Function Analysis
Function AnalysisEntrepreneur vs Mentor
Comprehensive cognitive function differential analysis
First Type
Second Type
Strong intuitive grasp of trends and timing.
Intuitively catches main trends of the times. Not afraid to take risks based on intuition. Always works ahead of schedule, knowing tomorrow will be too late. Among first to adopt new technologies and organizational forms. Constantly reflects on past, analyzing events and extracting future lessons. Seeks fundamental patterns of fate through time analysis. Interested in unusual, mysterious phenomena - tries to verify and find logical explanations.
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.
Cannot tolerate hopelessness and dead ends.
Likes testing themselves in various fields, often changing hobbies, professions, and workplaces until finding the right fit. Curious and often acts against expectations. Enjoys experimenting, taking untrodden paths, playing inventor. Fully dedicates to beloved work. Vain - if abilities aren't valued, tends to oppose themselves to surroundings.
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.
Can function despite discomfort but neglects aesthetics.
Can live and work in uncomfortable conditions without conveniences. Usually naturally endowed with endurance and health. Undemanding about food and home decoration. Little concern for appearance. Tends to wear same clothes for long periods. Only dresses up when relationships depend on it. Appreciates those who free them from household and daily concerns. Dislikes people who hide behind weakness and illness. Behaves carelessly, sometimes recklessly in nature. Has extremes regarding bad habits - either flaunts them or actively fights against them. Same extremes appear in sexual life.
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.
Activated by extreme situations and challenge.
Knows how to stand up for themselves. Rejects emotional pressure. Has desire to lead and achieve goals using other people. However, only leads well those who share their views. In moments of emotional uplift, feels like a strong personality capable of any task. But without emotional support, fighting spirit quickly fades. Bold romantic who enjoys competitive joy. Gambling and persistent when resisted. Likes throwing down challenges. Calm, emotion-poor life makes them soft, clumsy, and ridiculous.
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.
Struggles with systematic organization and planning.
Doesn't attach special importance to strict order around themselves. Always finds needed items among scattered belongings. Tries to monitor executive discipline and plan adherence but regulation and process control are ineffective. Stubborn in understanding situations or problems. Predicts development too mechanistically, causing optimistic plans to often fail. Either advocates strict systematization, deriving all consequences from same scheme, or completely fails to structure information, presenting it in arbitrary, random sequence.
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.
Natural business vision and profit orientation.
Sees opportunities in new ventures and knows how to make them profitable. Criticizes those engaged in 'useless theories.' Enterprising and quick to act. Often enjoys dynamic sports like hiking, tourism, mountaineering, running. Not afraid of business trips and relocations. Boldly initiates business ventures and persistently pursues their implementation. Quickly switches to new directions when project potential is exhausted. Skilled with finances, keeps money in circulation by playing price differences. Concentrates key material incentives under their control.
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.
Needs democratic, warm relationships.
Communicates democratically at close psychological distance. Expects positive attitude and friendliness on their territory. Relaxed by warm, heartfelt communication atmosphere - disagreements should be resolved informally with assurance of good relations. Greatly needs reliable, stable human relationships. Due to inability to immediately recognize falseness, can be drawn into adventures. Values reliable, time-tested friends. Fears their inattentiveness to others. When relationships are damaged, seeks ways to make amends through gifts or concrete care.
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.
Optimistic and emotionally engaging.
Never loses heart under any circumstances. Life's shocks only strengthen and increase self-confidence. Loves laughing and entertaining people. Initiates contact with playful remarks. Humor often contains hints and ambiguity. Easily enters arguments, especially when challenged. Often ironic in disputes, mocking opponent's views. Their irritability and quick temper often unpleasant to others, though they don't realize it - thinks they're just exchanging opinions.
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.
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