Seeing, perceiving and understanding oneself as the bearer of the truth. “I know how it should be done”, “I make the rules”. The conviction that there is only one truth and that it belongs to me, that I alone know it. Therefore everyone must live as I do, as I have said, by my rules. The idea comes before the person.

Disharmonious and Conflict-Prone Traits

1. Infallibility (I am always right and I will prove it to you).
2. Everyone must act and live the way I see fit, the way I consider right and true; those who break the rule must be punished.
3. A good person is the one who backs up my rightness; the rest are bad and deserve no leniency.
4. Difficulty in empathising with others.
5. A poor sense of humour, excessive seriousness.
6. Everything — the lives of my family, of my staff — is subject to my order, my law, my choice, my rules.
7. Rigidity, inflexibility, one-sidedness, conservatism.

Harmonious Traits

1. The ability to prove they are right and to argue it through logically.
2. Logic, consistency, well-developed mental abilities.
3. The ability to set out their thoughts and ideas correctly and clearly.
4. A gift for instructing, commanding and leading (clear rules and instructions for those around them).
5. A well-developed, stable and dependable inner core.
6. Precision, clarity, consistency.
7. Stability and solidity of thinking, behaviour and worldview.
8. A well-developed structure of values and life meanings.
9. Traditionalism (the ability to create a tradition and keep it alive).

Fears, Sources of Displeasure

1. Being wrong themselves, being fallible.
2. Making a mistake and having to admit it.
3. Having no circle to back up their truth, no one to “confirm that my truth is right”.
4. Betrayal, faint-heartedness, rules not kept, mistakes by their followers: “my followers have turned away from me, they have betrayed me”.
5. Failing to keep their own rules, departing from their own position (not holding out through a fast, through vegetarianism, through solitude, and so on).

Sources of Pleasure

1. Proving that they are right.
2. A large number of followers.
3. Putting everything in its place, arguing it through logically, proving it.
4. Punishing the guilty, those who have offended by behaving badly or wrongly.
5. Others acknowledging that they are right
6. Everything in life makes sense, my rules work, my precepts are kept. “Life has become better, life has become merrier”.
7. Guiding others onto “the path of Truth”

Careers (Comfortable, Self-Actualizing)

1. The military (commanding officers)
2. Founders of a new school or tradition
3. Judges, lawmakers, legal experts, enforcers (punishment for wrongdoing)
4. Academics (defending their own concept, proving others wrong, debating)
5. Clergy, ministers of the church (in senior positions)
6. Lawyers, accountants (in a country where the laws work and one can be honest)
7. Any post that involves giving other people clear instructions and setting them on the right path.

Games – Roles – Manipulations

1. Behaviour like that deserves punishment.
2. Here I am the Law. It will be my way.
3. It is not I who punish you, it is the Law that punishes you (“It was not Stalin who put you away, so it is not for him to let you out”)

Appearance

Precise, severe, rigid

Motor Activity

Rigid, upright posture — a steel rod inside, “fixing instead of embracing”

Personality Development (Paths)

1. Granting others the right to their own opinion, their own understanding, their own rules.
2. Realising that people with different opinions can be right at the same time.
3. Fallibility: accepting that they too can be wrong and can make mistakes.
4. Developing the capacity for empathy (living not only by the mind and by logic, but also by the heart).