Blue - The Do-Gooder

Blue - The Do-Gooders


  • Blues are a beacon of goodness and truth
  • Blues appreciate creativity, committed relationships, and disciplined achievement
  • Blues can be logical. They are more likely to respond to an emotional plea
  • Life is emotionally a double-edge sword – Positive side: giving and sensitive – Negative side: an unforgiving and too sensitive Roller coaster of emotions – Allowing their hearts to rule their minds
  • Blues are committed and loyal
  • Blues are usually perfectionists – Highly critical of themselves and others
  • Blues don’t delegate well – Stand over others like mother hens
  • Blues are self-disciplined and stable Blues are self-sacrificing and nurturing – Think of others before themselves
  • Blues give more than any personality but forgive the least
  • Blues worry about everything
  • Blues value manners
  • Blues have strong work ethic
  • Blues are moody and complex
  • Blues are self-righteous and insecure

Personality Type Cross-reference

MBTI / Keirsey - Idealist (NF - Intuition / Feeling)
Enneagram
Temperaments

Strengths

  • Sees life as a severe endeavor
  • Strong skills in empathizing with others
  • Plans well and follows through superbly
  • Enjoys detail and schedules
  • Self-sacrificing
  • Loyal forever
  • Values relationships and places a high priority on it
  • Sees life as a severe endeavor
  • Appreciates beauty and detail
  • Has a robust aesthetic sense
  • Stable and dependable (plowhorse vs. racehorse)
  • Sincere and emotionally deep
  • Analytically oriented (concerned with why one behaves as they do)
  • High achiever
  • Deep sense of purpose 
  •  Loyal forever once friendship is established
  • Genuine concern for other person’s well-being
  • Remembers special holidays and promotes celebrations
  • Encouraging in times of trouble
  • Willing to commit time to the relationship 

Limitations

  • Highly emotional
  • Tend to lecture and over-discuss issues
  • Easily frustrated by lack of team cooperation
  • Feels inadequate with natural talents, and creativity
  • cannot relax
  • Expects friends to maintain strong loyalty
  • Smug and self-righteous
  • Controlling and envious of others’ success when too easily obtained
  • Strong perfecting and performance orientation
  • Highly insecure about other’s and approval
  • Feels rejected quickly
  • When depressed or depressive, feels it is friend’s job to understand
  • Can be revengeful and bitter is crossed or scarred emotionally
  • Critical of friends’ principles or activities if not similar
  • Expects friends to maintain strong loyalty
  • Wishes friends would communicate more often
  • Rarely playful and spontaneous

How to Develop a Positive Connection

Do’s
  • Emphasize their security in the relationship
  • Be sensitive and soft-spoken in your approach
  • Be sincere and genuine • Behave appropriately and well mannered
  • Limit their risk level
  • Promote their creativity
  • Appreciate them
  • Allow ample time for them to gather their thoughts before expressing themselves
  • Be loyal
  • Do thorough analysis before making presentations
Don’ts
  • Make them feel guilty
  • Be rude or abrupt
  • Promote too much change
  • Expect spontaneity
  • Abandon them
  • Expect them to bounce back easily or quickly from depression
  • Demand perfection (they already expect too much from themselves)
  • Push them too quickly into making decisions
  • Expect them to forgive quickly crossed
  • Demand immediate action or quick verbal bantering