06 of 10 Hero archetype
The Craftsman
Practical and hands-on men, who trust what works and let the fashions pass.
- Trait
- Range: Practical
- Read as
- Intellect or Openness
- Day job
- Skilled trades, Manufacturing and maintenance, Logistics and fleet
- Nemesis
- The Philosopher
- Allies
- Cato, Cincinnatus, Stephenson, Ford
This is your archetype. Your answers are kept for ninety days.
TheCraftsman
- Execution50
- Leadership31
- Teamwork50
- Adaptability36
- Negotiation50
- Vigilance70
Practical and hands-on men, who trust what works and let the fashions pass.
Who is the Craftsman?
The Craftsman is dealt to a man whose range sits low against other men: how much you go toward ideas and the new thing.
Cato the Elder farmed, fought, and distrusted every Greek novelty that reached Rome.
234–149 BCYou trust what works and you do not chase what might. You take the concrete over the abstract, and you learn by doing it rather than reading about it. Fashions in training and thinking go past you, and most of them deserved to.
What you bring, and what it costs.
Powers
- Fads go past youA new method comes out every month. You do not pick it up until it has worked for someone you know.
- HandsYou learn by doing, and what your hands learned stays with you.
- DepthYou know one thing better than almost anyone.
- A working defaultYour first move is the thing that worked last time. Usually that is the right move.
Weaknesses
- The blind sideSometimes the answer is in a field you never look at, and you hear about it last.
- Last time was differentWhat worked last time can stop working, and you notice late.
- The argument you skippedThe abstract case you did not read was sometimes the one that would have saved you a year.
Five traits deal the archetype.
Scored against other men. Range is the one that deals this card.
Base traits
The archetype's shape. Yours replaces it after the twenty.
NerveNRV
SteadyAlert
59Neuroticism
How early a threat registers and how hard your mood is to hold.
EdgeEDG
BluntWarm
37Agreeableness
How much other people pull at you and how much you give way.
MethodMTD
ImprovSystem
45Conscientiousness
Whether you run a plan or run on the day.
PresencePRS
Low-keyOutgoing
33Extraversion
How much you go toward people and take the room.
RangeRNG
PracticalIdeas
10Openness
You take the concrete over the abstract and you learn by doing.
Your ten traits
Where the Craftsman wins at work.
Low openness costs nothing in job performance across the research. It is an asset in practical and conventional roles.
The papers: Personnel Psychology, 1991
Roles
- Skilled tradesHands and tools on a thing that has to work.
- Manufacturing and maintenanceKeep it running. Do not redesign it.
- Logistics and fleetA known system, run well.
- Aviation and marine maintenanceThe procedure is the skill.
- Farming and landPractical work on a calendar.
- Law enforcement and securityConcrete work under concrete rules.
Skills
- Making the known thing work
- Learning by doing
- Leaving a fad alone
- Fixing what is in front of you
Your allies.
Farmed, fought, and distrusted every Greek novelty that reached Rome.
Left the plow to save Rome, then went back to the plow.
Taught himself to read at eighteen and built the railway with his hands.
Did not invent the car. Built the line that made it work, then made it black.
Your nemesis: the Philosopher.
TheCraftsman
- Execution50
- Leadership31
- Teamwork50
- Adaptability36
- Negotiation50
- Vigilance70
Practical and hands-on men, who trust what works and let the fashions pass.
VS
ThePhilosopher
- Execution50
- Leadership69
- Teamwork50
- Adaptability64
- Negotiation50
- Vigilance30
Curious and quick problem-solvers, who take the system apart before they trust it.
He picks up the new idea first and you pick up what works. He is early, now and then about the thing that matters. You are right about the rest.
Know all ten.
The card reads five traits from twenty questions. Understand Yourself asks one hundred, scores all ten traits against other men, and confirms or corrects the card. It comes with New Heroes.
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Twenty items from a public-domain instrument, scored against 892 men. The card says something about you. It does not say what to take.