Function AnalysisMentor vs Mediator

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.

Takes time with people, knows how to stretch out pleasures. Dislikes hurried, rushing people. Remembers important dates and congratulates people timely. Time usually works in their favor - what fails now can be caught up later. Dislikes being bound by deadlines, not punctual. Works at their own comfortable pace, always finds excuses for delays. Postpones final decisions until the last minute.

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.

Needs alternatives to boring everyday life and choices. Enjoys finding solutions to seemingly hopeless situations. Attracted to unusual people with many ideas and bold proposals. Avoids boring, gray people. Resourceful in cooking and home decoration, likes to experiment and create something original. Tolerant of eccentrics and inventors, treating them like children with caring indulgence.

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.

Highly considerate of others' habits and conveniences, never disturbs others' peace. Always cares for health and well-being of self and loved ones. Surrounds themselves with pleasant details. Dresses simply with good taste, avoiding extremes. Stays in the background, finding the golden middle position. Studies the physical world through touch and sensation, remembering sensory experiences well.

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.

Good at predicting potential aggression or instability. Critical of lethargic, apathetic people and knows how to activate them. Responds to forceful pressure with equal aggression when necessary. Won't allow others to take advantage of their accommodating nature. Knows when to push and when to ease up, but doesn't seek to control others. Power is too heavy a burden - they just want to defend their own interests.

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.

Chaotic information confuses them and spoils their mood. Likes when specific phenomena are connected to general patterns. Mood improves when feeling needed and indispensable. Becomes active when given clear goals and direction, finding their own path to achievement. Doesn't need bare facts or instructions - needs emotionally appealing systems to become organized.

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.

Needs efforts to be noticed and valued. Gets deeply hurt (though won't show it) if not praised or acknowledged. Good at household management, supply, and room arrangement. Especially tries hard before inspections or guest visits. Solves business matters through friends and acquaintances. Natural laziness limits contact growth but maintains useful relationships. Very attached to their work and occupation, finds it hard to change professions.

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.

Shows affection through actions rather than words. Uncomfortable asking for things for themselves but will do much more when others ask. Needs to sense who likes them before becoming productive. Wariness and bad attitudes kill their work capacity. Excellent mediator in deals and trade operations, spreads goods through informal connections. Mixes relationships closely with business matters.

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.

Consistently friendly and optimistic in informal communication. Loves to have fun in close circles, entertains others with jokes and pranks. Thinks about ways to generate positive emotions. Avoids conflicts and disagreements, wanting peace with everyone. Stays at safe distance from conflict sources. Collects and shares rumors, gossip, and interesting news about their social circle.