As a Caregiver, you will find yourself as someone who’s naturally gifted to nurture. Without counting your effort and resources, you make it your personal mission to help the people you love. Just as how a mother cares for her children by aiding their growth, your ability to nurture is unparalleled. 

Furthermore, you also possess that protective knack to guard the people and things that you cherish in life. Whereas other archetypes will allow for some freedom, you tend to become overprotective just to make sure that no one is hurt or in danger. 

Thus, you often see the value of life in the actions that you make. For you, grandiose actions are welcome but aren’t necessary to be of help to others. In fact, you perceive simplicity and availability as equally important. 

Basic Qualities

Introvert

You are: 

• Perceptive
• Good Listener
• Prudent
• Mindful
• Independent

As an introvert, you exude a strong yet withdrawn sense of self. You dislike showing off and are quite unsure in dealing with crowds and large groups.  Even then, this doesn’t mean that you have a weak sense of self because, in reality, you know yourself better than anyone else. Thus, you don’t really need the approval of those around you to become who you want to be. 

More importantly, you are also independent and prudent. With your cautious attitude, you don’t simply pounce on things. You like the wait and see approach, then act independently when the time comes. As such, this makes lesser room for error and mistakes, allowing you to become ‘lowkey’ and successful in life. 

Things to pay attention to: 

• Overthinking
• Pushover
• Misunderstood
• Anxiety
• Passivity

Being an introvert, you are prone to the possible weaknesses mentioned above. For one, you have the tendency to be pushed over by others. Since you lack that assertiveness in groups, dominant people are quick to take advantage of your silence. As a result, you become invaluable at times, especially when you are unable to stand for what’s right. 

Furthermore, since you love sulking in, you also have the tendency to overthink and be anxious. Common among people who lack a proper outlet, your tendency to sink-in forces you to converse only with yourself. This often leads to a lack of well-balanced perspectives, preventing you from going out of your own mental circle.  

We-Centeredness

You are: 

• Altruistic
• Cooperative
• Moralistic
• Empathetic
• Optimistic

We-centeredness means that you allow others to become part of your reality. Because you seek to strongly integrate your existence with those around you, you shape your goals in a way that helps them as well. With that, you take into account how others think and feel. 

Furthermore, you also consider the moral implications of your own choices in conjunction with your relationships with others. Instead of simply deciding on your own, this basic quality perceives your existence as contextualized by the people around you. Thus, this leads to a more optimistic role, especially when you’re seeking the common good. 

Things to pay attention to: 

• Perceiving self-boundaries
• Lack of assertiveness
• Becoming a people pleaser
• Relying on others for growth

Integrating yourself with others also has its own set of consequences. Because you identify yourself as part of a group, your growth and identity are also defined by this collective. And when it is filled with toxic waters, this can unwittingly cloud who you are. 

Add to that, an unchecked we-centeredness means that you’ll allow people to take advantage of you. Just as how abusers control altruistic individuals, your lack of assertiveness will lead to a plethora of problems for you. Ranging from lack of self-esteem to becoming overly submissive, you’ll become a puppet without you knowing it. 

Intuitive

You are: 

• Sensing
• Open
• Adaptable
• Trusting
• Spiritual

Relying on your powers of intuition, you are likely to see things from a transcendental point of view. Instead of simply relying on facts, you understand that life goes beyond the laws of reason and logic. Thus, this allows you to unmask the inner workings that go beyond the five senses. 

With this, you understand that not everything makes sense. Whereas other archetypes are often limited by reason, you are able to go beyond it and access your spiritual prowess. This, in turn, makes you more adaptable to varying circumstances, often offering insight that others lack. 

Things to pay attention to: 

• Subjectivism
• Confusion
• Disorderliness
• Gullibility

Because you rely on your intuition a tad too much, you are prone to becoming subjective. Whereas your gut feel can sometimes lead you to the right thing, it won’t always do. One day, the chickens will come home to roost as the consequences of your decisions will pay out negatively. 

Often, this manifests in confusion and gullibility. Since you’ve accustomed yourself to spirituality, you might end up being conned by others. Taking advantage of your beliefs and baseless thinking, others will end up tricking you into things that you would’ve otherwise avoided. 

Calm

You are: 

• Emotionally Intelligent
• Optimistic
• Good decision-maker
• Self-aware
• Patient

Calmness means the ability to properly regulate or moderate your emotions. Conscious and aware of your own inner thoughts and feelings, such calmness allows you to adequately evaluate things when need be. Instead of panicking or rushing over, this basic quality makes you take a step back and assess things first. As such, it enables you to come out with a more reasonable course of action. 

Furthermore, calmness also extends to the inner self. Because you are collected and regulated, you are naturally patient and optimistic. While turbulent individuals appear to be optimistic due to their fiery presence, yours is more of an immovable mountain whose strides can withstand any situation. 

Things to pay attention to: 

• Monotonous
• Predictable
• Disconnectedness
• Rigidity
• Overly Relaxed

Calm individuals tend to be passive or be perceived as one. Since they always take time to evaluate things, this course of action can sometimes be detrimental to the situation at hand. After all, there are some instances where we must make a choice right here and right now. But because calmness asks you to re-evaluate first, you might not make it in time and end up too late. 

Furthermore, your monotonous and rigid stance prevents you from seeing things out of what you know. Because exploring new things requires a turbulent approach, you’re truly the type who’s often perceived as a killjoy as you tend to bail yourself out in fun yet risky situations.

Strengths & Weaknesses

Strengths

Perceptive

As a Caregiver, you are highly perceptive. Given your introvertness, understanding how things work emanates naturally from you. Whereas other people have a hard time figuring things out, you’ve already understood what’s going on. This allows you to ready to act, wasting little to no time in responding to the needs of others.  

Your perceptiveness usually reveals itself when it comes to emotional situations. Since you have a good grasp of how you feel and what you want to do, you usually don’t need to think twice when making a decision. Though you don’t express it, you are actually strong and firm-minded.

Empathetic

Perceptiveness alone is not enough to move mountains. After all, being perceptive only means, you understand the situation and the underpinnings that surround it. What’s more important is empathy. Your ability to feel things out is truly what moves you to take action. 

Generally, this stems from your we-centeredness. Because you perceive the world from the lens of interconnectedness and union, you understand the importance of each individual in the greater scheme of things. As such, you see your role as someone who provides the base and gives that much-needed boost to help others move forward. 

Trusting

With your intuitive nature, you are trusting towards others. You actively open those walls to those around you and allow them to enter your inner circle. With the help of your own intuition, you don’t think twice about letting new people in, especially when they need your assistance. 

While this strength can be a double-edged sword (since others may betray you), your trusting nature allows you to truly extend your time, talents, and treasures to others. Whereas other people may simply do dole-outs or provide materialistically, your trust goes a long way and affects others intangibly. 

Emotionally Intelligent

Emotional intelligence is often an underrated characteristic of existence. People, for instance, place a high premium on IQ over EQ. What most don’t know is that EQ is the base of one’s personality, allowing one to flourish in aspects that they seek.  

As a Caregiver, this is one of your biggest strengths. Due to your calmness, you are able to weigh things in properly. You do not panic. Instead, you pause and take a step back, thinking carefully about what needs to be done to address a specific issue.  

Weaknesses

Reserved

Being reserved is a natural consequence of your introvertness. Since you don’t like to expose your inner self (or even your outer self, for that matter), you’ll often be perceived as distanced towards others. As such, this may result in assumptions that it is difficult to connect with you. 

To an extent, this can become a major problem in living out your life goal. If people will find it difficult to connect with you, they will also become hesitant in opening their doors to you. And when that happens, it doesn’t matter if you are correct in perceiving what they need and how you can help address it because they won’t even let you near their doorsteps. 

People Pleaser

Let’s face it, the Caregiver is a people pleaser. They are the types who’ll do everything to make others happy with their presence but may end up annoying them as well. With their over-enthusiastic approach, some may feel that the Caregiver isn’t authentically helping others. Instead, they simply want to please others for their own gain.  

In the long run, this weakness will get the best of you. In helping others, your actions may instead be detrimental to them. For instance, constantly pleasing others can lead them to become parasitic towards you. Instead of striving for their own, your altruistic actions may end up preventing their growth. 

Gullible

Since you act based on intuition, as a Caregiver, you tend to become gullible. When people display weakness, you are the first one to respond. However, not everyone who displays weakness is truly weak; some of them are just taking advantage of others’ kindness. 

To be fair, gullibility is a consequence of your intuitive attitude. Since you prefer feeling things out instead of rationally assessing them, you can easily be swayed. However, such weakness is often displayed by the unrefined Caregiver. If you cannot properly use your intuition, it will prevent you from living out your mission of helping those in need as you waste your time, talents, and treasure to users and abusers.

Rigid/Uptight

Your quality of calmness causes you to become uptight with things. As someone who’s tasked to nurture and protect others, you understand the value of following rules and regulations. You know that it is likelier for you to succeed in your life goal by abiding in these. 

As such, your semi-traditional stance is derived from your bias towards what’s already established. Understanding that these methods and laws are tried and tested by time, following them is more likely the correct path. 

Be careful, though. Being overly rigid/uptight means that you have little to no room for flexibility. When coming to aid others, flexibility is important since you have to consider their context.

Romantic Relationships

Private

Due to your introverted nature, being a home buddy is your type of romance. Whereas other archetypes tend to enjoy parties and going out with others, you are inclined to spend romantic dinners at home and watch some Netflix series afterwards. 

When you are in a relationship, you are still that introverted you. That’s why you’d prefer to stay at home and spend time with your partner instead. It doesn’t mean though, that you won’t love those romantic dates because you do. The point is when you go out, you prefer some sort of privacy.  

Nurturing

As a Caregiver, it is part of your core nature to nurture others. Since you are born to help others grow, it is only natural to see you in a relationship where you constantly feed your partner that much-needed positivity. Like an anchor that they can rely on, your presence alone is enough to inspire them to move forward, knowing that you always got their back.  

As such, this means nurturing your partner and the relationship by any means necessary. Starting from material ones, you are willing to work night and day to make sure that the basic needs are fulfilled. And when you’re ready, you are also likely to finance your partner in pursuing their dreams or establishing new businesses or streams of income together. 

Friendships

Can be Stubborn

One key trait of your archetype is the fact that you are calm and clear with your goals in life. As such, it can be quite a challenge to dissuade you or even present new perspectives to you. Since you are laser-focused on what you want to happen, your calm nature prevents you from taking risks or exploring new things. 

For instance, your natural preferences in almost all aspects of life will surface. And when they do, friendships can be on the line. When people around you don’t agree with your decisions, you tend to cower up and retreat in your own seclusion. Minding your own business alone, you remain calm but isolated due to your stubbornness. 

Altruistic

While it is true that you are stubborn and traditional, as a Caregiver, you are that one altruistic friend. As such, you won’t hesitate to reach out your hand, especially to those you value the most. Regardless of the situation that they’re in, you’re quick to jump into the fire just to make sure that they’re okay.  

Generally, this is caused by your we-centeredness. Since you are the most we-centered archetype, it’s no wonder why you are generous towards your friends. And when we say generous, we mean you dropping anything and even everything just to be there for them.  

Workplace Habits

Good Listener

In the workplace, Caregivers love to step back and listen. Naturally inclined to help those around them, Caregivers excel at lending their ears to their co-workers. As a Caregiver, you are likely to exhibit this habit and will be willing to take your time just to process the qualms of the team. 

Generally, your introvertness brings you closer to yourself. This means that you’re more attuned to your inner complexities, allowing you to understand what your inner struggles are and how you can solve them on your own. With that, you are the type who listens to your inner voice, something that not all archetypes usually do.  

Generous

As a Caregiver, you are generous to your team members. You like helping out, for it is your mission to do so. By reaching out to them and sharing some of your time, talents, and treasures, you know that you are making a positive change within the group.

Given such, your altruistic nature encourages a culture of reciprocity within the team. As you feed them your positive energy through the concrete actions that you make, you are solidifying the team-first ideals within the group. By being generous enough to go out of your way to help team members, you inspire them to go beyond their own personal circles. 

Tends to be a bit sensitive

Since you are intuitive and private by nature, conflicts may arise regarding your sensitivity within the workplace. Whereas other members are open with their own personal lives, you’re actually the type to keep things within their respective spheres. 

As such, this means that you’re not so cool with expressing your problems at home while speaking to your workmates. While it is true that you’re good at the receiving end (as you listen to their struggles), you are quite reserved when it comes to expressing your own feelings and inner thoughts. 

Optimistic

As a Caregiver, you are optimistic. In the face of challenges (and deadlines), you don’t easily crack and picture out the worst scenario. Instead, your calm demeanor triggers you to step back and assess the situation, or at least feel it out. Guided by your optimistic tendency, this temporal assessment often leads you to look for proper solutions which can help the group. 

With that, optimism can lead you to inspire others. In trying times, emerging as a leader by showing everyone that all of you can do it together is truly empowering. Instead of shattering your workmates, you move them to take action even when they feel hesitant about things.