… Artisans are definitively practical, that is adaptive, resilient, flexible, hence unconventional and unorthodox, both in the sense of being spontaneously so inclined, and in the sense of acting in ways that only they can appreciate if not understand, given their insistent and persistent adaptive agenda. They do this by adapting their ways of using words and tools to the necessities of the moment that come about when some tactical maneuver goes awry. [Personology page 191]
They had this mega-watt attraction, they could be charming as hell, and cold as ice.
“You just wanted to be around them,” she said to Oprah.
But, she had been angry. She had been pissed off, too many times. So she ended it. No more games.
The second time, she had seen enough.
She was tough: a Crafter Artisan, very observant but not very self-reflective, and she was over her head. She left him, she cut him off. She didn’t want to think about, she couldn’t without going crazy. She finally moved on. She forgot.
They are two of kind; they are so… different. They are same. They are different. He is the father, and she, the daughter.
Can they have a relationship?
They are alike in a fundamental way: they have the same Temperament and Type. Different in other ways: male versus female, different generations, and different life experience.
Competitive. Contending.
Co-stars in the hit movie, Paper Moon, the daughter, 10 years old at the time, Tatum O’Neal, won an Academy award for her performance, as a tough-kid in a father-daughter grifter team in the Depression. She was the youngest actor to get an Oscar ever. They were inseparable at the time, when Ryan O’Neal took care of her, because her mother and his ex-wife, Joanna Moore, was an alcoholic, and neglected to take care of her.
“We were a team,” “we were very close; I was closer to her than any of my wives,” Ryan O’Neal has said.
But then it all changed.
Charlie Sheen has a tiger by the tail. It’s himself.
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me,
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.
So are the words of John Newton, once an infidel and libertine by his own account; the words are the beginning stanza of Amazing Grace, a famous Christian hymn about redemption. Despite the libertine ways of his younger days, Newton changed his ways, and spent the last 43 years of his life preaching the gospel.
There are two meanings to the phrase Amazing Grace: 1) the forgiveness of God and 2) the ability of some people to show amazing gracefulness.
The Artisans are known for their charm and grace. Talented Artisans can be known for their amazing gracefulness. However, those Artisans that are using the Dark Escape methods, methods of madness, can be amazing in their disgrace.
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