The Observer seeks to discover physical truths and share them with the world. They have a strong sense of the truth, and a strong aversion to untruths.
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.
The Observer is characterized by anxiety, the combination of fear and guilt.
Anxiety spans from fear to guilt.
Anxiety is the emotion best suited to taking in and analyzing information, so the Observer is something of an information sponge.
Anxiety is often future-focused, making the Observer good at prediction. At its highest levels, it makes the Observer an anxious mess. At lower levels anxiety is just good at figuring things out.
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.
While flexible in externalizing, the Observer tends towards the grief/zeal pattern. Zeal is an externalizing expression of the fear and guilt that compose the Observer's characteristic emotion.
The Anxiety/Zeal pattern leaves unmet love/disgust needs.
Zeal is great for working toward a mission. The anxiety/zeal pattern may cause the Observer to become lost in his or her work.
The Observer and the Artist have plenty of complementary strengths. The Observer's sense of creativity is usually deeper and more meticulous as opposed to wide and flexible like the Artist's. The Observer's creative works may be more hit-or-miss or more audience-sensitive as a result.
As the highest-energy emotion, zeal can take a toll on the archetype.
Huge undertakings: The Observer may take on huge projects or join them.
Organized anger: The Observer may chase anger rewards with others, in groups.
Jumping to conclusions: Anger can have the same feeling of truth as fear.
The high energy cost makes zeal a poor coping emotion. Work is probably the healthiest outlet for zeal, but an Observer using zeal to cope probably needs to step away from the workplace for a while.
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 Observer fits in better to the devotion/contempt societal pattern:
Devotion/contempt cultures have simpler-but-stricter rules.
The Observer may rely on loved ones to really fit in:
Love and anxiety together function like devotion.
The other societal pattern, attachment/envy/zeal, may present more of a challenge to the Observer:
Anxiety straddles attachment and envy.
The Observer is usually rewarded in this culture for zeal's products:
The Observer can follow this pattern to fit in with attachment/envy/zeal.
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 Observer is naturally good at honor and fairness which work like fear and guilt.
The Observer should aim to develop courage and diligence, which work to moderate fear and guilt.
The hardest-to-develop virtue for the Observer is compassion.
Virtues act like the opposite of their emotion. It's like coping but conscious and intentional, honed by practice. For the Observer, the need for compassion goes along with a weak disgust argument.
These archetypes have the same first argument, fear:
These archetypes share your second argument, guilt:
Archetypes with the same missing/third argument:
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