LOYALTY

You are good at sticking with people, even when things get awkward and tricky. Y
ou give people a second and third chance, because fundamentally, you are good at
recognising people s good sides (even when there s quite a lot about them that is n
ot so attractive). Partisanship is actually your strength: you stay on someone s s
ide for more than intellectual reasons because they feel like a part of who you
are. For Loyalty:
History of Ideas: Love
On Forgiveness
How Necessary is a Relationship?
RATIONALITY
You like clarity and intelligent simplicity and you get frustrated at messy thin
king. This can make you seem unreasonably pushy to some, but it is actually a vi
rtue: you are motivated by a horror at pointless effort and a longing for precis
ion and insight into how things and people work. Your ability to synthesise and
bring order is essential in producing thinking which is truly helpful. For Ratio
nality:
What is Philosophy For?
Philosophy Ludwig Wittgenstein
Who Are You to Say That?
RESILIENCE
You have a tendency, after a setback, to turn your emotions towards restriving.
What attracts you is the idea of wiping out a humiliation by resumed action
over
coming weakness, repressing your fear. Because part of your motive is pride, you
can sometimes be unwilling to admit weakness or to receive aid. But at heart, t
our insistence on coming back and never folding has taught you a valuable pessim
ism: you know that important journeys are never easy. For Resilience:
On Stress and Inner Voices
How to Cope with Imperfection
Losers and Tragic Heroes