TypeEntrepreneur (LIE)

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Enterpriser
Businessman

Dynamism, Enterprise, and Optimization

but Avarice

Description

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Type

LIE

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

- Alan Kay

Time is money.

- Benjamin Franklin

The Entrepreneur

The LIE is the archetype of purposive energy, the psyche that experiences time primarily as a resource to be deployed toward results, finding challenge energizing, and carrying a constitutionally optimistic belief in the possibility of improvement. The optimism is strategic. At their best, LIEs are engines of practical transformation. They see inefficiency as an invitation. They move faster than others, think faster than others, and make decisions with a confidence that comes from a deep trust in their capacity to adapt to whatever outcomes arrive. They routinely ignore bodily signals of fatigue until the work is done. Their productivity is prodigious, and their pleasure in effective action is infectious. The shadow is the reduction of all value to measurable return. When the LIE's efficiency-consciousness becomes absolute, everything outside its frame becomes invisible: beauty, rest, the quiet dignity of doing something simply because it matters. Relationships get evaluated for their ROI. Emotions, including their own, become friction to be managed. The capacity for action, unchecked, produces a life that is extremely well-executed and strangely hollow. Their development requires them to find that the most important investments, in depth, in relationship, in the unrepeatable quality of an experience fully inhabited, do not resolve into calculable returns, and that their value remains intact regardless.

The Gift

The capacity to make things actually happen, to convert vision into reality with remarkable efficiency and force.

The Wound

The creeping suspicion that the next achievement, however large, will not finally be enough.