Path of LivingThe sixteen types
Theme

The Hidden Hand

Challenger Self-sufficient Self Arrive

Think of a woman who trains for a year, runs her first marathon, and tells no one.

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The shape

This shape sets itself hard personal targets and goes after them seriously, in private. A target counts as met on the day it is met, and it stays met if no one else ever learns of it.

In ordinary life

Lives with this shape

None of these people took the reading. The record of each shows the shape.

Henry Cavendish (1731 to 1810)

The English scientist Henry Cavendish published few papers, and his notes on electricity, which held results now known by the names of Coulomb and Ohm, came out only when James Clerk Maxwell edited them in 1879. A run of hard results, each one reached and then left unpublished, shows the shape from outside.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

Sherlock Holmes (fiction)

In Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of Four (1890), Sherlock Holmes tells Watson that when the police bring him a case they cannot solve he claims no credit, his name appears in no newspaper, and the work itself is his reward. Case after hard case taken on and closed, while the papers name someone else, shows the shape from outside.

Source: gutenberg.org

Closest neighbor

The Flag Planter shares three of these sides and differs on being seen: its goals are just as bold and just as personal, but a win there is finished only once other people have watched it happen.

One side away

Each shares three sides with this shape. On the right is the side it has instead.

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