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Healthy: Highly responsive,
excitable, enthusiastic about sensation and
experience. Most extroverted type: stimuli
bring immediate responses — they find
everything invigorating. Lively, vivacious,
eager, spontaneous, resilient, cheerful. /
Easily become accomplished achievers,
generalists who do many different things
well: multi-talented. Practical, productive,
usually prolific, cross-fertilizing areas of
interest.
At Their Best: Assimilate
experiences in depth, making them deeply
grateful and appreciative for what they
have. Become awed by the simple wonders of
life: joyous and ecstatic. Intimations of
spiritual reality, of the boundless goodness
of life.
Average: As restlessness
increases, want to have more options and
choices available to them. Become
adventurous and "worldly wise,"
but less focused, constantly seeking new
things and experiences: the sophisticate,
connoisseur, and consumer. Money, variety,
keeping up with the latest trends important.
/ Unable to discriminate what they really
need, become hyperactive, unable to say
"no" to themselves, throwing self
into constant activity. Uninhibited, doing
and saying whatever comes to mind:
storytelling, flamboyant exaggerations,
witty wise-cracking, performing. Fear being
bored: in perpetual motion, but do too many
things — many ideas but little follow
through. / Get into conspicuous consumption
and all forms of excess. Self-centred,
materialistic, and greedy, never feeling
that they have enough. Demanding and pushy,
yet unsatisfied and jaded. Addictive,
hardened, and insensitive.
Unhealthy: Desperate to quell
their anxieties, can be impulsive and
infantile: do not know when to stop.
Addictions and excess take their toll:
debauched, depraved, dissipated escapists,
offensive and abusive. / In flight from
self, acting out impulses rather than
dealing with anxiety or frustrations: go out
of control, into erratic mood swings, and
compulsive actions (manias). / Finally,
their energy and health is completely spent:
become claustrophobic and panic-stricken.
Often give up on themselves and life: deep
depression and despair, self-destructive
overdoses, impulsive suicide.
Key Motivations: Want to maintain
their freedom and happiness, to avoid
missing out on worthwhile experiences, to
keep themselves excited and occupied, to
avoid and discharge pain.
Examples: John F. Kennedy,
Benjamin Franklin, Leonard Bernstein,
Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Elizabeth
Taylor, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Steven
Spielberg, Federico Fellini, Richard
Feynman, Timothy Leary, Robin Williams, Jim
Carey, Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Bette
Midler, Chuck Berry, Elton John, Mick Jagger,
Gianni Versace, Liza Minelli, Joan Collins,
Malcolm Forbes, Noel Coward, Sarah Ferguson,
Larry King, Joan Rivers, Regis Philbin,
Howard Stern, John Belushi, and "Auntie
Mame" (Mame).
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