Function Analysis
Function AnalysisSeeker vs Inspector
Comprehensive cognitive function differential analysis
First Type
Second Type
Constantly tracks available time reserves.
Pushes others but manages own and others' time as they see fit. Often late or forgets promises by deadlines. Alternates between excessive haste and deliberately slow pace - cannot establish moderate rhythm. Lives by their own time understanding. Tends to discuss interests at inappropriate times for others but won't listen to what seems untimely to them. Predicts event trends based on past patterns. Interested in catastrophes, disasters, mass casualties and other fateful events.
Hardly tolerates unpunctual people who do everything at wrong times.
Lives at measured pace, strongly dislikes unjustified postponements and schedule disruptions. Frightened by fate and unpredictability. Though rejecting mysticism, cautiously listens to prophecies, fortune-telling, and dreams. Gets mobilized and spurred by unexpected but important events requiring quick completion.
Excellent at spotting potential in new ideas and projects.
Interested in everything, hoping to find something unique. Quickly abandons unpromising ideas and switches to new ones. Has diverse interests often unrelated to main work. Collects discoveries and innovations in areas of interest. Generates bold, alternative ideas for any problem encountered. Cannot tolerate routine and traditional constraints. Makes any forced boring work completely new and different. Persistent in spreading their own developments - must make ideas 'theirs' to get excited.
Very attached to personal worldview, makes no concessions or compromises.
Selects friends based on shared views. Judges human abilities by their own standards - 'if I can do it, why can't others?' Personal attitude replaces intuition. May trust well-wishers, informants, pseudo-supporters. Values intellectual, creatively gifted people and can forgive their egoism and unethical behavior.
Often uncertain about physical qualities of objects.
Examines, smells, and touches everything. Needs significant doses to taste food or drinks properly. Maintains tone with external stimulators. Prioritizes personal convenience, spends easily without considering reserves. Ignores surrounding order, leaves things where used then searches for them. Interested in health issues, takes increased treatment doses when sick but ignores daily prevention. Often untidy appearance, quickly wears out clothes. Conservative in tastes and household habits.
Carefully monitors appearance and always looks neat.
Tidy in household and workplace. Skilled with hands - repairs and crafts home items. Excellent at fine manual operations, especially design and decoration work. Prefers simple but healthy food. Shows stability in tastes and habits.
Non-aggressive by nature but actively defends lifestyle and theories.
Reactsexplosively to unreasonable restrictions. Responds to force with short but intense counterattacks, temporarily losing self-control. During conversations tries to capture all attention through gestures, loud voice, and physical contact. Can respond to challenges but cannot sustain long competition due to limited energy reserves. Avoids direct rivalry.
Sober realist who sets only achievable goals.
Usually accomplishes them eventually, if not immediately. When explanations and warnings don't help, applies pressure and other forceful management methods. Knows how to corner opponents. Stoic who maintains self-control and endures any hardships. Forces themselves to do uninteresting but necessary things. Helps weak and defenseless people, cares for elderly and sick. Can be quiet lone fighter for justice.
Studies and explains complex objects lacking clear theories.
Determines interconnections between various schemes and structures, comparing different systems. Can modify and present ideas to fit their resulting framework. Analyzes problems comprehensively from multiple angles. Builds their structure like a constructor from ready components. Links interesting observations to their own theory, seeking unified explanations for diverse phenomena and cause-effect relationships.
Thoroughly masters any work undertaken.
Stubbornly and persistently gathers information to fully control situations. Collector or book lover, especially interested in reference literature. Advocate of strict order and refined systems. Rejects anything that doesn't fit as illogical. Regularly checks and controls progress in areas of interest. Balanced and reliable themselves, demands same from others. Respects hierarchy and ignores personal preferences in business matters. Places objects in strictly designated places, cannot tolerate others taking or moving their things.
Masters parallel action technology.
Can handle multiple diverse processes simultaneously, seeking to combine maximum functions. In business shows resourcefulness but starts too many things at once to track properly, leading to incompleteness. Likes to command and delegate tasks, needs objects of influence to move around as desired. Small projects grow into large ones requiring major energy investment. Immediately tests ideas practically. Excellent experimenter and adjuster of unique equipment, effective with new technologies.
Very thrifty in work and purchases.
Seeks to save even small amounts of money. Keeps worn-out items just in case. Tries to eliminate unnecessary labor costs. Supporter of mechanization and automation. Controls income more than expenses. Monitors others' actions and suspects problems when they seem illogical or inappropriate.
Communicates at short psychological distance.
Evaluates relationships by their democratic level - prefers minimal formalism. Inconsistent with family and friends - sometimes familiar to the point of rudeness, other times stern and distant. May help people selflessly but finds it hard to damage relationships by refusing. Feels bound by relationships. Freely shares personal problems and discusses others' behavior and lifestyle.
Behaves politely and correctly in public.
Can force themselves to be cheerful and sociable. Easily makes brief, situational contacts. Inspires trust through behavior. Patiently listens to people who approach them, shows sympathy and favor. Though becomes closer, rejects overly familiar relationships. Stern at home with family, loves to educate and moralize. Reliable in attachments but sometimes painfully torn between two objects of affection.
Loves parties and emotional communication.
Without positive emotional feeding, remains in lazy, apathetic state. Always ready for heated opinion exchanges and interesting debates. Responds emotionally to emotions - important not to overdose involvement or they forget the original disagreement point. Speaks quickly and chaotically when emotionally excited, thoughts outpacing words. Experiences sharp mood swings between liveliness and withdrawal.
Usually in gloomy mood, accumulates negative emotions.
Feels relief after venting emotions on someone. Needs frequent emotional background changes for good physical condition. Cannot tolerate directed pressure from negative emotions - crying, tantrums, accusations. Easier to give in than ignore them. Internally quite touchy and vulnerable though doesn't show it, considering it weakness.
Function-based type comparison analysis