ESE - Ethical Sensory Energiser - "The Host"

This is the profile for the Ethical Sensory Energiser (ESE). To see more type profiles, click here.

Betty White

1. Emotions
ESEs are natural optimists with a bright, light-hearted and vivacious emotionality which they readily express and communicate to others. More than anything, ESEs are driven by a desire to lift the mood in those around them, creating a love of life and sense of fun. Consequently, ESEs tend to dedicate themselves towards the emotional wellbeing of others with a warm sense of humour, easily making others laugh or feel better about themselves, while filling up the room with positive energy. Naturally outgoing and gregarious, with an earthy charisma, they can be the life of the party and the epicentre of many a social occasion, being at their best in the role of a presenter, entertainer or host. They enjoy organising celebrations, bringing people together and ensuring everyone has a good time. As such, they tend to be very welcoming, inviting all people to share in the happiness they are trying to create and doing what they can to encourage enthusiastic participation.

2. Senses

Walt Disney

The emotionality of ESEs is flavoured by an appreciation of the present moment and a desire to refine the quality of how people feel, reducing darker, more negative emotions in exchange for a positive, life-affirming joy. In event or performance-planning, ESEs are often known for the earnest care and attention to detail they put into such work, wanting to create the perfectly blissful experience for everyone. Similarly, ESEs can put a lot of attention into the aesthetic of their appearance, wanting to look as welcoming, friendly and attractive as possible so that they are enjoyable to be around. Sometimes the means of creating happiness is through the satisfaction of physical comforts, and here the ESE will be eager to assist, coming close to smothering their guests with attention to their needs and the relentless provision of food and drink. In all these ways ESEs will use sensory anchors to help build and support a convivial atmosphere for others.

Marie Kondo

3. Pragmatism

ESEs tend to involve themselves in many projects and often with their enthusiasm are given much responsibility. For this reason, ESEs recognise that to not let people down, they need to be productive and competent in organising events, making sure things operate well in their projects. ESEs tend to possess a passionate work ethic and, when needed, will learn and improve their abilities in areas relevant to their commitments. In this way, they can put on a serious face, sweat the facts necessary to keep things running and manage their affairs with passing competence. If familiar with the tasks they need to do, others may even come to rely on them for their managerial capacity. However, the priority is not how efficiently the process is working, but how people are positively affected by the process. Sustained demands to absorb piecemeal facts and improve their working processes can be a strain over time. When explaining things to others, ESEs tend to focus less on the dry, factual accuracy of what is being said, but instead want to bring their stories to life, which may require some hyperbole or exaggeration.

4. Time

Luciano Pavarotti

ESEs prioritise the excitement and enjoyment of the mood in the here and now. As such, they can be blind to the far-reaching, longer-term outcomes of their enthusiasm. ESEs are unlikely to dwell on the past and find it very difficult to interpret future developments, being naturally grounded in the present and inclined to take each day as it comes. Additionally, the idea of something being inevitable is alien to ESEs, who tend to hold the view that anything is possible provided they put their heart and soul into making it a reality. This can put them at loggerheads with sceptics who might say that an idea inspiring their enthusiasm currently is destined to fail. In such situations, ESEs are unlikely to be open to such advice, seeing it as an uncouth, unwanted pessimism. In practice, this can mean that ESEs, despite working hard, find their efforts amount to nothing years down the line, not foreseeing the problem before and, in the ashes of their labours, not understanding how things came to fail. 

Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

5. Laws

ESEs are emotionally driven and, in experiencing life through their changeable moods, lack the coherence of a formal thinking process. As a result, although they can effortlessly move others on an emotional level, ESEs have difficulty communicating with an intelligible structure, sounding to others like a stream of consciousness or a ‘word salad’. Internally, the landscape of their minds can be similarly chaotic, lacking a sense of order or priority. They crave the clarity and insight of those who can refine the noise of factual information into elegant, coherent principles so that everything clicks together and makes sense. Such systems provide a sense of priority and meaning for ESEs, enabling them to not only do what feels ‘good’, but is also unambiguously correct. 

6. Ideas

Will Smith

ESEs love to increase people’s enjoyment and satisfaction in the present. However, they will find that they can further elevate their interactions with others by finding ways to instil a sense of wonder at the many, intriguing possibilities the world has to offer. Although ESEs may come across as direct and action-oriented, their aspirations lie in being able to speculate about alternative viewpoints, and when they feel confidence in themselves, will begin to display a great curiosity in the different mysteries of life waiting to be uncovered. ESEs love brainstorming in groups of people, promoting the free and open exchange of ideas, while making their environments inclusive of a diverse array of opinions. In this way, the newness of possibilities is coupled with a communal enthusiasm for novelty and the desire to explore a multifaceted reality together. At their best, ESEs will come across to others as interesting and unique, able to expose people to things they have never thought before, rather than just regular entertainers. However, this acquired skill has its limits, with ESEs lacking the depth of interpretation seen with a natural. Because of this, the lateral perspectives they introduce may turn out to be more trite than truly profound.

Gal Gadot

7. Relations

With their overwhelming focus on the emotional atmosphere around them, ESEs are inclined to suppress personal attitudes that are unhelpful to the mood they wish to create in other people, especially if these are more negative or judgemental, rather than supportive and welcoming. This can cause them to maintain a public face of jollity, even when not feeling right inside, or else, they may remove themselves from public view until they feel more collected. Instead of keeping favourites or enemies, ESEs want everyone to be included together and tend to be non-preferential in their behaviour. Assuming they are not in the throes of anger, they will try to be warm to people, even those they may personally dislike, and simultaneously, may not commit all attention to their nearest and dearest in case that limits their interactions with the broader group. Despite this, ESEs are aware of personal attitudes and sensitivities, capably minding them in others, so that they are unlikely to unintentionally cross boundaries and cause an unwanted stir. Additionally, they reserve enough awareness of their own attitudes that their expressions are seen to come from a sincere, believable place.

Pope Francis

8. Force

ESEs are highly energetic, proactive individuals who can fill up the room with their presence, easily commanding attention. With a keen awareness for everything going on around them, they can make things happen the way they want them to. Because of this, ESEs make effective leaders in social situations and easily assume the role of ringmaster once they can see people to entertain. However, ESEs dislike conflict and disharmony, putting much of their energy into keeping the peace between people and reducing tension in favour of safe, friendly emotions. They do not seek to control the environment around them for its own sake and place little value in being ‘the boss’, preferring to be a facilitator and enabler of joy. Nevertheless, their tireless energy, alertness, decisiveness and physicality effortlessly cause others to go along with their initiatives and an ESE that has taken a hit to their confidence may resort to more forceful, authoritarian tactics with people, as this is something they feel confident enough in to fall back on, even if they do not enjoy it. Despite this, ESEs will mostly try to downplay their innate assertiveness, coming across instead as friendly and easy-going to others so that they feel as safe and at ease as possible. However, on the rare occasion an ESE loses their temper, their rage can be terrifying and few will have the courage to resist.

Some famous people we think are ESEs:

• Lawrence Alma-Tadema
• Aziz Ansari
• Brian Blessed
• Cab Calloway
• Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
• George Clooney
• Stephen Colbert
• Bill Cosby
• Charles Dickens
• Walt Disney
• Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother
• Friedrich Engels
• Bruce Forsyth
• Pope Francis
• Gal Gadot
• George II of Great Britain
• Hermann Göring
• Laci Green 
• Bob Hawke
• Henry IV of France
• Jim Henson
• Bindi Irwin
• Hugh Jackman
• Jacksepticeye
• Dwayne Johnson
• Heidi Klum
• Marie Kondo
• Stan Lee
• Ursula von der Leyen
• Dolley Madison
• Abu Layth al-Maliki
• Jessica McCabe
• Paul McCartney
• Jeffrey Mishlove
• Jason Momoa
• Ovid
• Mandy Patinkin
• Luciano Pavarotti
• Regis Philbin
• Terry Pratchett
• Psy
• Dr. Seuss
• Shakira
• Peter Shukoff
• Richard Simmons
• Will Smith
• Meryl Streep
• George Takei
• Justin Trudeau
• Dick Van Dyke
• Vespasian
• Betty White
• William IV of the United Kingdom
• Robin Williams

Some fictional characters we think are ESEs:

• Alex Armstrong (Fullmetal Alchemist)
• Elaine Benes (Seinfeld)
• Mrs. Bennet (Pride & Prejudice)
• Lydia Bennet (Pride & Prejudice)
• Mary Cooper (The Big Bang Theory)
• Stephanie Dola (No Game No Life)
• Dug (Up)
• Ezekiel (The Walking Dead)
• Genie (Aladdin)
• Rubeus Hagrid (Harry Potter)
• Hook Hand (Tangled)
• Maes Hughes (Fullmetal Alchemist)
• Jiraiya (Naruto)
• Lumière (Beauty and the Beast)
• Amy March (Little Women)
• Olaf (Frozen)
• Austin Powers (Austin Powers)
• Russell (Up)
• Spain (Hetalia)
• Glinda Upland (The Wicked Years)
• Molly Weasley (Harry Potter)