6.4—The Individualist Pursuit of Empowered Self-love Happiness (#4,6, 7) A more introverted creative type than the achiever is the Romantic (#4) who are warm, compassionate, introspective, creative, intuitive, supportive and refined on the upside. The downside of Romantics is that they get depressed, self-conscious, guilt-ridden, moralistic , withdrawn, stubborn, moody, and self-absorbed”. (Ibid.) A writer tends to be of this ilk and is wonderful to be around when creative but may be moody, self-absorbed and depressed when he has writ-er’s block and the creative juice are not flowing. The connections between cha-racter types and careers apply to both my trades as therapist and writer and both the virtues and vices do appear with some relevance. Please continue to try these character types to see your happiness goals and the built in frustrations from the personality
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What’s to like about being a Romantic (#4) is making warm connections with people through empathy and a sense of humor while being seen as unique in creativity . They like being intuitive and finding a deeper meaning in life through beauty and truth.
What’s hard about being a Romantic is “expecting too much from life and longing for what they don’t have so that they experience dark moods of emptiness and despair. When they expect too much of themselves, they have feelings of self-hatred and shame feeling unloveable. (Ibid.)
What’s to like about being an Observer #5) is “standing up and viewing life objectively until coming to a thorough understanding of causes and effects. They like being able to do what they think is right without being influenced by social pressures and consider this
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What’s to like about being a Romantic (#4) is making warm connections with people through empathy and a sense of humor while being seen as unique in creativity . They like being intuitive and finding a deeper meaning in life through beauty and truth.
What’s hard about being a Romantic is “expecting too much from life and longing for what they don’t have so that they experience dark moods of emptiness and despair. When they expect too much of themselves, they have feelings of self-hatred and shame feeling unloveable. (Ibid.)
What’s to like about being an Observer #5) is “standing up and viewing life objectively until coming to a thorough understanding of causes and effects. They like being able to do what they think is right without being influenced by social pressures and consider this