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ROLES THAT SHOW UP · BEHAVIOR CATALOG

Roles That Show Up

A public catalog of the roles that show up when several traits are strong in the same person. This is not a list of labels. For each role, you can read the condition behind it, the reaction, and the intensity.

ALL ROLES · 53
All 53 roles that can show up. In the result view, only the roles that actually show up in you are listed, with their intensity.
ADAPTIVE INNOVATOR
The Adaptive Innovator
Gladly rewriting yesterday's answers, today
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ALIEN OBSERVER
The Detached Observer
In the room, yet watching from a distance
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ARCHITECT
The Architect
Trying to carry out exactly the structure already finished in their head
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ASCETIC MONK
The Monk
Convinced that owning less makes the inner life deeper
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BLIND FOLLOWER
The Blind Follower
When you follow someone else's conclusion instead of your own
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BUREAUCRAT
The Bureaucrat
The one who looks for the procedure before the answer
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CALCULATING PRETENDER
The Calculating Pretender
Someone who turns the ability to understand people into performance
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CAREGIVER EMPATH
The Empath
Someone for whom another person's pain becomes their own
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COMMANDER
The Commander
The one who takes command first, whatever the room
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CRAFTSMAN PERFECTIONIST
The Perfectionist
Unable to walk past a single flaw
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CULT LEADER
The Cult Leader
The one who draws people in as their certainty grows
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CYNIC
The Cynic
Someone who makes every sincerity a subject for analysis
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DESTROYER
The Destroyer
Someone whose anger turns into action unusually fast
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DIPLOMAT
The Diplomat
When tracking everyone's mood leaves you less and less able to say what you think
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DOGMATIC AUTHORITY
The Dogmatic Authority
Someone who tries to judge the whole world by a single standard
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DRAMA QUEEN
The Drama Queen
Someone whose growing feelings make the people around them struggle too
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DREAMER
The Dreamer
The one whose mind is busy and who starts nothing
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DRIFTER HEDONIST
The Hedonist
When living only for this moment leaves everything put off to be dealt with at once later
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DRIFTER WANDERER
The Wanderer
When the direction of a life is handed over to fate
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ECHO CHAMBER
The Echo Chamber
Someone who keeps only opinions like their own around them
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ECHO MIRROR
The Mirror
Someone who fits everyone and forgets what they wanted themselves
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EXECUTIONER
The Executioner
Someone who leaves people out of the calculation for the sake of the numbers
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FRAME MASTER
The Master of Perspectives
Seeing one event again from several points of view
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GLASS FRAGILE
The Glass Mind
When a single offhand remark can unsettle the entire day
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JUDGE CRITIC
The Judge
The person who sees the flaw in every argument first
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JUNKIE
The Junkie
Someone for whom the familiar turns boring unusually fast
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LONE WOLF
The Lone Wolf
Most fully yourself when no one else is in the room
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MACHIAVELLIANISM
The Machiavellian
Someone who calculates first whether it works rather than whether it is right
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MAD SCIENTIST
The Restless Inventor
Someone who forgets everything else once one thing has their full attention
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MARTYR RULE
The Martyr
Someone who looks after everyone else but never looks after themselves
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NARCISSISTIC TYRANT
The Tyrant
Someone who takes an objection as an insult rather than a view
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NIHILIST
The Nihilist
Someone who, at any meaning, asks first why it would mean anything
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OPEN MEDIATOR
The Open Mediator
The person both sides of a conflict feel they can actually talk to
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OPPORTUNIST
The Hustler
Quicker than anyone to seize an opening, and rarely resembling who they were yesterday
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PARANOIA
The Tracker
The one who catches the danger signal in a piece of information first, and largest
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PARASITE
The Dependent
The one who always leaves the decisions of their life to someone else
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PERSONA ACTOR
The Actor
A different self for every situation, and a real one nowhere to be found
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PSYCHOPATHY
The Cold Achiever
Someone whose decisions run fast and who is cold to the people close to them, because emotion is l...
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PUPPETEER
The Puppeteer
Reads everyone's mind with precision, and shows their own to no one
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REFLECTIVE SAGE
The Reflective Sage
Looks at their own thinking one more time, and can be the first to say "I don't know"
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REVOLUTIONARY
The Revolutionary
Cannot stand the way things have always been, and designs a new order instead
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RIGID OPERATOR
The Rigid Operator
Someone who puts proven procedure before everything else
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SCHOLAR SAGE
The Sage
Keeps the world at a distance in order to carry one study through a lifetime
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SELF DECEIVER
The Self-Deceiver
Someone who believes so sincerely that they cannot see their own contradictions
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SELF RIGHTEOUS CRUSADER
The Crusader
When conviction sets, other viewpoints start to read as errors to correct
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SNAKE IN SUIT
The Snake in a Suit
Someone with perfect manners and no feeling
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SOCIAL CHAMELEON
The Chameleon
Fluent in every role, with no self outside the roles
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SPY OBSERVER
The Observer
Someone who keeps a distance even in the middle of the group
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STAR DIVA
The Diva
Someone who becomes lively when people are watching and loses confidence when they are not
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VICTIM PRISONER
The Prisoner
Someone who reads every event as the same story of being wronged again
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VISIONARY PIONEER
The Pioneer
Someone who heads toward the future feeling almost no fear
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WORKAHOLIC
The Machine
Someone who confirms their own worth only through work
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ZEALOT
The Zealot
Someone who, as conviction hardens, rules out the other possibilities one by one
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