Function Analysis
Function AnalysisMentor vs Craftsman
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.
Forces punctuality while demonstrating life wisdom.
Fears being imposed inconvenient schedule. In communication demonstrates life wisdom. Shows skepticism through specific humor and self-irony. However, deep down doesn't lose hope for success. In critical situations and sudden environment changes, doesn't panic but seeks ways to buy time. Follows inner intuition about events. Feels dependent on fate's reversals. Takes life shocks upon themselves, trying to protect loved ones. However, carrying this burden long-term is difficult.
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.
Needs recognition and inspiring challenges.
Loves when abilities and achievements are properly valued. If results go unnoticed, loses all desire to try. If abilities remain unneeded long-term, may even become ill. Needs new, unusual problem situations distracting from gray routine. If event is uninteresting, will shamelessly do own things or simply disconnect. Needs encouragement and inspiration for work, otherwise relaxes and falls into melancholy. Without new captivating goals, physical tone drops. Must be addressed with compliments and praise, assured of quick success. Optimal state when success keeps slipping away while remaining somewhere very close.
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.
Perceives world through sensations and natural harmony.
Acutely perceives anything disrupting natural harmony. Rejects artificiality, pretense, unhealthy instincts. Fastidious. Caring toward family and close ones. When seeing someone tired or unwell, immediately comes to help. Never abandons friend in trouble. Well feels sensation possibilities. Pursues their novelty (fishing, mushroom/berry picking, swimming, travel) through active lifestyle. Cannot tolerate monotony and boredom. Loves quiet communion with nature. Internally sensitive and vulnerable though doesn't show it. To survive, adapts to prevailing customs and follows social stereotypes when necessary.
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.
Critical of violence but knowledgeable about power dynamics.
Critically relates to violence and coercion. Won't pressure anyone but won't submit to dictation attempts either. Dislikes competition, lacks ambitions and career aspirations. Won't fight for power or claim higher position. Determines person's strength qualities and effectiveness by speech tempo, manners, and appearance. Immediately distinguishes boasting from real capabilities. Knows what force to apply where for desired goal. However, cannot effectively impact pain points themselves. Rarely shows violence and always under external circumstance pressure.
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.
Reliable business partner with strong principles.
Fulfills obligations if considers them reasonable. Prefers frankness and complete clarity in business relationships. Very stubborn - if convinced of something, practically impossible to persuade otherwise. Coolly maintains their understanding of situation. Demonstrates calculation and methodicalness in work. Always tries to manage with minimal forces and fewer people. Opponent of bureaucracy and petty control. Flexibly adjusts in details but strictly adheres to main technological scheme.
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.
Skilled hands-on worker and resource optimizer.
Works well with hands. More willing to repair things than throw them away. Frugal with material resources. Has technological mindset. Finds simple but effective methods for solving business questions. Before starting work, considers several achievement variants and chooses most economical. Works only in ways comfortable for themselves. Notes people who shirk or do shoddy work. Plans how to make them work properly or remove them. Will only do what's strictly necessary. Masterfully handles tools and technical devices. Persistently improves in chosen activity. Hopes for quick results through rational work organization.
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.
Mood depends on others' attitudes and relationship quality.
Trusts only deep attachments and stable, time-tested feelings. Establishes necessary psychological distance in communication and becomes very nervous if someone doesn't maintain it. Cannot tolerate intrusive people. Won't live or work in psychologically unhealthy, quarrelsome collective. Smooth relationships are essential condition for full life. Despite fastidiousness and distant communication, quite tolerant of human flaws. Knows how to forgive people, not vindictive.
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.
Contrasting emotional expression and conflict avoidance.
Contrasting in emotional manifestation - either cold and self-absorbed like 'iceberg in ocean' or emotionally excited and pushy. Evaluates human relationships by degree of emotional displays. Stormy emotions indicate instability and poor relationships for them. During conflict prefers not entering argument but simply leaving. If touched to the core, responds sharply. Won't confide in strangers. Dislikes when others 'climb into soul' trying to penetrate inner experiences. Needs to be understood without words.
Function-based type comparison analysis