As Riso and Hudson (1999) explain, the basic fear of type Eight is being harmed or controlled by others. In fact, my score of type Eight is the second highest, so I sometimes fear being controlled by others and fear that others have strong power over me. When I was a junior high school student, I was a captain of the basketball team in my school. In retrospect, I was often seized with a powerful desire to control other team mates at will so that I could protect myself and feel comfortable. Even now, I sometimes feel the same impulse to control others. Therefore, the basic fear and desire of type Eight seem to have a strong effect on me.
As for the type Eight with a Seven wing, the characteristics of this type are charismatic, action-oriented (healthy level), and adventurous risk-takers, talkative, outgoing with great self-confidence (average level). I’m a type Seven with an Eight wing, so I seem to have these characteristics. My behavioral pattern is action-oriented and I like taking a risk because challenging new things brings strong stimuli to my life taking a risk. Nowadays, I’m not so talkative, but I was a very talkative man when I was a kid.
Next, regarding to the wake-up call for type Eight, “Eights generally do not like working under others, performing instead the risk and adventure of running their own activities” (Riso and Hudson, 1999, p. 297). When I worked in a business consulting company in Japan, I sometimes felt so. Interestingly, my working behavior toward my managers (authorities) was obedient, but when I worked with my colleagues or my staffs, I didn’t like them to control me.
As stated above, I have many elements of the type Eight.
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