Balzac
ILI — Intuitive-Logical Introvert
Description: Balzac (ILI)
Balzac sees a project's weak points at the stage when everyone around is still full of enthusiasm — and is usually proved right. His scepticism grows out of a tenacious memory for precedents and an ability to calculate what a process will turn into in a year or in ten. He spends his energy sparingly and stays out of gambles, which is why his rare definite recommendations are worth a lot: behind each stands long, sober analysis.
Strong functions: Balzac (ILI)
Introverted intuition (base) gives the ability to see historical perspective, forecast crises and intuitively determine the inevitable outcome of complex processes.
Extraverted logic (creative) lets him act with maximum efficiency, cutting out superfluous moves and optimising resources for a stable result.
Weak functions: Balzac (ILI)
Extraverted ethics (vulnerable) shows as a distaste for stormy, uncontrolled displays of feeling, which tire him and read as falseness or manipulation.
Extraverted sensing (suggestive) shows as a subconscious need for an external impulse — a decisive push that will move him from analysis to action.
Personality portraits: Balzac (ILI)
Male portrait
Ironic and phlegmatic, with an encyclopaedic mind and a bent for deep risk analysis. At work he is invaluable as an analyst, financier, architect of complex systems or auditor able to avert disaster at an early stage.
Female portrait
Comes across as independent, intellectual and reserved, indifferent to cheap outward effects. She values quiet, substantive laconic dialogue, and builds her life on pragmatism and keeping unnecessary contacts to a minimum.
Famous people: Balzac (ILI)
Arthur Schopenhauer
German pessimist philosopher, author of the philosophy of will, known for a sceptical view of human nature and motivation.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Italian Renaissance thinker, author of The Prince, a treatise on the pragmatic, realistic mechanics of power.
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, author of works on cosmology and black holes, known for deep predictive thinking.
Stanisław Lem
Polish science-fiction writer and futurologist, known for philosophical fiction and accurate forecasts of technological development.
George Orwell
British writer and essayist, author of dystopias who foresaw the dangerous tendencies of totalitarian control over society.