What makes human beings different from one another? Appearance is a popular answer, maybe even their opinions or their tastes. However, the most viable to an onlooking conscious is: the way we act - the way we interact with our surroundings, including people and other organisms. Of course, we must realize that the way we act is derivative of the way we think. The way we think is derivative of the influences we were taught in our youth along with the influences throughout the present and even stretching into the future.
All of these influences form a being that is yourself, the person who is reading this now. Sometimes this is referred to the shell or mold. The mold contains all of your influences and history, and that is who you are. However, like an archeologist, we sometimes need to find the oldest, most influential part of the mold. This is the part where the first building blocks are set and everything afterwords is a cause and effect of the initial form. The first foundation to your mold was usually created from your basic genetics, the first moments of life, in the womb, and your first perception of the outside world. A combination of these three things create your base. Then all other influences create who you were yesterday; who you are today; and who you will be in the future.
By observing the foundation of your personality you find four distinct mental categories: The doer, the talker, the guardian, and the thinker. The key difference between these four personalities is how they seek knowledge. This I will explain in each individual chapter and later posts, but keep it in mind when thinking about yourself and those around you.
The other thing you notice when looking into the interactions among the four is the way they relate. These relations always create a pattern, and this pattern can be placed on a four quadrant graph. Each category has its own quadrant and when you place yourself or others on this graph you place them in their respective quadrants. If you place a point, say, in the center of thinker, then your personality would be a thinker. The farther away from the center the more intense that personality becomes. Thus, the outer most corner of each section is so intense you are in danger of yourself. The closer you are to another personality, the more you are like it. Someone just left of talker, but still in doer, is primary a doer, but secondly like a talker. The center part of the graph is where all places meet, and that person is equally each different personality.
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There are thousands of different sub-personalities that are built upon each of the four key personalities. Sometimes this makes it hard to classify yourself. There is no tip I can present that answers this question other than when you want to place yourself on the graph do so during a time of deep meditation. When you think you have found your place, ask your friends to place their opinions and see where they rank you.
To help with the understanding of the four personalities I will do my best to describe them as I have learned and observed them.
The Doer
The first personality I talk about is the doer. The doer, as the name implies, has an active disposition, but more, he is someone who leads the other three. To the public eye, the doer is very well known. Reasons for this include: the natural leadership, the sometimes courageous feats, and most notably as the fulfiller of activities.
As I talk about some of the later categories, you will find that the two people who discover and exploit knowledge the most are the doer and the thinker. Obviously, the doer is the exploiter and because of this, he is the most known of all four. The way the doer exploits knowledge is through the research of the thinker, and thus these two must have a mutual relationship in an optimum community. The two other divisions of your mental categories are interesting subjects to observe. For one, the talker, is an exploiter of the doers actions. This means that for the rest of world civilization, both the doer and the thinker require the talker to assure that all messages are received. The guardian, as you will find out later, is an opposite to the doer. Both are leaders, but the guardian is an authoritative figure and sometimes disagrees with the doer.
You will learn later some of the symmetry in the graph and how these four categories define their relationships.
As I stated, the doer is a active leader, but this does now mean he is always in charge. For instance, the guardian is also a leader, but a more conservative one. When considering an action, the doer finds the resource or knowledge, then without analysis will exploit this knowledge or resource.
For example: I once had the privilege of seeing these personalities tested in an activity for children and found great evidence on the doer. The activity was simple, two teams would build a small boat or raft that would make it down a river, about 200 feet. The boat did not have to carry anyone or thing, it just had to survive without getting too wet. The teams were given limited supplies and time. The first task both teams did was look over their materials then sketch a plan. I watched in fascination as obvious traits were presented, in the case of the doer, as soon as a possible plan was created that person would jump out of the group and start building. This would happen in almost every plan until the groups finally all agreed on a working plan. The other children would wait until everyone agreed, but the doer would jump out before hand.
It is traits like these that set the doer apart from the other mental categories: the readiness to exploit whatever knowledge he finds, along with eagerness to find knowledge. Also, the ability to lead people through with the readiness to tackle oncoming problems.
The Talker
The second and sometimes most criticized personality is the talker. I often criticize this personality for being such a vague and expansive character, and sometimes I have trouble rationalizing his attributes. In our view today the talker is rarely treated with positive feedback, but this criticism is based on many other levels of personalities. The talker that we will discuss here is a basic most fundamental version of the talker. When I think of a talker today as an individual, I think of the goofy teenage girl talking about the newest band or fad, the chatter box neighbor who has to ask you how your cousin’s second niece is doing, or even a news anchor. Without a doubt these people talk, and they talk a lot. It is also true that these people would sometimes be considered talkers by this conclusion, but there is a difference. The talker that is on the most fundamental characteristic graph is someone who needs to be in the spotlight, someone who needs to express his ideas and views, but most importantly is someone who gathers his information from outside media and other forms of communication, unlike the thinker,who gathers knowledge from observation and calculations.
What this means is that the talker is not an innovator, you won’t see a true talker having the invention of the year or other such prizes, but you will see the talker as the marketer. The talker discovers information, then exploits it. This may be by broadcasting it for profit, producing it, or simply to tell-all. Obviously, the most detrimental thing to happen to a talker would be having no one with whom to share the wealth of knowledge. That is the difference between all beings who have this same desire to inform the world. It depends on how you gather and export your knowledge.
Furthermore, the talker is somewhat easy to classify in relationships. Talkers have a rather indifferent relationship with guardian for the reason that neither have something to offer the other. The thinker has a very negative relationship with the talker, but not so much so the talker with the thinker. This is because the thinker is the source of knowledge to exploit. The doer is an indifferent personality, and this has some leeway. For one, the doer needs the talker to exploit his actions, and the talker needs someone to exploit. However, the doer offers no real knowledge other than a story of an action.
The talker’s is such an interesting position mostly because it could be the most populous of all four. When talking about the talker, one must always realize the difference between what we may call the talker today, and what the talker really is , being the most fundamental personality.
The Guardian
Continuing on, we find the third independent mental category is the guardian. The guardian is, in my opinion, the most controversial. Why? Mostly because of the lack of structured understanding of this thought. As the name implies, the guardian is a very authoritative figure. The guardian is someone who watches over society and the minority. This is all clear, however, when you dive into the relationships with other mental categories you fail to see things as clearly.
As I mentioned earlier, the guardian is an authoritative figure, but this does not mean the others are not. This man or woman is someone who is always seeking the development of his or her habitat. Many of these attempts to move forward would result in more worries and fear of failure and future problems, but this is undeniable. Of course, in the event of such situations, the being would be in the worst possible frame of mind: The inability or impossibility to help or contribute. Thus the first characteristic.
Being an authoritative and protective person does not mean you are in the lead. In fact, I would say most guardians are not leaders mostly because of an inability to actually commit and develop ideas. Whereas a doer would do fine. This then places the guardian in the position of a lead contributor maybe, or a head supervisor, but rarely in the person in charge. No, the guardian is a much more indistinct leader who does not have any other desire than to find the problem affecting society and then attempt to solve it.
This all is fine; it is easy to describe and so far fits in with the other three categories, but it is when you start defining relations that things get inconvenient. First, when you look at the other categories you find they all have a symmetric relationship. When looking at the graph you can find personalities that work with another. However, the debate with the guardian is: with whom does he best interact?
Say, for instance, we know from observation which categories get along. We have graphs and other tools to create a pattern. This pattern works fluently with all but one category - the guardian. The thinker and talker, following this pattern, do not get along. The vertical line is a pattern that proves this. The doer and the talker, we know from the diagonal line that these two get along, and finally all horizontal lines are indifferent to one another. The guardian, with argument, follows these rules, but it is just as easy to argue the opposite. If you look at the graph, the first plausible argument is the relationship between the guardian and the doer. As we stated before the guardian is not a leader and thus must rely on the doer or others to take control. This would make the guardian in need of the doer, this contradicting the negative vertical line. The second diagonal line is assumed to be positive, but the guardian would not seem to have overly positive effects with the talker. Finally, the thinker and guardian are considered indifferent, going along with the formula.
As you can see, with little argument the guardian is nothing more than indifferent to all other personalities. Of course, since there is still much debate on the actual position of the graphs and related matters, this formula could be rewritten to accommodate all relationships. In the end, the guardian is really a balance to the extremes. The guardian is the being who always finds what he believes to be the benefits and improvements. Without this, we would be a very unbalanced society, and possibly a world of only this trait would be the only positive compared wholly to the others.
The Thinker
The fourth and final quadrant on the mental graph is the thinker. Like the guardian the thinker has a natural role of power; people in this category are considered the powerful and wise. This is sometimes true in the word we define as thinker now, but when placed in the context of mental habits the thinker becomes a more basic and rather predictable character.
The thinker is the finder of knowledge. Because of this, he is the source of all other categories. Despite possible envy, the thinker is the most influential person. This is because all actions are a cause of knowledge, whether to seek it or to exploit it. In the case of the doer, talker, and guardian they mostly exploit it, however you cannot exploit what you do not have. Thus, the thinker plays a very important role.
Besides being the founder of knowledge, the thinker must also have multiple divisions of himself. The thinker must have either good connections with other people or a very diverse conscious, for the most intense thinkers are nigh but anti-socials. Instead of exploits, they only seek knowledge. Because of this, they must learn to exploit their findings by forming groups or clubs. Thinkers are like magnets - put two together, and they may repel, but if you configure them correctly, they will attract. This is how the thinker works in the outside world.
When considering relations with the other categories, thinkers are never considered highly negative. If the other three categories require the thinker to survive, then saying that one would be more or less favorable is quite difficult. However, with some basic observation and consideration to rules, we find that the thinker always has positive reflections when considering the doer. This comes from looking at the doer and his role as a leader, without the doer the thoughts and conclusions of the thinker would be obsolete. The talker has a more debatable role. In my observation, the talker is the most negatively perceived role. This is because the role of completing the thinker’s request is already filled by another, the doer. Thus, the talker is merely overcooking a perfectly baked cake. That, with addition of possible over exploration, makes the talker a distinguishable negative. Like the relation between the doer and talker, the guardian falls on the horizontal rule and is neither a positive nor negative reaction.
To justify the four personalities: talker, thinker, guardian, and doer, one must relate to what they may mean towards one’s own personality. While doing this, always remember the infinite number of layers of different acquired traits and the character development you have had over the course of your life. In any attempts to classify yourself, you must also become aware that these ideas are merely an attempt to place society in a simple mathematical graph - a model.
Models are useful, but nevertheless, they are only as functional as the user makes them. Too powerful and you lose sight of how society and outside forces add variables to your personality. Too weak and we fail to understand our own existence.
Furthermore, those who have the ability to picture themselves in a model but not part of the model, will be able to more fully understand the answer to the ultimate question: Why do I seek Knowledge? More on this later. Like all past and future posts, the topic will be set to see the understanding of yourself, and subconscious, and your surroundings all of which weave in and out of daily life.What makes human beings different from one another? Appearance is a popular answer, maybe even their opinions or their tastes. However, the most viable to an onlooking conscious is: the way we act - the way we interact with our surroundings, including people and other organisms. Of course, we must realize that the way we act is derivative of the way we think. The way we think is derivative of the influences we were taught in our youth along with the influences throughout the present and even stretching into the future.
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