
Personality Type 8: Empowerment
Essence: strength, aliveness and immediacy
Came to believe: the world is hard and unjust where the powerful take advantage of others.
Strategy: hiding their vulnerability and imposing their truth on others
Focus of attention: power and control
Strengths: confident, persistent, fair, decisive, protective, friendly and able to energize others
Challenges: being excessive, controlling, intimidating, impatient and overly confrontational
Avoids: being weak, uncertain or dependent
Defense: using denial as a way of avoiding vulnerability and to maintain a self image of being strong
Path back to balance: extending mercy to others and themselves