Function Analysis

Function AnalysisSeeker vs Mentor

Comprehensive cognitive function differential analysis

First Type
Second Type
Constantly tracks available time reserves.
Pushes others but manages own and others' time as they see fit. Often late or forgets promises by deadlines. Alternates between excessive haste and deliberately slow pace - cannot establish moderate rhythm. Lives by their own time understanding. Tends to discuss interests at inappropriate times for others but won't listen to what seems untimely to them. Predicts event trends based on past patterns. Interested in catastrophes, disasters, mass casualties and other fateful events.
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.
Excellent at spotting potential in new ideas and projects.
Interested in everything, hoping to find something unique. Quickly abandons unpromising ideas and switches to new ones. Has diverse interests often unrelated to main work. Collects discoveries and innovations in areas of interest. Generates bold, alternative ideas for any problem encountered. Cannot tolerate routine and traditional constraints. Makes any forced boring work completely new and different. Persistent in spreading their own developments - must make ideas 'theirs' to get excited.
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.
Often uncertain about physical qualities of objects.
Examines, smells, and touches everything. Needs significant doses to taste food or drinks properly. Maintains tone with external stimulators. Prioritizes personal convenience, spends easily without considering reserves. Ignores surrounding order, leaves things where used then searches for them. Interested in health issues, takes increased treatment doses when sick but ignores daily prevention. Often untidy appearance, quickly wears out clothes. Conservative in tastes and household habits.
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.
Non-aggressive by nature but actively defends lifestyle and theories.
Reactsexplosively to unreasonable restrictions. Responds to force with short but intense counterattacks, temporarily losing self-control. During conversations tries to capture all attention through gestures, loud voice, and physical contact. Can respond to challenges but cannot sustain long competition due to limited energy reserves. Avoids direct rivalry.
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.
Studies and explains complex objects lacking clear theories.
Determines interconnections between various schemes and structures, comparing different systems. Can modify and present ideas to fit their resulting framework. Analyzes problems comprehensively from multiple angles. Builds their structure like a constructor from ready components. Links interesting observations to their own theory, seeking unified explanations for diverse phenomena and cause-effect relationships.
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.
Masters parallel action technology.
Can handle multiple diverse processes simultaneously, seeking to combine maximum functions. In business shows resourcefulness but starts too many things at once to track properly, leading to incompleteness. Likes to command and delegate tasks, needs objects of influence to move around as desired. Small projects grow into large ones requiring major energy investment. Immediately tests ideas practically. Excellent experimenter and adjuster of unique equipment, effective with new technologies.
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.
Communicates at short psychological distance.
Evaluates relationships by their democratic level - prefers minimal formalism. Inconsistent with family and friends - sometimes familiar to the point of rudeness, other times stern and distant. May help people selflessly but finds it hard to damage relationships by refusing. Feels bound by relationships. Freely shares personal problems and discusses others' behavior and lifestyle.
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.
Loves parties and emotional communication.
Without positive emotional feeding, remains in lazy, apathetic state. Always ready for heated opinion exchanges and interesting debates. Responds emotionally to emotions - important not to overdose involvement or they forget the original disagreement point. Speaks quickly and chaotically when emotionally excited, thoughts outpacing words. Experiences sharp mood swings between liveliness and withdrawal.
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.
Function-based type comparison analysis