TypeRaconteur (IEE)

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Improviser
Reporter

Insight and Inspiration

but Inconsistency

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IEE

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

- Fernando Pessoa

Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.

- Allen Saunders

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

- Dale Carnegie

The Raconteur

The IEE is the archetype of interpersonal intuition, the psyche that perceives human potential with the same immediacy that others perceive color or sound, constitutionally oriented toward what people could become rather than what they currently are, experiencing the diversity of human types as an endlessly fascinating landscape. At their best, IEEs are catalysts for others' development. They see gifts that people have not yet claimed, notice connections between people whose complementarity neither had recognized, and communicate their enthusiasm for human possibility in ways that produce change. Their social intelligence is real and empathic rather than calculating, and their warmth creates a field in which people feel safe to be more themselves than usual. The shadow is the substitution of potential for reality. When the IEE relates primarily to who people could be rather than who they are, relationships lose their ground, becoming sites of projection rather than real encounter. The IEE's restlessness, which at healthy levels keeps them generatively in motion, can become a pattern of perpetual beginning: new people, new projects, new enthusiasms that never consolidate into the satisfaction of something seen all the way through. Their development asks them to find that lasting connection requires staying with what is, including what disappoints, rather than perpetually moving toward what might be.

The Gift

The capacity to perceive and call forth human potential in ways that change the arc of people's lives.

The Wound

The fear that full presence, with all its limitation and loss, will be more than they can bear.