Curiosity operates here as a life principle rather than a hobby. Conversation is the primary instrument, and it is used constantly: to test ideas, to gather intelligence, to find out what a stranger knows that nobody else in the room does. Such a person can talk to a bishop and a bricklayer within the same hour and leave both feeling well met, having adjusted register without any sense of falsity. Two or three occupations at once is common and rarely a sign of failure. It is how the mind keeps itself supplied.
The characteristic difficulty is depth. Learning comes so easily at the outset that the tedious third stage of any discipline, where progress stops and only repetition remains, is repeatedly deserted for something new and more interesting. The result is a wide and genuinely useful competence that stops short of mastery. There is also the matter of position. Having argued a case brilliantly, this person may argue the reverse next week with equal conviction, which they experience as intellectual honesty and others experience as being unable to get a straight answer.
Restlessness is the ordinary weather. Long silences, unvaried routines and rooms without books produce a nervous unease that is easy to mistake for unhappiness. What is actually wanted is stimulus. Those who do well with this placement build lives with movement designed into them, and they choose one or two subjects to stay with on purpose, against inclination, because the pleasure of finally knowing something thoroughly is a pleasure they will otherwise never taste.
What It Gives
- ◆quick, adaptable intelligence
- ◆genuine ease with strangers
- ◆fast learning
- ◆clear explanation
What It Costs
- ◆shallow mastery
- ◆nervous restlessness
- ◆inconsistent positions
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