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Healthy: Conscientious with strong
personal convictions: they have an intense
sense of right and wrong, personal religious
and moral values. Wish to be rational,
reasonable, self-disciplined, mature,
moderate in all things. / Extremely
principled, always want to be fair,
objective, and ethical: truth and justice
primary values. Sense of responsibility,
personal integrity, and of having a higher
purpose often make them teachers and
witnesses to the truth.
At Their Best: Become
extraordinarily wise and discerning. By
accepting what is, they become
transcendentally realistic, knowing the best
action to take in each moment. Humane,
inspiring, and hopeful: the truth will be
heard.
Average: Dissatisfied with
reality, they become high-minded idealists,
feeling that it is up to them to improve
everything: crusaders, advocates, critics.
Into "causes" and explaining to
others how things "ought" to be.
Afraid of making a mistake: everything must
be consistent with their ideals. Become
orderly and well-organized, but impersonal,
puritanical, emotionally constricted,
rigidly keeping their feelings and impulses
in check. Often workaholics —
"anal-compulsive," punctual,
pedantic, and fastidious. / Highly critical
both of self and others: picky, judgmental,
perfectionistic. Very opinionated about
everything: correcting people and badgering
them to "do the right thing"—as
they see it. Impatient, never satisfied with
anything unless it is done according to
their prescriptions. Moralizing, scolding,
abrasive, and indignantly angry.
Unhealthy: Can be highly dogmatic,
self-righteous, intolerant, and inflexible.
Begin dealing in absolutes: they alone know
"The Truth." Everyone else is
wrong: very severe in judgments, while
rationalizing own actions. / Become
obsessive about imperfection and the
wrong-doing of others, although they may
fall into contradictory actions,
hypocritically doing the opposite of what
they preach. / Become condemnatory toward
others, punitive and cruel to rid themselves
of "wrong-doers." Severe
depressions, nervous breakdowns, and suicide
attempts are likely.
Key Motivations: Want to be right,
to strive higher and improve everything, to
be consistent with their ideals, to justify
themselves, to be beyond criticism so as not
to be condemned by anyone.
Examples: Mahatma Gandhi, Hilary
Clinton, Al Gore, John Paul II, Sandra Day
O'Connor, John Bradshaw, Bill Moyers, Martha
Stewart, Ralph Nader, Katherine Hepburn,
Harrison Ford, Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Fonda,
Meryl Streep, George Harrison, Celene Dion,
Joan Baez, George Bernard Shaw, Noam
Chomsky, Michael Dukakis, Margaret Thatcher,
Rudolph Guliani, Jerry Brown, Jane Curtin,
Gene Siskel, William F. Buckley, Kenneth
Starr, The "Church Lady" (Saturday
Night Live), and "Mr. Spock" (Star
Trek).
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