Profile 2/5: Hermit and Heretic

The 2/5 Profile brings stillness and the spotlight together in two lines. The first number stands for your conscious side, the Personality, and the second for your unconscious side, the Design. On the conscious side, the theme is retreat and feedback. On the unconscious side, you draw other people's projections toward you. Together this creates the picture of a capable, charismatic leader who rarely wants to lead and still has a noticeable impact once they get involved.

With this Profile, you may experience yourself as something like an observer of earthly dramas, swinging back and forth between what others expect and the images you sketch out for yourself. You stay reserved and let few people get close. Your reputation and the image others hold of you carry weight. The role of rescuer or crisis manager comes readily, and with it the risk of living up to the wrong image while you feel unseen on the inside.

In your work, this Profile often shows up as thinking outside the box and coming up with surprising, unconventional ideas. You look for confirmation in conversation and like to switch tasks so you don't get pinned down to one for too long. It is considered helpful to step out of the spectator role and put less stock in other people's applause, because that is what makes real encounters and sincere praise possible. This Profile goes by the name “Hermit-Heretic.”