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Exemplar

Benjamin Franklin

historical · read by 3 of 6 traditions

How each tradition reads them

  • Riso & Hudson 1996

    Riso-Hudson exemplar; inventor, diplomat, printer, almanac-writer — the Seven's options-maximizing as life method.

  • Myers-Briggs

    ENTP - The Debater

    common MBTI community typing

    Experimenter, diplomat, aphorist — the polymath ENTP in founding-father form.

  • Hero's Journey

    The Trickster

    interpretive attribution

    Diplomat by cunning — talked the French into financing a revolution. The Trickster in founding-father register.

Where they sit on the lenses

Stage

  • Pre-initiation
  • Striving
  • Liminal
  • Integrating
  • Integrated

Affect

  • Gut · Anger
  • Heart · Shame
  • Head · Fear
  • Eros · Desire

Stance

  • Toward
  • Against
  • Away

Cluster coalescence

The archetypal tags above resolve into 6 clusters. Each cluster reads the exemplar in its own vocabulary; where more than one cluster surfaces, the exemplar themself is holding a structural tension.

Benjamin Franklin is read across divergent stances (Away vs. Against) and divergent affect centers (Head · Fear vs. Eros · Desire vs. Gut · Anger vs. Heart · Shame). The exemplar holds a tension their readers cannot — which is often why they endure.

Also read in this register