The Architect is a driven, highly productive, creative archetype. He or she strives to create public technical and creative works that are seen by others.
Your best arguments:
Emotions work like a jury of the three arguments, which combine in beats. Eristic beats are fast, like a heartbeat.
Eristics mostly looks at the form of the two strongest arguments involved in a beat. Any archetype can feel any emotion, but they tend to feel particular emotions.
Revelation is the eristic beat of fear and pride:
Revelation spans from fear to pride, abbreviating guilt, disgust and anger.
Revelation combines fear's analytical look with pride's narrative capabilities. While anxiety (fear/guilt) entertains many conclusions, revelation is best at producing just one.
The base emotions are like underlying survival needs.
Hatred fulfills disgust and anger, for example.
Duress fulfills fear, guilt and disgust, leaving love, anger and pride unfulfilled.
As one of the "big" emotions, along with frustration and satisfaction, revelation is hard for any feeler to achieve, even the Architect. The emotional journey from fear to pride is tough.
Mastering the emotions between fear and pride, and their combinations with fear and pride, can be of great benefit to the Architect. These emotional patterns can produce an effect similar to revelation, without revelation's difficulty:
All of these combinations work a lot like revelation, offering the Architect similar rewards.
The anxiety/contempt combination can help the Architect eliminate distractions and increase focus. The guilt in anxiety and the disgust in contempt are felt more strongly, which may put the Architect off this pattern.
The anxiety/contempt pattern forces the Architect to more strongly feel guilt and disgust.
The Observer, the archetype characterized by anxiety, makes a good work partner for the Architect. They both also share the same world-society-self pattern.
Duress and zeal are all about getting work done. Duress creates a need, a feeling of being trapped or incomplete, and zeal acts on that need by modifying the world. This combination is hard for the Architect to master, because it switches back and forth between the two forms of the world argument, fear and anger.
The duress/zeal pattern touches on both the high-energy arguments of disgust and anger.
The Lancer is characterized by duress, and may help the Architect achieve this heads-down high-energy working mode.
The wrath/mania and despair/exhilaration patterns satisfy fear and pride, like revelation, but not as neatly.
The fleeting emotion patterns that work like revelation can be counter-productive.
The Architect should use these patterns as a hint to return to the more stable patterns of anxiety/contempt and duress/zeal.
Remorse, the combination of guilt and anger, is your coping emotion, cutting off your default beat of revelation.
Running behind: You may waste too much time rectifying the past.
Oversubscribed: Too many groups can be a distraction for yous.
Distracted: Revelation takes focus, which can be interrupted by remorse.
Attachment/envy/zeal cultures are typically family- or individualism-oriented and hard-working.
Devotion/contempt cultures have strict rules, devoted followers and a disdain for outsiders.
Satisfaction culture, usually for smaller groups, focuses on avoiding fear, guilt, disgust and anger.
The Architect combines the Lancer's ability to execute and the Observer's technical skills. The result is a highly capable archetype who can do great things. The Architect's hardest emotion to master is love, which controls the direction of their abilities:
Revelation doesn't satisfy love.
The easiest way to satisfy love is with attachment, which combines love and the Architect's first argument, fear. The second-easiest is satisfaction, which combines love with the second argument of pride. The paradox here is that satisfaction is overall the hardest emotion to achieve.
Attachment and satisfaction satisfy love, the Architect's 'missing' emotion, while also satisfying fear and pride.
Attachment is related to success with family friends, while satisfaction comes from general success with life and society.
Because of the usefulness of attachment and satisfaction, the Architect may fit in better to the attachment/envy/zeal and satisfaction cultural patterns.
Your archetype is most prone to first- and second-argument addictions:
Here are all six base emotion addictions:
Anyone can become addicted to any emotion. Emotional addictions are rare, even among the associated archetypes, and usually require outside help.
The Architect is naturally good at honor and diligence which work like fear and pride.
The Architect should aim to develop courage and fairness, which work to moderate fear and pride.
The hardest-to-develop virtue for the Architect is discretion.
Virtues act like the opposite of their emotion. It's like coping but conscious and intentional, honed by practice. For the Architect, the need for discretion goes along with a weak love argument.
These archetypes have the same first argument, fear:
These archetypes share your second argument, pride:
Archetypes with the same missing/third argument:
This archetype is the inversion of yours:
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