THE IDEALISTS

THE ADVOCATES	THE MENTORS
Albert  Schweitzer  HEALERS  Princess Diana	Mohandas Gandhi COUNSELORS Eleanor  Roosevelt
Bill  Moyers CHAMPIONS Joan Baez	Mikhael Gorbachev TEACHERS Margaret  Mead

IDEALIST NFs, being ABSTRACT in communicating and COOPERATIVE in implementing goals, can become highly skilled in DIPLOMATIC INTEGRATION. Thus their most practiced and developed intelligent operations are usually teaching and counseling (NFJ mentoring), or conferring and tutoring (NFP advocating). And they would if they could be sages in one of these forms of social development. The Idealist temperament have an instinct for interpersonal integration, learn ethics with ever increasing zeal, sometimes become diplomatic leaders, and often speak interpretively and metaphorically of the abstract world of their imagination.

They are proud of themselves in the degree they are empathic in action, respect themselves in the degree they are benevolent, and feel confident of themselves in the degree they are authentic. Idealist types search for their unique identity, hunger for deep and meaningful relationships, wish for a little romance each day, trust their intuitive feelings implicitly, aspire for profundity. This is the "Identity Seeking Personality" -- credulous about the future, mystical about the past, and their preferred time and place are the future and the pathway.  Educationally they go for the humanities, avocationally for ethics, and vocationally for personnel work.

Social relationships:  In their family interactions they strive for mutuality, provide spiritual intimacy for the mates, opportunity for fantasy for their children, and for themselves continuous self-renewal.  Idealists do not abound, being as few as 8% and nor more than 10% of the population.

A full description of the Idealist is in People Patterns or Please Understand Me II

Mohandas Gandhi and Eleanor Roosevelt are examples of Idealists

A List of Famous Idealists

Idealist Quotes

Idealist Presidents

Idealists as Mates