09 of 10 Hero archetype
The Titan
Steady and unshakeable men, whose mood holds when the day does not.
- Trait
- Nerve: Steady
- Read as
- Withdrawal or Volatility
- Day job
- Leadership under pressure, Emergency medicine and rescue, Aviation, military, maritime
- Nemesis
- The Guardian
- Allies
- Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Seneca, Wellington
This is your archetype. Your answers are kept for ninety days.
TheTitan
- Execution65
- Leadership69
- Teamwork50
- Adaptability82
- Negotiation50
- Vigilance26
Steady and unshakeable men, whose mood holds when the day does not.
Who is the Titan?
The Titan is dealt to a man whose nerve sits low against other men: how early a threat registers and how hard your mood is to hold.
Marcus Aurelius ran an empire through plague and war, and wrote his notes to himself each night.
121–180You are harder to throw than most men. A setback does not follow you home, your mood holds under pressure, and you do not need the day to go well to be alright. Men lean on that more than they say.
What you bring, and what it costs.
Powers
- Hard to throwA setback does not follow you home, and pressure does not move your mood.
- Steady handsWhen the room panics you keep working, and men follow the one who does.
- Low maintenanceYou do not need the day to go well to be alright, so you have room for other people’s days.
- You sleepWorry does not keep you up, and that compounds.
Weaknesses
- Missing the signalA man who feels nothing coming is the last to see it, and sometimes the thing was coming.
- Impatience with the alert manThe man who worries is often right, and you dismiss him because you are not.
- UnderreactingYou wait for the problem to be real, and by then it can be bigger.
Five traits deal the archetype.
Scored against other men. Nerve is the one that deals this card.
Base traits
The archetype's shape. Yours replaces it after the twenty.
NerveNRV
SteadyAlert
10Neuroticism
Your mood holds when the day does not. A setback does not follow you home and a bad day does not become a bad week.
EdgeEDG
BluntWarm
64Agreeableness
How much other people pull at you and how much you give way.
MethodMTD
ImprovSystem
63Conscientiousness
Whether you run a plan or run on the day.
PresencePRS
Low-keyOutgoing
66Extraversion
How much you go toward people and take the room.
RangeRNG
PracticalIdeas
59Openness
How much you go toward ideas and the new thing.
Your ten traits
Where the Titan wins at work.
Low neuroticism sits with leadership and with job satisfaction, and entrepreneurs score lower on it than managers.
The papers: J Appl Psychol, 2002, PubMed 12184579J Appl Psychol, 2002, PubMed 12090610J Appl Psychol, 2006, PubMed 16551182
Roles
- Leadership under pressureThe trait the leadership research ties to steadiness.
- Emergency medicine and rescueThe room panics and you keep working.
- Aviation, military, maritimeComposure is the qualification.
- Trading and risk-taking rolesA loss does not follow you home.
- Surgery and high-stakes procedureYour hands stay steady when it matters.
Skills
- Staying level when the room does not
- Recovering from a setback in days
- Deciding under pressure
- Carrying other men’s bad weeks
Your allies.
Ran an empire through plague and war, and wrote his notes to himself each night.
A slave, then lame, and never once thrown.
Wrote on the steady mind while Nero was his student.
At Waterloo his line took attack after attack all day and held, and so did he.
Your nemesis: the Guardian.
TheTitan
- Execution65
- Leadership69
- Teamwork50
- Adaptability82
- Negotiation50
- Vigilance26
Steady and unshakeable men, whose mood holds when the day does not.
VS
TheGuardian
- Execution35
- Leadership31
- Teamwork50
- Adaptability18
- Negotiation50
- Vigilance74
Alert and early-warning men, who feel the threat before it lands.
Nothing throws you and everything reaches him. He saw it coming while you slept through it, and he paid for the seeing with the sleep.
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.