anxiety
fear » guilt
The Scientist 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.
Intelligent and analytical, the Scientist is really great at complexity.
Emotions are arguments, each arguing for survival in one of three arenas:
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Self
The self argument argues for the extended self: You, your family, close friends and valued possessions.
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World
The world argument argues for survival in the physical environment, making the feeler confront danger.
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Society
The society argument navigates the complexities of human society, arguing for survival in the tribe.
The arguments have an order of priority, called the eristic order.
Eristic order describes the usual order of an archetype's emotional arguments. There's always a self, world and society argument, but the order and expression differs between archetypes.
Your eristic order goes like this:
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world
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society
With a world-first viewpoint, and the two most complex arguments up front, the world-society-self order is great at analysis and complexity.
Feelers with a first-place world argument have a great feel for what's going on in the most concrete sense.
Logical and rational, they tend to trust what's measurable in the world.
Feelers with eristic orders lacking a self argument have a strong sense of almost any situation. It's perspectives within a given situation that might trip them up.
This can result in a difficulty to see the world from the point of view of others.
Emotions are dualities, having one of two forms that can be felt at a time:
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Love & disgust
Love argues to add to or nurture the extended self, while disgust argues to remove from the extended self.
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Fear & anger
Fear argues to model and understand the world, while anger argues to modify or destroy the world.
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Guilt & pride
Guilt argues to do work for society, while pride argues to be a high-quality member of society.
Your archetype is characterized by a combination of these two forms:
Your first argument is the world argument, expressing in the fear form.
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fear
The second most common first argument behind love, fear connects the feeler to the real world. First-slot feelers are rational, cognitive feelers.
Benefits: Intelligent, creative, observant
Drawbacks: Anxious, fawning, avoidant
Your second argument is the society argument, expressing as guilt.
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guilt
Guilt as a second argument compels you to second-guess yourself in favor of society. Feelers in this group are inherently good with fitting in with groups.
Benefits: Conscientious, thoughtful
Drawbacks: Pandering, overextending
Emotions are felt in beats, like heartbeats, with each argument being voiced each beat.
All the combinations of base emotions possible in a beat.
The order and expression of the arguments depends on the situation, but defaults to your archetype's characteristic emotion.
The Scientist is characterized by anxiety, the combination of fear then guilt.
Anxiety spans from fear to guilt.
Anxiety is the emotion best suited to taking in and analyzing information, so the Scientist is something of an information sponge.
Anxiety is often future-focused, making the Scientist good at prediction. At its highest levels, it makes the Scientist an anxious mess, but at lower levels anxiety is, plainly put, just good at figuring things out.
The Scientist is the smartest archetype in terms of handling complexity. Systems and logic come easily to this archetype. The Scientist will often lean towards science (of course), technology, engineering and math.
Emotions have energy costs, depending on complexity and expression:
In a beat, the lower energy emotion is felt first. Eristic diagrams organize emotions in this love-to-pride emotional energy spectrum.
While flexible in externalizing, the Scientist tends towards the grief/zeal pattern, as zeal is another expression of the fear and guilt that compose the Scientist's characteristic emotion.
Passion, anxiety, grief and zeal are the most-used emotions of the Scientist.
Zeal is great for working toward a mission. The Scientist may struggle with the grief, though. This can be thought of as leftover, or unserved disgust. This personality archetype won't generally seek out the kinds of jobs or hobbies that give disgust rewards, leaving the disgust to turn inward and express as grief. Sometimes the Scientist will experience this as "FOMO"—a fear of missing out.
The Scientist and the Artist have plenty of complementary strengths. The Artist's strength in creativity is just as stark as the Scientist's weakness in creativity.
The self argument handles the concept of perspective. With a third-place, weaker self argument, the Scientist may struggle with creativity, storytelling and inventing. Ironically, this archetype is most adept at developing the material skills needed to bring immaterial creative visions to life. In a making sense, this archetype is among the most creative.
Groups, cultures and societies need to satisfy all six base emotions for their members.
They'll typically do this in one of three patterns:
Attachment/envy/zeal cultures are typically family- or individualism-oriented and hardworking.
Devotion/contempt cultures have strict rules, devoted followers and a disdain for outsiders.
Satisfaction works for smaller groups which focus on avoiding fear, guilt, disgust and anger.
All cultures are characterized by one of these three patterns.
The Scientist fits in better to the devotion/contempt societal pattern:
Devotion/contempt cultures have simpler-but-stricter rules.
The Scientist isn't as good at handling contempt as the Giver. He or she may also need to supplement anxiety, the Scientist's characteristic emotion, with passion in order to "fill out" devotion:
Passion and anxiety together function like devotion.
The other societal pattern, attachment/envy/zeal, may present more of a challenge to the Scientist:
Anxiety straddles attachment and envy.
The Scientist is naturally worse at dealing with attachment and envy, but does tend to do well with zeal. In an attachment/envy/zeal culture, the Scientist is best at focusing on zeal— or in more practical terms, focusing on work/career.
The Scientist can follow this pattern to fit in with attachment/envy/zeal.
Attaining joy, the fleeting combination of love and disgust, is important to the Scientist as a way to escape anxiety without the coping emotion of zeal:
Joy fulfills the missing needs of love and disgust.
The Scientist gets the most out of "nerdy" hobbies and entertainment, which essentially combine joy, action and narrative in this pattern:
Joy is fleeting but makes a good pairing with zeal.
The base emotions are dualities, with one form felt at a time:
When they team up in a complex emotion, their dual nature is preserved:
The opposite of an archetype's characteristic emotion is its coping emotion.
Since the coping emotion has the same arguments (self/world/society), but in opposite form, it effectively "turns off" the characteristic emotion, giving you a way out of overwhelming feelings.
The coping emotion serves as a sort of shadow archetype, characterizing you in times of extreme emotion.
Zeal, the combination of anger and pride, is the Scientist's coping emotion. It stops the Scientist from feeling his/her characteristic emotion of anxiety.
As the highest-energy emotion, zeal can take a toll on the archetype.
Anxiety/zeal are both high-energy emotions in their respective all-internalizing and all-externalizing groups. As a result, extreme emotions may be exhausting to the Scientist.
Emotions can become addictive, like a drug that's made in your head. The addictions usually involve the emotions that make up your archetype's characteristic emotion:
Addiction to fear looks like depression and anxiety, with duress as depression.
Addiction to guilt results in a dramatic personality.
Your archetype has a particular weakness too:
The freeze response stops all action in favor of examination by fear and guilt. For the Scientist, the result can be a sort of analysis paralysis that short-circuits the other four Fs:
Scientists can become overwhelmed by the freeze response, but they can also build up the biggest resistance to it, having the most experience with it.
All emotions argue for our survival. They're all good and when deployed right, healthy and useful.
This applies to complex emotions too. With names like hatred, envy and contempt, they might come off as harsh or wrong. But each combination is useful to every feeler as a matter of survival.
Every emotion can be mastered and healthy.
Ensures family survival
Ensures direct survival
Ensures tribal survival
Virtues help a feeler avoid the negative effects of an emotion by consciously producing the results of its opposite emotion. It's like coping but conscious and intentional. Here are your archetype's virtues:
Withstanding or overcoming fear. Acting as anger (the 'do something' emotion) would when feeling fear.
Doing the work and making sure it's good work. The use of pride when guilt is felt.
Read the other archetype descriptions here:
The people most similar to you will be your own archetype:
Archetypes who share your eristic order:
Archetypes who share your first argument:
Archetypes who share your second argument:
Archetypes with the same missing/third argument:
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