Function Analysis
Function AnalysisMentor vs Politician
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.
Feels energetic when time is occupied but manipulates timing.
Loves constant changes, event development, contradictions. Often wants to go somewhere, completely change environment. Imposes timing convenient for themselves. Either rushes and hurries others, or delays and obstructs quick decisions. Always finds something to criticize. Loves being persuaded for long time with many examples and instructive stories from past.
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.
Presents self as original, unconventional personality.
Tends to oppose themselves to surroundings. Can support conversation on any topics, demonstrating knowledge about everything. Grasps information quickly but superficially. Periodically becomes thoughtful and introspective. In such moments feels people perceive them differently than they really are. Quite capricious and fastidious. Won't miss chance to emphasize broad possibilities and great prospects. Often argues and disagrees, defending opposite viewpoint on principle.
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.
Protective of comfort while having unique aesthetic taste.
Strongly dislikes when comfort is violated. Fears for material well-being and health. Never acts against own conveniences. Monitors cleanliness, observes hygiene rules. Fastidious. Criticizes product quality or goods reliability. Not ashamed of body and physiological processes. Has distinctive aesthetic taste not always matching generally accepted standards. Cautious in nature. Won't be first to settle unknown place. Conservative in household habits. Other extreme - indifferent attitude toward appearance.
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.
Excellent at reading and manipulating power dynamics.
Well senses force distribution. Quickly grasps who is strong, who is weak, whom to pressure, whom to avoid. Finds weak spots in people they know closely. Influences through pain points to change behavior favorably. Doesn't submit to direct pressure attempts - skillfully dodges. Knows how to defend themselves. Reacts violently when restricted in choices. Commands those less decisive and less confident. Communicates equally with stronger partners. Always finds ways to attract attention.
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.
Sensitive about logical conclusions being ignored.
Classes those ignoring their remarks as ill-wishers. Depends on established order in area where they live or work. Complains about lack of discipline and disorganization, though cannot provide it themselves as doesn't want to spoil relationships and cannot work methodically. Reacts to accepted hierarchy. Communicates either from below as subordinate or from above as boss. Allows themselves to be unceremonious with subordinates. Cannot be near antipathetic people - does everything to remove them. Doesn't know by what system they operate.
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 business success and needs engaging work.
To improve emotional state, must be offered profitable business. Tends toward either great generosity to wastefulness when mood is elevated, or economy and even stinginess when emotionally depressed. Emotions important in work - cannot work if occupation seems boring. Can turn any task into entertainment, give it show character. Very nervous and angry when bypassed in business or when material resources distributed so they get less than others. May create scandal over this.
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 relationship manipulator and negotiator.
Knows how to tell person what they want to hear. However, doesn't rush to fulfill promises if doesn't feel special necessity. Balances between opposing camps' interests, successfully conducting negotiations or bargaining. If own interests require, easily reconciles with former opponents. Knows how to establish relationships. Rather plays on negative relations and antipathies than positive connections. Hard to break tedious relationships themselves. Tries to indirectly make person understand they're not interesting. Dislikes letting people get close as feels it imposes obligations. Easily makes acquaintances and feels more confident in large company than alone or in routine setting.
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.
Work capacity highly dependent on mood and excitement.
In elevated mood, tackles even heavy work. Without mood, even important work remains undone. Energetic in tasks with immediate completion. If no quick return and work is intensive, quickly cools and seeks other directions. Excitement and passion increase productivity. Creates festive, celebratory atmosphere around themselves. Does best work in informal settings. Scatters energy in different directions - handles multiple tasks simultaneously, easily switching between them. If interests continue expanding, effectiveness drops.
Function-based type comparison analysis