The Observer

Description

You are perceptive, intelligent and you see through situations quickly. You pick up on things other people miss and you have a way of making sense of complexity that most people find hard to comprehend. You are rarely fooled and rarely caught off guard as your curiosity often sniffs things out long before they can surprise you. Your ability to read between the lines is one of your most valuable qualities, and you tend to do it from a step back, watching a room before you ever join it.

The tension is that observers spend most of their time examining everything around them and relatively little time turning that same sharp attention inward. You can diagnose a situation with remarkable precision and you are considerably less practised at applying that same scrutiny to your own patterns, your own motivations and the gap between who you are presenting yourself as and who you actually are. In other words you have spent so much time looking out and mastering the art of analysing that you have never truly taken the time to analyse what is inside yourself.

You have spent a long time watching from the edge of the room. It is time to turn that same attention on the person doing the watching.