Дмитрий Коренев

Dividing people into introverts and extraverts is frowned upon — and quite wrongly so. The difference between them is so fundamental that it lies behind domestic quarrels, religious reformations and the irreconcilability of whole ideologies. It is so striking and so obvious that you might think these were people from different planets. If we grasp this difference, not only will our own lives get easier — the world will get better.

There are people whose psyche is honed for movement — unlike others, who are driven now by emotion, now by rationality. These people are masters of non-judgmental perception and of the “nothing personal, it is just business” style of communication. They are people with the naturological Ego type, and their basic mental instrument is “Contact with Reality”.

There are people whose psyche is tuned for emotions. Unlike those who tend to settle everything with their head, these people settle everything by intuition, by sensations and by inner states: by attraction and aversion. And that is wonderful, because we are talking about people with the ‘Psychological’ Ego type, whose main mental instrument is ‘Contact with Emotions’

Do you seriously think the Passive Life Position sounds like a bad deal? Then think of Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, Steven Seagal, Céline Dion, Milla Jovovich — and Angela Merkel into the bargain. They are all people with a Passive Life Position (PLP).