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Point Five: The Observer

Basic Proposition:  Protection from intrusion and insufficient resources is assured through privacy, self-sufficiency, limiting wants and desires and acquiring knowledge.  Attention naturally goes to blocking intrusion and detaching to observe.

"Distinguishing Traits of Type Five”

• Marked need for privacy
• Attention goes to observing rather than participating
• Intellectualizes
• Detached from feelings
• Limits intrusion from a world that wants too much
• Minimalist. Reduces needs; limits desires
• Selfsufficient
• Hoards time, space, energy, knowledge
• Compartmentalizes
• Looks superior (aloof), but feels inferior

  

 

 

 

 

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