Function Analysis
Function AnalysisMentor vs Advisor
Comprehensive cognitive function differential analysis
First Type
Second Type
Understands situational development over time.
Anticipates troubling situations and prepares backup options. Warns people of impending dangers. Constantly wavering and doubting person who struggles with important decisions. Once decided, won't change mind or turn back. Worldview can change to diametrically opposite over time. Internally very contradictory. Detects falseness and discrepancy between words and actual behavior. Usually interested in fate and mysterious phenomena. Likes solitude to contemplate life's meaning, past and future. Views all problems from global, philosophical perspective.
Wants to control others' time but poor at managing own.
Cannot tolerate people who act slowly or waste precious time. Cannot manage own time well. Prone to frequent tardiness. When telling about something, follows associations, presents information non-compactly, therefore doesn't fit allocated time. Very important to track continuous situation development. Without hope and positive changes, becomes discouraged. Trustingly relates to hasty promises while understanding serious changes need time. Lacks patience themselves. When attempts to change fate fail, gradually accepts it as inevitability.
Shows unexpected talents and abilities in work.
Wants praise for efforts and achievements. Gravitates toward non-standard, sometimes shocking behavior forms. Skilled at utilizing people's abilities and distributing group roles. Often excellent teacher and collective educator. Forms personality through painstaking work. Wants to benefit all humanity - partial solutions don't satisfy them. Takes uncompromising positions on seemingly minor issues. Seeks most complex and captivating projects. Suffers greatly from criticism as it feels like ideal collapse. Characterized by feelings of inadequacy, possibly compensated by demonstrative behavior.
Excellent people intuition and pattern recognition.
Recreates internal motivation from individual phrases, intonation, facial expressions, and behavioral features. Easily guesses what someone is pursuing. Learns quickly by grasping problem essence. Well-developed imagination: creates stories, builds images, entertaining plots. Drawn to talented and unusual personalities. Knows how to encourage and inspire people through compliments and describing bright prospects. Offers different solution variants for same problem. Cannot tolerate monotonous work - boring repetition strongly oppresses them.
Fears illness and physical suffering.
Struggles to break bad habits. Often shows extremes in sexuality - from indifference to perversion. Pays much attention to appearance, dressing either ostentatiously aristocratic or very simply. Appearance aesthetics brings great joy or sorrow. Capriciously selective in food, tends toward opposite taste combinations. Can also be completely undemanding about food if served regularly. Judges people's attitude by their willingness to care for them and tolerate strange tastes. Dislikes being touched, feels bad in enclosed spaces.
Requires high comfort and pleasant sensations.
Only truly relaxes in completely comfortable setting where can feel at home without worrying about consequences. Needs large doses of pleasant sensations. Pleasures play major role in life. Loves being surrounded by coziness and concrete care. Due to attraction to entertainment, sometimes appears superficial and carefree. Getting caught in sweet life whirlpool can lead to tragic end. Takes little care of themselves, can initially manage with little. However, physical and moral discomfort severely undermines health. Seeks paths to easy existence unencumbered by life struggle.
Protests vigorously against force and rudeness.
Expects exclusively polite and considerate treatment. In emotional states will stop at nothing. Personal strength increases dramatically in extreme situations (panic, chaos) - behaves confidently and decisively. Defenseless against force when emotionally and spiritually broken, accepts fate as inevitable. Can only be brought out of hysteria by sudden force - unexpected impact sobers them. Needs external help to suppress uncontrollable emotions.
Mobilizes decisively in extreme situations.
Gives rebuff to any encroachments. Cannot ignore attempts at dictation or forceful pressure. Very independent and won't force others either. Sometimes lacks will to pull themselves together and do what's needed. Not afraid to oppose superior force. Can approach any-level boss and demand resolution of their issue. Has habit of provoking opponent first. When drawn into argument, actively and sometimes aggressively defends opinion. Suffers from own excitability and lack of restraint. For this reason, has difficulty relieving tension in shoulder area.
Needs organization and order around them.
Physical well-being depends on this. Relaxed by slow, meticulous activities requiring concentration. Benefits from strict systematic living. Ambiguities, unpredictability, and constant schedule changes depress their health. Notices slightest deviations from familiar event patterns but is quite subjective in logical conclusions. Generalizations often suffer from one-sidedness. Likes system logic, strives to organize everything within reasonable frameworks and rules, but makes exceptions for themselves.
Cannot work effectively in rigid systems.
Cannot work efficiently within rigid system with many restrictions. Strongly dislikes when relationship system with others is controlled. Won't delve into information details, only tries to understand general direction. Because doesn't always listen to people completely, leaves impression of misunderstanding. Makes subjective errors in logical conclusion formulation and decision-making. Ignores factual aspects contradicting own representations. Struggles with meticulous clerical work. Only strains in such cases to avoid bad impression and relationship damage.
Forces themselves into practical, useful work.
Performs quality work, dislikes redoing things. Enjoys overcoming themselves by mastering difficult technologies. Temperamentally impatient and restless - long sitting causes muscle pain. Hard to relax even during sleep. Often has organizational abilities but prolonged business activity exhausts them. Gives many small tasks to people, can't track everything and gets nervous. Difficult to work with witnesses. Quick movements and sharp sounds irritate them, but moderate background noise improves productivity.
Mood depends on work character and meaning.
If work is uninteresting or seems useless, mood deteriorates significantly. For same reason, not inclined toward regular household management. Has tendency toward adventurism. Loves getting into unusual situations and making unexpected moves to restore zest for life. Lacks pragmatism and calculation. When organizing something, does it for soul rather than profit. Best reward for work is admiration and positive emotions. Game plays large role in life - combining pleasant with useful. Strives to convert work or learning into game forms.
Unsure about relationship stability.
Seeks constant verbal and other confirmations of feelings. Very jealous toward rivals. Good at predicting relationship development over time. Critic and exposer of morals. Either extremely faithful and devoted partner or fickle Don Juan. Painful point is reliability of relationships with trusted people. Never forgives those who disappointed them once. Very touchy and vindictive. Prefers keeping distance from people. Severely underestimates their own value in others' eyes. Other extreme in relationships is intrusiveness and narcissism.
Expert in relationship dynamics and psychology.
Understands logic of human relationships better than anyone, especially causes of complications and discord in love and friendship. Easier to maintain established relationships than restore broken ones. Sensitively reacts to antipathies. Charming and sociable. Can build relationship system with anyone if they're interesting. Understands what distance to maintain with whom, though doesn't always stick to it. Knows what to do to maintain favorable psychological atmosphere in groups. Advises how to communicate to become necessary to someone.
Masters wide range of emotional states.
Dramatic emotions quickly shift to comedic or blend together. Can behave calmly and dignified around strangers. Gifted with emotional empathy - experiences others' emotions as their own. Overflow of negative emotions often leads to psychological breakdowns. Expressive in facial expressions, gestures, gaze, and intonations. Natural actor or speaker, constantly embodying different images. Can be emotionally overwhelming for close people, constantly escalating situations and building emotional tension. Cannot achieve peace and tranquility.
Initiates through inspiration but needs others for completion.
Can show initiative by inspiring people for tasks, but when desire fades, seeks others to finish without direct participation. Internally torn by contradictory experiences and sad thoughts. Escapes into work for distraction but poorly feels measure - tends to overstrain or overwork. Emotional, direct, and somewhat naive in communication. These qualities help achieve success in seemingly hopeless or very difficult matters. In good mood, quickly solves current household or work difficulties. Rapidly finds replacements for missing items or ways to do without them entirely.
Function-based type comparison analysis