The Giver has a strong desire to work for his or her community while also helping those closest to him or her.
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.
Devotion makes for a family- and society-conscious feeler.
Devotion cuts out the world argument, fear, allowing two people to bond without real-world demands making it so. Relationships based on devotion are strong and stable, surviving changes in the world.
Devotion spans from love to guilt, abbreviating fear.
Devotion abbreviates fear, making the Giver brave but also irrational whenever family is involved.
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.
Attachment and anxiety, the other all-internalizing emotions, can sometimies overwhelm the the Giver.
Using devotion in a situation where attachment or anxiety are appropriate can be a huge misstep for this archetype. Devotion ignores the world argument (skipping over fear), so the Giver may end up making impractical decisions for love/guilt reasons— picking a person or group over the facts or reality of a situation.
Contempt perfectly complements devotion. The back-and-forth between the two characterizes the Giver.
Contempt is high-energy and all-externalizing, including both externalizing emotions besides anger. Contempt accomplishes what anger accomplishes without using anger directly.
Shunning: You may be too eager to boot others from a group.
Escape: You may be too eager to leave a group yourself.
Image-consciousness: You may see yourself only how the group sees you.
In general, the Giver should aim for a 5:1 ratio of devotion to contempt. Contempt works best when policing (but not over-policing) the standards of the group.
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 Giver's devotion/contempt coping pattern enables them to fit in well with a devotion/contempt culture, provided their beliefs and values line up.
Devotion/contempt cultures have simpler-but-stricter rules.
The Giver doesn't fit in as well with the attachment/envy/zeal societal pattern:
The Giver pattern doesn't fit in as well with attachment/envy/zeal.
The Giver will have a harder time getting ahead in this type of culture, which focuses more on family involvement and individualism. Making friends with the Artist and Fixer is a good strategy for the Giver.
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 Giver is naturally good at compassion and fairness which work like love and guilt.
The Giver should aim to develop discretion and diligence, which work to moderate love and guilt.
The hardest-to-develop virtue for the Giver is honor.
Virtues act like the opposite of their emotion. It's like coping but conscious and intentional, honed by practice. For the Giver, the need for honor goes along with a weak anger argument.
These archetypes have the same first argument, love:
These archetypes share your second argument, guilt:
Archetypes with the same missing/third argument:
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