| Healthy: Conscientious with strong
personal convictions: they have an intense
sense of right and wrong, personal religious
and moral values. Wish to be rational, reasonable,
self-disciplined, mature, moderate in all
things. / Extremely principled, always want
to be fair, objective, and ethical: truth
and justice primary values. Sense of responsibility,
personal integrity, and of having a higher
purpose often make them teachers and witnesses
to the truth.
At Their Best: Become extraordinarily
wise and discerning. By accepting what is,
they become transcendentally realistic,
knowing the best action to take in each
moment. Humane, inspiring, and hopeful:
the truth will be heard.
Average: Dissatisfied with reality,
they become high-minded idealists, feeling
that it is up to them to improve everything:
crusaders, advocates, critics. Into "causes"
and explaining to others how things "ought"
to be. Afraid of making a mistake: everything
must be consistent with their ideals. Become
orderly and well-organized, but impersonal,
puritanical, emotionally constricted, rigidly
keeping their feelings and impulses in check.
Often workaholics "anal-compulsive,"
punctual, pedantic, and fastidious. / Highly
critical both of self and others: picky,
judgmental, perfectionistic. Very opinionated
about everything: correcting people and
badgering them to "do the right thing"as
they see it. Impatient, never satisfied
with anything unless it is done according
to their prescriptions. Moralizing, scolding,
abrasive, and indignantly angry.
Unhealthy: Can be highly dogmatic,
self-righteous, intolerant, and inflexible.
Begin dealing in absolutes: they alone know
"The Truth." Everyone else is
wrong: very severe in judgments, while rationalizing
own actions. / Become obsessive about imperfection
and the wrong-doing of others, although
they may fall into contradictory actions,
hypocritically doing the opposite of what
they preach. / Become condemnatory toward
others, punitive and cruel to rid themselves
of "wrong-doers." Severe depressions,
nervous breakdowns, and suicide attempts
are likely.
Key Motivations: Want to be right,
to strive higher and improve everything,
to be consistent with their ideals, to justify
themselves, to be beyond criticism so as
not to be condemned by anyone.
Examples: Mahatma Gandhi, Hilary
Clinton, Al Gore, John Paul II, Sandra Day
O'Connor, John Bradshaw, Bill Moyers, Martha
Stewart, Ralph Nader, Katherine Hepburn,
Harrison Ford, Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Fonda,
Meryl Streep, George Harrison, Celene Dion,
Joan Baez, George Bernard Shaw, Noam Chomsky,
Michael Dukakis, Margaret Thatcher, Rudolph
Guliani, Jerry Brown, Jane Curtin, Gene
Siskel, William F. Buckley, Kenneth Starr,
The "Church Lady" (Saturday Night
Live), and "Mr. Spock" (Star Trek). |