Time Strategy
The four distinct small groups within a category and their psychological implications for personality diagnostics.
Category's Small Groups
Disciplined
Group Description
Everyday life, objects, and human-made order. Through purposeful stewardship and consistent cultivation of the immediate environment, the material world is maintained, organized, and made reliably functional.
They value stability, predictability, and the dependable operation of established structures. Less attuned to emerging opportunities or long-range possibilities.
Feature
Weak inert Intuiting
Life Strategy
Careful completion of what is started
Alternative name
Stability
Hedonistic
Group Description
The living body, physical sensation, and the vitality of present experience - appetite, comfort, and sensory life in its most immediate form.
They are attuned to opportunities for sensory satisfaction and ease in the here and now, with little preoccupation with future consequences or abstract ideals.
Feature
Strong inert Sensing
Life Strategy
Satisfaction of present desires
Alternative name
Present
Ascetic
Group Description
Spirit, symbols, and ideas. The products of imagination, shaped and ordered by rational discipline, become the building blocks of future frameworks - visions made comprehensible and offered to others as paths forward.
They invest themselves in building or preserving what matters beyond the present moment, often at the cost of immediate comfort, driven by a sense of mission or enduring purpose.
Feature
Weak inert Sensing
Life Strategy
The pursuit of the ideal
Alternative name
Future
Chaotic
Group Description
Fantasy, images of wild, unbounded imagination. In the case of Possibilities Intuiting, imagination is static - a collection of unrelated fragments representing idea jumps, with the external world perceived as safe and encouraging exploratory activity. In the case of Temporal Intuiting, there are frozen metamorphoses, often with an unsettling or otherworldly undertone.
They are spontaneous and averse to routine, drawn toward novelty and the untried, and adapt fluidly rather than holding to fixed plans or accumulated gains.
Feature
Strong inert Intuiting
Life Strategy
Flexible adjustment to the world
Alternative name
Novelty