Description
A cognitive and affective orientation centered on large-scale, abstract, structured systems and transpersonal ideals. A person lives and acts in service of a great idea or a comprehensive worldview (L). They are animated by a passion for this idea (E), viewing the world through its lens.
The fundamental aim is not to adapt to the world as it is, but to reshape it to conform to a profound, and passionately-held vision.
Intellectual Level
Systemic Thinking
A preference for overarching principles and comprehensive structures
Intellectual Tenacity
Social Level
Identification with large-scale causes and collective ideals
Passionate commitment
Psychological Level
Attraction to strong, unambiguous, and powerful feelings
Spectrum Clusters
The characteristic factors
# ID | Cluster Description |
|---|---|
1 | Passion and idealism versus pragmatism |
2 | Emotional contrast and striving for heroic intensity |
3 | Principle/theory over benefit, expediency, and practice |
4 | Emotional strength (intense emotional life vs calm stability) |
5 | Radicalism versus moderation/compromise |
6 | Militaristic/hierarchical orientation versus egalitarian/peaceful values |
7 | Focus on the general/whole over the particular/individual |
8 | Importance of systematic, structured knowledge and truth-seeking |
9 | Low consideration of others' interests |
10 | Verbal/linguistic retrieval and speech-center efficiency (speech slips) |
11 | Higher truths and intuition over practical benefit |
12 | Miscellaneous physiological and interpersonal sensitivity indicators |
Passion and idealism versus pragmatism
Emotional contrast and striving for heroic intensity
Principle/theory over benefit, expediency, and practice
Emotional strength (intense emotional life vs calm stability)
Radicalism versus moderation/compromise
Militaristic/hierarchical orientation versus egalitarian/peaceful values
Focus on the general/whole over the particular/individual
Importance of systematic, structured knowledge and truth-seeking
Low consideration of others' interests
Verbal/linguistic retrieval and speech-center efficiency (speech slips)
Higher truths and intuition over practical benefit
Miscellaneous physiological and interpersonal sensitivity indicators