Actively solving problems.
Observing how things work.
Talent for using tools for the best approach.
Act on their hunches or intuitions.
Understanding a situation.
Sharing those discoveries.
Unsettled by powerful emotional experiences.
Taking charge of situations.
Want a measure of their success.
Enjoy acting as a consultant.
Caring for family and friends.
Enjoy exhilaration at the edge.
Disappointed when others don’t show respect.
Taking advantage of opportunities.
Stick with what’s important.
Talent for pulling together what is just right.
Creative problem solving.
Attracting the loyalties of others.
Being their own true self.
Have their own personal style.
Play against expectations.
Struggle with nurturing their own self-esteem.
Talent for presenting things in a useful way.
Natural actors—engaging others.
Opening up people to possibilities.
A love of learning, especially about people.
Sometimes misperceive others’ intentions.
Drawing up plans and being prepared.
Being active in the community.
Cultivating good qualities.
Bear life’s burdens and overcome adversity.
Talented at planning, sequencing, and noticing what’s missing.
Having to learn so much in hindsight is painful at times
Talent for bringing order to chaotic situations.
Industrious, work-hard attitude.
Having a philosophy of life.
Having the steps to success.
Connecting their wealth of life experiences.
Often disappointed when perfectionistic standards for economy and quality are not met.
Noticing what’s needed and what’s valuable.
Talent for careful and supportive organization.
Work to protect the future.
Listening and remembering.
Being nice and agreeable.
Unselfish willingness to volunteer.
Feeling a sense of accomplishment.
Exasperated when people ignore rules and don’t get along.
Accepting and helping others.
Voicing concerns and accommodating needs.
Admire the success of others. Remember what’s important.
Talented at providing others with what they need.
Maintaining a sense of continuity.
Accounting for the costs.
Often disappointed by entrepreneurial projects.
Very long-range strategizing.
Realizing progress toward goals.
Talent for seeing the reasons behind things.
Being on the leading edge.
Maintaining independence.
Find it difficult to let go in interacting with others.
Marshal resources toward progress.
Mentoring and empowering.
Talent for coordinating multiple projects.
Balance peace and conflict.
Demonstrates predictive creativity.
Often overwhelmed by managing all the details of time and resources.
Seeing new patterns and elegant connections.
Talent for design and re-design.
Crossing the artificial bound- aries of thought.
Activate the imagination.
Reflect on the process of thinking itself.
Struggle with attending to the physical world.
Talented at building prototypes and getting projects launched.
Enjoys lifelong learning.
Enjoy the creative process.
Share their insights about life’s possibilities.
Strategically formulate success.
Like the drama of the give and take.
Surprised when their strategizing of relationships becomes problematic.
Honoring the gifts of others.
Taking a creative approach to life.
Bridging differences and connecting people.
Practical problem solving.
Living with a sense of purpose.
Living an idealistic life often presents them with a great deal of stress and a need to withdraw.
Communicate and share values.
Succeeding at relationships.
Realizing dreams—their own and others.
Seek opportunities to grow together.
Heeding the call to a life work or mission.
Enjoying the creative process.
Reconcile the past and the future.
Talent for seeing potential in others.
Often find living in the present difficult.
Knowing what is behind what is said.
Exploring moral questions.
Talent for facilitative listening.
Relate through stories and metaphors.
Getting re-acquainted with themselves.
Have a way of knowing what is believable.
Struggling with structure and getting their lives in order.
Inspiring and facilitating others.
Talent for seeing what’s not being said and voicing unspoken meanings.
Seek to have ideal relationships.
Want to authentically live with themselves.
Respond to insights in the creative process.
Finding the magical situation.
Restless hunger for discovering their direction.
(From the book “Neuroscience of Personality: Brain Savvy Insights For All Types of People” by Dario Nardi)
