Type Eight - The Challenger

The powerful, aggressive type. Eights are self-confident, strong, and assertive. Protective, resourceful, straight-talking, and decisive, but can also be ego-centric and domineering. Eights feel they must control their environment, especially people, sometimes becoming confrontational and intimidating. Eights typically have problems with their tempers and with allowing themselves to be vulnerable. At their Best: self-mastering, they use their strength to improve others' lives, becoming heroic, magnanimous, and inspiring.

Examples: Martin Luther King, Jr., Lyndon Johnson, Mikhail Gorbachev, Pablo Picasso, Sean Connery, Susan Sarandon, Glenn Close, John Wayne, Charlton Heston, Barbara Walters, Toni Morrison, Donald Trump, Lee Iococca, Courtney Love, Roseanne Barr, Sigourney Weaver, Fidel Castro, and Saddham Hussein.

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