These 20 Questions Will Determine Your Psychological Archetype

What are the underlying motivations that drive your behavior?

Ben Glass
Created by Ben Glass
On Jan 6, 2016

Archetype 1: The Caregiving Creator

Archetype 1: The Caregiving Creator

The caregiver in you is altruistic, loving and compassionate. Although prone to martyrdom and enabling behaviors, your inner caregiver helps others in need and sustains life and health. Your inner creator fosters imagination and innovation, always looking for new projects and thinking of new ways to express yourself to the world.

Life Goals: Help others through sacrifice, create new things
Fears: Selfishness, ingratitude, failure, inauthenticity
Response to Problems: Act immediately to find solutions
Life Tasks: Give without maiming self or others, create new things, self-acceptance
Personal Gifts: generosity, nurturing, creativity, vision
Personal Pitfalls: Martyrdom, enabling others, self-indulgence, unorganized

Archetype 3: The Rebellious Joker

Archetype 3: The Rebellious Joker

Your inner revel embodies repressed anger, yet manifests itself through passion and drive. Although you can be ruthless and a fighter, you are a unique non-conformist. Despite your dark side, your inner joker encourages others to enjoy the process of life through humor. You can be prone to laziness and irresponsibility, but you live life to the fullest.

Life Goals: Transformation, pleasure, aliveness
Fears: Oppression, death, being unoriginal
Response to Problems: Destroy them, make light of them
Life Tasks: Enjoyment of the journey, letting go
Personal Gifts: Freedom, humor, humility, ability to change
Personal Pitfalls: Anger, aggression, irresponsibility, slothfulness

Archetype 2: The Lover/Magician

Archetype 2: The Lover/Magician

Your inner lover governs all kind of love including familial, friendship, spiritual, but most importantly romantic. You show your energy and your passion on your sleeve and put your entire being into relationships. You fear being alone and are a natural seducer. Your inner magician is always trying to transform situations, influence people or make visions into reality. You have strong powers and some people are intimidated by you, but you usually use your talents for good.

Life Goals: Bliss, love, change
Fears: Loss of love, solitude, staying the same
Response to Problems: Transform the bad, Use manipulation
Life Tasks: Follow your heart, balance
Personal Gifts: Passion, sensual pleasure, personal power, intuition
Personal Pitfalls: Objectifying others, out of control sexuality, disconnection with reality

Archetype 4: The Orphan/Sage

Archetype 4: The Orphan/Sage

Your inner orphan is independent, self-reliant and often mistrustful of authority figures. You are resourceful and cunning, but you have problems letting down your guard. Your inner sage believes that the most important thing in life is the truth, and that it will set us free. You are a seeker of justice, enlightenment and you’re always looking to gain more knowledge.

Life Goals: Safety, security, truth, understanding
Fears: Exploitation, deception, illusion
Response to Problems: Act tough, try to understand the meaning of things
Life Tasks: Process and feel pain fully, attain wisdom
Personal Gifts: Independence, realism, resilience, wisdom, skepticism
Personal Pitfalls: Cynicism, chronic complaining, lack of empathy

Archetype 5: The Seeker/Warrior

Archetype 5: The Seeker/Warrior

Your inner seeker wants to explore the unknown. You have a strong intuition that there is something bigger and greater beyond your own reality. You embrace learning and are ambitious, although your perfectionist nature sometimes reaches too high and you end up disappointed. Your inner warrior is courageous, tough and always persistent. You aim to bring meaning to your own life and to others’ through your actions and behavior. You are often over-competitive at the expense of other people, but it’s a part of your desire to always succeed.

Life Goals: Search for a better way, winning
Fear: Conformity, entrapment, weakness, failure
Response to Problems: Escaping, fighting if the reward is great enough
Life Tasks: See the world, be a strong person
Personal Gifts: Autonomy, ambition, identity, courage, discipline
Personal Pitfalls: Inability to commit, chronic disappointment, arrogance, ruthless

Archetype 6: The Innocent Ruler

Archetype 6: The Innocent Ruler

Your inner innocence is characterized by a childlike approach to the world. You are optimistic and believe that things will work out for the better. Sometimes this leads to being overly naïve and clueless, but your youthful spirit is rare. You also have an inner ruler that inspires you to take responsibility for your own life and seeks to create order and structure in society. This can make you bossy, but in general people respect you for your leadership skills.

Life Goals: Safety, order, harmony
Fears: Abandonment, chaos, lack of control
Response to Problems: Denial or action depending on situation
Life Tasks: Happiness, Ownership of your life and goals
Personal Gifts: Trust, optimism, loyalty, responsible, sovereign
Personal Pitfalls: Naiveté, obliviousness, rigidity, controlling, entitled

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