoirs that his best decisions were always the impulsive ones, when he just did what he felt he had to do, without thinking much about them. That is the mindset of a person with much stronger <b>F </b>than <b>I</b>, that is, inclined to be in a "battle mode". <b>F </b>is likely not only a valued function but a strong one in Sulla. That suggests <b>F1</b>, <b>F2 </b>or perhaps <b>F8. </b>This is further reinforced by the reports that he found it easy to intimidate others when in their direct presence - this is not a quality normally associated with individuals of weaker <b>F</b>.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">T</span></b>: Sulla's confidence in his instinctive, impulsive decisions was backed by a total faith in his destiny to success. He himself recorded for posterity the impact on him of the prediction of a Chaldean seer, that Sulla not only was the greatest living man in the world, but also that he would die at the peak of his power and success. That belief essentially removed from Sulla any visible self-doubt or fear of failure - as if his only "path" in life was that of success. That is also evidenced by Sulla's belief that he was a favourite of Fortuna, the goddess of luck. That was reflected on his adopting the surname Felix (the Fortunate), and building the massive temple to her in Praeneste.<br />
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Interestingly, as Plutarch observed, unlike most people, Sulla preferred to attribute his victories and success not to his own ability, but to his luck - that is, his destiny and protection by Fortune. His source of confidence, even self-esteem, was not "I am so competent" but rather, it seems, "it will work out in the end". This shows a focus on a <b>T</b> "vision" as a source of reassurance and confidence, but a focus on <b>T </b>that seems very single-minded. That would point to a valued but not particularly strong function, suggesting <b>T6 </b>or <b>T5. </b>yet suggestive <b>T </b>does not seem likely as he did not seem to rely on others, except for occasional "help"(as from the seer) which served, it seems, essentially to confirm his own <b>T</b>. <b>T6 </b>fits Sulla's approach to <b>T </b>perfectly and in itself already points to <b>ESI </b>or <b>LSI</b> as Sulla's type.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">S</span></b>: Whenever Sulla was not ruthlessly focused on the job at hand or plotting his advancement, he drifted to the enjoyment of sensual pleasure. Parties, drinking, eating, a comfortable life, pleasant surroundings. In the two periods in his life when he was not concerning himself with his career - his enforced inactivity in his youth, and then after his retirement, he devoted himself to sensual self-indulgence, even debauchery. In fact, during his active career, even in military campaigns, he would easily get into an "after hours"mood of fun and relaxation of a sensory nature. This points to <b>S </b>as something he would drift to when not actively focusing on work, and seems most like a background function, or<b> S8</b>, also connected with strong <b>R </b>and <b>E</b>, since his <b>S </b>amusements were of the social sort, rather than the more impersonal sort more associated with <b>L </b>or <b>P </b>(such as manual work).<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">L</span></b>:Sulla justified his Dictatorship as necessary to reorganise the constitution of the Republic. He was concerned with putting into place a consistent constitutional framework that would increase and preserve the supremacy of the Senate over the popular assemblies. He aimed at a legal system that would be independent of the individuals running it. This shows understanding and awareness of <b>L</b>. Yet, when actually enforcing the law, he appeared to others as inconsistent, even capricious, Plutarch wrote a passage that is worth quoting in full, referring to Sulla's approach to the administration of justice:<br />
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This suggests that he was not really that focused on being logically and impersonally consistent in those areas, and that his judgement was more influenced by his own attitude to the individuals involved - that is, a higher focus on <b>R </b>than on <b>L.</b> Yet, Sulla was concerned with putting together a - more or less - consistent legal framework for his reforms, which shows an awareness of<b> L+F</b>. Even so, the inconsistencies and contradictions of that framework also led to a large part of them being dismantled ten years after Sulla's retirement. One such glaring contradiction was his "special commands" clause that benefited mostly Pompey and that went against the overall principles of his new constitution. Sulla's approach to <b>L</b> suggests awareness and being concerned with it but ultimately overruling it with <b>R</b>. That points to <b>L </b>as a <b>Role </b>function, <b>L3</b>.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">P</span></b>: The <b>P</b> that is obvious in Sulla's priorities is in his "nuts and bolts" reforms of the constitution - which actually were the most enduring of his reforms, outlasting the Republic itself: a thorough revamping of the justice system, establishing permanent and specialised courts, and a reform of the senatorial "career plan". Those were practical, pragmatic reforms that were not connected to specific ideological or political agendas, so <b>P </b>rather than <b>F</b>, <b>L </b>or <b>E</b>. Also, the men whom Sulla liked to have around him as sidekicks - men such as Lucullus, Metellus Pius, and even Crassus and Pompey - were men whom he could trust as to their loyalty, but also men judged by him to be reliable and competent at specific tasks. Nevertheless. as already mentioned in the <b>T </b>section above, Sulla claimed no credit for his <b>P </b>achievements, preferring to attribute them to his luck and specifically to his protectress Fortuna. This points to a man who does value <b>P </b>but is extremely reluctant to claim competence in it - so P as a valued but weak function, such as <b>P5</b>, would seem to fit very well.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I</span></b>: It is difficult to see in Sulla''s life and career traits, preferences or actions that could be attributed mainly to a focus on <b>I</b>. He did show the ability of "thinking outside the box", but those were usually connected to military and political tactical improvisations, i.e. mostly related to <b>F</b>. He saw himself as a man of quick decision-making rather than of careful reflection and creative innovation - even his constitutional reforms were largely based on "turning the clock back" rather than originality - as compared, for instance, to those of <a href="https://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2016/02/augustus-lie-analysis.html" target="_blank">Augustus (LIE)</a>. <b>I </b>looks like a weak and subdued function, <b>I4 </b>fitting best.<br />
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<b><i><u>Conclusion</u></i></b>: What we have is a man with high focus on <b>R </b>and <b>F</b>, which look like his <b>Ego </b>functions, also with a single-minded, "tunnel-vision" faith in his destiny that seems most like <b>T6</b>; a man with more apparent confidence in <b>L </b>than <b>P </b>but who seemed to value the latter over the former; and a man who consistently preferred <b>S+E</b> activities as sources of relaxation. The type that fits Sulla's functional strengths and preferences is <b>ESI</b>. A more superficial, excessively broad-brush view of his career might point to <b>LSI</b>, which I argue would be his only other plausible type; but a more detailed analysis makes <b>ESI </b>clear.<br />
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<b><i><u>Sources</u></i></b>: The modern, scholarly biography is <i>Sulla: the last republican</i> by Arthur Keaveney. Keaveney's own analysis of what made Sulla tick, in his last chapter, already makes ESI clear. The most important ancient source is Sulla's biography in Plutarch's <i>Parallel Lives</i>;<i> </i>Plutarch had access to Sulla's own memoirs, now lost. <i>The Jugurthine War</i> by Sallust is important for Sulla's "big break" in his early career. The <i>Master of Rome</i> series of historical novels by Colleen McCullough, a medical doctor, has well-argued speculations on the nature of Sulla's ailments.<br />
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To learn more about the <b>ESI</b>, click <a href="http://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2015/07/esi-ethical-sensory-integrator.html">here</a>.<br />
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If you are confused by our use of Socionics shorthand, click <a href="http://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2016/03/shorthand-notation-for-model-a.html">here</a>.
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crossorigin="anonymous"></script>Peter Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11380891940588634230noreply@blogger.com0Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome, Italy41.9027835 12.49636550000002441.524646 11.850918500000024 42.280921 13.141812500000025tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8147676909533366251.post-80645028155936161102019-03-06T04:26:00.002-08:002022-03-16T20:15:22.068-07:00Aleesha's Guide to Self-TypingThis article aims to address the most common difficulties that people have while trying to type themselves, and strategies they can use to overcome them.<br />
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The Formula</h2>
The formula for figuring out your own type is very simple:<br />
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<li>Learn about yourself</li>
<li>Learn about Socionics</li>
<li>Compare your knowledge between the two.</li>
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Failure to properly identify the TIM is usually related to inadquate knowledge of Socionics or to making the process more complicated than it needs to be.<br />
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Understanding yourself</h2>
It is imperative that you are able to understand and describe yourself on your own before you attempt to do so with a typology. You can develop self-knowledge and Socionics knowledge concurrently but you must be wary of trying to interpret your thoughts and behaviour according to Socionics when you don't have a decent understanding of at least one of those things.<br />
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If you're really struggling, the problem might be that you're only seeing what you're looking for (i.e. evidence to squash you into a particular type) and in the process missing some important information. In this case it is best to totally separate the processes of developing self-knowledge and Socionics knowledge.<br />
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If you need ideas about how to learn more effectively about yourself, you could try something from this non-exhaustive list:<br />
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<li>Cultivate a practice of mindfulness</li>
<li>Meditation</li>
<li>Journalling</li>
<li>Reviewing your social media, emails, text messages etc. for themes</li>
<li>Make a list of your favourite things and why you like them</li>
<li>Talk to someone about it in a relaxed way</li>
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If you're not sure where to start or what would be relevant, you can just start with things you find fun to think about.<br />
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Understanding Socionics</h2>
Generally speaking the more you know the easier it should be, but it's also easy to get caught up in trying to figure out which obscure, poorly-described dichotomy you belong to and such thinking is counter-productive. If you need to resort to more complex theory to justify your self-typing then it's not a strong typing. <strong>All you need to justify your typing are the functions, IM elements, intertype relations, and quadras</strong>. If you're struggling, bring your focus back to those key things.<br />
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It's also important to emphasise that we are talking about <em>Socionics knowledge</em>. Not Enneagram, not MBTI, not any other typology under the sun. In fact, it's best that you forget you had even heard of those typologies, let alone your types in them, while you figure out your Socionics type. Seriously, don't even think about them. If you try to figure out your Socionics type in the context of other typologies, you will take much longer to find your type and it will be weaker and less confident.<br />
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Methods</h2>
The end goal is not simply to come up with a 3-letter acronym to describe yourself, but to be able to make a clear argument about your type based on all of the functions and IMEs (don't worry about Reinin dichotomies, please). There are many methods you can use to get there, of varying usefulness. Here are a few:<br />
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Personality tests</b><br />
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It is better to figure out your type through study and reflection, partly because this is how you learn about Socionics anyway and partly because there are many problems with personality tests. Many of them are poorly-designed to begin with, and even when they're not there can be issues with response bias or poor insight. Perhaps they can be used to get a sense of direction but you should certainly not stop with them.<br />
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Consult a professional or experienced Socionist</b><br />
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If you're finding the learning curve to be steep it may be worth your while to ask someone experienced to type you. This can be very valuable, but it is important that you aim to understand their analysis or you still won't feel confident about your type.<br />
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Look for the obvious</b><br />
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There are two main ways about this: identify aspects of yourself that are unusual compared to the general population, or identify parts of your life experience that elicit a strong emotional response. This is a particularly good way of identifying the leading, vulnerable, and mobilising functions.<br />
Specific things you might look for include:<br />
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<li>Special talents</li>
<li>Things that you can't get the hang of no matter how hard you try</li>
<li>Things that everybody else seems impressed by</li>
<li>Compliments you get consistently</li>
<li>Criticisms that really get to you</li>
<li>Tough situations you cope with better than a lot of other people</li>
<li>Situations you have a really hard time coping with</li>
<li>Activities that make you feel really relaxed, happy, or fulfilled</li>
<li>Activities that make you really bored or frustrated</li>
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Find one thing to be certain about and work from there</b><br />
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This is a good strategy for type-hoppers and for people whose understanding of Socionics outstrips their self-understanding. Instead of trying to put all the pieces together at once, narrow your focus and aim for 1 IME at a time. Don't move on until you're <em>really sure</em>! It is ideal to identify the exact function, for example "leading S" or "vulnerable E", but it is sufficient to just get as far as "4D S"/"1D E", or "strong, valued S"/"weak, subdued E" (so long as you're really sure about it!) and figure out the rest with other information.<br />
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It is easiest to do this with the 4D functions (leading, demonstrative) and 1D functions (vulnerable, suggestive) because they tend to stick out the most (see the previous section). If you're confused or uncertain you can go by your emotional response. 4D functions elicit feelings of competence and ease, they will frequently be associated with positive experiences. 1D functions elicit feelings of frustration, resentment, and boredom (among other things).<br />
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<h2 class="showhide_heading" id="Specific_Problems">
Specific Problems</h2>
People often end up trying to decide between different (usually 2) types. These are the more common situations and their solutions:<br />
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<strong>Kindred: </strong>Identify quadra values, vulnerable function, mobilising vs. demonstrative functions.<br />
<strong>Quasi-identical:</strong> Identify quadra values, vulnerable vs. suggestive functions.<br />
<strong>Extinguishment:</strong> You've probably come from MBTI. Forget MBTI.<br />
<strong>Mirror:</strong> Ideally you should never be in this situation, but if you are you want to focus on mobilising vs. suggestive functions. It's easy to get stuck deciding between mirrors indefinitely, so if you can't figure it out easily then start from scratch. It will save you a lot of time.<br />
<strong>Activators:</strong> Identify creative vs. suggestive functions.<br />
<strong>Type-hopping:</strong> You probably have impaired insight for some reason (see: Special cases). It is best to start from scratch and find one IME to be certain about before proceeding.<br />
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In general you don't want to compare strong functions with strong functions. Whichever types you're comparing, pick an IME to compare that is strong for one and weak for the other.<br />
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Special cases</h2>
In some cases there are factors at play that impair insight or introduce ambiguity, and these deserve their own treatment.<br />
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<h3 class="showhide_heading" id="Type-related_challenges">
Type-related challenges</h3>
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Our type itself can make it more difficult for us to see certain kinds of information, and there are a few predictable challenges we can talk about. The remedy to all of them is largely time and study, but perhaps listing them here can help give you a head-start. These lists are non-exhaustive:<br />
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Type-related gaps in understanding Socionics:</b><br />
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These can best be discovered by trying to explain Socionics to a third party.<br />
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<li>Typically people have the hardest time describing things that are related to their weakest function, including in trying to straightforwardly explain them. You must be careful not to confuse an incomplete understanding with a type-related gap, but if there is an IME you struggle to describe adequately for no good reason then it may be one of your weaker functions, especially your 1D (vulnerable or suggestive) functions. Another way this might show up is if your understanding is fine but you struggle to come up with examples on the spot compared with everything else.</li>
<li>People with low I often struggle with giving summarised or general information and may give information that is too detailed or not detailed enough. They may also have more difficulty describing their own personality as a result.</li>
<li>People with low S may resist giving more than general information.</li>
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Type-related obstacles to insight:</b><br />
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<li>People are likely to over- or underestimate their proficiency with their weak functions and may not recognise that they're actually weak.</li>
<li>Logical types may have more difficulty understanding their emotions.</li>
<li>People with 1D-L may struggle to seeing patterns in their thoughts and behaviours, especially E1s. They may see themselves and extremely variable and "hard to type".</li>
<li>Sensors are more likely to distrust their own insights, especially Socials.</li>
<li>Rational ethical types (ESE, EIE, ESI, EII) may feel like they need some kind of external framework to make sense of themselves.</li>
<li>People with low, valued I may be overly credulous about praise and criticism.</li>
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<h3 class="showhide_heading" id="Health-related_challenges">
Health-related challenges</h3>
It comes up from time to time that someone will feel uneasy about their self-typing due to some physical symptom that is at least partly due to illness or disability. This is usually things like people with severe fatigue wondering if they can still be extratims, clumsy people wondering if they can still be sensors, etc.<br />
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In general these kinds of issues aren't very significant in the context of Socionics. You don't need to tick every box, just more on one side than the other. If we take clumsy Sensors for example; clumsiness might be seen as a sign of low S/F, but it's not definitive unless are are other signs of low S/F and also signs of high I/T.<br />
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It's generally not worth your consideration, because you'll either find it's an anomaly that doesn't count or just one point in a long list.<br />
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Mental health and trauma-related challenges</h3>
People with mental health issues have a harder time figuring out their type, <em>especially</em> if they have trauma. They are more likely to type-hop and have protracted states of uncertainty even after developing a good understanding of Socionics. Even outside the context of personality typologies, people with mental illnesses often report having trouble figuring out what is really them and what is their illness. Additionally, having low confidence will making it more difficult to see the difference between your weak and strong functions.<br />
If you're in this category and you're struggling to figure out your type, it's probably best to a method that is more targeted. It will be especially important to separate the processes of understanding yourself and Socionics.<br />
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<h2 class="showhide_heading" id="What_to_do_when_you_re_struggling">
What to do when you're struggling</h2>
Stop, breathe, clear your head. Take a break if you're frustrated. Remember to <strong>keep it simple</strong>.<br />
If you're been struggling for a while, especially if you're stuck between different types, <strong>start over from scratch</strong>. Your old understanding obviously wasn't helping you. Look for information about yourself, your thoughts and behaviour in different situations, and <em>take it at face value.</em> Interpretation will come, don't force it; you'll find the pattern as you go. Be curious and patient rather than look for specific answers in desperation to answer a question.
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crossorigin="anonymous"></script>Aleesha Lowryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03847220689525114931noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8147676909533366251.post-57555421589657235482019-02-15T09:22:00.001-08:002022-03-16T20:15:29.777-07:00Cristiano Ronaldo (SEE): Personality Type Analysis<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ7Qi3C2QVwsdnnSBOFLuX-SsXKFgxWvhky3zkzxlcRhR6Pb9C8h_pLbCm4Jn8DgFCB4kdkc4ivu7QLljd-t0MBhm5g7BVj-LtVoHdxgTyZyp6A1vXofgNMnacd7zTIynpnZ0Zf-e9CUI/s1600/cr7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="438" data-original-width="780" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ7Qi3C2QVwsdnnSBOFLuX-SsXKFgxWvhky3zkzxlcRhR6Pb9C8h_pLbCm4Jn8DgFCB4kdkc4ivu7QLljd-t0MBhm5g7BVj-LtVoHdxgTyZyp6A1vXofgNMnacd7zTIynpnZ0Zf-e9CUI/s320/cr7.jpg" width="320" /></a> <span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro is a Portuguese football player who currently plays for Juventus and the Portugal national team. Born on the Portuguese island of Madeira in 1985, he has since won over 26 collective trophies and 5 Ballon D’ Or awards, playing at Sporting CP, Manchester United, and most recently, Real Madrid. His immense success has garnered the respect of the footballing world, with many pundits considering him among the best of all time.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">One of the most defining characteristics of Ronaldo is his strong willpower. Being an athlete, it is convenient to say that he is competitive – as this is a shared trait among a plethora of sports players. However, what one must highlight about Ronaldo is that his determination and strong desire to win enables him to score whenever and wherever he wants to – this being the skill that makes him not only a great football player but a key figure in the world of sports. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It is also interesting to point out that while Ronaldo does seem to have an almost relentless energy to him, he still recognizes the importance of getting sufficient rest and eating properly in order to achieve his goals, attempting to sleep for at least eight hours and eating balanced meals. However, when not resting, Ronaldo is in a mode of constantly “doing” things – trying to fit in some kind of physical activity whenever he can. Moreover, while Ronaldo believes rest is important, this does not prevent him from wishing to play all the matches (whether it be a friendly or a significant tournament i.e. World Cup), even if playing while injured! For these reasons, it is fair to say Ronaldo has a very <b>strong</b> and <b>valued </b>use of <b>F</b> ( most likely <b>F1</b>), while at the same time a somewhat strong, but <b>unvalued</b> <b>S</b> ( probably <b>S7</b>).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Briefly mentioned in the last paragraph, Ronaldo has had a tendency to push his body in order to play in numerous matches, ignoring any pain or injury. Not only does this demonstrate an <b>unvalued</b> <b>S</b>, it also emphasizes very <b>weak</b> <b>T</b>, as these injuries prevent him from attaining long-term goals. For example, in 2016, his decision to play the Champions League Final (in which he scored the winning penalty) and the majority of Euro 2016 came to haunt him, as the injury he had been ignoring erupted, leaving him unable to play against France in the final, and consequently missing pre-season with Real Madrid. In 2017, his rash, impulsive decision to push a referee in a Super cup game versus Barcelona not only got him sent off for the return leg but also made him miss the first four league matches with Real Madrid – a fundamental absence that left Real out of the title race very quickly. From these events, it is very clear that Ronaldo does not clearly enough reflect on the consequences of his actions, and seems to keep making the same type of mistakes due to his impatient nature. For these reasons, it is blatant that Ronaldo struggles very heavily with <b>T </b>(most likely has <b>T5</b>).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It is noteworthy to recognize that not only is Ronaldo popular in the world of sports, but outside of sports as well, having the most followers on Instagram and being considered one of the most charitable athletes. Therefore, it is fair to say that Ronaldo is a quite popular guy, being very charismatic in nature and easily being able to win over a group of people – indicating quite a strong use of <b>E</b>. However, the evidence seems to suggest that while he uses <b>E</b> strongly, it is not something he values all that much. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When one looks to the reasons as to why Ronaldo made those comments, it becomes even clearer that he values personal loyalty over loyalty to a system or institution. One of the primary reasons that Ronaldo threatened to leave the club (and eventually did) was because he no longer trusted the club’s president, Florentino Perez. In the face of a tax evasion scandal he claimed not to be responsible for, the Portuguese hoped for a new contract with an increased wage to more easily pay off the authorities. Contrarily, Perez believed that it was irrational to increase the salary of a player who would almost be forty years old at the end of the supposed new contract, as the massive payments would put the club in jeopardy of signing the new generation of superstar players. This focus on personal loyalty again hints at <b>Gamma</b> values, as Ronaldo saw the president’s refusal as a betrayal, meaning he could no longer trust in him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">F1</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">, <b>S7</b>, <b>T5</b>, <b>E8</b>, <b>P6</b>, <b>R2</b>, and <b>L4</b> all seem to correspond to the functional stack of the <b>SEE</b>, making it Cristiano Ronaldo’s most likely type.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">To learn more about SEE, click <a href="http://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2015/07/see-sensory-ethical-energiser.html">here</a>.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If you are confused by our use of Socionics shorthand, click <a href="http://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2016/03/shorthand-notation-for-model-a.html">here</a>.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Life truly begins only after you have put your house in order."</span></span></td></tr>
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Marie Kondo is a Japanese organising consultant and author, known primarily for the KonMari method of tidying and has become a viral sensation with her 2019 Netflix show, "Tidying Up With Marie Kondo."<br />
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Marie Kondo has a long-standing obsessive interest in the organisation of her environment. From childhood she would leaf through home magazines and experiment with different organisational methods in her own home, and even preferred tidying and organising at school to playing with other children. As a result, she has broad knowledge of organisational systems and techniques and confidently recommends practical solutions for a wide range of situations. However, she considers emotional engagement (E) and aesthetic sensibilities (S+E) to be more relevant than practical considerations (P), as I will explain below:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"It is my hope that the magic<br />of tidying will help you create<br />a bright and joyful future."</span></span></td></tr>
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Kondo is a friendly, cheerful woman who frequently demonstrates her emotions with expressive vocalisations and animated movements. On "Tidying Up with Marie Kondo", she is seen to greet clients enthusiastically, mirror clients' excitement, and empathise and cheer them during frustrating moments. She is excited to be able to help clients improve their homes and lead more joyful lives.<br />
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The hallmark of the KonMari method is the concept of <i>tokimeku</i>. <i>Tokimeku</i> is frequently translated into English as "spark joy", but the more literal translation is "[heart] throbbing/fluttering". In Japan, the word is usually used in the context of falling in love, and Kondo's use of it in regards to tidying and home organisation is a comprehensible but idiosyncratic decision that reflects the paramount importance she places on emotional experiences.</blockquote>
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<i>"I chose this standard for a reason. After all, what is the point in tidying? If it's not so that our space and the things in it can bring us happiness, then I think there is no point at all. Therefore, the best criterion for choosing what to keep and what to discard is whether keeping it will make you happy, whether it will bring you joy."</i> -- "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up"</blockquote>
<i>Tokimeku</i> is a concept that falls within the realm of <b>E</b>, and its association with a personal, physiological experience, rather than a "meaningful" one, suggests a concurrent emphasis on <b>S</b>. This makes <b>Alpha Socialite </b>(<b>ESE </b>or<b> SEI</b>) a likely type for her.<br />
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The visceral nature of <i>tokimeku</i> is important to Kondo; it's not enough that you simply like the way something looks, it's necessary to physically interact with the item and keep or discard it based on your physical sensations. Kondo demonstrates the process:<br />
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She also emphasises the importance of physically interacting with objects in order to develop a positive relationship with them in the first place, whether it's learning to like essential items that don't 'spark joy' or learning to appreciate personally-unappealing possessions of family members.<br />
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<i>"I decided to give her a homework assignment. 'If you don't like something that belongs to someone else, the rule is not to look at or pay attention to it. But if you just can't help seeing your husband's things and they really bother you, then I want you to reach out and actually touch them. For example, you could pick up a figurine or run your finger lightly over the cover of a book. It doesn't matter how, but touch it and look at it carefully for at least a whole minute.'</i></blockquote>
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<i>[...] </i> <i><b>If you cannot avoid seeing certain things, then try facing them head-on</b>. Start by touching them. If Y had only looked at her husband's things without touching them, she would never have been able to see them as anything other than toys. Once she held it in hand, however, the object became real. A figurine, for example, was no longer an anonymous samurai but the great leader Takeda Shingen. This alone can reduce aversion to such objects by half."</i> -- "Spark Joy"</blockquote>
Her emphasis on physical interaction suggests <b>strong</b>, likely<b> valued S</b> with concurrent emphasis on<b> E</b>.<br />
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Due to her focus on <i>tokimeku</i>, her tidying and organisation recommendations can be out of sync with conventional wisdom. The actual tidying process is inefficient in terms of movement and energy. Every item in the house is handled multiple times, and some of the routines she recommends for maintaining a tidy house involve double-handling (for example, filling and emptying your purse on a daily basis). These are purposeful decisions that have their own advantages but nonetheless indicate <b>valued E</b> and <b>weak</b>,<b> subdued P</b>.<br />
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Another out-of-sync aspect of the KonMari method is the choice to tidy by category, and in a specific order, rather than by location. By all accounts, this is very effective, but although Kondo arrived at the order through her own experimentation, she says she doesn't know how all of it works. Despite the idiosyncrasy, she created a method she was able to communicate and apply in a wide range of situations for a wide range of people, and this suggests <b>normative </b>(i.e. <b>2D</b> rather than <b>1D</b>)<b> </b><b>P</b>. At the same time, the lack of clear understanding suggests <b>weak P</b>. Overall, this fits <b>P3 </b>best.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">“Now imagine yourself living in a<br />
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Her attitude towards discarding based on whether or not an item "sparks joy" has at times led to decisions that ultimately made life harder, for example by discarding essential items:<br />
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<i>"Take, for example, my vacuum cleaner. I got rid of it because it was an outdated model, and instead diligently wiped the floor with paper towels and rags. But in the end it simply took too much time, and I had to buy a new vacuum.</i></blockquote>
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<i>And then there was my screwdriver. After throwing it away, I tried using a ruler to tighten a loose screw, but it snapped down the middle. This almost reduced me to tears as it was one I really liked." </i>-- "Spark Joy" </blockquote>
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Kondo's solution to avoiding discarding useful items is once again an emotional one. Her first suggestion is simply to hone your ability to sense joy:<br />
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<i>"All these incidents stemmed from youthful inexperience and thoughtlessness. They demonstrated that I had not yet honed my ability to discern what brings me joy. Deceived by their plainness, I failed to realize that I actually like them. I had assumed that if something brought me joy, I would feel a thrill of excitement that made my heart beat faster. Now I see things differently.</i></blockquote>
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<i>Feelings of fascination, excitement, or attraction are not the only indications of joy. A simple design that puts you at ease, a high degree of functionality that makes life simpler, a sense of rightness, or the recognition that a possession is useful in our daily lives - these, too, indicate joy."</i> -- "Spark Joy" </blockquote>
Another suggestion she makes is about actually forcing yourself to feel joyful about items:<br />
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<i>"I have a secret for raising our joy level for things we know we need but that fail to excite us: shower them with praise. [...] One theme of my regular lessons is appreciating every item we use. This is a highly effective way to hone our judgement. By the time my clients begin tackling such items as kitchen implements, they can declare quite confidently that an unremarkable frying pan or a plain old egg beater brings them joy."</i> -- "Spark Joy </blockquote>
This is another example of <b>weak</b>,<b> subdued P</b> and <b>strong</b>,<b> valued E</b>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">"The real tragedy is to live </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">your </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">entire </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">life without </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">anything </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">that </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">brings you<br />joy </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">and never even </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">realise </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">it."</span> </td></tr>
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As she is focused on the very much in-the-moment experience of <i>tokimeku</i>, her attitude towards discarding items is very dismissive of reasons for keeping items that are based on something having been important in the past, nostalgia, relationships with other people, concern about needing something in the future, or otherwise any attachment that is not rooted in your immediate experience or lifestyle. Adding to this a personal tendency to take action and assume it will work out, we have a picture of <b>weak, subdued, likely vulnerable T</b>, <b>subdued R</b>, as well as <b>strong, likely 4D F</b>.<br />
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The KonMari Method itself is designed to guide and motivate the tidier through a series of emotionally impactful exercises. This is not limited to simply physically interacting with each object in search of <i>tokimeki</i>. Before tidying begins, tidiers are asked to think about their "ideal lifestyle" that they hope tidying will facilitate.<br />
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<i>"As you continue to explore the reasons behind your ideal lifestyle, you will come to a simple realisation. The whole point in both discarding and keeping things is to be happy. It may seem obvious, but it is important to experience this realisation for yourself and let it sink into your heart."</i> -- "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up"</blockquote>
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Her books are replete with emotionally-charged anecdotes from herself and her clients, and shares these anecdotes to help clients in person as well. The process of tidying is also riddled with moments to shock the tidier into rethinking the possessions that they own, for example placing all items from a single category into one large pile.<br />
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<i>"Only when you are actually are confronted with how much exactly you have, you start to realize [...] what you need to do."</i> -- "Tidying Up with Marie Kondo", S1E1</blockquote>
She also supports her clients to learn how to experience <i>tokimeku</i>, a demonstrates a nuanced understanding of how different people physically and mentally experience their emotions. Her superior understanding and ability to turn it into practical application suggests <b>strong, likely valued, likely 4D E</b>.<br />
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While personally placing a high value on tidiness, expresses strong opinions and enjoys giving advice, she is very clear that she opposes coercion in tidying. Tidiers are advised to ignore the mess of family members and focus only on their own space. Kondo relates that when she was younger she believed tidying would make everyone happy and tried to reform her family members, but found it resulted in negativity. When working with clients who have committed to the tidying process, however, she can be quite strict. In the first episode of "Tidying Up with Marie Kondo", one of the clients observes, "You look sweet, but on the inside you really mean business." A combination of proactive helpfulness (or "bossiness") with a wish to avoid negative emotions and an attitude of live-and-let-live in personal relationships suggests <b>strong F </b>and <b>linear-assertive temperament</b> within the <b>Alpha Quadra</b>.<br />
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Kondo fully expects that changing the emotional atmosphere of you environment by tidying will also lead to positive changes in other aspects of your life. Some of this is basic on somewhat mystical ideas rooted in Shintoism but much of it is the idea that your emotional state sets the tone for everything else in your life; both in the sense that happiness begets happiness and that orderliness that "sparks joy" is actually a necessary condition for moving on in your life.<br />
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<i>"When I ask my Japanese client, 'What kind of room do you want?' for some reason many of them say, 'A room that will help me attract love and get married.' I am not an expert on how to increase your luck at love or marriage through tidying. However, I often hear from my client that their love lives went more smoothly once they had tidied up. The reasons for this are varied. For some, overcoming an inferiority complex about tidying instilled confidence, making the person more proactive about love. For others, tidying up has increased the spark in their relationship so that they pop the question. I also receive reports that as a result of tidying, my clients have decided to terminate a relationship. <b>No matter the direction of the outcome, it is clear that tidying can also help us set out love life in order</b>."</i> -- "Spark Joy" (emphasis hers)</blockquote>
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Kondo particularly focuses on the positive changes that tidying and the resulting environment that "sparks joy" can bring to family relationships. The consistent emphasis on your own emotional state being the driver suggests that <b>E is valued</b> and <b>R is subdued</b>.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8S-oZd42GKRKQpc1DFEnzEw6pdWtulnKAeE07-xQT6Z0DX5fglw5vnoMI0ziNtQ7d7ZTJGaRImxE0WYV3SLxr3Fc5gzzIaCdlfCcDVRbkjTEIIjr7WOOTZIQW6iWXkfihwbqfpPqAKPU/s1600/Netflix-Tidying_Up_Marie_Kondo-1296x728-Header-1024x575.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="575" data-original-width="1024" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8S-oZd42GKRKQpc1DFEnzEw6pdWtulnKAeE07-xQT6Z0DX5fglw5vnoMI0ziNtQ7d7ZTJGaRImxE0WYV3SLxr3Fc5gzzIaCdlfCcDVRbkjTEIIjr7WOOTZIQW6iWXkfihwbqfpPqAKPU/s400/Netflix-Tidying_Up_Marie_Kondo-1296x728-Header-1024x575.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">“The true purpose of tidying is, I believe, to live in the most natural state possible.<br />
Don’t you think it is unnatural for us to possess things that don’t bring us joy or<br />
things that we don’t really need? I believe that owning only what we love and<br />
what we need is the most natural condition.” </td></tr>
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In summary:<br />
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<ul>
<li>Marie Kondo's pervasive and multi-faceted emphasis on emotional impact and emotional states indicates <b>strong and valued E</b>, and her readiness to communicate her own internal states (and the frequency with which she does so) indicates<b> E1</b>. Her emphasis on the physiological experience of emotions as well as their particular relationship with one's lifestyle also suggests <b>strong</b>,<b> valued S2</b>.</li>
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<li>Kondo's implicit assumption that positive emotions will lead to positive relationships indicates <b>R </b>in the Id block, especially <b>R7</b>.</li>
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<li>Her practicality indicates a tendency to <b>stronger S </b>and a tendency to use<b> P</b>, while her more vague understanding of her method and tendency to abandon practical measures for emotional ones suggests <b>weak</b> <b>P3</b>.</li>
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<li>Kondo's proactive and decisive nature, along with her assumption that things will work out fine after acting, indicates a <b>linear-assertive temperament</b>, <b>1D T </b>and<b> 4D F</b>, making them good candidates for <b>T4</b> and <b>F8</b>.</li>
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<li>Her strong preference for, and commitment to, experiencing positive emotions, along with her appreciation for structure and live-and-let-live attitude, indicates that she belongs to the <b>Alpha Quadra</b>.</li>
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Altogether, this suggests that the most likely type for Marie Kondo is <b>ESE</b>.<br />
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To find out more about <b>ESE</b>, click <a href="http://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2015/09/ese-ethical-sensory-energiser.html">here</a>.<br />
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If you are confused by our use of Socionics shorthand, click <a href="http://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2016/03/shorthand-notation-for-model-a.html">here</a>.<br />
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<u>Sources</u><br />
"The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up"<br />
"Spark Joy"<br />
"Tidying Up with Marie Kondo"
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Carl Sagan was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, creator, science popularizer, and science communicator in space science and other normal sciences. He is best known for his commitments to the exploratory examination of extraterrestrial life, including test showing of the creation of amino acids from essential chemicals by radiation. Sagan gathered the main physical messages sent into space: the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, all inclusive messages that could conceivably be comprehended by any extraterrestrial knowledge that may discover them. Furthermore, he distributed more than 600 scientific papers and articles and was writer, co-writer or editorial manager of more than 20 books. Sagan composed numerous prevalent science books, for example, The Dragons of Eden, Broca's Brain and Pale Blue Dot, and described and co-composed the honor winning 1980 TV arrangement Cosmos: A Personal Voyage.<br />
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What is most unique about Carl Sagan's research papers, is his recursive passion for seeking out new astronomical information and experiences that stimulates the mind of the reader, thus opening up the reader to new possibilities for thought. Typically, his books address a very broad range of concepts in astronomy, extending beyond what is usually expected to be mentioned in books about astronomy to going in expansive depth on general scientific knowledge to abstract theories. In addition, his books frequently mention theories that were poorly understood at the time or simply unknown phenomenon without essential explanation. It is clear that Carl Sagan was heavily drawn to the abstract side of how the world works and his approach to scientific research was philosophically bent, with a quality of connecting various scientific concepts that were discussed by individuals at the time into a grand simplification of science - so that his conclusions could make logical sense to those reading his published works at the time. This gives the notion of someone with a preference of logical optimism over critical skepticism in dealing with abstract theories, providing the case for a type with <b>Ego I+L</b>, most likely <b>I1</b> and <b>L2</b> considering his very broad range of concepts covered in his works support the idea of <b>Strong</b> and <b>Bold</b> <b>I</b>.<br />
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Carl Sagan pertained to a style in his writing of systematizing his insights about the universe and contributing essential details towards emerging theories at the time. These details applied across a vast number of works produced by historical scientists, utilizing this information and applying it into a grand framework of the universe that Stephen Hawking had been longing to cultivate. In open ended discussion and interviews, Carl Sagan wanted to include those from heavy academic backgrounds who enjoyed an intellectual challenge to people who didn't know very much about science - but still was as passionate about it as Carl was. Another interesting notion was that Carl Sagan included those he disagreed with in these discussions, showing a greater interest in generating an <b>Alpha</b> group atmosphere with <b>L-</b>focused frameworks on how the universe works to <b>E-</b>focused digressions responding on the emotional significance of humanity's place in the cosmic arena. Overall, Carl Sagan couldn't help but share his insights on the interesting scientific discoveries of the time and always had some interesting topic on his mind.<br />
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Carl Sagan would often skeptically interrogate and propose thought provoking questions towards religious fanatics during more serious interviews and he often had a propensity to point out the flaws in a doctrine or set of laws that he perceived to be false. In one article, he wrote; “If you’re only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You never learn anything. You become a crotchety misanthrope convinced that nonsense is ruling the world. (There is, of course, much data to support you.) Since major discoveries at the borderlines of science are rare, experiences will tend to confirm your grumpiness. But every now and then a new idea turns out to be on the mark, valid and wonderful. If you’re too resolutely and uncompromisingly skeptical, you’re going to miss (or resent) the transforming discoveries in science, and either way, you will be obstructing understanding and progress. Mere skepticism is not enough.” This approach to skepticism through maintaining an expansive and eclectic mindset is often present in types with <b>T7</b>, limiting himself to only select resources to base his work off of repulsed him and instead he chose to spread his endeavors over an expansive scope of territories.<br />
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Carl Sagan continued doing what he did from the start, promoting science and "eagerly passing on the marvels of the universe to a huge number of individuals on TV and in books." Whenever Sagan showed up on ''The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson amid the 70s and 80s, his objective was to interface with regular Americans, individuals who didn't subscribe to Scientific American, and the expansion of people's general understanding of science. Within these discussions, Carl Sagan lightheartedly enthused about the history of science and engaged the audience with captivating explanations of how the world works. Aside from strongly supporting the advancement of fostering the scientific education, his critics have outed Carl Sagan as a publicity seeker and careerist more concerned to maintain his reputation than to examine the facts about the universe empirically. This at the very least suggests a strong emphasis on <b>E</b>, in passionately getting the audience involved in his brilliant and skeptical rhetoric that would overshadow his methods of carefully integrating <b>P</b> to substantiate his explanations, often by referencing specific studies or examples in history. Thus making <b>Bold</b>, <b>Weak E6</b> and <b>Strong</b>, <b>Cautious P8</b> very likely suggestions for Sagan.<br />
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From what I've listed above about Carl Sagan is already is consistent with <b>I1</b>, <b>L2</b>, <b>E6</b>, <b>T7</b> and <b>P8</b>. Consequently, I think that Carl Sagan is a very good representative of the <b>ILE</b> type of information metabolism.
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In Praise of Folly, Erasmus wrote this work with two intentions in mind; to satirize and inveigh against the offices and institutions of the Church, for which he had developed a deep hatred of during his time at Steyr. He attacks the monastic orders and their conception of worship as consisting in "the precise number of knots to the tying on their sandals". With more venom he goes on to say, "It will be pretty to hear their pleas before the great tribunal: one will brag how mortified his carnal appetite by feeding only upon fish: another will urge that he spent most of his time on earth in the divine exercise of singing psalms... but Christ will interrupt: 'Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, ...I left you but one precept, of loving one another, which I do not hear anyone plead that he had faithfully discharged.'" What is perhaps most prominent in Erasmus' work, is his unconventional approach to his studies and taking a peculiar interest in idiosyncratic works. Within these works, Erasmus satirizes the importance of doctrine and viewpoints in Christianity and instead makes a broad argument that the purpose of religion is to instil personal development and virtuous qualities. Interestingly enough, this and Erasmus' pursuit of multiple interests with the intention to foster his own personal development throughout the course of his life is in line with <b>Delta</b> values, more specifically with <b>I+R</b> in the <b>Ego Block</b>.<br />
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This introduces the central theme of Erasmus' In Praise of Folly, namely his concern with religion as a worship 'from the heart' that has no need of the offices and intermediaries supplied by the Church. Erasmus insists that true religion is a form of Folly, in the sense that it is simplistic and direct, not convoluted with unnecessary sophistication and dogmatic doctrine. For Erasmus, religion is based on a thorough-going humanism, understood in its classical sense as a confidence in human reason to know and worship God. In a similar vein, Erasmus was no friend of scholasticism, nor indeed the philosophical fathers of his day, <b>Plato (IEI)</b> and <b>Aristotle (LIE)</b>. Erasmus' hero was <b>Augustine (IEI)</b>, from whom he took the doctrine that reason must be the servant of faith. Apart from In Praise of Folly, and later his Colloquia, much of his work consisted in Greek and Latin translations of the Bible. From this excerpt; "Due to limited financial resources, and with urging from his caretaker, Erasmus entered an Augustinian monastery a few years after his parent's death. This was most certainly not the life-style for him and may have precipitated his independent future. He disliked rigor and severity but it did provide the time for independent attention to his studies and the beginnings of his prodigious education." the sensitivity of Erasmus surrounding social rules brought him great stress out of fear that it may limit his freedom. This is a common fear for <b>L4</b> types, when the creation of rules and structures actually limit personal development and understanding for this type. Furthermore, Erasmus' travels always kept him occupied and busy, with paying very little attention to trying to keep himself comfortable in living in one area, almost always absorbed in his work and giving little thought to his lived experience. As such, <b>S5</b> is fitting for Erasmus - he hardly ever engaged in comforting activities and managing a clean household - despite the fact that he wished for such a lifestyle that benefited him and made him feel comfortable after have already completed his work.<br />
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Erasmus strongly favored the lifestyle of achieving in a broad variety of areas, working independently in his research and not showing any sort of bias in religion or ideology. Nevertheless, Erasmus still had little issue with the intellectual dirty work; fact checking and examining primary source material - it still meant that his work had a stronger foundation compared to the poorly sourced works of other Christian scholars. Despite Erasmus' certitude in factual accuracy, it was perhaps more clear that this became more of a sore spot for him as his colleagues carried a stronger hold on the importance of factual accuracy in the advancement of humanism. Erasmus had used the information he gathered to simply support his ideals of humanism in religion. As such, there is a strong parallel between Erasmus' role in Christian humanism and the role of <b>P6</b> types as information gatherers, gathering a large amount of information on a topic before quickly moving on to something new.<br />
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Erasmus had an enormous influence on ushering in the Reformation, but surprisingly, in the struggle between Catholics and the Protestants - the latter of whom were undoubtedly closer to Erasmus' religious ideas - he eventually sided with the Catholics. This apparent contradiction of values best illustrates Erasmus' somewhat timid nature, he could not condone the violence of the Lutherans, preferring to attack the Catholics with his words instead of his actions. When More was executed by Henry the VIII for refusing to accept his supremacy over the Pope as head of the Church of England, Erasmus is quoted as saying, "Would More have never meddled with that dangerous business and left the theological cause". This quote brings into sharp relief between his idealistic and faithful nature and the uncompromising and corruptible nature of More. A more illuminating account of Erasmus' personality would be from this excerpt from his biography from an archive on European history: "He proudly could be called the 'mover and shaker' of Europe, a citizen of a world he created for himself. This roving international man of letters networked his way through life with his superior intellect and his penchant for 'a good fire, a good dinner, a pile of amusing correspondence and a handsome research grant.' His charm and humor and amazing ability to keep up a massive correspondence with hundreds of fans, scholars and friends continued unabated throughout his lifetime." This account gives a better perspective on an individual with <b>Strong</b> <b>E</b>, likely <b>E8</b>.<br />
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Thus far what has been mentioned about Desiderius Erasmus points to <b>Strong</b> <b>I</b> and <b>R</b>, <b>L4</b>, <b>S5</b>, <b>P6</b> and <b>E8</b>. In conclusion, I believe Erasmus is a timeless representative of the <b>IEE</b> type of information metabolism.<br />
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To learn more about <b>IEE</b>, click <a href="http://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2015/05/iee-intuitive-ethical-energiser.html">here</a>.<br />
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If you are confused by our use of Socionics shorthand, click <a href="http://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2016/03/shorthand-notation-for-model-a.html">here</a>.
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZwGBbBnu5KuSh6HCLXBDEy12p9qd9deleli5fbE8cP2KyIhz-XavEcJ_DgQpy65lrOrdBkN1qZKXP27fmq3iBH5sVvWYS8cti4lQPURnZgjy_OKwCza389CsOaea80WaqN6QJSFAHxKRU/s1600/nikola-tesla-black-and-white-photograph-10-july-1856-e28093-7-january-1943-serbian-american-inventor-electrical-engineer-mechanical-engineer-physicist-and-futurist.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="777" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZwGBbBnu5KuSh6HCLXBDEy12p9qd9deleli5fbE8cP2KyIhz-XavEcJ_DgQpy65lrOrdBkN1qZKXP27fmq3iBH5sVvWYS8cti4lQPURnZgjy_OKwCza389CsOaea80WaqN6QJSFAHxKRU/s320/nikola-tesla-black-and-white-photograph-10-july-1856-e28093-7-january-1943-serbian-american-inventor-electrical-engineer-mechanical-engineer-physicist-and-futurist.jpg" width="248" /></a><b>Nikola Tesla </b>was a physicist, inventor, mechanical and electrical engineer popularly known for his intellectual brilliance and achievements in the realm of electrical engineering. His inventions ushered in the beginning of commercial electricity and his revolutionary work in electromagnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries opened previously unconsidered possibilities to electricity's applications. Tesla's patents and theoretical work formed the basis of modern alternating current (AC) electric power systems, including the poly-phase system of electrical distribution and the AC motor. Tesla demonstrated wireless energy transfer to power electronic devices as early as 1893, and aspired to intercontinental wireless transmission of industrial power in his unfinished Wardenclyffe Tower project (Tesla Tower) located in Long Island, New York. At the turn of the 20th century, Tesla's fame in the United States exceeded that of any previous inventor or scientist in American history, his name becoming synonymous with the archetypal "mad scientist".<br />
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Nikola Tesla excelled at math and science, even as young boy he was able to compute advanced calculus problems in his head, without having to write anything down. His natural talent for interpreting the world around him through mathematical and logical constructs dominated the way he processed information throughout his life. As a young man, Tesla was constantly thinking of ways to improve upon the inventions of others, often taking his "vision" of what it would look like in his head and carefully working to get every measurement exactly right. He carefully ordered his thoughts and ideas to better understand his interpretation of scientific phenomenon. Rules, statements and algorithms dictated the work of Tesla and his orientation towards logical structure was most fluent in his blueprints. This very abstract approach to dealing with planning inventions made those who worked with him reminiscent of a "da Vinci". Much like the real <b>Leonardo da Vinci (ILE)</b>, Tesla was also heavily drawn to highly theoretical topics that sought to make sense of the world; a polymath of scientific pursuit. That said, Tesla was still able to maintain a balance of physical and mental organization. This expertise defends the argument that Tesla processed the world through abstract principles, meaning that he has <b>Strong</b> <b>L+I</b> in the <b>Ego Block</b>, and that as evident of his own thought process, <b>Cautious</b> <b>I2</b> is used in service of <b>Bold</b> <b>L1</b>.<br />
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Tesla first started working as an engineer at the Continental Edison Company in Paris, where he was tasked with designing dynamos. While living in Europe, he came up with the design of his AC induction motor and built a functional prototype. When Edison discovered this, he invited him to move to America so that he could directly collaborate with him. In 1881, Tesla agreed and met Edison in New York. The two got along initially, but this brief cordiality grew into a bitter rivalry as Edison and Tesla both fought over whether DC or AC worked, respectively. Thomas Edison had built his entire company on products that used DC and he didn't want to see his company go bankrupt due to an innovation that would make his inventions obsolete. Through time, however, AC became the only system used for distributing electrical power to residential, commercial and industrial zones. Yet, in spite of AC victory later on, Tesla was still met with great obstacles that lied in the path of his dream of providing free energy to the world. In 1900, backed by $150,000 from financier J.P. Morgan, Tesla began testing of his so called "Wireless Broadcasting System" tower on Long Island, New York. This broadcasting tower was intended to link the world's telephone and telegraph services, as well as transmit pictures, stock reports, and weather information worldwide. Unfortunately, Morgan cut funding when Tesla asked for more money for conducting his own experiments for wireless energy, something which Morgan hadn't been previously made aware of and recognized as a breach of contract. Moreover, Tesla was easily used by tougher men like Edison and Morgan, he was naive towards the idea that others might take advantage of him. This suggests a lack of awareness or "blindness" matter of <b>F</b>, Tesla's gentle and collected nature compared to the ruthless ambition of<b> J. P. Morgan (SLE)</b> provide good support by contrast to Tesla's <b>Weak</b> and <b>Cautious</b> <b>F4</b>.<br />
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In his personal life, Tesla was emotionally detached and was deeply absorbed in his thoughts, paying very little attention to the social impact he had on others. His entrenchment in abstractions and logical thought terminated his attraction with other individuals and he showed a persistent need for social isolation. The absent-minded nature of Tesla often left him a keen interest of light-hearted social circles, Tesla would often appreciate the gesture of raising the spirits of others and keeping people in a positive mindset, though he would much rather stick to his fixated work-ethic. Despite this, Tesla was still somewhat enthusiastic in others interested in his highly articulate and insightful theories, yet he almost always failed to impress and command the attention of others. Tesla attempted to promote himself, although Tesla lacked social skills and in the later parts of his life, was widely considered to be mad. This provides good evidence for <b>E5</b>, being quite aware of the need to present oneself as charming and polite, but he almost always across as stoic and unreachable.<br />
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In addition to having difficulty to engage others with his inventions and new engineering ideas, Tesla became obsessed with the number three, he often felt compelled to walk around a block three times before entering a building, demanded a stack of three folded cloth napkins beside his plate at every meal, etc. His symptoms were considered by some to be evidence of partial insanity and this undoubtedly hurt what was left of his reputation. Tesla became very easily overpowered by his physical surroundings and sought to cultivate a relaxing environment where he could escape from the aggression and social pressure of reality. He also carried a great meticulousness in his appearance and dressed modestly to help moderate his physical tastes. Tesla's hypersensitivity to sensory stimuli manifested from fearing to wear specific kinds of jewelry to refusing to touch people's hands. He even once stated; "I know I am completely worn out, and yet I cannot stop my work. These experiments of mine are so important, so beautiful, so fascinating, that I can hardly tear myself away from them to eat, and when I try to sleep I think about them constantly. I expect I shall go on until I break down altogether." The following suggests bold and valued <b>S6</b>, in that Tesla wanted to cultivate a relaxing environment for his work, yet would periodically forget to take care of himself, thus justifying the "mad scientist" archetype even further.<br />
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Nikola Tesla was a futurist by nature and In addition to his work on electromagnetism and electromechanical engineering, Tesla contributed in varying degrees to the establishment of robotics, remote control, radar, and computer science, and to the expansion of ballistics, nuclear physics, and theoretical physics. Tesla drew parallels between existing knowledge and concepts by examining the various hypothesis of the variety of phenomena he examined. Over the course of his life, Tesla registered some 300 patents under his name, and traces of his inventions can be found in many modern-day devices, including in some unexpected places, such as remote-controlled boat toys and letter-shaped neon lights. But not all of Tesla's futuristic visions came to fruition. Some of the inventor's most far-out and ambitious dreams went unrealized, such as his vision for the wireless transmission of energy. In other cases, what Tesla invented was simply not practical enough to replace existing systems, such as the blade-less steam turbine, or was too dangerous to use, such as a steam-powered electric generator that came to be known as the "earthquake machine,". Still, Tesla's open-mindedness and curiosity in a wide range of subjects is evenly balanced with the esoteric philosophies he developed later in life, all of which is still consistent with <b>Strong</b> and <b>Bold</b> <b>T8</b>.<br />
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Thus far what has been mentioned about Tesla points towards <b>L1</b>, <b>I2</b>, <b>F4</b>, <b>E5</b> and <b>S6 </b>and <b>T8</b>. In conclusion, I believe Tesla is a very good example of an <b>LII</b>.<br />
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To learn more about <b>LII</b>, click <a href="http://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2015/05/lii-logical-intuitive-integrator.html">here</a>.<br />
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If you are confused by our use of Socionics shorthand, click <a href="http://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2016/03/shorthand-notation-for-model-a.html">here</a>.
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crossorigin="anonymous"></script>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1Smiljan, Croatia44.5637924 15.32040299999994244.473287899999995 15.159041499999942 44.6542969 15.481764499999942tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8147676909533366251.post-20505676837373367992019-01-17T13:29:00.001-08:002022-03-16T20:16:13.117-07:00Jordan Peterson (LIE): Personality Type Analysis<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Jordan Bernt Peterson</b> is a Canadian clinical psychologist who currently holds a professorship in psychology at the University of Toronto. Dr. Peterson has conducted research in a wide range of psychological sub-fields. However, his main areas of study include personality psychology, as well as abnormal & social psychology, with an emphasis on personal self-improvement and the psychological role of mythological belief systems. Throughout his career in academia, Peterson has also maintained a clinical practice treating up to 20 patients per week.<br />
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For much of his professional life, Jordan Peterson was not well-known outside his field of study. However, that all changed in 2016 when he gained international notoriety for his very public criticisms of political correctness, and opposition to the Canadian government's Bill C-16 which, among other things, permitted the legal compulsion of preferred gender pronoun usage. Since then, Peterson has continually been in the media spotlight for the controversies surrounding many of his sociopolitical views. As a result, his YouTube channel (to which he's uploaded his lectures for years prior) has also garnered an up-swell in public attention, with subscription numbers reaching well over 1 million. He's also received an enormous surge of support in the form of tens of thousands of dollars in crowdfunded donations each month. This has allowed Peterson to step back from University work to travel the globe, be interviewed by numerous media outlets, give public talks & lectures, and write books -- among other projects. Fortunately, his large media presence provides a wealth of information from which to deduce his sociotype.<br />
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Particularly in his talks on the Psychological Significance of the Bible, Peterson often expresses his fascination with the concept of sacrificing in the present for future gain being a common mythological theme. He also frames many insights gleaned from his psychological studies in terms of the role certain psychopathologies played in the formation of infamous totalitarian regimes of the early 20th century. What's more, Dr. Peterson's "Self Authoring" program also emphasizes reflection on past errors in order to plan long-term, practical strategies for self-improvement. Even some of Peterson's objections to Bill C-16 largely stemmed from concerns over the long-term societal consequences stemming from such a legal precedent. Judging from the above, and his oft stated desire to gain greater historical understanding despite his already extensive knowledge, it's safe to say that Peterson values -- and has a strong facility with -- <b>T</b>.<br />
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Throughout Jordan Peterson's academic lectures and public talks, there's a heavy emphasis on drawing empirical data from scientific studies across numerous fields to form the basis of his arguments on a wide range of issues. When referencing his experience in clinical practice, Peterson has spoken of using methodologies from varying schools of thought, based on whatever happened to be most effective for a given client. He also personally favors trait based personality metrics (namely the “Big 5”) over typological systems inspired by Jung, despite his general admiration for the man's works, citing the superior empirical backing and performance prediction value of the former. When pressed on the nature of his general worldview, Peterson has stated that he's a philosophical pragmatist, judging beliefs based on their personal & practical utility -- which accounts for his identification as a Christian despite being agnostic. He also frequently emphasizes the importance of assuming personal responsibility, gaining competence, and generally being of use to the people around you. The above, combined with other aspects of Peterson's career as a clinical researcher, indicates strong and valued <b>P </b>-- likely his base function -- with a probable <b>L7</b>.<br />
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In keeping with his aforementioned <b>P </b>valuation, Jordan often expresses his strongly held view that it's best to speak the truth (or at least honestly voice one's understanding of the truth) even if it's harsh and causes great discomfort in the moment. Given that his own public notoriety originally stemmed from refusing to shy away from controversial speech despite personal risk, and that he's exhibited consistent showings of such an inclination since then, it's apparent that Peterson has an overall Gamma style of communication. Despite this, Peterson has oft times shown himself to be adept at maintaining diplomatic composure and good humor in exchanges with contentious -- even hostile -- parties. The most famous example of this is displayed in his interview with journalist Kathy Newman. This indicates likely <b>E3 </b>usage, given his overall adequate facility with the element despite not holding it as a Quadra value.<br />
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Even before Peterson's rise as an internationally recognized public figure, he maintained a hectic work schedule, dividing his time between university lectures, research, and juggling multiple clients each week in his clinical practice -- often to the neglect of his health. Recently, Peterson has transitioned into an all meat diet at the recommendation of his daughter as a way to ameliorate certain chronic health issues, after she herself gained significant positive results in dealing with her own depression and crippling arthritis. Peterson has since maintained a strict adherence to the diet, despite the lack of culinary variety, citing only its effectiveness as sufficient justification. His general neglect of leisure and sensory pleasures in favor of doing the bare minimum required to keep his health up to task with his relentless workload strongly suggests an <b>S4</b>.<br />
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In a good many of the talks & lectures where he explains the "Big Five" personality traits, JP has stated that he himself scores high on the trait "openness" which, based on it's technical definition and some informal studies, highly correlates with <b>I</b>. In fact, when describing his own favored brainstorming method of simultaneously generating multiple, alternative possibilities, and then mentally simulating how they'd likely play out in practice, Peterson provides powerful evidence of <b>I8</b> in the service of <b>T2</b>. Also in reference to his own big five rating, Dr. Peterson's explicitly expressed his valuing of trait "assertiveness", and frequently laments that he's not as strong as he'd like to be with the trait. Since the technical definition of trait “assertiveness” clearly coincides with extroverted sensorics (i.e. “<b>Force</b>”) in Socionics, and given Peterson's valuation & background usage of the faculty in the service of maintaining his heavy workload, it would be reasonable to conclude that he's a likely <b>F6</b>. <br />
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In his public debates with <a href="http://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2016/10/sam-harris-lie-personality-type-analysis.html"><b>Sam Harris</b> (<b>LIE</b>)</a>, the topic of discussion between the two intellectual figures constantly gravitates back to the ontological relationship between empirical facts and moral values, indicating their common valuation of <b>R </b>as seen from a <b>P</b>-heavy perspective. Further evidence of <b>R </b>valuation can be seen in Peterson's conviction that the best way to ameliorate social ills is by individuals focusing on the development of their character and personal relationships, rather than rushing to make sweeping systemic <b>L </b>changes at the level of societal institutions. Considering his own overwhelmingly prominent usage of <b>P </b>eclipsing <b>L</b>, intellectual fascination with a barely visible <b>R</b>, a desire to be more assertive despite having a relentless work drive (mobilizing <b>F</b>), a strong facility with an obviously valued <b>T</b>, adequate but subdued <b>E</b>, heavily neglected <b>S</b>, and his demonstrative usage of I, it seems certain that Dr. Jordan B. Peterson is an <b>LIE</b>.<br />
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To learn more about <b>LIE</b>, click <a href="http://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2015/06/lie-logical-intuitive-energiser.html">here</a>.<br />
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If you are confused by our use of Socionics shorthand, click <a href="http://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2016/03/shorthand-notation-for-model-a.html">here</a>.
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a diagnostic interview, an analysis of Ben’s answers suggests the 8 IM Elements may best be assigned to the functions of Model A in the following order, making his best fit type the ‘Intuitive Ethical Energiser’ or ‘IEE’.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Leading function – Ideas (I1) </span></b><span style="font-size: small;">The most prevalent theme throughout Ben’s answers to this interview is the sheer breadth of interests he has. From Socionics to music, poetry, education, running, anthropology, linguistics and political debate, Ben repeatedly drew attention to those things that interested him, regardless of whether they were beneficial or not. Furthermore, it became clear that his motivations can be traced back to this capture of interest, and the desire to explore or find out whatever is unusual or new. For instance, his taking on a more authoritative role as a Resident Assistant is described as an exploration of role-play.; his exercise routine of running and weight-lifting, experimenting with music and meditation, a means of seeing potential effects on his body; the variety of different languages and musical instruments he can speak and play, a clear sign of variety even within his interests; his playing devil’s advocate in Twitter debates, a means of exploring how those with strong political opinions are likely to react. A clear pattern emerges of someone who rapidly takes on new interests, finds out whatever he can about the interest, then as its novelty depreciates, he piles it on an increasing back-burner. It is perhaps most notable that in his political discussions, Ben is oddly described as ‘stubborn’, in that he is stubbornly unstubborn. He is described as being unwilling to accept that other people will not accept alternative viewpoints, as if intellectual openness is a fundamental quality of approaching the world. This is characteristic of the Leading function, which by nature imposes its expectations, even with a characteristically indirect IM Element like Ideas.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Creative function – Relations (R2) </span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">While the Leading function is clear to Ben, the Creative function was harder to tease out mid-interview. This is not unusual, as while the Leading function is supposed to be obvious and imposed on our surroundings, the nature of the Creative function is more subtle in aiding the fulfilment of the Leading function. For Ben, this subtle aide to the exploration of his interests is the forming of friendships with those central to the pursuit of his various interests, whether that is attending poetry class or playing video games. He is confident that he can connect with almost anyone he meets, a sign of Relations being a strong function, but rarely does he draw attention to this being a motivating force in and of itself. As such, this area is flexible for Ben. He makes friends wherever his interests take him, even reaching out to native Russian speakers and spending hours talking with them over weekends to help him get a grip of the Russian language. Beyond his interests, he seems to have no difficulty keeping as friends those he especially likes the qualities of and feels that he can have a good relationship with, or feels he can learn from. This can be seen with his church friends whom he has retained for many years. However, there is little sign that he proactively does this for its own sake or pushes an expectation of greater intimacy or loyalty in conversation. This is perhaps most clear in his hesitancy to pursue and stick with a romantic relationship, one that exists entirely for its own sake of intimacy, rather than aiding pursuit of interesting projects. While this absence of romantic relations has made identifying Relations as his Creative function more tricky, it is also not inconsistent with having Relations as a Creative function. The ‘flavouring’ effect of the Creative on the Leading can also be seen in how his interests are more often creative and interpersonal, rather than logical or structural. After mentioning what is ‘interesting’ to him, the mention of what is ‘meaningful’ is next in frequency, and Ben seems to direct his interests more often than not to the exploration of the human condition, whether these are the intentions and signifiers of meaning/importance of others in a variety of cultures, or his own nature and development.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Role function – Force (F3)</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">It is apparent from the interview that Ben is largely a friendly, easygoing and curious person, more interested in getting to know and understand interpersonal differences than to confront them. Nevertheless, his time working as a Residential Assistant at his university exemplifies the Role function perfectly. Ben is required to play the part of an authority figure in his dormitory, checking up on students and ensuring no noisy disruptions at late hours. For Ben, adopting a confrontational stance and asserting his authority on students feels unnatural to him and he describes it as a persona he has to ‘fake’. Perhaps due to his Leading function, Ben frames this act as yet another exploration of his own capabilities and his differences with other RAs who are more confrontational, and as such, is curious enough to keep trying it out for the time being. Nevertheless, beyond this particular job, a general reluctance to engage with Force can be seen, such as his non-judgmental, tolerant nature, his aversion to tense, dramatic work environments and his unwillingness to work on less interesting tasks for greater financial reward or other material resources. From this, we can see that Force is something Ben can ‘put on’ when aligned to his desires and needs, but is not something he likes doing, or something he does particularly well.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Vulnerable function – Laws (L4)</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The nature of the Vulnerable, rather like a black hole, is to be observed via its absence from behaviour, rather than its appearance. This makes it rather counter-intuitive to identify. For Ben, the one approach to information that refused to appear after repeated questioning was its formation of into coherent structures. When answering questions for which there was no anecdote or clear factual example, rather than offer a general rule, Ben would adopt vague, subjective language, defaulting to talking about how something felt to him. In answering questions this way, Ben passes over Laws in favour of Intuition and Ethics. An example of this can be seen when Ben was asked about his moral principles. Instead of clearly articulating a rule or maxim, Ben said that any such principles are abstractions of the feelings he experiences when something he does not like is done to him. At the same time, he appreciates that there is nothing to make another person, with a very different set of views, more or less moral than he is. As such, where another might use Laws to help them clearly articulate their thoughts, Ben passes this information over in favour of subjective feelings and attitudes. In addition, the absence of Laws can be seen in how Ben approaches his various interests, such as learning Russian, taking a trial-and-error approach with a chaotic mix of different phone apps and conversations with native-speaking Russians . He tries out an eclectic range of different approaches to learning or mastering an interesting skill, without any sign of a linear, logical progression. The one point where Ben did acknowledge the existence of structure in his life was when talking about the strict religiosity of his upbringing, which were clearly characterised in his description as unwanted and restrictive, easily fitting into the Super-Ego.
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Suggestive function – Senses (S5)
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Ben readily prioritises the importance of health, wellness and well-being in his values, with a philosophy of ‘becoming whole’ and maintaining balance. In addition, he prefers to maintain a calm, accepting manner with other people, not looking to upset his relationships with others. There is also a ‘flavouring’ of Senses in his approach to learning, creating environments of ‘passive learning’ where integrating knowledge becomes a byproduct of other activity, rather than an active pursuit. Nevertheless, there is little evidence that Ben embodies harmony in the present moment over and above his ravenous intellectual curiosity. Attention to detail and the satisfaction of daily needs is not brought up in the interview, while other regular trivia, such as the managing of one’s finances, are described as too much of a strain to adequately handle. When possessed by an interesting idea or enthused by a project, Ben is quite willing to put comfort to one side, being happy to wake up at unusual hours in the fulfilment of his Resident Advisor role and to uproot his life to take up a job in a different country. However, it is also clear that an ongoing disruption to the harmony and calm of the moment takes a great toll on Ben’s happiness, as seen which his description of the ‘soul-killing’ job, where an atmosphere of not being able to sit down, ever-present drama and high turnover were seen as hygiene factors that profoundly reduced his satisfaction. From this, we can identify Senses as a value and a need, rather than something that Ben actively brings to his surroundings, and something that when deprived of, can have an adverse impact on Ben’s psychological well being.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Mobilising function – Pragmatism (P6) </span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">While the exploration of interests constitutes Ben’s main aim, the development of the self through accumulation of factual knowledge offers a clear secondary motivation. Ben’s interests frequently involve learning new things and rather than simply absorb interesting information, Ben takes an active interest in trying to find the most efficient way of increasing how much he is learning. This can be seen very clearly in his faster-than-expected learning of Russian, where he made use of multiple phone applications and regular conversations with native Russian speakers to fast-track his learning, as well as placing himself in situations where he needed to develop his grasp of Russian to progress. Similarly, Ben’s approach to exercise is very much about trying out different methods to become a better runner, whether using meditation or music to create a more resilient mental state, or building up strength in the gym, or even running with weights to increase running power. In addition, Ben repeatedly emphasises the value of being able to learn from his friends, and is more likely to keep people close if he feels that they have special knowledge or a unique perspective that he may grow and develop from knowing about. Ben aspires to be an educator for a living, among a range of other careers, showing a clear desire to spend his life learning and eventually passing that knowledge on to others. For Ben, understanding does not come from comprehending the fundamental rules of something, but rather the ability to apply it in some beneficial way. As such, while failing to metabolise Laws, Ben readily attempts to metabolise Pragmatism in his understanding of how things work. Despite this, Ben gives little sign that he currently sees himself as a teacher of others, while readily portraying himself as a learner of others’ teachings. These different observations, when held together, make a strong case for Pragmatism as his Mobilising function.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Ignoring function – Time (T7) </span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Early into the interview, Ben displayed confidence in his ability to look ahead and foresee likely outcomes to current events. Nevertheless, he reveals a tendency to inadequately manage his time, frequently taking on many more projects than he can fully complete. In this way, we see a disjunction between capability and value, with Ben being able to visualise likely outcomes, while refusing to commit to any particular outcome, preferring to keep open and explore a variety of possibilities available to him. This is especially apparent when asked about his preferred career path, giving a list of potential jobs based on combinations of his interests, rather than a particular route he would like to take. Similarly, Ben is ready to criticise the notion that negative future outcomes are inevitable, rejecting both the beliefs of his religious background of an end-of-days and the political assumption that the society is in the process of deterioration, in each case, displaying an optimism that human ingenuity could overcome such challenges. Similarly, he expresses a desire not to be limited by the path prescribed to him by his family and religious upbringing. As such, Ben shows a capability with Time, but holds values contrary to it, and frequently resists embodying it in his thoughts and actions.
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Demonstrative function – Emotions (E8) </span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">While more inclined to draw attention to his many interests and the processes he has employed to aid his continued self-education, Ben consistently displays a confidence in his ability to appeal to and come across well to other people, and similarly, despite being largely calm and in control of his emotional states, is able to express these emotions to others ‘down to a T’, effortlessly communicating how he feels to others. Similarly, he is highly attuned to the emotions of others, being able to quickly pick up on unusual reactions and manage how people respond to him, easily picking out the correct response in each situation. This is backed up by his behaviour throughout the interview, readily employing emotive language, referring to his own feelings and enthusiasm. Similarly, it is backed up by his interests in music and poetry, feeling a greater affinity to expressive arts rather than practical sciences. For these reasons, Ben’s relationship with Emotions is as if they are second-nature, being easily shown and demonstrated, despite Ben not actively trying to draw attention to this or align it with his stated values or life philosophy.</span><br />
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I was very sceptical at the outset, being of the opinion that things like art and music preferences are largely accidents of exposure, and finding it difficult to take her previous typing seriously. But I'm willing to be proven wrong so here we are. Olga was very pleasant to interact with and for the most part I enjoyed the novelty of such a different method, regardless of my scepticism.<br />
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The diagnostics process was quite long and involved; Olga is very thorough. Then she previously typed me as <b>LSE</b> it was based on nonverbal preferences alone, but this time she took me through the full process which included taking online tests and a video questionnaire. You can see my submissions and Olga's analysis <a href="http://forum.socionics4you.com/index.php/topic,1533.0.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Nonverbal Preferences</h4>
I was asked to provide examples of my art and music preferences, examples of art and music that I disliked, photos of the art on my walls at home, photos of art I had created, and also photos of my outfits. This was quite fun and I have to admit to being charmed by diagnostic methods that are interested in my aesthetic sensibilities. This may just be my favourite test.<br />
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It was difficult to provide few enough examples of my favourite music; even after paring it down I still had too many. Olga very kindly did not complain. My taste is both very eclectic and dominated by metal; my understanding of her method led me to predict that she'd call half of it Ego music and the rest something incoherent. Her analysis ended up more nuanced than that (though not nearly as detailed as would satisfy my interest in the subject) and not incoherent, so I was pleasantly surprised.<br />
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It's a shame that paintings specifically are necessary for the art component. I don't have especially strong aesthetic responses to paintings compared to other visual arts and I was a little bit disappointed that I wasn't able to share images that I <i>really</i> liked. You can see the results of this in that I chose paintings that largely looked like each other because I really don't care much about paintings and I struggled to find enough of them for the exercise. I would be inclined to consider this a weakness in the test but Olga was actually able to get information from it that was similar to the information she got from the music so perhaps my relatively weak response actually didn't matter that much.<br />
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The analysis of my photos was a bit questionable; I don't know how much confidence you should really assume from mostly staged selfies. It was also a bit unfair; my friends and family have been pestering me to wear colour for most of my life and I only started adding bright colours, very slowly and with much prodding, about 4 years ago. So how much my current outfit formulas really have to say about my personality, I'm not sure, but without being familiar with the context it would probably not be appropriate to assume too much. This was really a missed opportunity to ask further probing questions to learn more about my personality. I think my wardrobe does have a lot to say on the matter though, and is probably as worthwhile to look at as any other nonverbal preference.<br />
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The analysis of 5 of the categories I was asked for (not including the disliked art/music) contradicted each other to some extent but there was also a clear theme of L<b>ogical</b>, <b>Sensing</b>, and <b>Dynamic</b>. This sounds similar enough to my own self-typing and I now have a clearer idea of why Olga believed I was <b>LSE</b>, enough to make me less dismissive about the process even though the type is very clearly wrong. One of Olga's colleagues chimed in as well with very different results. This is an issue in Socionics anyway and only one other contribution is hardly enough to form an opinion but nonetheless it calls into question whether analysing nonverbal preferences is a real "method" or just something that Olga personally has a talent for.<br />
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Psychometric Tests</h4>
<u>Nonverbal & Subtype tests</u>: They involved selecting multiple choice options between images/colours/patterns. It was interesting to see a personality test where I couldn't predict the outcome, but I'm not convinced anything useful came of them. I don't believe Olga used them when eventually making her diagnosis.<br />
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<u>Associative test</u>: This was a more straightforward Socionics test with forced choice between different dichotomies etc. You're also asked to choose between colours and such, but with the overlapping nonverbal questions but very different results between this test and the Nonverbal test, I have to question how much weight they actually have in the test's algorithm. If you're sufficiently savvy you may still be able to get whatever results you like.<br />
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<u>Type-Subtype Analyser</u>: It was never very clear as to how to correctly use this tool or what to expect from it. I think ranking IMEs in this way is just a bad idea and the qualitative features of functions are considerably more useful than any exercise like this. It produced somewhat confusing results and I can't take it very seriously. I don't believe it was weighted very highly in the end.<br />
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Video Questionnaire</h4>
I am really not a fan of the questionnaire. As a client I felt like I was being made to do all of the work, like I was basically spoon feeding her my IMEs. I'm sure Olga's interpretation of the answers must be more sophisticated than that. It was actually a bit tedious. Interviews like Jack's with more "innocuous" questions and organic follow-up/clarifying questions are generally more pleasant to participate in and easier to take seriously at the end of it.<br />
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As a socionist, I think asking another experienced socionist directly about their IMEs is probably going to result in getting a predetermined outcome, particularly because unless you're Socionics-naive these questions are extremely transparent. There is a temptation to answer in such a way that addresses the questions you know she's really asking. I tried to avoid "helping" too much so it would be a truer demonstration, trying to answer based only on the words that she gave me. You can gauge my success for yourself.<br />
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With both those roles in mind I was also very aware of moments which could have done with some rescuing by the extra questioning you'd get from an interview format, but again I was trying not to "help" too much.<br />
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As of this writing she hasn't yet released her analysis of the video so I can't make any comment on that.<br />
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The Diagnosis</h4>
After all the nonverbal preferences and test results had been submitted, Olga believed I was <b>LSE</b>, like the last time she analysed them. The consistency is promising, even if the type was wrong. it may well be that, due to superior aesthetic sensibilities, Olga is able to glean meaningful information about peoples' personalities from their nonverbal preferences... but not necessarily information that has a straightforward relationship with Socionics and quite possibly not replicable by others. Judging by her literature and participation in Socionics forums she seems to use Socionics terminology in somewhat idiosyncratic ways so it may well be that "dynamic music" and related concepts in the Associative School may or may not have a strong relationships with traits of the same name in mainstream Socionics.<br />
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After watching the video questionnaire, she changed her mind and agreed with my self-typing of <b>SLI</b>. Indeed I think it would be hard for anyone to maintain the opinion that I was an <b>Energiser</b> based on those videos; you can see my demeanour for yourself. It's not clear how much weight Olga gives the questionnaire and nonverbal preferences relative to each other.<br />
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One of the problems raised before I was invited to take part in this process was Olga's reliance on Visual Identification (VI) in type. I have already made some comments about the limitations of this in the still photos she analysed, but she didn't seem to weight them very highly in the end. It's hard to know what role VI played in her analysis of the videos until she releases it. Watch this space for amendments when she does get around to it.<br />
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Sub-types</h4>
After the final diagnosis, I was asked to choose a sub-type. Her sub-type system is quite interesting. I chose the <b>Dynamic</b> sub-type very easily, which would make me <b>LSE</b> sub-type. I think that's a nonsensical and misleading way of expressing it but it was easy enough to relate to the sub-type description itself.<br />
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I suspect the sub-types do represent stable traits found in people but I don't think characterising them as sub-types does credit to either them or Socionics. At present I consider them to possibly represent factors that may influence one's personality without having much to do with information metabolism.<br />
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Conclusion</h4>
This exercise hasn't really reduced my scepticism. Though I'm not intrigued by it as a stand-alone system that may or may not have some kind of relationship with Socionics, I did learn something about myself regarding my relationships with art and music and I thought that was valuable. If you care about art and you're able to look past the Socionics-like terminology you may wish to seek Olga's insight yourself.<br />
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The relationship that nonverbal preferences may have with Socionics is something interesting and I don't think Olga's insights are valueless. However, I think it would be best to investigate Olga's theories on their own merits before seriously considering them in terms of Socionics. I also suspect that if they're valuable for Socionics it's going to be in limited contexts. For example it may be that she has more success applying her method for clients she can interact with personally than for typing public figures (she doesn't seem to do so well at that by our standards at the World Socionics Society).<br />
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There's also a major problem in how much the diagnostics process relies on self-report and it likely has all of the attendant problems. I think it probably successfully thwarts the kind of people who can get anything they like on a test in all but the Associative test, Type-Subtype Analyser and the video questionnaire, but all other problems still remain and I think things like art and music preferences are very likely going to attract answers based on what people think it would be socially desirable to admit to.<br />
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I would recommend against going through this process if you're new to Socionics or don't have a good grasp on the theory. Whatever interest or potential there may be in this method, the process is actually quite opaque and won't aid in your understanding of Socionics theory in general, and the idiosyncratic terminology will likely prove confusing.
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<b>Ayn Rand</b> (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum) was a Russian-American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, newspaper columnist, and philosopher, best known for her two bestselling novels, <i>The Fountainhead </i>(1943) and <i>Atlas Shrugged</i> (1957), and for the philosophical system she developed, called <i>Objectivism</i>. <i>The Fountainhead</i> gave her widespread "mainstream" success and even acclaim, but <i>Atlas Shrugged</i> and her non-fiction writings on Objectivism made her a polarising political and cultural figure, even after her death at 77 in 1982. To some extent that remains true to this day - at least in the United States, where she remains a household name. Her cultural impact in other countries seems to be negligible; on the other hand her two main novels remain in print in the UK and can be found even in smaller bookshops.<br />
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<i><u><b>Life and work</b></u></i>: Born in St Petersburg in 1905 in a Jewish family of upper-middle-class means - her father owned a small business - Rand's worldview was, by her own account, shaped by her experiences in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent communist, Bolshevik rule. Not only was her family's property confiscated, but she also faced on-off discrimination, both as a Jew and as of "bourgeois" origin, when trying to enroll at the State University. She also experienced the arbitrary and often chaotic Bolshevik government on a daily basis, as she described in her first, semi-autobiographical novel, <i>We the Living</i>. So in 1925, at 20, when she was granted a visa to visit relatives in Chicago, she immediately took the opportunity. It is worth noting that at this point she had no real knowledge of English. After spending a few months with her relatives in Chicago, improving her English, she moved to Hollywood, following her dream of working in the film industry. Surviving with odd jobs, she eventually got her foot in the studio system, first as an extra, then as junior screenwriter, and later as head of the costume department of RKO Studios. During this period, she met and married a struggling actor, Frank O'Connor, who remained her husband until his death in 1979.<br />
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In 1934, Rand had her first break with a play, a courtroom drama,<i> Night of January 16th</i>, which opened in Los Angeles and then had a 7-month run on Broadway. Soon afterwards she published her first novel, <i>We the Living</i>. Partly autobiographical, the plot focused on the struggles of a young woman in Bolshevik Russia. It was not a success in the US but some of its European editions were more successful. Rand finally had a big commercial hit with <i>The Fountainhead</i> in 1943. After working for a few more years in Hollywood as a screenwriter, also on the 1949 film version of <i>The Fountainhead</i>, Rand and her husband Frank relocated to New York, where she devoted herself full-time to write her longest and most ambitious novel, <i>Atlas Shrugged</i>, which she published in 1957. Despite its huge commercial success, its critical reception was mostly negative.<br />
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One of Rand's purposes with <i>Atlas Shrugged</i> had been to reach out to people who would understand her ideas and heed her warnings as to where US society seemed to be heading. Deeply depressed by what she saw as the failure of the book in achieving that, she supported the initiatives of her close friend, "apprentice" and on-off lover, <b>Nathaniel Branden (EIE)</b>, to whom she had originally dedicated <i>Atlas Shrugged</i>. Branden's concept was that they ought to focus on the spread of her ideas through more direct means than novels. Branden concluded that it was necessary to present Rand's ideas in the form of a fully consistent philosophical system - which they called <i>Objectivism </i>- and to present it to the public in the form of lectures and non-fiction articles and books. Although Rand endorsed Branden's efforts, that remained his own project rather than hers. He founded a company called NBI (Nathaniel Branden Institute) and was its main lecturer. Rand preferred to involve herself less directly, contributing articles and appearing at NBI's Q&A sessions on occasion. Branden, supported by his wife <b>Barbara Branden (ESI)</b>, managed to turn Objectivism lectures into a business with a large number of devoted "followers". That gave the Objectivist movement a reputation of being a "cult" around Rand that persists to this day. Ayn Rand's own personality, which became increasingly impatient with intellectual "inferiors" as she aged, contributed to that reputation. However, by all accounts, she herself had no interest in being any kind of cult leader.<br />
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That is confirmed by what happened after 1968, when Branden and Rand's messy personal relationship ended with her abruptly severing all ties with Nathaniel and Barbara Branden. That included the dismantling of NBI (and the"revoking" of her dedication to him of <i>Atlas Shrugged</i>). Without the Brandens, Rand herself had next to no interest in keeping the Objectivist "movement" going. Withdrawing into solitude (especially after her husband Frank died in 1979), she still occasionally wrote articles and made personal appearances, and attempted to get a film or TV version of <i>Atlas Shrugged </i>done. Those efforts failed due to her insistence on having the final word on the script, which prospective producers were not willing to grant. She was halfway into writing her own script for a proposed mini-series version when she died in 1982 in her Manhattan apartment.<br />
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<u><i><b>Socionics analysis</b></i>:</u> the sources on Ayn Rand are vast: not only are her own writings and interviews extensive, but she also has been described in books of memoirs by both Brandens, and more recently in two more scholarly biographies. A collection of many interviews with individuals who had known her, at several stages in her life, has also been published and these provide insight on her consistent traits as a person.<br />
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Taking a look at her functional preferences, in perhaps counter-intuitive order:<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">L</span></b>: Ayn Rand's development and promotion of what she saw as a fully consistent philosophy, or ideology, Objectivism, would seem at face value to point to <b>L </b>not only as a strong function but as a valued one, and so Rand's type would <i>seem </i>to be most obviously a <b>L1</b> or<b> L2</b>.<br />
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The problem with that is that Ayn Rand herself had shown no interest at all in putting her ideas together as a consistent ideology - let alone giving it a name and presenting it as such - before she was 53. By all accounts, that was the initiative of Nathaniel and Barbara Branden. Rand herself was little interested in the concept at first. Nathaniel Branden, aiming at presenting Rand's ideas to the world more persuasively than via novels, concluded that that could only be effective if presented as a consistent ideology. So, with Rand as the source of ideas and information, Branden put it all together in a way that seemed <b>L </b>consistent. That was done with Rand's approval, and she later embraced the name "Objectivism" and also called it a "consistent philosophy". But, she never showed any inclination to lecture on it as such, preferring to attend Q&A sessions where she would respond to questions on pretty much any subject. Revealingly, she took every question as such, in isolation, hardly ever responding with specific references to Objectivism and its stated principles, unless specifically asked about them. Finally, the concepts of Objectivism were later systematised by Ayn Rand's last remaining close associate, Leonard Peikoff, rather than by Rand herself, albeit with her guidance and approval.<br />
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That suggests that <b>L </b>was something with which she was very much at ease but did not really value. Revealingly, those who sparred with her intellectually - such as Alan Greenspan - found that she was more inclined to find flaws in their logical reasoning than push for her own. This also points to L as a strong but subdued function, likely <b>L7</b> or <b>L8</b>.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">R</span></b>: Throughout her life, Ayn Rand described herself primarily as a novelist of Romantic inclinations. Her often-stated goal with her novels was to "describe the ideal man (i.e. human being), man as he should and could be". She wrote novels centred around heroic individuals: Kira in <i>We the Living; </i>Howard Roark in <i>The Fountainhead</i>; John Galt, Dagny Taggart and Hank Rearden in <i>Atlas Shrugged</i>. Conversely, the antagonists in her books are what she saw as deeply flawed human beings, like Peter Keating in <i>The Fountainhead</i> and James Taggart in <i>Atlas Shrugged</i>. She consistently used her fictional characters as reference points to judge the worth of herself and others. When depressed, she would lament not being as perfect as John Galt, and she would admit that one of her less perfect characters, Dominique Francon of <i>The Fountainhead,</i> was based on herself "<i>in a bad mood</i>". During her final "defenestration" of Nathaniel Branden, the worst put-down she could think of was to say he was no Howard Roark, but a Peter Keating or James Taggart.<br />
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This focus on qualities of individuals as reference points, rather than on impersonal principles, to judge people's worthiness or lack thereof, points to a preference of <b>R </b>over <b>L </b>- yet, at the same time, to a <b>R </b>that is weaker than <b>L</b>. It is a <b>R </b>that needs to he "helped" by the <b>L </b>of relatively well-defined traits present in her fictional characters, such as integrity, competence, creativity, and courage.<br />
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Ayn Rand's complicated personal life also shows evidence of valued but weak <b>R</b>. Her relationships with individuals were at the same time very cautious and conservative, as well as passive, and yet very intense. Her longest and most stable relationship was with her husband Frank O'Connor: they were married for 50 years and she remained, by all accounts, both devoted to, and emotionally dependent on him - yet, at the same time, very often oblivious to his inner feelings. She apparently took for granted that her <b>R </b>relationship with Frank was cast in stone and immutable - from both sides, no matter what the strains, without nuance. That is a trait of valued but very weak <b>R</b>.<br />
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As a person, by all accounts, Ayn Rand could be far more approachable and friendly to casual contacts than her public image might suggest. But she was extremely cautious as to whom she let into her inner circle, especially the group of intimates with whom she had weekly discussions about <i>Atlas Shrugged</i> while it was being written, a group she came to call "The Collective" as an inside joke. What is revealing is that the composition of that entire group stemmed from her initial, core friendship with the Brandens: "The Collective" consisted of relatives of the Brandens and their spouses/friends. Revealingly and maybe ironically, Ayn Rand's last loyal devotee, Leonard Peikoff, who became her sole heir, was introduced into her circle by Barbara Branden, Peikoff's cousin - even as Rand later severed all ties with the Brandens themselves. The impression is of a person who prefers to keep most people at a distance and relies on others' judgement as to whom to trust or not. According to Barbara Branden, Rand herself said later in life that her biggest weakness was that she never knew whom she could trust. That is a first-person account of one of the main traits of <b>R5</b>.<br />
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Arguably the strangest aspect of <b>R </b>in Ayn Rand is that she actually started a sexual relationship with her "apprentice" Nathaniel Branden, 25 years her junior - with the full knowledge and "consent" of the spouses of both, Frank and Barbara - but not in the sense of "open marriages" or of her own relationship with Frank becoming exhausted. Rather, she saw her involvement with Brendan as the natural evolution of two minds as well-aligned as theirs were, also expecting Frank and Barbara to see it that way. In fact, according to Barbara Branden's account, Frank was deeply distressed by that situation but, being a naturally gentle man who by now had become totally dependent on Rand financially, found himself at a personal dead-end. Rand's obliviousness to the effect of her affair on Frank was not, by all accounts, due to cruelty or her not caring about him: it was rather that she took for granted that her relationship with Frank was solid as long as he did not say otherwise - which he hardly ever did. Perhaps the last word on Ayn Rand's <b>R </b>should be left to Frank, who one day exploded to her, referring to Nathaniel Branden: "<i>That man's no good! Why can't you see it?</i>"<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">F</span></b>: Most obviously, all the "ideal human beings" in Ayn Rand's novels are strong-willed, tough, dynamic individuals who often come across as abrasive, even as lacking all personal warmth when in the pursuit of their goals. That makes <b>F </b>rather than<b> S </b>obvious as one of her quadra values. Throughout her life and in all her writings, Ayn Rand highly valued personal strength, independence, self-reliance, achievement, hard work, the accumulation of wealth. Also, in all her relationships - with her husband Frank, Branden, the other members of "The Collective" - she naturally was the dominant personality in terms of easy personal authority, and she seemed to find that natural, although not actively seeking it, except when defending her own interests. That also points to a person with valued and at least moderately strong <b>F</b>.<br />
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Yet, she also had some interesting, revealing traits. For instance, although keen on learning what she could about architecture while doing research for <i>The Fountainhead</i>, and even on how to conduct a train for <i>Atlas Shrugged</i>, she never felt the need to learn how to drive a car - even while living in the San Fernando Valley and working in Hollywood, needing to be driven there by Frank. Further, although living for decades in Manhattan, by all accounts she never came to feel at ease navigating its streets, more focused on her own inner thoughts than on her immediate surroundings. That would be very unusual for a person of <b>F1</b> or <b>F2</b>, and pointing to Rand as having <b>F6 </b>or even <b>F5</b>. <b>F </b>as a valued yet not strong function. This is reinforced by the fact that Rand did not really feel she measured up to the strong will of her characters - revealingly, she said that she actually was more like Dominique Francon of <i>The Fountainhead</i>, a character with far weaker <b>F </b>than her heroes.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">S</span></b>: Rand lived the last thirty years of her life in two apartments in Manhattan's East Side (36 E 36th St and then 120 E 34th St). By all accounts, she spent most of her time inside them, working, reading, watching TV, or receiving people. The apartments were always rather modest, "spartan", even after the extra income from <i>Atlas Shrugged</i> and, especially after Frank's death, her last apartment increasingly became rather squalid and messy, with books and papers and cats' fur everywhere. All of that points to a person with very little concern for <b>S</b>. Further, although she preferred to live in Manhattan, what she liked was the <i>concept </i>of being there - she insisted that her apartments have a view of the Empire State Building, which she saw as a symbol of the US and of human achievement: that is a symbolic <b>T</b> motivation rather than an aesthetic, sensorial <b>S </b>motivation.<br />
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In the San Fernando Valley, Ayn and Frank had lived in a spacious art deco ranch, where she had a large office for her work and Frank could happily devote himself to growing flowers and vegetables. Yet, she found the idea of living in Manhattan in comparatively cramped quarters much more appealing, although she did not have any pressing need to move there.That again points to a very low focus on <b>S</b>, enough to rule it out as a quadra value.<br />
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Her other motivation for moving to New York was that Nathaniel and Barbara Branden had moved there in the meantime, and she wanted to be near them as they were the only individuals close to her besides Frank. That is, a <b>R </b>motivation.<br />
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What we have so far is a person with <b>R </b>and <b>F</b> quadra values rather than <b>L </b>and <b>S</b>, so a <b>Gamma </b>type. Due to her strong if subdued <b>L </b>and her weak albeit valued <b>R</b>, the types most likely on the evidence so far are already <b>LIE </b>or <b>ILI</b>.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">T</span></b>: Rand's mental focus was far more on her inner thoughts than on her immediate sensory environments: on the symbolic meaning of Manhattan and the Empire State Building rather than on the realities of the place itself; on her world of fiction, with her characters as real, in a sense, to her as real individuals, and on her perception of where the world was going. All of that points to far stronger <b>T</b> than <b>S</b>,<b> </b>and so clearly as to confirm it as an Ego function, <b>T1 </b>or <b>T2</b>, so again <b>ILI </b>or <b>LIE</b>. This trait of creating and maintaining a world in her head, which is also visible in<b> <a href="http://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2016/04/emily-bronte-ili-analysis.html" target="_blank">Emily Brontë</a> (ILI)</b>, made an impression on her recent biographer, Anne Heller, who chose the title of A<i>yn Rand and the World She Made</i> for her biography for that reason.<br />
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More specifically, at least since the 1930s, Rand was very concerned that the kind of ideological premises she saw in Bolshevik Russia seemed to be gaining strength in the US. In her mind, she could see clearly the trends towards an increasing devaluation of individual rights in favour of collectivism, with an ever-growing presence of the state in the economy as well as the politicisation of business. That vision was actually the chief motivation for everything she wrote, certainly at least from the 1940s onward. Simplistically, having survived the Russian Revolution and fled Bolshevik rule, she was terrified of her vision whereby, however slowly, the US was moving towards the same kind of society. Her artistic motivation for writing <i>The Fountainhead</i> was to show how the creative individualists she saw as driving innovation and prosperity were being smothered by an increasingly prevailing collectivist mindset. With <i>Atlas Shrugged</i>, her purpose was to showcase how dependent modern technological society was on intellectual and creative efforts of a relatively small number of individuals.With both books, what she actually intended was that at least a significant minority of capable individuals would understand her warnings and start reacting to her vision - in order to prevent it from becoming reality. Her deep depression after the publication of <i>Atlas Shrugged </i>was due to her warnings not being heeded. She knew that many were buying the book, but she felt that not enough "real-life people like Howard Roark or Dagny Taggart" seemed to be "getting it". She maintained that conviction - that she could clearly see where the world was going, and that she didn't like it - to the end of her life. That is typical of <b>T </b>blocked with <b>P</b>, so again of <b>LIEs </b>and <b>ILIs</b>.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">E</span></b>: In all existing video interviews with Ayn Rand, she maintains the same kind of E stance: a generally friendly and polite but somewhat cold, dry, emotionally reserved attitude, slightly "eccentric" and punctuated by occasional amusement, irony and irritation. Almost never she makes any attempt at humour. Late in life she would on occasion react intensively if she felt she was being personally attacked. She preferred a low-emotion atmosphere of matter-of-fact discussion of ideas. Those traits are consistent with someone who has a conventional, even "conservative" approach to <b>E </b>while preferring <b>P</b>.<br />
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There are also hints to her approach to <b>E</b> and <b>P </b>in her novels. One of the most noticeable, and criticised. aspects of Ayn Rand's novels is that her characters very often get into conversations - in social environments - that read like deep, long philosophical monologues rather than like attempts at realistic representations of how human beings interact socially. Notable examples are Francisco d'Anconia's speech on money in <i>Atlas Shrugged</i> (given "casually" at a party), Howard Roark and Gail Wynand's long conversations in <i>The Fountainhead</i>, and many of the dialogues between romantic partners in her novels. She was not incapable of writing more conventional dialogues, but those are seen mostly with her minor characters when advancing the plot. That again shows some awareness of <b>E </b>but one that is always overruled by <b>P</b>.<br />
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As another small bit of evidence, as far as her personal appearance and style were concerned. Throughout her entire life, Ayn Rand stuck to the same hairstyle she had adopted in the 1920s, when it was fashionable (as per actress Louise Brooks for instance). Rather than an affectation, I suggest that it points to extreme conservatism in such matters, basically an unwillingness to change what "seems to have worked so far" in terms of a look, image, style, that will be acceptable socially. This is a hint to weak <b>E </b>along with also weak <b>S</b>. Conservatism and cautiousness in <b>E </b>are most typical of <b>E3 </b>although not inconsistent with <b>E4</b>.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I</span></b>: Although the common traits in all of Rand's ideal human beings is willpower and competence, the extra important trait in her truly important characters - Howard Roark, John Galt, and Hank Rearden - is creativity, inventiveness, independence of mind when developing new ideas. Personally, she was also most attracted to creative individuals, according to Nathaniel Branden, rather than powerful and successful ones. Actually she seemed to be skeptical of people who were successful <i>without </i>being creative and independent - that is indeed the main theme of <i>The Fountainhead</i>. In herself, she seemed to take her own creativity for granted, but she thought she fell short of her own heroes in terms of capacity for hard work and discipline. These are traits of a person with stronger <b>I</b> than <b>F</b>.<br />
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The group of friends that Ayn Rand jokingly named "The Collective" met at her apartment on Saturday evenings, mostly to discuss <i>Atlas Shrugged</i> as it was being written, but also, according to participants, to have free-flowing conversations on every possible subject, from art and philosophy to politics and current affairs, with Rand (and Frank) happily participating. A glimpse of that can also be seen in transcripts of her Q&A sessions, with subjects going in many directions. That makes Rand's relaxed Saturday evening meetings have an <b>Alpha </b>flavour as far as <b>I</b> is concerned, although it is clear that her single-minded focus on a vision of very few novels and characters she cared deeply about points to <b>T </b>as more valued than <b>I</b> - but a strong <b>I</b>, albeit subdued. That points most clearly to <b>I8</b>, <b>I</b> as a <b>Background </b>function.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">P</span></b>: Objectivism, as a system or "philosophy", seems to have eventually gained the reputation of a rigid dogma as to how to live one's life, parallel to Rand herself gaining the reputation of a cult leader. This development, I repeat, has far more to do with Nathaniel Branden's and later Leonard Peikoff's efforts in making Objectivism a "consistent philosophy" than what Rand herself thought was most important about it. Simplistically, that there was an objective reality independent of human's perceptions of it; that we can receive information about this reality through our senses and our reason; that emotions are not tools of cognition, but automated responses based on premises held consciously or unconsciously, so "having a feeling" about something, in itself, provided no reliable information. That is actually a good description of <b>P</b>. It is worth repeating that for most of her life Rand took that understanding for granted, not bothering to define it as a philosophy until she was in her fifties, through the initiative of Nathaniel Branden.<br />
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I have mentioned that her ideal human beings, in her novels, are all strong-willed and tough, and her main characters are creative people. However, the chief trait of her "ultimate" ideal person - John Galt in <i>Atlas Shrugged</i> - is the superhuman, thorough understanding of physics as a science, most specifically in the fields of electricity and electromagnetic waves. Also, if <i>The Fountainhead</i>'s theme is the focus on the mind of independent creators, <i>Atlas Shrugged</i> - which she regarded as her <i>magnum opus</i> - can be seen as a description of how it is <b>P </b>knowledge and efficiency that sustains civilisation and even life itself, and most clearly when wielded by strong <b>P </b>individuals. After <i>Atlas Shrugged</i>, Rand felt she had concluded what she had to conclude and said what she had to say. While she touched on the importance of <b>I</b> in individuals in <i>The Fountainhead</i>, she clearly concluded that the ultimate value and reality was <b>P</b>. As a person, Ayn Rand herself was clearly more comfortable expressing herself in a dry <b>P </b>fashion rather via <b>E</b>, as noted above.<br />
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Ayn Rand's functional preferences clearly point to valued and strong <b>P</b>, valued and not so strong <b>F</b>, valued and weak <b>R</b>, strong <b>T</b>, little regard for <b>S</b>, subdued and weak <b>E</b>, strong but subdued <b>L</b>, and a strong <b>I</b> which is less valued than <b>F</b>. Those point very obviously to the <b>Gamma </b>quadra and to <b>LIE </b>or <b>ILI </b>in particular.<br />
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This analysis has already indicated that the evidence points to <b>LIE </b>rather than <b>ILI</b>. <b>ILI</b> is actually plausible as Ayn Rand's type at first glance. But Rand's <b>R </b>- the focus of the most bizarre and arguably central part of her life in the US - show signs of being one of her very weakest functions, so <b>R5</b> rather than <b>R6</b>, and her approach to <b>F </b>was that of a person who felt she was "failing" at it - <b>F6 </b>- rather than of a person who accepted her own weak <b>F </b>and valued that mostly in others (<b>F5</b>).<br />
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The type that fits all the available information on Ayn Rand is <b>LIE</b>.<br />
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<i><u>Sources</u></i>: The main scholarly biography is <i>Goddess of the Market</i> by Jennifer Burns. <i>Ayn Rand and the World She Made</i> by Anne Heller is also a serious and useful work, but it has more of a journalist's feel to it. Scott McConnel's <i>100 Voices: an Oral History of Ayn Rand</i> is a collection of interviews with many people who knew Ayn Rand at several points of her life, and they provide evidence for her consistent personal traits (among the interviewees are writer Mickey Spillane, actress Raquel Welch and the former Australian PM Malcolm Fraser). Both Nathaniel Branden and Barbara Branden wrote memoirs of their time with Ayn Rand, <i>Judgement Day</i> and <i>The Passion of Ayn Rand</i> respectively. Pretty much all her interviews for TV or radio are now available on YouTube.<br />
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To learn more about <b>LIE</b>, click <a href="http://worldsocionics.blogspot.com/2015/06/lie-logical-intuitive-energiser.html">here</a>.<br />
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Peter Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11380891940588634230noreply@blogger.com1Manhattan, New York, NY, USA40.7830603 -73.97124880000001240.590684800000005 -74.293972300000007 40.9754358 -73.648525300000017tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8147676909533366251.post-42977462298432139282018-05-13T19:43:00.002-07:002022-03-16T20:17:30.352-07:00John von Neumann (ILE): Personality Type Analysis<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>John von Neumann</b> was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, and polymath. He made decisive contributions to virtually every area of mathematics outside of topology and number theory, including, but not limited to, Set Theory, Ergodic Theory, Operator Theory, Measure Theory, Geometry, Lattice Theory, the Mathematical Formulation of Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Logic, Game Theory, Mathematical Economics, Linear Programming, Mathematical Statistics, Fluid Dynamics, Cellular Automata and Digital Computing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It goes without saying that John von Neumann was one of the foremost mathematicians of his era; he's said to be the last representative of the "great mathematicians" like Euler, Gauss, Poincare and Hilbert. He has over 150 published papers to his name, with over 120 of those being in the subject of mathematics, despite dying at the fairly early age of 53. His general cognitive and mathematical ability was the stuff of legends. His mentor Gabor Szego, a renowned mathematician in his own right, was so astounded with von Neumann's ability at their first meeting while John was only 15 years of age, that he was brought to tears. Testimonies abound of other famous scientists and mathematicians reporting their total inability to keep up with him, and of claiming that he was the most intelligent person they had ever met. He had an eidetic memory and could memorize pages of telephone directories at will. If <b>Strong Logic</b> means anything, we can surely conclude that John von Neumann possessed it. This is because his intelligence is so logically, externally focused.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An examination of his particular style of mathematics proves even more revealing about his particular values and information metabolism:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stan Ulam, who knew von Neumann well, described his mastery of mathematics this way: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"Most mathematicians know one method. For example, Norbert Wiener had mastered Fourier transforms. Some mathematicians have mastered two methods and might really impress someone who knows only one of them. John von Neumann had mastered three methods." </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He went on to explain that the three methods were:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• A facility with the symbolic manipulation of linear operators;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• An intuitive feeling for the logical structure of any new mathematical theory;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• An intuitive feeling for the combinatorial superstructure of new theories.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edward Teller wrote that</span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "Nobody knows all science, not even von Neumann did. But as for mathematics, he contributed to every part of it except number theory and topology. That is, I think, something unique."</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This bird's eye snapshot suggests that von Neumann belongs to the <b>Researcher</b> club, because the methods by which he displays his prodigious talent are notably intuitive whilst being oriented to logical considerations. The chiefly structural considerations that occupied von Neumann more specifically indicate that he is <b>L-valuing</b>, which means he is likely an <b>Alpha Researcher</b>. Moreover, the sheer breadth and volume of his contributions and interests and his bold, initiative-taking personality are highly suggestive of an <b>Energiser</b>. The following quip von Neumann made to the less experienced scientist, Dr. Felix T. Smith, further corroborates his ostensibly <b>Bold Energising</b> and <b>Cautious Integrating</b>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">John von Neumann grew up in an affluent and assimilated Jewish family, and he was a child prodigy. At a mere 6 years of age, he could converse in Ancient Greek and divide 8-digit numbers in his head. In two more years, he had attained some mastery over the intellectual machinery of calculus, and had read through a 46-volume history book by Wilhelm Oncken. This passion for ancient history would follow von Neumann throughout his life, and his erudition was such that a Princeton professor of Byzantine history claimed that his own expertise was surpassed by that of von Neumann in the subject. A mind of such splendid diversity and wide-spread curiosity squarely fits <b>I1</b>, and the correspondingly easy command of factual knowledge, despite not making it a central focus of his life and endeavours, is characteristic of <b>P8</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite von Neumann's prodigious mathematical talent, his father insisted that he pursue a more lucrative field. Von Neumann acceded to his father's demand and received a degree in Chemical Engineering. However, according to his friend and fellow scientist Eugene Wigner, von Neumann never had much passion for chemical engineering, and so he simultaneously completed a brilliant PhD thesis in Mathematics. The thesis, which involved an axiomatisation of Georg Cantor's Set Theory, garnered the attention of the extremely famous mathematician David Hilbert, who took on von Neumann as a Post Doc and cemented his career in mathematics. The value disagreement that von Neumann had with his father emphasises <b>L</b>,<b> I </b>and<b> E </b>(von Neumann: intellectual passions) versus <b>P</b>,<b> T </b>and<b> F </b>(his father: what is effective and impactful in the world and more likely to lead to a profitable career). The flexibility of intellect and logical faculties that von Neumann required to simultaneously complete an engineering degree in a subject that he was not passionate about and a world-class doctoral thesis in mathematics points to <b>I1</b>, <b>L2</b>, and <b>P8</b>. Throughout his illustrious career as a mathematician, he continued to juggle pure and applied topics in the field, going against currents in the reverse direction of his father that claimed that a mathematician of his calibre should focus on pure mathematics. Later in his life, he justified his split focus as follows:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"I think that it is a relatively good approximation to truth — which is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations — that mathematical ideas originate in empirics. But, once they are conceived, the subject begins to live a peculiar life of its own and is … governed by almost entirely aesthetical motivations. In other words, at a great distance from its empirical source, or after much "abstract" inbreeding, a mathematical subject is in danger of degeneration. Whenever this stage is reached the only remedy seems to me to be the rejuvenating return to the source: the reinjection of more or less directly empirical ideas.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>A large part of mathematics which becomes useful developed with absolutely no desire to be useful, and in a situation where nobody could possibly know in what area it would become useful; and there were no general indications that it ever would be so. By and large it is uniformly true in mathematics that there is a time lapse between a mathematical discovery and the moment when it is useful; and that this lapse of time can be anything from 30 to 100 years, in some cases even more; and that the whole system seems to function without any direction, without any reference to usefulness, and without any desire to do things which are useful."</i></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All of this points to <b>I1</b>, <b>L2</b>, <b>T7</b>, and <b>P8</b>. It's emblematic of</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the energy and curiosity to follow through on his entire diverse array of interests</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">flexible structural and aesthetic logic</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">strong awareness of temporal considerations while minimising their influence on his life</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">skepticism that anyone knows what is going to happen down the line</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a willingness to devote himself to matters that are not yet known to be useful</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">exemplary skill and maturity when it comes to pragmatic and empirical matters.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was even one of the first to recognise the implications of Kurt Godel's Incompleteness theorems. This is despite many other mathematicians being much slower to recognise it, and despite the fact that it overturned the axiomatic mathematical program of David Hilbert into which von Neumann was only just initiated after completing his PhD. He was completely unperturbed regarding this breakthrough that bore directly on his work. This is yet another indication of <b>I1</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Von Neumann's time at Princeton is also illustrative. He was highly socially active, owning one of the largest private residences in the Princeton academic community.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"Von Neumann liked to eat and drink; his wife, Klara, said that he could count everything except calories. He enjoyed Yiddish and "off-color" humor (especially limericks). He was a non-smoker. At Princeton he received complaints for regularly playing extremely loud German march music on his gramophone, which distracted those in neighboring offices, including Albert Einstein, from their work... Despite being a notoriously bad driver, he nonetheless enjoyed driving—frequently while reading a book—occasioning numerous arrests, as well as accidents. When Cuthbert Hurd hired him as a consultant to IBM, Hurd often quietly paid the fines for his traffic tickets. Von Neumann's closest friend in the United States was mathematician Stanislaw Ulam. A later friend of Ulam's, Gian-Carlo Rota, wrote: "They would spend hours on end gossiping and giggling, swapping Jewish jokes, and drifting in and out of mathematical talk." When von Neumann was dying in hospital, every time Ulam would visit he would come prepared with a new collection of jokes to cheer up his friend."</i></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is indicative of <b>R4</b>, <b>S5</b>, and <b>E6</b>. He was inattentive when it came to maintaining appropriate relations with others, engaging in antics that rubbed some folks the wrong way. He was a bon vivant who appreciated the sensory aspects of life while lacking the ability to assess himself responsibly in the sensory realm. Finally, he appreciated unburdened and loose emotional environments where jokes and moods could be freely shared, and had some ability to create such environments, but intellectual business was always the predominate concern over the emotional atmosphere.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was regarded as a mediocre teacher of others on account of the fact that he was prone to write quickly and erase the blackboard before his students had time to copy it. This is likely due to how naturally quick of a thinker that he was, and a corresponding lack of desire to slow down so that others could appropriately relate to his trains of thought. This fits <b>I1</b> and <b>R4</b>. Nonetheless, von Neumann was generally well-liked and thought of as a diplomatic and modest figure given the level of genius he was capable of.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"A deep sense of humour and an unusual ability for telling stories and jokes endeared Johnny even to casual acquaintances. He could be blunt when necessary, but was never pompous. A mind of von Neumann's inexorable logic had to understand and accept much that most of us do not want to accept and do not even wish to understand. This fact coloured many of von Neumann's moral judgments. … Only scientific intellectual dishonesty and misappropriation of scientific results could rouse his indignation and ire — but these did — and did almost equally whether he himself, or someone else, was wronged."</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This demonstrates some of von Neumann's <b>F3</b>; he wasn't prone to be a forceful personality, but could apply force boldly when it was called for, such as in cases that infringed upon his idealistic intellectual values. His ability to be blunt when necessary could correspond to <b>F3</b> and <b>P8</b>. We also see <b>Clarity-Seeking</b> and <b>World-Accepting</b> values characteristic of the <b>Alpha Quadra</b>. He lacked pretence in spite of his awe-inspiring abilities, and was considerably idealistic. He generally made an attempt to be inclusive to others and to be unbiased by personal interests. As per his <b>Strong Logic</b> and <b>Strong Intuition</b>, he was frequently in the position of understanding the impersonal consequences of what was to come much more readily than others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Von Neumann's <b>Alpha</b> values can also be observed in his relationships. His relationship to his first wife, Mariette Koevesi, ended when she fell in love with another physicist. Their separation was largely amicable, indicating that von Neumann was not a jealous or possessive partner. In short order, he renewed a relationship with his childhood sweetheart, Klara Dan, who was also married to someone else at the time. Klara's previous marriage ended, and her marriage with von Neumann began soon after. It is very possible that von Neumann was immersed in a sub-culture of mostly <b>Alpha</b> values in which relationships were generally amicable, not very possessive, and not overly serious.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Von Neumann was heavily involved in the development of nuclear weaponry both during and after World War II.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"After the war, Robert Oppenheimer remarked that the physicists involved in the Manhattan project had "known sin". Von Neumann's response was that "sometimes someone confesses a sin in order to take credit for it."</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Von Neumann continued unperturbed in his work and became, along with Edward Teller, one of those who sustained the hydrogen bomb project. He collaborated with Klaus Fuchs on further development of the bomb, and in 1946 the two filed a secret patent on "Improvement in Methods and Means for Utilizing Nuclear Energy", which outlined a scheme for using a fission bomb to compress fusion fuel to initiate nuclear fusion."</i></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This stance towards nuclear projects befits the unremitting curiosity of <b>I1</b> and the cavalier attitude towards ethical appropriateness that sometimes accompanies <b>R4</b>. To von Neumann's credit, he did have a considerable sense of responsibility over what was to be done with the bombs, applying his own discipline of Game Theory to develop strategies that would keep the United States in power and ensure minimal harm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"Von Neumann is credited with developing the equilibrium strategy of mutual assured destruction (MAD). He also "moved heaven and earth" to bring MAD about. His goal was to quickly develop ICBMs and the compact hydrogen bombs that they could deliver to the USSR, and he knew the Soviets were doing similar work because the CIA interviewed German rocket scientists who were allowed to return to Germany, and von Neumann had planted a dozen technical people in the CIA. The Russians considered that bombers would soon be vulnerable, and they shared von Neumann's view that an H-bomb in an ICBM was the ne plus ultra of weapons; they believed that whoever had superiority in these weapons would take over the world, without necessarily using them. He was afraid of a "missile gap" and took several more steps to achieve his goal of keeping up with the Soviets:</i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>• He modified the ENIAC by making it programmable and then wrote programs for it to do the H-bomb calculations verifying that the Teller-Ulam design was feasible and to develop it further.</i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>• Through the Atomic Energy Commission, he promoted the development of a compact H-bomb that would fit in an ICBM.</i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>• He personally interceded to speed up the production of lithium-6 and tritium needed for the compact bombs.</i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>• He caused several separate missile projects to be started, because he felt that competition combined with collaboration got the best results."</i></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His MAD strategy was very consistent with <b>Alpha values</b> and <b>I1</b> in particular: make the potential for destruction so high that none would occur because no one would dare initiate it, and at the very least, the United States would not have to apply much force to deter attackers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"Von Neumann's assessment that the Soviets had a lead in missile technology, considered pessimistic at the time, was soon proven correct in the Sputnik crisis. Von Neumann entered government service primarily because he felt that, if freedom and civilization were to survive, it would have to be because the United States would triumph over totalitarianism from Nazism, Fascism and Soviet Communism. During a Senate committee hearing he described his political ideology as "violently anti-communist, and much more militaristic than the norm". He was quoted in 1950 remarking, "If you say why not bomb [the Soviets] tomorrow, I say, why not today? If you say today at five o'clock, I say why not one o'clock?""</i></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yet again, we see evidence of von Neumann's <b>I1</b>,<b> T7 </b>and<b> P8</b>, given the accuracy of predictions against the crowd regarding the development of Soviet technological capabilities. We also see a bold, forceful defense of humanistic values in a situation where other world powers desire to curtail them, which is a sufficient emergency to cause the <b>F3</b> of von Neumann to emerge. However, his unhesitatingly warhawkish stance could certainly be regarded as lacking ethical sensitivity in its personal consequences for others as well as being overly paranoid about the personal attitudes of the Soviets, reflecting common charges levied against <b>R4</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is not hard to find a variety of short quotes by and about von Neumann that demonstrate the intellectual rigor of <b>L2</b> in his mathematical work and way of thinking. Here are some examples:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"Von Neumann's rigorous mathematical analysis of the structure of self-replication (of the semiotic relationship between constructor, description and that which is constructed), preceded the discovery of the structure of DNA. Von Neumann created the field of cellular automata without the aid of computers, constructing the first self-replicating automata with pencil and graph paper. The detailed proposal for a physical non-biological self-replicating system was first put forward in lectures Von Neumann delivered in 1948 and 1949, when he first only proposed a kinematic self-reproducing automaton. While qualitatively sound, von Neumann was evidently dissatisfied with this model of a self-replicator due to the difficulty of analyzing it with mathematical rigor. He went on to instead develop a more abstract model self-replicator based on his original concept of cellular automata."</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"In 1955, von Neumann was diagnosed with what was either bone or pancreatic cancer. He was not able to accept the proximity of his own demise, and the shadow of impending death instilled great fear in him. He invited a Roman Catholic priest, Father Anselm Strittmatter, O.S.B., to visit him for consultation. Von Neumann reportedly said, "So long as there is the possibility of eternal damnation for nonbelievers it is more logical to be a believer at the end," essentially saying that Pascal had a point, referring to Pascal's Wager. He had earlier confided to his mother, "There probably has to be a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't.""</i></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Overall, it seems clear that John von Neumann's best fit type is <b>ILE</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To read more about the <b>ILE</b>, click <a href="http://worldsocionics.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/ile-intuitive-logical-energiser.html">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>José Gabriel Túpac Amaru</b>, better known as <b>Túpac Amaru II</b>, was a member of the Peruvian indigenous nobility who undertook
a rebellion against the Bourbonic reforms of the 17th century, which
threatened the way of life his ancestors had held since before the Viceroyalty of Peru had been established, perhaps even earlier than the existence of
the Inca Empire. As such, there are plenty of historical records which are
possible to be gathered for his typing. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the main observable features of his character
was his adaptability to what the situation required of him, as he quickly
changed his attire from a European one to an Inca attire when he needed the support
of the indigenous populations. Also, he took under his banner the fight against
slavery in order to broaden his support base. Furthermore, he built himself a messianic image
that catered to what his followers were expecting of him, changing his name to that of the last indigenous Incan ruler, Túpac Amaru I and claiming direct lineage from him.</span><span style="font-family: "gillsans";"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This shows evidence
of valued <b>T</b> working for a valued <b>E</b>, as it was all in the name of broadening the movement. This can further be seen in Túpac's insistence on his followers being
committed to the goals of the movement, trying to form a cohesive group instead
of a loose alliance, suggesting valued <b>L</b>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Túpac Amaru positioned himself as a leader of a common cause regardless of any personal connections with those he led. Even when he involved his own relatives in the movement, he always made sure that it was him in the spotlight, hence his Messianic allegories. This is good evidence that Túpac's <b>E</b> was valued very much at the expense of <b>R</b>, perhaps <b>R7</b>. Already, from looking at his valuing of <b>E+T</b> and <b>L</b> while not valuing <b>R</b>, we can see that he was someone of the <b>Beta</b> quadra.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Túpac Amaru II was well-versed in the writings of
French Enlightenment philosophers, which were primarily aphoristic and
<b>L</b>-heavy. However, it never was strongly integrated into his movement, which was
targeted to far less educated indigenous peasants. He instead seemed much more
comfortable presenting himself as a cathartic force. The fact that it was
based on him as a Messianic figure who represented the demands of his followers
means that <b>E</b> prevailed over <b>L</b>, as little if any thought was directed into the details of
the ideology. Here, the emphasis was placed on the goals common to
all factions of his supporter base. As such, it is apparent that <b>E</b> was strong
and <b>L</b>, although valued, was very weak, suggesting <b>E1 </b>and <b>L5</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In contrast, we can see plenty of use of <b>F</b>
as a valued function, not only in his energy as a military leader, but also his ruthless zeal at public executions, where he would order a slave to hang his old creole owner before the crowds. However, one difference
between his expressions of <b>F</b> and the other valued elements is that he seldom
overused his <b>E</b>, <b>T</b> or <b>L</b>. Executing captives in this way, although contributing substantially to furthering his support, went far beyond the point of dealing effectively with
the enemy, becoming more a display of vengeance to engage his followers. Thus, his use of this element again served <b>E1</b>. Meanwhile, the use of <b>F</b> seems to be typical of <b>F6</b>, i.e. used with enthusiasm but without nuance or control. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>His source of income was the land he had inherited and which he used to generate profits due to his serfs’ working on it. Although nowadays this job is regarded as mostly a managerial position, for Túpac Amaru it was more about mediating between the Spanish authorities and the labourers he protected. He always managed to find a common ground between his interests and those of the indigenous lower class, thus being able to earn their favour by denouncing the unpopular mit'a: compulsory work in the mines which meant his serfs having less time to work in his land, substantially lowering profits. This shows elements of him having ease in winning over others’ support and building connections, which was what he found himself doing most of the time, boldly leading them into battle as a charismatic leader, but also a some sense of pragmatic decision making. This again serves as clear evidence of very strong <b>E1</b>, while still retaining some use of <b>P3</b>.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The evidence presented here for <b>E1</b>, <b>T2</b>, <b>P3</b>, <b>L5</b>, <b>F6 </b>and <b>R7</b> clearly indicate that Túpac Amaru II was an <b>EIE</b>.</span><br />
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To learn more about <b>EIE</b>, click <a href="http://worldsocionics.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/eie-ethical-intuitive-energiser.html">here</a>.</span></div>
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