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The head types (5, 6, 7) are all directed toward understanding and explaining, analyzing, and developing practical ideas and concepts. Keep in mind that everyone sees the world primarily through some kind of mental filter. For the three head types, that filter lies in the value they place on independence, each in their own way. They also share an inclination to differentiate themselves (moving away). When something unsettling happens, for example, they tend to move away. The goal of this unconscious strategy is to minimize worries, gain control of potentially painful situations, and thus gain a sense of safety. This is carried out via the mental processes of deliberation, projection, conception, and planning.

The head types often have a subliminal sense that something isn’t right. This can (literally or figuratively) be a lack of space, safety, or freedom. This sense of lack can also be directed against oneself: feeling that you aren’t good enough or thinking of yourself as incompetent or as a social-emotional failure. However, this perception might be quite far from reality.

The apartment where Alice (Type 5) lives is virtually a library. She reads four or five lengthy books each week. The people around her consider her to be an educated, intelligent person. Alice herself sees this differently. With everything that she reads and learns, she also discovers how much more still remains to read and learn. In the process, she finds out that she doesn’t know enough of what one could know during one’s lifetime and in the world.