Frustrating types are masters at rallying, inspiring and switching people into action. They lift and inspire crowds towards anything that interests them.<
They are charismatic, so they infect others with their state, leading people on the heat of their inner current through the “darkness” of indecision. Initiators, the life of the party, showmen on any scale. If they feel good, everyone around them will feel good too. But if they feel bad — well, apologies in advance.
Frustrating types have a huge amount of energy, they really are “nuclear reactors”, which makes them tireless and hard-working. They do collapse from time to time, but not because they are tired — because they have switched off: <
“The battery will recharge in a moment, and then I’ll buzz on.”
They are able to unite and fuse, in a single surge, the ideas, goals and worldviews of the most varied people, people who at first sight look utterly incompatible. So a nuclear reactor is not quite the right comparison for them. They are more like a “thermonuclear reactor”. Having given people a unifying concept, they become the centre and the vortex of a social structure, able to steer the movement of powerful energies, social ones above all. This is helped by the sheer scale of their vision, their views, their actions, their goals and the way they reach them.<
They are innovators, generating ever more creative ideas. And not only that: they experiment easily and boldly in any direction, and scatter ideas left and right. Gifted people, in general, and in many directions at once, in the style of: “Can you play the violin? — I don’t know, I’ve never tried.” They try themselves out in new fields without hesitating.<
And they prefer to learn not the way you are supposed to, but either by gathering experience and creating concrete situations, or by teaching others:
“by the tenth time you explain it to somebody else, you finally understand it yourself”
They have the widest of social circles and accept help freely given without any difficulty. Total trust in the world, in the current, in themselves.
They are able to unite and fuse, in a single surge, the ideas, goals and worldviews of the most varied people; to give people a unifying concept; to be the centre and the vortex of a social structure.
Conflict traits
Frustrating types never have a minute’s peace. They keep stirring everyone around them up, trying to provoke and set activity going even when there is no need for it: “Everyone up, everyone run, everyone drop it, everyone finish, sit down, stand up, run — never mind where, the point is to run.” They love to burst into other people’s lives without asking permission first.<
They adore trying out and launching ever more new projects, and are often incapable of seeing them through. At the same time they will readily commit to the most hopeless and illogical schemes, without giving much thought to who is going to carry them out and how. Nor are they capable of doing what actually needs doing, because anything settled is very hard for them: there has always to be something new. Suppose a house is being built — it is a house that will never be finished. The moment it gets as far as the roof:
“No, we’re changing the design, and radically! We’re turning the whole thing 180 degrees. Now the inside walls are going to stick out!”
Their thinking, meanwhile, is grand in scale, and they often treat those around them as a means of reaching their many ideas, goals and aspirations, forgetting the inner world of these people.
They prefer to have favourites as the chief executors of their goals. If you are lucky enough to become one, you will be stirred up and pushed harder, more and further than anyone else. It is worth remembering, however, for the sake of your own health: frustrating types change their favourites easily. If you, as the favourite, have not lived up to expectations, you are anathematised and another one is chosen.
Frustrating types avoid taking responsibility for their decisions and find it hard to acknowledge the results of their own actions. They hand out empty promises freely and then go back on their word: “it never happened, I never promised, I don’t know, I don’t remember.” And somehow you believe them, because it is said with such energy and such conviction. On the whole, they will always find someone to pin it on and a scapegoat to carry it: “it wasn’t me, he got me wrong.”
They often refuse to the last to believe other people’s logical reasoning and experience, until they have checked everything with their own backsides and stepped on the rake themselves
