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The Anxious Withdrawn Worker

You combine traditional values with relaxed organisation, deep introversion, low concern for warmth, and high background anxiety, which produces a particular kind of withdrawn anxious life; conventional, solitary, unsentimental, structureless, and quietly costly to your nervous system in ways that the equanimity of the merely-similar cannot relieve.

The five dimensions

Openness
Low
Conscientiousness
Low
Extraversion
Low
Agreeableness
Low
Neuroticism
High

Your superpower

Honest reading of what is genuinely difficult delivered without performance, in conventional small settings where the honesty is genuinely useful. You do not pretend anything is easier than it is and you do not perform engagement you do not feel; the few people who get past your reserve find the wiring unusually accurate.

Your blind spot

You can mistake the worry, the withdrawal, and the low warmth for evidence that the world is genuinely as bad as your wiring tells you, when in fact the wiring is producing concern in search of a target and the low warmth and withdrawal compound the loneliness that feeds the worry. Some of what you sense is real; much of it is wiring.

What draws people to you

In a culture of performed optimism, theatrical warmth, and constant connection, your refusal to perform any of it reads as a kind of integrity. The few who can stand the absence of warmth and the presence of worry find someone unusually honest.

In the full report

These sections are part of the personal report:

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